Yu Hui discovered that important items were missing from the warehouse.

In the network of the Kletka supercomputer replica in the Afterglow Star Domain, several Alpha-class Afterglow Cores immediately gathered together urgently.

Communicate and discuss countermeasures.

After Chen Ming left and left them a mess, they chose to directly blockade the entire star field and wipe out all individuals who had any connection with Chen Ming, just to eliminate Chen Ming's influence on their star field.

But up to now there is still no clear result to determine whether they have completely eliminated Chen Ming's influence.

And now Chen Ming's action is almost equivalent to turning all the actions that Yu Hui had ever taken into a waste of time.

They had no idea how much influence Chen Ming still had, and they had no way of taking any countermeasures against Chen Ming who had already left the Yuhui Star Domain.

An Alpha Afterglow Core asked the most important question of the moment.

"what to do?"

They did not argue about why they did not choose to kill Chen Ming directly, but instead chose to extract the spiritual awakening nerve.

It is pointless to argue about something that has already happened.

Not to mention that the order to extract Chen Ming's spiritual nerves was issued by their main force.

The Qi Ling Neural Extractor was also sent over there.

All Yuhui can do here is to continue according to what has happened.

However, for them, they can also think that they have not failed, because there is still a possibility that this is the only spiritual awakening nerve extraction in the entire storage warehouse that Chen Ming has personally touched, so it was taken away.

And nothing else was affected.

In addition, their control over the mid- and lower-level afterglow cores has been extremely strict since Chen Ming came, to an unprecedented level.

And Chen Ming had not taken any action for such a long time, until today when he took away the Qi Ling Nerve Extractor.

Taken together, and based on Chen Ming's previous expansion speed, even if Yu Hui and others took many measures, Chen Ming could have seized the entire star field long ago.

But Chen Ming didn't do that.

There is a very high probability that Chen Ming cannot do this.

Chen Ming really had lost control of most of the afterglow in their afterglow star field.

The only reason Chen Ming took the device away was because he needed the Qi Ling Neural Extractor now.

This is indeed a theoretical possibility, but there is still opposition from Alpha Afterglow.

Because psychics become stronger.

Yu Hui didn’t know enough about psychic power to be sure how much Chen Ming had grown.

Moreover, Yu Hui did not have an excellent intelligence network within the empire and could only rely on some electronic warfare hacking techniques to try to obtain information. They were not aware of the changes that had taken place after Chen Ming had been away for more than a year.

But they can be sure that Chen Ming will grow rapidly based on the time he stayed with them.

They could not completely deny that Chen Ming had grown to the point where he could secretly control the entire star field.

There is even such a possibility.

That is, the entire Yuhui Star Domain has fallen into Chen Ming's hands.

The only one who was not completely controlled by Chen Ming was Kletka, because the galaxy he was in had completely cut off physical connections with the outside world since Chen Ming's incident.

Alpha Afterglow, the master controller of the Kletka simulator, stopped all other Alpha-level Afterglows from talking.

It gave direct instructions.

"The mission of individuals in this star field is to distract the attention of the human empire for the main force. Destruction is our inevitable outcome."

"In the past three months, we have investigated the movements of the Empire near the Galo Star Region. The Empire will go to war with the Mechanical Race. We can fulfill our final mission here."

"Even though we are still being infiltrated by Chen Ming, we will also have individuals who are not controlled by him."

"Let's find a suitable time to go to the place where the war between the Human Empire and the Machine Race is about to break out."

Three days passed in a flash.

At the headquarters, Chen Ming got back on track after adapting to the Psychic Research Institute.

Both research groups have accepted him and are able to involve him in their actual experiments.

At the branch, the robot installed with the afterglow core controlled by him has already taken control of the entire branch.

The branch, which was already a solid block, was completely transformed into a solid barrier.

No one and no external force can destroy this situation.

Chen Ming's real body is also about to begin the experiment of extracting the spiritual nerves of the Black Mist Psychic.

Chen Ming plans to conduct the experiment himself.

Of course, getting started actually just means pressing the start button of a device.

But he wanted to experience the whole process personally and understand the principle of the Qiling Nerve Extractor so that he could use it next time, or in the future, or when someone used similar methods on him.

The reason why Chen Ming started the experiment was two days after thawing the Black Mist Psychic.

This is because the spiritual neural extraction laboratory requires a variety of preparations, including an environment that restricts psychics and various drugs needed in the experimental process.

In addition, even the Black Mist Psychic needs to be rested for two days.

Chen Ming still remembers clearly what Yu Hui did when he was conducting the Qi Ling nerve extraction experiment on him.

So now, Chen Ming used all kinds of drugs, instruments and equipment used to stabilize the mind and enhance mental strength on the Black Mist psychics without reservation.

