Chen Ming suddenly remembered that he seemed to have the team leader's phone number.

The brainwashed psychic who controls the body should not simply throw away the terminal of that body.

So Chen Ming took out his terminal and made a call.

What he never expected was that the call was actually broadcast.

Chen Ming's expression suddenly became serious.

Since the call was able to be broadcast, it meant that the terminal receiving the communication must be within the coverage range of the communication signal in his colony.

Chen Ming immediately thought about the signal coverage of his colony.

However, as he thought about it carefully, he suddenly realized that this seemed to be a very large area.

He had never properly developed the star field behind the wormhole before.

Because the Zerg development method is too rough.

So Chen Ming wanted to use the afterglow to slowly develop the world behind the wormhole.

And he has just completely taken control of Yu Hui, so the development progress can be said to be quite slow.

It was impossible for Chen Ming to just leave those undeveloped galaxies there, so in order to roughly control the surrounding areas, he placed reconnaissance equipment in many places.

These devices, of course, need communications signals to transmit the information they detect.

Therefore, the actual coverage area of ​​his communication signal is quite large.

The result was that he now had no way of narrowing down the location of the brainwashed psychic to a location that could be immediately determined.

If you really want to look for it, it would be like looking for a needle in a haystack.

But you have to try it anyway.

While Chen Ming was trying to track the signal using his psychic powers, he continued to pay attention to the broadcast of the call.

Then, something even more unexpected happened to him.

The call was connected.

But there was no words on the other end of the phone.

But Chen Ming knew very well that the person on the other end must be a brainwashed psychic.

Chen Ming asked into the phone: "Hello? Where are you? Can you tell me something?"

“…”

The brainwashed psychic, who was originally very cheerful and loved talking to Chen Ming, hung up the phone in silence, apparently feeling quite shocked.

At the same time, Chen Ming's attempt to track also failed.

The signal he was tracking suddenly and completely disappeared, and there was no possibility of tracking it.

There is no way.

Chen Ming could only put this matter aside for the time being.

At least the brainwashed psychic was stripped of all the external forces he could rely on when he left, so he will not pose much of a threat to himself at least in the near future.

Moreover, the psychic powers of a brainwashed psychic require humans, or at least living beings with a certain level of intelligence, to be effective.

In the area covered by Chen Ming's communication signal, he has left monitoring equipment on all planets with life.

Although the large range makes it difficult for Chen Ming to track the brainwashed psychic, it also makes it difficult for him to find the object to activate the ability.

Unless, he can find a way to enter Scarlet... or... the Survivors.

Just now, when Chen Ming tried to track the communication signal, he suddenly couldn't find it. This was very similar to the situation when he once found the survivor's communicator and wanted to track the survivor through the survivor's communicator but couldn't track it.

The survivors themselves have ill intentions and have a high level of surveillance on the area surrounding the wormhole.

Chen Ming didn't believe that they wouldn't be able to find the brainwashed psychic if he ran away.

And once they discover the brainwashed psychic, they will inevitably establish a connection.

Maybe they will try to capture brainwashed psychics. After all, they are good research subjects for human civilization.

But it is also possible that they will cooperate with the brainwashed psychics, after all, their goals are the same.

"Scarlet... Survivor..."

Chen Ming felt that he needed to increase the frequency of entering the scarlet dimension in the future.

It just so happened that he had also learned some interesting abilities about Scarlet from the brainwashed psychic, and he had to experiment with them.

Only now...

Chen Ming shook his head, turned around and contacted the Minister of Psionic Power, intending to continue cooperating with them to deal with all the remaining matters within the empire.

This cooperation lasted for two months.

The impact of the brainwashed psykers on the empire goes beyond the 60 million people.

Because in the process of Chen Ming chasing the brainwashed psychic, the brainwashed psychic abandoned part of his brain several times, and he finally gave up all the people he controlled and escaped alone.

Chen Ming did not hold back on these people.

