"right."

The president pointed at the scarlet stomach on the sensor screen and said, "That's it."

"But it's very troublesome to deal with this thing. I haven't seen any obvious weaknesses so far. To solve it, we need to destroy the entire planet."

"Destroy the planet?"

Chen Ming looked around and saw that there were at least five level 6 psychics sitting here. It should not be a problem to destroy a planet-sized amount of scarlet creatures.

The president saw the meaning of Chen Ming's actions and explained: "It's not just about solving the stomach, there are also problems inside the stomach."

"The scarlet invasion started from the rift, and the rift is inside that stomach."

"We are now worried that destroying the Scarlet Stomach will cause the crack inside to continue to grow, so we dare not take action directly."

"It just so happens that there is nothing to develop in this galaxy right now. Although there are many galaxies nearby, there are not many people either. The impact should not be significant in the short term, so I will stay here for a while."

"Besides, it takes time for people to come here, even for me."

This is true, Chen Ming did not deny it.

Being able to gather so many top psychics within two hours was already a very efficient thing.

Still no use though.

The expansion speed of scarlet is extremely terrifying. It is impossible to solve it easily without affecting the space rift.

Even if a level 6 psychic was called over, there was no way to get rid of Scarlet cleanly.

It's not like I'm at a complete loss.

The main reason is that there is no way to deal with Scarlet without damaging the structure of the space rift.

"Now we are considering whether there are suitable means that we can work together to deal with it."

"The three space gaps are there. It is impossible to repair them all. Scarlet has already locked our position."

"But at least we can't let it continue to expand, right?"

"The next time the scarlet invades, there will definitely be more troubles because the gap is bigger. Things like faster infection will definitely be difficult to deal with."

After listening to the president's words, Chen Ming nodded and said, "That's the truth."

"So all these people are just sitting here waiting?"

A psychic present retorted: "We are also trying to find a solution."

"The president has just said that before those researchers provide data, even if we want to take action, we cannot guarantee the stability of the space. If the space is damaged, you will..."

"Forget it, just pretend I didn't say anything."

When thinking about Chen Ming's abilities, the connection between him and An Wuping, and everything Chen Ming has done for dimensional infection, no one except a few old acquaintances of Chen Ming is qualified to blame Chen Ming.

If it weren't for Chen Ming, the dimensional invasion might have already begun since the last time.

Similarly, no one would say that it was Chen Ming who caused the mechanical race to destroy the destructive core and release the destructive force, causing the space to be damaged.

Even if Chen Ming wasn't there, given the relationship between the Mechanical Clan and the Empire, they would sooner or later use this thing on the Empire.

The destruction core triggered by Chen Ming was used in the core galaxy of the mechanical clan star field.

The destruction core actively used by the mechanical race may not be used anywhere.

No one present was a fool. Although they were usually in high positions and lived a life of luxury, and were a little bit upset by Chen Ming's ridicule, it was absolutely impossible for them to really argue with Chen Ming.

As for the solution, there really is none. It is just as the psychic said, there is no way to guarantee safety.

And they really can only wait for the response from those researchers.

After all, when facing the Scarlet Invasion, the priority is of course psychics with strong enough combat capabilities.

There are other psychics who work part-time or whose psychic powers are more auxiliary in nature, such as the psychic Fan Chao that Chen Ming knows, who are unlikely to come to dangerous places.

Except Chen Ming himself and the president.

When your major is not relevant and there are other things to consider, there is really not much you can do.

Chen Ming turned his gaze away from the psychic with some boredom and asked, "Speaking of which, how effective are the ape-eater-type weapons we made earlier? Are they not good?"

The president said: "We haven't had time to deploy them on a large scale yet, but some of them have been installed on the space station next to the triple rift, which can be regarded as curbing the spread of infection for a period of time."

"Otherwise, it's impossible that only twenty people were injured and no one died. The silent alloy protective suit is also very important. Although it can't last too long, it can at least last for a while."

"Can't you hold it back anymore?"

The president nodded and said, "The Scarlet is expanding too fast, and the level 6 psychics are coming too slowly. I am the only one who can come here in time."

"Is there no one watching the rift?"

"It happened to be the once-a-month shift, and the previous person left early."

"In fact, I was the first one to come here, but I alone couldn't solve the problem."

"The repair method you taught me is indeed useful, but the spatial rift cannot be repaired this time."

"It's not just the scarlet, something is stuck in the rift."

"Stuck there?"

Chen Ming immediately thought of the corpse he found on the planet Gaia, perhaps there was one here as well.

Just when he wanted to ask more precisely.

The president suddenly raised his hand and said, "Wait a moment."

I saw spiritual energy fluctuations flashing around him, and another person was brought over by the president.

He is the Minister of Psychic Powers.