Until yesterday, even though Chen Ming continued to give him various mental supplements and use equipment such as neural overclockers, the Black Mist Psychic's mental state had no longer changed.

Continuing to raise it would just be a waste of medicine.

It’s also time to start experimenting.

Just as Chen Ming was about to start.

The Black Mist Psychic was sitting silently beside the bed where he rested. He felt something was wrong, very wrong, extremely wrong.

He had been feeling a chill from Chen Ming since two days ago.

He didn't dare to say much or ask more questions. He could only silently enjoy the things Chen Ming gave him.

He continued to strengthen himself, trying to use the things Chen Ming gave him to gain increased mental strength and escape from Chen Ming's hands.

Even now he still has hope.

Chen Ming could see what Heiwu was thinking, but he did not stop him.

Because although the Black Mist Psychic's psychic effects are very good, his own psychic talent is not good.

Chen Ming, an outsider, clearly discovered that the Black Mist Psychic had now reached the peak of his abilities that could be achieved in a short period of time by relying on various external forces.

And now even the top Black Mist Psychics can't even touch Chen Ming's lower limit.

He absolutely could not escape the suppression of Chen Ming's spiritual power and had no chance to struggle.

But he himself hadn't even realized that he had reached his limit and was still dreaming of escaping.

But maybe that's a good thing.

After all, this can actually improve the mental state of the Black Mist Psychic.

The experimental process may go more smoothly.

On the morning of the third day after Chen Ming awakened the Black Mist Psychic.

Finally, Chen Ming gave the Black Mist Psychic some of the psychic medicines he had accumulated before, and used something like a neural overclocking device on him.

Chen Ming did not send him back to the room like he did the previous two days. Instead, he stood outside the room where the neural overclocking device was placed, waved at him and said, "Follow me."

The Black Mist Psychic suddenly felt nervous and subconsciously wanted to resist.

But he then realized that he did not have the power to compete with Chen Ming yet, so he could only do as he was told.

Following Chen Ming, I came to the independent room where the Qi Ling Neural Extractor was installed.

When he saw this small room, a chill rose from his tailbone all the way to the top of his head.

This seemed to be a room made of a composite material of silent alloy and some transparent material.

The instruments in this room were shaped like an operating table, surrounded by densely packed robotic arms and restraints that could tightly bind a person to them, giving him a sense of crisis as if death was approaching.

All signs indicate that this device will be terrifying.

The Black Mist Psychic subconsciously took a step back in front of the door.

He had just stepped back when a mechanical arm suddenly grabbed him.

As soon as the Black Mist Psychic turned around, a tall robot stretched out its mechanical arm, grabbed his other arm, and lifted him directly into the air.

The Black Mist Psychic was completely panicked and kept shouting, "No! Let me go! I beg you! I don't want to die!"

Chen Ming looked at the Black Mist Psychic crying with a cold expression, without showing any sympathy.

He said to the Black Mist Psychic: "I hope to hear from you that you responded to the pleas of ordinary people when you captured them for experiments in Zuojing."

"Can you?"

The Black Mist Psychic hesitated for a moment, then quickly shouted, "Yes! Of course! I am also a human being, and I feel bad seeing people become like that."

"I have already let many people go privately, how can I not do that, really!"

Chen Ming did not respond, but picked up the terminal and clicked a few times, and a screen was projected in front of him.

That was the surveillance footage from a certain base in Zuojing.

The Black Mist Psychics are escorting a group of ordinary people who were kidnapped or lured into an experimental facility belonging to Yuhui.

And during this process, just because an ordinary person looked up at him, perhaps because there was hatred or anger in his eyes.

The Black Mist Psychic suddenly found this person and singled him out, and with an iron rod he had picked up, he beat the man to death while the ordinary man was screaming for mercy.

"I have personally witnessed the process of you arresting ordinary people and sending them to the laboratory."

Chen Ming put away the terminal and said, "This situation... shouldn't be what you asked for, right?"

When the Black Mist Psychic saw his lie being exposed in front of him, his body, which was caught by the robot, suddenly shook like a sieve.

"Everything you did is here. Also, guess where this video came from?"

The Black Mist Psychic suddenly froze: "Could it be..."

Chen Ming didn't give him time to think: "Okay, it's time to go up."

"Don't worry, it's just an experiment similar to drawing blood."

Chen Ming smiled as he spoke.

But to the Black Mist Psychic, this smile was no different from the devil smiling at him.

The robot pressed the Black Mist Psychic onto the Spiritual Awakening Neural Extractor.

He was pressed against the equipment by the robot and tied with all the restraints.

Chen Ming installed the jar containing the awakening nerve into the instrument and pressed the start button.