Because once he stops and doesn't kill that part of the brain directly, the brainwashed psyker will have a chance to escape his pursuit with almost no loss.

This series of pursuits ultimately resulted in the death toll of 4.3 billion people in the empire.

Among them, several colonized planets that were completely controlled by brainwashed psychics have turned into purgatory.

The number of people controlled by brainwashed psykers far exceeds anyone's initial estimates.

Looking at the population of the empire, this number is actually the population of a high-density habitable planet. It is not even that far behind the number of people who died on the Yunluo Star in the Caimo Star Domain.

But when these 4.3 billion people are scattered throughout the empire, including members, even important members, of different social organizations such as the government, the army, local organizations, etc.

The impact of this incident cannot be minimized.

The top leaders of the government and the military had died, but there were still the remaining core members and personnel arranged by the Empire to fill the gap.

But for other non-governmental organizations and companies where senior executives have died in unclear circumstances, they must seek an explanation.

What's more, people in the government and the military are not just machines that know how to work.

The dead also have family and friends, as well as relationships between superiors and subordinates.

This has led to many problems in government departments in many places.

There aren't too many such cases in the military, after all, military rules are stricter than the law.

But the chaos at the government level is really not limited to the chaos caused by the death of management.

It's not to the point of rebellion.

But as long as there is someone with ulterior motives secretly guiding the situation, things will go in an unpredictable direction.

Especially when the Empire announced after the incident that the cause of the incident was related to the psychic leader of the cult Luddite.

Many rats lurking in the sewers came out, and some even raised the banner of Zuo Jing, wanting to inherit their legacy.

There are always dark corners in such a big empire.

The rats were quickly dealt with.

It’s just that the problems at the government level did cause a lot of trouble for the restructuring of the empire.

However, as long as there is no problem with the main body, then the problems in other branches are basically not a problem.

Even if a lot of people died in the main body, not all of them died.

It is never easy for brainwashed psychics to infiltrate the Empire.

After all, the Empire's attitude towards psychics was rather neutral in the early days, and it took many protective measures against psychics.

It won't be a situation where the entire government department is ruined if one is hacked.

At the same time, not everyone is overwhelmed by sadness and pain.

There will always be someone who will find an opportunity in this incident and take the initiative to cater to the empire's way of doing things.

They, as well as the afterglow cores controlled by Chen Ming, are the backbone of the empire now.

What's more, before Chen Ming really started to take action, the Grand Archon was already prepared to face these problems.

Two months.

It is enough to thoroughly deal with all the problems that appear on the surface.

The remaining underlying problems will take time to resolve.

Chen Ming has been having a headache for quite some time.

He needed to deploy the empire's remaining cores to where they should go.

Because his psychic power can see the ability tendencies of the Alpha-level afterglow cores, he can arrange each Alpha core to the most appropriate position.

It doesn't need to be too precise, just a general direction is needed, and someone else will fill in the remaining details.

But no matter what, this involves a matter of an empire and it cannot be easy.

Chen Ming also thought about refusing to do this.

But if he doesn't refuse, every afterglow core in the empire will have to pass through his hands before it can be used.

So it was a little hard for him to say no.

The Empire and Yuhui have been fighting for hundreds of years.

Yu Hui continued to make blood in the rear and go to the front line.

The Empire continued to capture Yu Hui in the middle of the battle.

Some of the remaining cores who were willing to completely surrender to the empire had already been used.

The vast majority of the rest either refused to surrender or were not easy to use.

After all, the Empire openly banned the use of AI above the Delta level after the AI ​​War, and only secret industries that are not open to the public can use Afterglow.

Of course, over time, the restrictions on artificial intelligence technology will gradually be relaxed, just like the restrictions on psychics.

In short, Chen Ming can contact all the Yuhui core members captured during the war between the Empire and Yuhui.

The specific number...

It can only be said that in the Afterglow Star Field that Chen Ming controls and is preparing to relocate, there are about a hundred Alpha-class Afterglow Cores.

