As Chen Ming pulled the trigger.

The gun in his hand vibrated slightly, and the bullet fired took Shen Yi's life.

Shen Yi's body instantly collapsed like a building that had lost its support, his lifeless eyes staring at the broken ceiling of the exhibition hall.

For some reason, this moment was deeply engraved in Chen Ming's mind.

A few seconds after the body fell, Chen Ming let out a breath.

This should be the first time he killed someone at close range with his own hands. Before that, he always controlled the spaceship and used ship weapons to kill people, so there was nothing special about it.

Now that he was watching someone die in front of him, Chen Ming felt a slight emotional fluctuation.

Of course, just a little.

It wasn't even as stimulating as the Whispering Stone.

As for what Old Wu had just said about what he was thinking about after Lude, Chen Ming basically had no feelings about it now.

Anyway, he has a good attitude and is not burdened by too much debt.

He wasn't even afraid of the military, so why should he be afraid of a bunch of crazy people who were totally unworthy of being on the stage? It wasn't like Chen Ming was completely without a way out and no one could protect him. Even now, if Zuo Jing wanted to cause trouble for him, he had to consider the situation on his boss' side.

Chen Ming temporarily put away all the thoughts in his mind and put the pistol back into the holster.

He took a step forward, bent down, and reached into Shen Yi's pocket.

He immediately touched a slightly hot mechanical object, and at the same time a soft whispering sounded in his mind.

It seems that the spiritual stone installed inside this device is also whispering.

Although Chen Ming felt a little regretful, after all, it was still a spiritual stone.

Besides, the equipment outside is also quite valuable. Maybe I can try to repair it if I take it back.

Chen Ming stuffed the device into the pocket of his protective suit and continued to grope the corpse.

The other pocket of Shen Yi's clothes also seemed to be bulging.

Chen Ming rummaged around inside and found a remote control as well as a box that looked very special.

"What is this?"

Chen Ming placed the box in his palm and opened it.

The inside of the box was padded with some soft material, creating a groove-like space that was just big enough to hold the device Chen Ming had just received.

Chen Ming tried it a little and found that as long as he put the device in and closed the box, even if he held the box in his own hands, he would not feel any influence of the Whispering Stone inside.

Chen Ming didn't expect Shen Yi to have such a good thing, so he put it away directly.

He continued searching, but found nothing valuable except a terminal that he didn't know whether it was Shen Yi's own.

So he stood up again and looked around. There was no one standing in the entire exhibition hall except him and Old Wu.

All the people on Zuojing died, and the others were hit by at least one mental pulse. It would be really strange if there were still people standing.

So here comes the question.

Chen Ming looked at Old Wu next to him and asked, "Old Wu, you just said that the outside has been blocked?"

"Yes, they have been surrounded by some ordinary guards. They are waiting for more professional people to handle the matter."

Chen Ming nodded and lowered his head to think about how he could safely leave here with the box and the device in the box when the exhibition hall was blocked?

Old Wu immediately saw what Chen Ming was thinking and said, "Xiao Mu, don't think too much."

"Look here, how many living people are there? How many dead people? More than hundreds of them in total, and each one of them has been hit by at least one mental pulse. Do you think you can ignore the lives of the people behind you and search them first? They will definitely be sent to the hospital first."

"Your stuff won't be a problem if it's in good condition. We'll have plenty of opportunities to leave later."

"It doesn't matter even if we get caught. We still have Lao Wu's connections to get us out."

"I have just contacted him. This kind of thing can be resolved with just a word from him."

Seeing Old Wu's confident look, Chen Ming felt a little relieved.

I didn’t expect that the boss not only has connections with Xinda Company, but also has connections with the government.

Chen Ming couldn't help but ask: "What is the boss's identity?"

Old Wu spread his hands and said, "You have to ask him yourself."

"All right."

Chen Ming was not very surprised by this result.

"Then let's not rush into the trap and go to the monitoring room first."

"See if there are any people from the left path that we missed, and check the status of the surveillance equipment. If there are any recordings of our previous situation, it is best to delete them."