Chen Ming immediately greeted him and said, "You're here. I just happened to have something to talk to you about."

The Psychic Minister nodded to Chen Ming and asked, "I heard from the president about your side?"

"Yes, but it's not just that. Let's deal with the things here first."

"OK."

The minister nodded again and asked the same question to the others in the captain's room as Chen Ming: "What's the situation?"

The president repeated the steps of showing the images from the command room that were received by the captain's room and said, "From what you can see, the problem is not the stomach, but the spatial crack inside the stomach."

"We are currently waiting for the data from the researchers who left. They no longer have professional equipment, and we have to wait for new equipment to arrive before we can give an answer."

The Psychic Minister asked in confusion, "President, you can't be sure of the situation in the space? Do you have to wait for other researchers to provide data?"

"I can confirm it, but I can't give you precise data. It's also impossible to give you an estimate based on the abilities of the people present. The probability of something going wrong is too high."

"We must have accurate psychic data so that everyone can use appropriate means to solve problems based on their own psychic conditions."

"If you put in too much effort, the cracks may be damaged and become larger."

"I can indeed deal with the scarlet, and my method has no effect on the spatial rift itself, but... you have to consider the sequelae of my method of dealing with the scarlet."

"I can help explain this."

Chen Ming took the initiative to speak: "Most spatial methods, such as spatial tearing, cannot completely eliminate Scarlet. As long as the rift is still there, Scarlet cannot be eradicated, so what the president can do is to replicate the way he dealt with Scarlet before."

“If you throw it away, you don’t know where it will go, and you don’t know if it can come back.”

The president supplemented Chen Ming by asking, "Hasn't he come back already?"

Chen Ming shrugged: "Yes, the one that the previous president threw out is in my hands, and I have already killed it."

"If we use our spatial ability to throw this stomach into another dimension now, it might come back again in a few decades. This is only a temporary solution, not a permanent one."

"Even if the entire galaxy is lost, the loss won't be that big. We might as well find a way to cure the scarlet one and deal with the rift later."

A psychic sitting nearby suddenly suggested, "How about throwing it into a black hole? Isn't it said that the black hole dimension already exists?"

The president had already discussed this issue with Chen Ming, who confirmed the existence of the black hole dimension.

"To do this, we must first confirm the spatial coordinates of the black hole dimension. The danger of a black hole may be greater than that of a scarlet one, but it is not as contagious."

"Secondly, what if Scarlet becomes a stronger monster in the black hole? Or vice versa."

"For example, the Nightmare of the Plane has the properties of a scarlet creature. It would be very difficult to deal with it..."

"Then forget it."

The psychic who made the suggestion shut his mouth.

Chen Ming took the opportunity to say, "So the others should first consider whether there is a solution. If that doesn't work, then we can consider the president's ability."

There was silence for a while, and it didn't look like the data could be delivered in a short time.

So Chen Ming clapped his hands to attract everyone's attention and said, "No way, right? Then let me handle it."

"What are you going to do...?"

The Minister of Psychic Power had just asked half of the question when Chen Ming disappeared into the captain's room, leaving the remaining half of the sentence without reaching his ears.

The president was very familiar with Chen Ming's approach and projected the spacecraft sensor image onto the table in front of him.

It can be seen that after Chen Ming disappeared from the captain's room, he appeared in the cosmic environment of the galaxy and put on his biological armor again.

After several quick flashes, Chen Ming approached the source of the scarlet.

Blue and purple light patterns began to flash on his body. The spiritual energy fluctuations on his right arm condensed to the limit, and he punched the scarlet stomach that was spewing out filth.

The power of the phase exploded after being compressed to the extreme.

It was like a giant net coming out from the inside, enveloping the scarlet stomach and everything it released, annihilating and erasing it.

Just one punch completely ruptured the planet-sized stomach.

Chen Ming couldn’t blow up a real planet, but he had no problem blowing up a scarlet creature the size of a planet.

At this time, the Minister of Psychic Energy pointed at Chen Ming on the projection screen and asked, "I don't understand, so I asked. Is this the ability to control machinery?"

"Ha... God knows."

The president looked like he knew nothing, and the other psychics fell silent after watching Chen Ming's performance.

They all have the ability to destroy the Scarlet Stomach, but it is absolutely impossible for them to do it so cleanly, removing all the scarlet substances without leaving any traces, and at the same time not affecting the cracks in the stomach at all.

Not everyone has this kind of sophisticated control over strength, nor does everyone need to learn it.

But in any case, the planet-sized scarlet stomach completely disappeared in the universe in the blink of an eye.

Chen Ming also returned to the spaceship a few minutes later.

He casually threw a corpse wrapped in a blue-purple film onto the floor of the conference room.

"Okay, it's solved. This is the thing that is stuck in the crack and can't be repaired. I have already repaired the space crack by the way."