The Empire was preparing to place the Afterglow Cores throughout the Empire to replace the lost personnel. There were about 300 Alpha-class in the first batch alone, and the remaining Beta and Gamma were countless.

Before entering the job, each one was handed over to Chen Ming to determine his direction.

That's all I can say.

They gave too much.

Even if most of the afterglow cores need to be used throughout the empire, otherwise the empire may not be stable.

But the remaining ones are also very important to Chen Ming, and he will really lack these afterglow cores in the future.

And those afterglow cores used on the Empire itself would also allow him to gain some extra benefits after finishing the hunt for the brainwashed psyker.

Those afterglows first passed through his hands and were controlled by him before entering the empire.

His power has penetrated deeply into the empire.

He can use the Afterglow Core to exert different influences on the empire in various aspects.

Chen Ming may not necessarily use this power, but if he holds this power in his hands, he can save a lot of trouble.

In addition, there is the relationship between Chen Ming and the Empire.

Chen Ming is often willing to maintain friendly relations with the Empire.

But due to the special nature of its own power, the empire is a collective existence, rather than an existence where the long-term development direction can be determined based on personal preferences.

So it is absolutely impossible to have any close connection with him.

And now, this short-distance cooperation, which only three people knew about, allowed Chen Ming to have more exchanges with the empire’s top leader and the empire’s second-in-command.

Let the few people who are truly at the top of the entire empire understand that Chen Ming is really too lazy to take care of so many things in the empire most of the time.

He really didn't have much idea about the Empire.

Although this may not change a group, it is enough to change the leader of a group.

In general, it is also beneficial. At least it can enable him to get more help from the ruling class.

After a few more collaborations, many things will become a natural process.

He is not short of material benefits now. It is good to have some benefits in this regard.

With the incident of Zuo Jing and the brainwashed psychics coming to an end within the empire.

Chen Ming also discovered a situation.

That is, good and bad things always go hand in hand.

Zuo Jing caused trouble, which caused his satellite to crash and made him fall into scarlet.

But it also allowed him to find the key weakness of the brainwashed psychic, and took this opportunity to completely eliminate the danger of Zuo Jing.

Of course, this also led to a crisis of massive death and government chaos in the empire.

But it was precisely the crisis of the empire that allowed the empire to expel the poisonous blood and move more smoothly on the road of development.

It also gave Chen Ming the opportunity to extend his hands into every aspect of the empire.

Overall, it’s not a loss.

Because Chen Ming also had other extra gains.

Tian Zhan.

His presence and his psychic powers have made the complete stabilization of negative matter possible in just the past two months.

Tian Zhan’s spiritual power is not just about purification.

His psychic power is more like some special means of stabilization, like the specialization of the power of Gaia's planetary consciousness, a psychic existence.

It can transform unstable things that originally existed in the normal universe into stable existences.

It was also his psychic power that allowed the satellite that was originally in the phase and was close to collapse due to negative matter to erase the negative effects brought by the negative matter, leaving only the positive effects of the negative matter.

The black hole dimensions represented by these stable negative matter even have greater research value than the nightmare of the plane itself.

Moreover, there is a special connection between Tian Zhan's psychic power and the fairy tree and Gaia's consciousness.

It also truly makes the manufacture of the Life Seeder... No, now it should be called the Gaia Seeder possible.

Chen Ming's satellite was the first laboratory object of the Gaia seeder.

At the same time, Tian Zhan's psychic power also made it possible to erase the scarlet.

If we were to say what Chen Ming's biggest headaches were when looking at the Empire and the Universe, it would be Zuo Jing and Scarlet.

Zuo Jing can no longer cause any trouble.

The scarlet is what Chen Ming really needs to worry about.

And now, the last thing Chen Ming needed to worry about has been solved.

Just cultivate Tianzhan for a while longer, and Scarlet may no longer be a problem.

(End of this chapter)