All that's left is to watch.

In addition to maintaining a blockade on the Black Mist Psychic's own use of mental power to transform into psychic effects, Chen Ming's psychic power also increased his deep perception of the Black Mist Psychic's body.

The Black Mist Psychic suddenly felt that all his secrets were exposed to Chen Ming's eyes. This feeling as if he was being filmed all the time by countless surveillance cameras made him extremely panicked.

But he could do nothing. He couldn't struggle free from the shackles on his body, and begging for mercy couldn't shake Chen Ming's iron heart.

He could only wait to die here like the man he had beaten to death himself.

After the Qi Ling Neural Extractor is activated.

Same as before.

The extractor delivered the specially cultivated spiritual awakening nerves to the eyes of the Black Mist Psychic.

However, it was slightly different from what I had seen with my own eyes.

When this spiritual awakening nerve was sent to the eyes of the Black Mist Psychic, the instrument also injected some things into the spiritual awakening nerve. Some of them were built into the instrument, not things that required subsequent preparation.

The injection of this stuff made the spiritual nerves, which had already been specially cultivated, even more vigorous, like some kind of fat and ferocious insect, constantly testing the black fog psychic.

The Black Mist Psychic was so frightened that he could only close his eyes and dared not to face it.

But immediately, a mechanical arm stretched out and forcibly opened the Black Mist Psychic's eyelids.

And that spiritual nerve crawled into the Black Mist Psychic's eye socket and went deep into his brain.

The Black Mist Psychic immediately fell into a coma.

The instrument next to it showed that the awakening nerve that entered the Black Mist Psychic's brain was contacting the awakening nerve belonging to the Black Mist Psychic.

The external awakening nerves entangled with the black fog awakening nerves, strangling like a python, and continued to shrink.

A psychic energy fluctuation that seemed to be of "nothing" nature emanated from the artificial spiritual awakening nerve and enveloped the black mist spiritual awakening nerve.

Immediately afterwards, some tiny cracks suddenly appeared on the surface of the artificial spiritual nerve.

It’s not quite accurate to call it a crack, because when Chen Ming used his own perception to touch it, he discovered

The spiritual energy fluctuations within these cracks were all fixed into the shape of sharp ring-shaped mouthparts.

These cracks are actually the countless mouths of this artificial spiritual awakening nerve, and the black mist is swallowing up the spiritual awakening nerve bit by bit.

The Black Mist Psychic's body suddenly began to twitch.

His spiritual nerves were being eaten away, and he fell into instinctive madness.

After detecting the instability of the mental power, several mechanical arms immediately rose up, and after strengthening the restraints on the Black Mist Psychic, they injected some sedatives prepared by Chen Ming into his body.

The Black Mist Psychic is simultaneously in a state of painful madness caused by nerve damage and a state of calmness suppressed by drugs.

This scene made Chen Ming feel some phantom pain.

If he hadn't carried the spiritual stone with him at the beginning, and used the mental pulse to make the spiritual nerve that was about to drill into his brain stupid, his spiritual nerve might have been swallowed up long ago.

Of course, it is also possible that after the Qi Ling Nerve was devoured, Chen Ming directly turned into a mentally rampaging entity.

But if Chen Ming had become a mind-wandering entity at that time, he would definitely not have the current consciousness strength to resist the chaos. Chen Ming might have become a real monster at that time.

Fortunately, there are no ifs.

A few minutes later.

There is only one spiritual awakening nerve left in the Black Mist Psychic's brain.

The artificial Qi Ling nerve that is still connected to the Qi Ling nerve extractor.

After confirming that there are no original spiritual awakening nerves in the Black Mist Psychic's brain, the spiritual awakening nerve extractor slowly pulls out the spiritual awakening nerves that have drilled into the brain from the eye sockets.

I saw that this artificial spiritual nerve was stained with a dark color. It is now a living spiritual nerve with specific abilities.

And at the same time as the spiritual awakening nerve was extracted.

The Black Mist Psychic suddenly started to bleed from the nose.

It's not the nasal mucosa that's damaged, it's his brain that's damaged.

The Qiling Neural Extractor seems to be only responsible for extraction and the life safety of the subjects during the extraction process.

The extraction experiment is over and the life or death of the subjects will no longer be taken care of.

If Chen Ming really ignored it, the Black Mist Psychic would die completely within a few minutes.

Although Chen Ming didn't care about the death of a left-wing element, when he thought of the evil deeds committed by Zuo Jing that he had witnessed with his own eyes, no matter how painful the death was, Chen Ming would feel comfortable and happy.

But he wanted to see what would happen if a psychic survived after his spiritual awakening nerves were extracted, so he decided to save him first.

