This characteristic is a special characteristic of the spiritual stone that Chen Ming had talked about with He Gu some time ago when they were riding on He Gu's spaceship.

Spiritual stones of this quality usually appear in pairs.

It has a heart-shaped pattern similar to Infatuation, but softer. When two spiritual stones are placed together, the patterns on the surface can be seen to be connected.

Although its basic effect is the same as that of ordinary spiritual stone.

It has the same effect as an ordinary spirit stone, which is to have some impact on the psychic's mental state and provide a small increase in mental strength.

But the biggest difference between it and ordinary spiritual stones is that it appears in pairs and has the special effect of the love trait.

When two love essence stones are held by different psychics, the two psychics can use the essence stones to build a mental connection channel based on the essence stones.

Based on their own spiritual energy and mental strength, they can generate spiritual amplification for each other.

They can also provide emotional comfort to each other, and the effect is somewhat similar to tenderness.

In addition, this spiritual stone can also allow psychics to sense each other's mental states.

This allows two psychics linked together by the Love Spirit Stone to provide each other with more mental power assistance in critical moments.

The premise for all this to be effective is that there is "love" between the two psychics.

The higher the love between the two, the better the effect will be.

It is said that when the degree of love reaches a high level, psychics can communicate directly with each other through their minds.

Although the Empire already has means of superluminal communication, this capability is not overly important.

But the Empire’s superluminal communication base stations are not available everywhere in the universe, so this capability is still valuable.

What's more important is that when the love between two psychics exceeds a certain limit, the psychics can even use each other's psychic effects.

Of course, the most outrageous ability is currently just a theoretical inference of the Psionic Research Institute.

It is still unclear what the actual effect will be.

After all, the conditions for using this love spirit stone are somewhat harsh.

It requires both users to be psychics and have genuine love for each other.

The Adoration trait is also affected by psychic objects of other natures.

This means that for ordinary psychics, they could have psychic equipment of one nature and spiritual stones of another nature, keeping them separate and only using them when needed.

However, the Love Essence Stone requires both psychics to wear it for a long time and cannot be replaced at will.

There are psychic couples, but many of them are political marriages based purely on profit.

Only a small number of psychic couples have pure feelings.

This greatly narrows the scope of application of the Love Spirit Stone and also reduces the possibility of this spirit stone being studied.

and.

The Love Spirit Stone has negative effects.

That is, once two psychics use the spirit stone to create a mental link, this link cannot be broken.

Once disconnected, it will cause a great psychological shock to the user.

Once the love is gone, the link will break automatically.

Not only is the effect of the Love Spirit Stone in name only, but if both parties are not prepared, the consequences will be quite serious.

There is another situation that is even more serious, which is the death of one party in the relationship.

Once this happens, the other party in the relationship will suffer an unprecedented blow to their heart.

There is relatively little research on this, and there are only two cases even in the Empire.

One case was a psychic couple who had a love psychic stone. After one of them died in an accident, the other psychic immediately fell into irreversible madness . The other case was slightly better.

They are a psychic couple over a hundred years old who own a love psychic stone. One of them is about to die of brain death due to old age.

Brain death is something that cannot be avoided even with current technology.

The couple chose to actively cooperate with the experiment of Fanchao Research Institute.

At the moment before death, use external coercive means to sever the spiritual connection of love.

The result was that the other living person did not fall into madness, and was even not injured at all under the protection of the experimenters. The mental shock from the link was completely blocked.

However, this psychic died not long after due to excessive grief and his age, so it could be considered a natural death.

But that is a special case.

When a person is close to death of old age, there is still a psychic with sufficient ability to protect him/her. He/she can ensure the safety of the user of the Spirit Stone even if one of the two people connected by the love Spirit Stone dies.

Other times, death is unexpected.

Therefore, the Love Spirit Stone itself can only be considered a rare thing. Under normal circumstances, it is only as valuable as an ordinary Spirit Stone.

However, if the legion commander gave it to Chen Ming at this time, it would be the most appropriate gift.

The value of the spiritual stone itself and its symbolic meaning make it an extremely suitable gift even if it is not carried for a long time due to its negative effects.