"no problem."

Chen Ming took Lao Wu and followed the map of the exhibition hall he saw when he entered the exhibition hall, and found the monitoring room in the staff area.

The door of the monitoring room was ajar at this time. Chen Ming carefully stuck to the wall next to the door and looked inside through the crack.

The monitoring room was also dark at this time, and there was no movement coming from inside.

After confirming that there was nothing unusual inside, Chen Ming kicked open the door of the monitoring room.

He casually threw in a piece of cloth that he had just picked up on the road to cover the exhibits.

There was still no movement inside.

"Okay, there shouldn't be any danger, let's go in."

Chen Ming waved to Old Wu and walked into the monitoring room first.

After entering, Chen Ming discovered that all the equipment in the monitoring room had been completely destroyed.

It was still physical destruction. In addition to being shattered by a blunt object, there were even signs of burning.

There were three people in exhibition hall staff uniforms lying on the ground nearby.

One was in a coma and the other two were dead.

The cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head.

And on the ground next to the unconscious person, there was a blood-stained hammer.

It seems that the situation should be obvious.

There was an employee in the exhibition hall named Lude Zuojing. When Shen Yi made a move, he suddenly jumped up and killed two ordinary employees with sneak attacks and weapons.

After killing the man, he did not leave, but fell into a coma due to a mental pulse while destroying the equipment.

The blood on the unconscious person's hands and face could help prove this speculation.

Naturally, Chen Ming had nothing to say, and he shot the unconscious Zuo Jing on the ground to help him meet his god.

Then he used the tools in the tool bag he carried with him to dismantle the scrapped equipment.

It has been confirmed that all storage devices have been destroyed and there is no possibility of repair by any technical means.

Chen Ming tried his best to reconstruct the scene and put away his tools.

When he glanced at the fresh corpses on the ground, he suddenly realized something. Zuo Jing, who had just self-destructed, did not fall into a coma due to the mental pulse, but Zuo Jing, who was responsible for cutting off the surveillance here, fainted.

This means that Zuo Jing must have a way to block mental pulses like Lao Wu did, but it was not given to Zuo Jing.

Then this method...

Chen Ming suddenly raised his head and said to Old Wu, who was working dirty in the cabinet next to the monitoring room: "Old Wu, do you know why those Zuo Jings didn't faint just now?"

"Hey, you asked the right person."

As Old Wu spoke, he quickly took a picture of the document with the terminal and stuffed the document back.

He turned around and said to Chen Ming: "I heard, I heard, there is such a thing called a mind-silencing device."

"It can be implanted into a person's brain, making them no longer susceptible to any psychic energy that directly targets the mind, including mental pulses. However, the person who receives the implant will also forever lose the possibility of mastering psychic energy."

"Those Zuo Jings might have had this thing implanted in their heads, but since their bodies were blown up, there's no way to verify it, so I'm just guessing. It's hard to say whether it's right or not."

Chen Ming nodded slightly and said, "What about you? Do you rely on this device? If it's inconvenient to say, you don't have to say it."

Old Wu did not hide this from Chen Ming and said, "Old Wu helped me with this. I don't know what he did specifically, but anyway, this kind of mental pulse has basically no effect on me. Oh, and the same goes for Old Lu."

Chen Ming suddenly recalled what his boss had said before, that he helped Chen Ming cover up Chen Ming's psychic fluctuations, which should be achieved using similar psychic abilities.

"I understand."

Currently known psychic effects of the boss include understanding of human character, protection against mental pulses, and at most an effect of covering up psychic fluctuations.

Although these three seem to have nothing to do with each other, Chen Ming still plans to write them down first. Maybe he can analyze them in the future and figure out what the boss's specific spiritual power is.

Just when Chen Ming was about to go back to the exhibition hall and wait for the guards outside to come in, Old Wu suddenly picked up the terminal and said, "Old Wu sent me a message."

He clicked twice on the terminal and played the voice message sent by his boss directly.

"Old Wu, I've explained everything to you. You just need to leave immediately. Someone will come to find you later. Just follow his instructions."