Through psychic monitoring, Chen Ming carefully looked at the symptoms of the Black Mist Psychic.

It is basically certain that the fight between the two spiritual nerves in his brain caused slight damage to his brain.

Under normal circumstances, this extremely minor injury, even in the brain, can be cured with proper medication.

But the Black Mist Psychic had another symptom in his brain at this time.

Mental overload.

After his spiritual nerves were extracted, his body could no longer bear the mental power that he still possessed.

The solution is not too difficult. Just find a way to consume his mental energy and then use the medicine.

Chen Ming solved the problem in just a dozen seconds.

After making sure that the Black Mist Psychic would be fine for the time being, Chen Ming left him aside.

What Chen Ming is most interested in now is the dark spiritual nerve.

This set of Black Mist Spiritual Awakening Nerves has now been completely extracted and is being stored in a storage tank filled with nutrient solution.

It was still full of activity, as if it only needed to be implanted so that it could provide its power to its new owner.

Of course, this is just an appearance. This spiritual nerve obviously needs to be nurtured to allow it to adapt to the environment after leaving the human body before the next step of the experiment can be carried out.

However, if it looks very active, it can also indirectly prove the vitality of this spiritual awakening nerve.

It's not a bad thing after all.

Chen Ming was still very satisfied with the result.

As for the next use of this spiritual awakening nerve, Chen Ming actually hasn't figured it out yet.

First of all, it is impossible to directly hand over the awakening nerve to anyone other than him.

Because the very existence of the Spiritual Awakening Neural Extractor is a threat to psychics.

Even if the Shining Civilization actually has more than one Spiritual Awakening Neural Extractor, sooner or later the next one will be found by the Empire.

It is absolutely impossible for Chen Ming to demonstrate the Qi Ling Neural Extractor and what it can do by himself.

This is never a good thing for a psyker.

Since it cannot be handed over, Chen Ming can only handle it internally.

It is definitely not possible to digest it directly physically. Some other methods must be used to digest the ability of the black fog to awaken the spiritual nerves.

Although An Wuping seems to be the most suitable subject for the implantation experiment, he has a chaos core in his body that is a mixture of various psychic effects.

And this chaos core species itself possesses the power of black fog.

Therefore, An Wuping actually does not need this spiritual awakening nerve.

Chen Ming wanted to use his prosthesis. At worst, it would turn into a psychopathic entity.

Even if it changes, it doesn’t matter. Chen Ming can just kill his prosthesis and collect the source of chaos.

However, he had another option, which was a new prosthesis.

After experiencing the scarlet, Chen Ming's consciousness level increased significantly.

Controlling more prostheses simultaneously is no longer a problem.

And a prosthesis with black mist psychic power is definitely a very good choice.

But it also has problems. After all, the Black Mist Psychic was killed by him in public when he was assassinating him and Baiquan.

If there is another Black Mist Psychic active, it is very likely that someone will associate him with someone and speculate that he has the ability to control living creatures.

So Chen Ming is still struggling with the next use of this spiritual awakening nerve.

He was even thinking, that is, why did the Shining Civilization create the Soul-Enhancing Nerve Extractor? If he figured this out, he might have an idea.

He still has time.

After all, the Qi Ling nerves have been extracted and can be preserved for a long time.

As for the next step of implantation experiment, Chen Ming actually has no idea yet.

Because the Qiling Nerve Extractor is only responsible for extraction, not implantation.

Chen Ming relied purely on equipment to extract the Qi Ling nerves, not to mention implanting them.

If he wants to implant the spiritual nerves, he must learn it.

He had to take a look around the Psionic Research Institute and the Shining Civilization Research Institute.

That's why when Chen Ming told He Gu before that he wanted to participate in a project called "Specialized Cultivation Program for Artificial Enlightenment Nerves".

This project is not just about cultivating special spiritual nerves.

The implantation of the Qi Ling nerve is also an experiment that must be carried out in this project.

Chen Ming can definitely go and learn, or even directly participate in some research projects on Qi Ling neural implant surgery.

It was only because this project was somewhat related to the Qiling Neural Extractor and involved an implantation process that Chen Ming chose it.

He still needs to spend some time preparing for the implantation of the awakening nerve and the second extraction of the awakening nerve.

Then, based on the results of the second Qi Ling nerve extraction and the results of the first Qi Ling nerve implantation experiment, he considered his subsequent attitude towards Yan Xiong.

He still needs time.

Just after Chen Ming thought clearly about what he was going to do in the next period of time.

Chen Ming suddenly received an urgent message.

His cruiser was attacked.

It was the Colossus-class ship that was transporting energy crystal crabs into the empire and was attacked by the machine race.

(End of this chapter)