Chen Ming and Cheng Xinghai are both psychics. Although their relationship is not deep, it has a certain foundation. It is not a pure marriage without any feelings.

"Thank you very much."

After Chen Ming confirmed the gift, he thanked the legion commander and then put away the spirit stone.

He wanted this pair of spiritual stones to be made into engagement rings, a pair that would be just right.

When the legion commander saw Chen Ming decisively accept the gift, he probably knew that this matter today had come to an end.

"As long as you are satisfied."

"Okay, I really have to leave this time. See you when I come back."

After saying that, he turned and left the building, boarding the shuttle he had taken when he came.

There was no dragging of feet.

The legion commander is a character.

He handled the matter perfectly, so that Chen Ming did not feel the slightest bit of disgust.

But at least Chen Ming was satisfied with the result, so there was nothing much to say.

As the legion commander boarded the shuttle.

The cruiser hovering in the sky was then dismantled and disappeared into the air.

Chen Ming and Bai Quan looked at each other and then left the building.

Although Chen Ming did not cause much damage this time.

But at the headquarters, all things controlled by Chen Ming had to be replaced, and some buildings that Chen Ming had personally visited needed to be rebuilt.

Of course, these are not the parts that Chen Ming needs to deal with.

If the Legion needs it, he can even help tear down the building and take away everything he controls.

Anyway, it’s just a matter of raising his hand.

Bai Quan had a lot of things to do, so he separated from Chen Ming after leaving the building.

He couldn't just walk away with Chen Ming like that. He still had to deal with the aftermath, and he had to deal with Qiu Bowen alone.

Chen Ming also has some things waiting for him to deal with.

For example, get Cheng Xinghe out of the interrogation room.

Chen Ming's shuttle quickly returned to the police station.

Just landed,

Chen Ming saw Cheng Xinghai rushing to him anxiously, grabbing his hand and asking, "Are you okay?"

Chen Ming opened his arms, showing his intact self completely; "Isn't this good for me?"

Cheng Xinghai breathed a sigh of relief: "I'm glad you're okay."

"But why did you do such a dangerous thing?"

Apparently, Cheng Xinghai also saw the Afterglow Cruiser flying over the center of the headquarters.

She knew without even thinking that it was definitely Chen Ming who did it.

Halfway through the journey, the cruiser suddenly jumped, and Chen Ming did not come back, which made her worried for a long time, fearing that something had happened to Chen Ming.

When the cruiser behind her jumped over the city center again, she became even more worried, fearing that Chen Ming would do something irrational.

Although the worst-case scenarios in these two time periods did not occur, Cheng Xinghai's worries reached their peak when he saw the cruiser torn into pieces when Chen Ming dismantled it.

Fortunately, Chen Ming finally appeared in front of him intact.

Faced with Cheng Xinghai's worry, Chen Ming didn't know what to say. The fact that someone cared about his safety did make him feel cared for, but it also made him feel pressured.

When you are alone, you can spend as much time as you want. If you die from wasting time, it’s your own problem.

But if anyone cares about him, then he has to consider the consequences of his actions.

Fortunately, the ones Chen Ming uses outside are all prosthetics, so Chen Ming is not worried that he might accidentally destroy the prosthesis and make people too sad.

"It's okay, look, I'm back now, right?"

"Um."

Cheng Xinghai did not try too hard to persuade Chen Ming not to do anything dangerous. Chen Ming would be responsible for himself. At least he came back safely.

"Then now we ..."

"Now that the matter has been resolved, let's go and bring Cheng Xinghe out."

Cheng Xinghai never expected Chen Ming to give her this answer: "Has it been resolved?"

"Yes, it took some effort, but at least the result is good."

"What did you do?"

"I arrested a few people and threatened others with a cruiser. Then the commander of the corps came back to talk to me just now, and the matter was resolved. Yes, that's it."

Cheng Xinghai stretched out his hand to cover his slightly opened mouth and said, "It's not that simple... It feels... It's really dangerous."

"It's okay. If I hadn't done that, we would have just finished dinner and are still thinking about how to get Cheng Xinghe out of the police station."

"Um……"

Cheng Xinghai knew that Chen Ming was right. This would be the most likely outcome if Chen Ming did nothing.

But she also knew that what Chen Ming did was definitely not as easy as he said.