The boss's voice suddenly paused, and then continued: "I can only say that Xiao Mu does have some special qualities that others don't have. It's really interesting."

Chen Ming looked at Old Wu with some confusion when he heard this and asked, "What characteristics?"

Old Wu showed the same expression on his face as when he told Chen Ming that the boss had a bad taste: "Hey, guess."

“Tsk.”

Chen Ming glared at Old Wu, but Old Wu acted as if he didn't see him and walked out whistling.

Chen Ming had no choice but to follow him to the main entrance of the exhibition hall.

Before going out, Old Wu hid in the shadows next to the exhibition hall door and waved to the outside.

After making sure he was seen by the ordinary guards besieging the exhibition hall outside, he walked out with his hands raised.

Chen Ming also did the same thing and followed him out of the exhibition hall.

As Chen Ming and Lao Wu approached the isolation zone set up by the guards.

Immediately, several guards jumped over the isolation belt and rushed over, trying to control them.

But then someone suddenly said to the guards who rushed out: "Stop, don't touch them."

A man who was probably in his early fifties, wearing a guard uniform and with a very strong build, immediately climbed over the isolation belt and came in front of Chen Ming and Lao Wu.

Chen Ming noticed that the guards around him looked at him with respect, and his shoulder straps were different from those of the other guards, so he must be their superior.

The guard's supervisor showed a friendly expression and said, "Are you two Mr. Wu's friends?"

"right."

He made a gesture of invitation and said, "Please follow me."

Chen Ming and Lao Wu followed him into a police car, left the vicinity of the exhibition hall, and went all the way back to the General Security Bureau next to the government building.

He arranged a lounge for the two of them and left in a hurry.

Chen Ming had not waited long in the lounge before someone brought him two ready-made transcripts.

The names written on it are Mu Shuikong and Wu Pingan.

To summarize the contents of the transcript, Chen Ming and his companion just came to attend the auction today as usual, and then encountered a terrorist attack. They were lucky enough not to be injured, and were rescued by the police and successfully released.

The seal of the General Security Bureau had already been stamped on it in advance. As long as they signed their names, they could safely get out of this matter.

Old Wu took a quick look and signed it.

Chen Ming looked at it again and again, and signed it after confirming that there was nothing wrong with it.

After handing the transcript to the person who just delivered the transcript.

Chen Ming and Lao Wu successfully left the General Security Bureau.

There was no obstruction and no investigation.

I can only say that the boss seems to have a bit of a face.

After coming out of the government park where the atmosphere was somewhat tense and depressing.

Old Wu suddenly stretched out his body, and with a look of tiredness written all over his face, he said to Chen Ming, "Where are we going next?"

"Your test results will probably take a few hours to come out, so don't waste this time."

It's obvious that Old Wu wants to find a place to play.

But Chen Ming didn't have anywhere he wanted to go, so he said, "You go by yourself, I have something else to do."

After hearing what Chen Ming said, Old Wu did not look for a place to hang out, but instead moved closer, put his hand on Chen Ming's shoulder and said, "Hey, I'm thinking about your 30 million bounty."

"Tsk tsk tsk, it's me too. This is 30 million, enough to last for a long time."

Chen Ming shook his head slightly, thinking that he had nearly 50 million yuan before and now only had a little over 20 million yuan left, he couldn't help but say: "Money is earned quickly, but it is also spent quickly."

"Old Wu, if you are short of money, I will give you some as a favor for helping me deal with the matter today."

"Ah? I basically did nothing, didn't I? And you already reimbursed me for it."

"The money you earn for fun is not even worth a dime. I asked you to help me with something and ended up treating you to a health check. Isn't this a joke?"

Old Wu scratched his head and said, "Then you decide."

"OK."

Chen Ming responded, and suddenly continued, "Old Wu, I'm actually quite curious about why you are short of money."

Chen Ming couldn't understand it. Old Wu had a good relationship with the boss and the factory manager, so making money should be easy for him.

But Old Wu has always acted like he has little money, and he even tried to cheat him out of several thousand dollars when he just arrived at the space station.