The Minister of Psychic Power immediately asked: "This corpse..."

"It's missing a stomach, just like the one I'm missing a pair of eyes. It looks like the brainwashed psychic himself, but it's someone else's body that's transformed into this."

"Any clues?"

"No, it was done cleanly. The dead body has no connection with the brainwashed psychic."

"You can each take a look. If you can figure out something, that's great. If you can't, I'll take the body and dispose of it."

"The scarlet in the corpse has deep roots. If we don't handle it properly, there will be trouble."

The president on the side looked at the corpse, listened to Chen Ming's words, and suddenly asked: "Eyes, heart, intestines, stomach...what else?"

A psychic nearby said, "Lungs, liver, gallbladder, kidneys..."

Chen Ming waved his hand to signal those who didn't know to stop talking nonsense, and at the same time he added the last type of scarlet creature that only he had seen: "Brain."

The president confirmed: "Brain?"

"Himself."

"I understand."

"Let's leave it at that for now. If we can't see any problem, then let alone others. You can take care of the body."

"OK."

Chen Ming gave this corpse the same treatment as the previous one.

"I'll give you another suggestion. Next time, build ten space stations next to the rift and fill them with Titan-class Orangutans. Attack the Scarlet as soon as it shows up. I want to see what else can get in."

"Anyway, the original research space station is gone, so it's not difficult to build a matching one. It's better to have a gun pointed at your head than to have no gun to point at when you encounter danger."

The Psychic Minister said he had no objection: "I'll tell someone next time."

"Well, come to think of it, no one died in this invasion."

"Hey..." The president said to Chen Ming, "You're not happy that no one died."

"That's not what I meant. I meant that it's hard to gather some people together. If someone dies, it won't be easy to find them."

The president shook his head: "That can't be helped. The Crimson Dimension is so dangerous. How many people dare to come into contact with it?"

"If it weren't for this spatial rift that allowed Scarlet to locate us, making the dimension marker useless, we would still have to deal with this matter between the two of us."

"The crack problem is still difficult to deal with."

If the rifts are not handled properly, then having more level 6 psychics will be useless. This is indeed a problem that cannot be solved right now.

We can only hope that the Empire’s space technology can make some progress.

The advancement of phase space technology may affect other technologies in this area, but it will take time to verify it.

"Okay, let's go and do what we need to do."

Chen Ming waved to everyone, and then said to the Minister of Psychic Energy, "Minister Luo, shall we talk?"

"OK."

"President, please take us to a deserted place."

The president nodded, and psychic fluctuations wrapped around Chen Ming and the minister, bringing them to a half-built space station in a nearby galaxy.

Chen Ming came straight to the point and said, "I have a list in my hand."

"What list?"

"A list of important people."

Chen Ming's nonsense made the Minister of Psychic Energy look at him speechlessly: "Be more specific..."

"No details, no name, no identity, nothing, just a face."

As he said this, he took out a storage unit and handed it to the minister, saying, "Don't connect to the Internet. Make a separate copy of all the population databases in the empire for comparison."

Seeing Chen Ming so serious, the Minister of Psychic Power decisively cut off the network of his terminal, connected the storage unit and took a look at the contents inside.

There are more than 300,000 photos neatly arranged inside. All the photos have no names, only a serial number to record the order.

"So many... and these photos look as if..."

Chen Ming took the initiative to point out the problem with the photos: "They are all photos that have been restored by technology, but they are all people who must have existed."

Chen Ming was so sure that the Minister of Psychic Energy did not bother about the authenticity of the photo: "So..."

"I need to find them. I must not use anyone else's connections. I will only use your highest level of authority to investigate."

"So serious? What exactly are you doing?"

"As for what to do specifically, I'll have to tell you in detail based on what happened over there."

Not long after, the Minister of Psychic Powers separated from Chen Ming with a worried look on his face.

Chen Ming returned to his own territory after briefly discussing the dimensional infection on his side with the president.

The satellite is still in the phase space at this time, and Chen Ming no longer plans to bring it back to the normal universe.

It would be too troublesome to tear the space apart and ensure that Scarlet would not continue to invade.

It would be better to stay here, which would allow scientific researchers to conduct research on negative substances more conveniently and safely.

He then took a moment to issue a slightly abridged announcement.

At the same time, new personnel were arranged to take over the mess of the negative matter research team.

Continues to work hard to get his colony and space station back on track.

Although the danger is real for all researchers who come here, not many want to leave.

Researching Leviathan itself is very dangerous, but the complete safety measures taken by Chen Ming have won the trust of many people.

Although there were some rumors among the people on Gaia after they discovered that there seemed to be one less satellite above their heads.

However, as the situation of the satellites in phase space became public, these rumors quickly disappeared.

It's just that the planet almost exploded.