There is a level 6 psychic stationed at this headquarters.

A level 6 psyker has the power to destroy galaxies.

Even if the abilities of this Level 6 psychic are limited in the headquarters, it should be difficult for ordinary psychics to resist.

If Chen Ming wants to do something in the headquarters, he will inevitably face the level 6 psychic.

Moreover, in the headquarters, when the legion commander leaves, the generals stationed in the headquarters must protect the headquarters' level 6 psychics, which is the biggest rule of the headquarters.

But Chen Ming simply ignored the existence of the rules. He resorted to violence at the headquarters and sent out a Yuhui cruiser from the headquarters, trampling on the rules.

Even after trampling on the rules, they returned to following the rules and did not become enemies of the rules simply because they trampled on them.

So far, it seems that no one has ever done this.

At least in her impression, nothing like this has ever happened in this department.

There suddenly seemed to be something more in Cheng Xinghai's eyes when he looked at Chen Ming.

Chen Ming noticed this and asked, “What’s wrong, is there something on my face?”

Cheng Xinghai shook his head.

She has been living under the constraints of rules for the past nineteen years.

So she developed a new feeling towards Chen Ming, who was able to break the rules that were directed at him and still get away with it, returning to the rules and being protected by the rules.

Yearning.

She was looking forward to Chen Ming's actions today.

She was looking forward to Chen Ming's strength and courage in going against the rules of the 14th Legion headquarters.

The power and courage to ignore all rules, eliminate all obstacles, and personally seize the results you want.

She wants to be someone like Chen Ming, and she also wants to be such a powerful psychic.

"I just suddenly felt that you became a little more handsome."

Chen Ming didn't quite understand what Cheng Xinghai meant. He touched his face and asked, "Really?"

"Really, it would be much cooler if you weren't so bad at playing games."

"That can't be helped."

The game has too many restrictions compared to the simulated battle, and Chen Ming cannot use his psychic powers.

In terms of pure command skills, at least for now, Chen Ming is no match for Cheng Xinghai.

Unless it is a game that purely tests reaction speed, Chen Ming has an advantage that no one can match because of the increased consciousness intensity and thinking speed given by the psychic.

Then, after Cheng Xinghai discovered something was wrong, he forbade Chen Ming to use abilities beyond those of ordinary people when playing such games with her.

Seeing that Chen Ming looked like he wanted to give up, Cheng Xinghai smiled and took Chen Ming's arm.

"Okay, let's go find Xinghe first."

"Um."

Just after taking two steps into the police station, Chen Ming suddenly thought of something else and asked, "By the way, has the rumor problem been resolved? If not, I'll solve it."

"No need, it's already been solved."

“So soon?”

"Well, someone took a picture of me meeting you in the library."

Chen Ming immediately thought of the person he had seen in the library before and said, "Let me see it."

Cheng Xinghai's face turned slightly red. He hesitated for a moment, opened the terminal, and handed it to Chen Ming.

“Yes.”

Chen Ming took a look at the terminal.

It was indeed the perspective of the person in the library before.

He took a picture of Cheng Xinghai and Chen Ming looking at each other in the library. Cheng Xinghai crossed her arms behind her back, staring at Chen Ming like a girl who fell in love for the first time.

It is completely possible to completely dispel the rumor that Cheng Xinghai was threatened and forced to surrender to Chen Ming.

The man is talented and the woman is beautiful. They are a perfect match. Is it the turn of those monsters on the school forum to question it?

Time passed quickly and it was the next day.

Chen Ming originally lived with Bai Quan in a dormitory in the teaching campus.

However, early in the morning, Bai Quan took Chen Ming to his home in the headquarters.

The old admiral was not feeling well today and did not come, so Bai Quan had time to go home and prepare for the engagement banquet with Chen Ming.

Baiquan's home is in a relatively suburban area of ​​the city. It is a special area for families of active military personnel to live in. There are guards on duty, so safety is guaranteed.

Bai Quan landed here in a shuttle and took Chen Ming back home.

The person who opened the door was Chen Ming's future mother-in-law, who was probably about thirty years old, quite young, and looked very gentle and virtuous.

Even though Bai Quan didn't go home for many years due to his work, there was no resentment in the look he gave Bai Quan.

It has to be said that Baiquan was lucky to have adopted two orphans of his comrades at the age of seventeen and to have finally gotten married.

Chen Ming met his future mother-in-law. With her admiring eyes, his future mother-in-law took Chen Ming to Cheng Xinghai who had arrived earlier, and then continued to take care of her own things.

The time and place of the wedding banquet must be decided as early as possible, and she has to talk to the people from the wedding banquet company in advance.

The remaining Bai Quan, Cheng Xinghai, Cheng Xinghe and Chen Ming are responsible for the more internal affairs of the engagement banquet.

Confirm the relatives and friends to be invited to the engagement party.

Chen Ming attaches great importance to the engagement party itself, after all, it concerns his lifelong event.

But there was actually nothing Chen Ming could do.

Anyway, Baiquan and his mother-in-law were basically responsible for everything at the engagement banquet.

If Chen Ming came from a normal family, we would need to consider where to hold the engagement party, but Chen Ming is an orphan, so it can be held here at our headquarters.

Moreover, the engagement party is mostly a place for the elders of both sides to meet and talk about things.

The only person who can be considered an elder on Chen Ming's side is his boss.

But the boss is not here. He is in Cai Mo and won’t be back in a short time.

So at that time the most it would be is just a whole holographic projection, and I would just come here to have a casual chat in the name of the master.

Most of the things are basically decided by Chen Ming himself.

As for inviting relatives and friends.

Chen Ming doesn't have many either.

The only people I know who can be considered friends are the people at the Pirate Space Station, including Baldy, Old Wu, and the factory manager.

It seems that Baldy, who has committed a crime somewhere else, cannot come here. Old Wu also cannot come here because he has something to do. At most, only the factory director is free to come here, but he is still a little too far away.

I don’t know if it will be too late by then.

Chen Ming suddenly remembered that there was someone he could find at the headquarters, He Gu.

Chen Ming originally planned to go to the Psychic Research Institute because of the new detection device that He Gu had promised to give him, the honorary membership of the Psychic Research Institute promised by the Legion Commander, and three items on the Psychic Research Institute's list that he could choose from.

But now that he is there, he doesn't have much time to spend on the affairs of the Psychic Research Institute.

Not to mention that there is also a ship research institute and a shining civilization research institute waiting for Chen Ming to go there.

So don't rush for now.

Continue to compile the list of invitations to be sent out.

Chen Ming looked at the list and suddenly found someone who looked familiar.

Chairman of Xinda Company and the factory director’s biological father.

Is Baiquan familiar with him, or is it someone else with the same name?

Chen Ming didn't understand, so he held the list and asked Bai Quan, "Who is this Xu Lin?"

"Chairman of Xinda Company."

It was Bai Quan who was inspired by him and decided to let Cheng Xinghai give it a try with Chen Ming.

It was because Xu Lin brought up this matter that the current perfect result came about for him.

Xu Lin is at least half a matchmaker, so he must be invited to the engagement party this time.

Chen Ming nodded and said, "Oh, that's fine. If he wants to come, then I have to ask another person."

Bai Quan thought about it and recalled some information he had collected when he and Chen Ming were not very familiar with each other.

The person Chen Ming was referring to should be Xu Lin’s illegitimate son, Lu Shengsi, who was the director of the maintenance factory where Chen Ming worked when he just came back.

So he didn't ask any more questions: "Okay, ask me if you have any questions. I'll be out for a while."

Baiquan said hello and went out directly, because he had to invite some people in person, such as his old boss.

A few minutes later, Cheng Xinghe suddenly shouted that he wanted to go find his friends from school and disappeared from home.

After Cheng Xinghe closed the door.

For a moment, only Chen Ming and Cheng Xinghai were left here.

Cheng Xinghai felt that the atmosphere in the room was gradually becoming more and more ambiguous.

In order to prevent some things from happening in advance, she said to Chen Ming: "Can I ask you something?"

"Want to play games?"

"……no."

"I want to ask how you became so strong?"

"I heard from Uncle Bai that you just awakened your psychic powers two years ago, but my psychic powers have been awakened for three years and I have not made any progress."