Anyway, the planet is still there, and only two people died in the accident, which is nothing.

A week later.

Planet Gaia.

Gaia, which was just a planet and had become almost bare with its oceans turned blood red, has now partially recovered its former appearance.

It is also thanks to the fact that the creatures on the planet Gaia have experience living underground and returning to the surface in a short time.

Otherwise, the efficiency of planet recovery would not be that high.

At the equator of Gaia, some distance away from the fairy tree, a new Gaia research station was built.

In the supporting hospital of this research site.

Tian Zhan just woke up from a coma.

When he opened his eyes drowsily, he saw Chen Ming standing beside his bed.

"Director..."

Tian Zhan subconsciously reached out and touched his eyes, then quickly supported himself and leaned against the back of the bed.

He had thought it would be difficult for him to do the movements, but he sat up easily.

Chen Ming patted him on the shoulder and said, "You did a great job. Without you, Planet Gaia might be doomed. How did you come up with the idea of ​​going there?"

"It was just... a feeling. I felt like I needed to go over there, and then I went over there."

It is the potential of psychic energy that makes Tian Zhan feel this way.

Chen Ming did not dwell on this point too much. After all, psychic power itself was a complicated thing that made people unable to get hung up on it.

"How do your eyes feel?"

"It's good. I feel like I can see it more clearly than before."

"Well, the pair of eyes that I asked An Wuping to make with your own genes should indeed be better than before."

Chen Ming suddenly reached out from his clothes and took out a small box, handed it to Tian Zhan and said, "Oh, your stuff."

Tian Zhan reached out, took the box, and opened it.

He discovered that inside was the pendant he had buried under the fairy tree.

Tian Zhan's eyes subconsciously turned slightly red, and at the same time, there was embarrassment on his face as his little action was discovered.

"It's okay. I'm keeping an eye on the fairy tree. I've already agreed to what you can do."

"But did you notice?"

"What?"

"Look carefully at this pendant. What do you think?"

Tian Zhan looked at the pendant in his hand carefully and said uncertainly, "It seems... there is something... inside..."

"That is a unique emotion, and this stone is a spiritual stone."

Tian Zhan knew about spirit stones. He knew that they were extremely important to any psychic, but he never knew that the stone he picked up from the planet where he had performed climate transformation would actually be a spirit stone.

But after thinking about it carefully, he found that the situation was probably different from what he thought.

He nodded slightly, waiting for Chen Ming's next words.

"Do you know why the spirit stone appeared?"

Tian Zhan shook his head.

"When a person is dying, strong emotions go back to influence the things around them, making them carry the power of these emotions."

"When this emotion reaches its limit, the things affected by it will be transformed into spiritual stones."

"For example, fear, resentment, and frenzy. These are the emotions that the different types of spiritual stones that I have handled have brought with them."

"And the emotion of this spiritual stone... is hope."

"hope……"

Tian Zhan instantly recalled what his wife had said before she handed him the small box containing the pendant, and what happened when his daughter was seriously ill.

Even in the intensive care unit of the hospital, which is filled with countless patients who cannot be saved by the current medical technology of the empire, it can be said to be the most desperate place.

She still didn't give up hope until...

Tian Zhan originally thought that he had let go of the past, but every time he recalled it, he could hardly suppress the painful emotions in his heart.

"Before, the stone on this pendant was just an ordinary stone. Although it did carry hope, it was very weak."

"You know why."

"Until the day you awaken your psychic power, your psychic power will complement this weak hope, and then it will become a spiritual stone."

"You should know best what it represents."

"Keep it."

Tian Zhan woke up from his memories and asked Chen Ming, "Director, don't you want it? I have already buried it under that. If you didn't tell me, I would never know about it."

"Because it was something you buried with your own hands, I will return it to you only after I discover its specialness."

"This hope is given only to you, hold on to it."

Tian Zhan nodded and reached out to hold the pendant in his palm.

Just as Chen Ming thought.

Just as Tian Zhan reached out to grasp the pendant, the psychic shadow of a little girl who looked only five or six years old appeared in front of the bed.

She smiled at Tian Zhan, ran to the wall of the ward, and reached out to open the window.

The view outside the window was not of the sparse vegetation on the planet Gaia, which was recovering.

It is a world that seems to have blossomed with vitality again from the silence.

The illusion disappeared in an instant.

Only Tian Zhan was left lying on the hospital bed, with his head lowered, trying hard to suppress his emotions, not wanting to explode in front of Chen Ming.

This is a resonating spiritual stone that belongs only to Tian Zhan. No one can take away this power.

Chen Ming approached the bed again and patted Tian Zhan's shoulder.

"I have something else for you."

He reached out and placed a jar-shaped object with an advanced mechanical structure that could be held in one hand into Tian Zhan's hand.

(End of this chapter)