After awakening her psychic powers, she underwent a complete standardized education for psychics.

She has also been meditating every day and constantly practicing her spiritual powers.

But the effect is obviously not ideal.

She has never had a suitable person to talk to about these things, and only now can she ask Chen Ming this question.

"this……"

To be honest, Chen Ming is a self-taught person. At most, his boss guides him in the right direction of thinking, allowing Chen Ming to find the right direction to practice his spiritual power.

There was no real teaching on how to become stronger. Chen Ming had to figure it out on his own, plus his own natural talents.

Cheng Xinghai's talent might not be as outrageous as his, and the most he could do was to give Cheng Xinghai a try using his usual training methods.

Chen Ming thought about what he had on him now...

There are only three spiritual stones: Love, Whisper, and Words of Madness.

It is impossible to take out love now.

So the remaining two...

Chen Ming took out a silent alloy box from his pocket and handed it to Cheng Xinghai.

“Try this.”

Cheng Xinghai took it and asked, "What is this?"

"Things for exercise, touch the facts."

Cheng Xinghai opened the box and carefully reached in to touch the Whispering Spirit Stone with twisted patterns.

She frowned and said, "I feel a very noisy sound in my ears. It's very uncomfortable."

"It's normal to feel uncomfortable. You need to use your mental strength to resist this voice. Your mental strength will grow in the process of fighting this voice. That's how I got through it."

"Slowly start with this kind of spiritual stone with relatively mild properties, and finally switch to spiritual stones with more extreme properties."

Cheng Xinghai touched the spiritual stone in the box again and asked, "Is this considered mild in nature?"

"Of course, the extreme ones are here."

Chen Ming pulled out a revolver from his waist. At the bottom of the revolver's handle was embedded a spiritual stone, Words of Madness.

“I don’t feel anything.”

Chen Ming did not respond to Cheng Xinghai, but held her hand.

"What are you doing..."

When Cheng Xinghai tried to pull his hand out gently.

Chen Ming's mental power protected her consciousness, and then Chen Ming released some of the power of the Words of Madness Spirit Stone.

The pitch-black distortion that was almost visible to the naked eye occupied Cheng Xinghai's field of vision.

Only a second passed, and Chen Ming immediately used his own resonance with the spiritual stone to take the dark distortion back into the interior of the spiritual stone.

"How do you feel?"

Chen Ming asked Cheng Xinghai a question, but Cheng Xinghai did not respond at this time. Instead, he fell on the table.

She fainted.

"this……"

The stimulation of the power of the Words of Madness must be too terrifying.

Even if Chen Ming has fully protected Cheng Xinghai's consciousness and will not let her be affected by any consciousness shock, this extreme nature can still directly affect people at the cognitive level.

It's like a kid who has never seen a horror movie and is scared by a ghost and cries.

Although there was no substantial injury, Cheng Xinghai fainted, which can be regarded as the body's self-protection function.

Chen Ming had already provided complete protection, but this purely visual and brief contact was still too much for Cheng Xinghai to bear.

She was a little too fragile.

It seems that Cheng Xinghai's mental strength is really not strong. If you want to make her grow up, you have to use some extreme measures.

After confirming again that Cheng Xinghai was only temporarily unconscious due to the influence of the Words of Madness Spirit Stone on the real environment, and that he was definitely fine.

Chen Ming thought about what he should do now.

Now he and Cheng Xinghai were alone in a room with only the two of them, and Cheng Xinghai had fainted and was completely unable to move.

After careful consideration, Chen Ming carried Cheng Xinghai to her bedroom and threw him onto the bed.

Then he moved a chair from outside to the bedside.

Chen Ming glanced at Cheng Xinghai again.

While she was comatose, she seemed to have dreamed of something horrible. Her expression was tense and panicked, and sweat kept oozing from her forehead.

It seems that even if she is protected, it is a bit too much to let her come into contact with the Words of Madness...

Chen Ming gently held Cheng Xinghai's hand, and his gentle mental power continued to soothe her subconscious mind, maintaining her mental state stable.

After a few minutes of spiritual comfort, Cheng Xinghai's expression relaxed.

Chen Ming also leaned back in his chair.

However, he never let go of Cheng Xinghai's hand.

(End of this chapter)