There must be some reason behind this.

When Old Wu heard Chen Ming's question, he said casually: "It's mainly laziness. When you have money, you are too lazy to move. When the money is gone, you will think of ways to earn more. It would be strange if you can save money like this."

What Old Wu said might be fine for an ordinary person, but it was not a reason at all for him.

However, since Old Wu had no intention of explaining it in detail, Chen Ming had no intention of exploring it further.

I parted ways with Lao Wu just at the entrance of the government park.

Old Wu went to find a place to have fun, while Chen Ming ran to the space elevator while waiting for the test report from the government.

The space elevator was not damaged in the previous attack by the left axis.

After all, this is the key passage between the space station and the colony. The personnel transport elevator open to the public is only a small part, and other cargo transportation also depends on it.

If you don't deploy enough guards, you'll be putting your life in the hands of others.

The space elevator had sufficient defensive capabilities on its own, and the supporting guard troops arrived nearby in the first possible moment, so Lud's attack did not cause any waves at all.

So after order was restored at the space elevator, the elevator was opened to the public again.

It's just that the number of guards that can be seen with the naked eye has increased a lot.

However, this did not affect Chen Ming's smooth journey back to the Iron Ore.

The first thing Chen Ming did when he returned to the Iron Mine was to take out the Liar Stone.

The moment his hand touched the Lie Stone, the illusion appeared before Chen Ming's eyes again.

But this time, everything in the hallucination was clear, without the previous vagueness.

Including the spiritual stone that fell out of Shen Yi's body, and also the person holding the gun.

The person holding the gun was Chen Ming himself.

In Chen Ming's eyes, the scene of him shooting and killing Shen Yi was replayed by hallucination.

All these illusions suddenly disappeared and merged into the Lie Stone.

Before the pirate leader died, the spiritual fluctuations that resonated with the Falsehood Stone were completely assimilated into it and became a part of it.

And just after the hallucination completely disappeared, Chen Ming found that he could completely block out the maddening voices of the False Talking Stone. At the same time, he could also choose to accept the influence of the False Talking Stone at any time.

To be precise, it was not that Chen Ming blocked the influence himself, but that he could actually control whether the effect of the Liar Stone would take effect.

It seemed that after Chen Ming realized the illusion of resonance, the Liar Stone connected with him.

He can control the Lie Stone just like he controls a spaceship.

This could be considered as Chen Ming controlling it using psychic power.

However, Chen Ming still could not use psychic energy fluctuations as freely as his boss. It was only effective when he was controlling the Liar Stone.

Although the effect doesn't seem to be very good, Chen Ming still thinks it is very good. At least in this way, he can carry this lie stone with him anytime and anywhere.

And it's not just Chen Ming's control over the Falsehood Stone.

When he opened the panel, he could see that the name of the Lie Stone had changed again from [Spirit Stone (Lie)] to [Resonance Spirit Stone (Lie)].

The change of name also brought about changes in effect.

When Chen Ming controlled the Falsehood Stone and it began to influence him again.

Not only was Chen Ming's mind instantly affected by the horrific delirium, but his body also instantly showed discomfort.

Tinnitus and dizziness, anxiety and panic, fear and pain, and a hint of uncontrollable madness.

Even if Chen Ming turned off the switch of the Lying Stone in an instant.

But the effect still lasted for several minutes before returning to normal, and Chen Ming could feel that his mental energy had been consumed to a certain extent.

The effect of the Resonance Lie Stone is more powerful than before, and the effect of training with it will definitely be better.

Chen Ming put away the lying stone.

Then he took out the device that he had obtained from Shen Yi before, which was placed in a box with shielding function.

Its name is [Portable Psychic Wave Generator (Destroyed)]

There is also a prompt on the panel saying that the number of uses remaining is 0/3.

Although it is slightly different from the mind pulse device that Chen Ming had guessed before, its name is mind fluctuation, but the overall effect is similar.

Like all the other mechanical equipment Chen Ming had seen, it could be repaired and modified.

Chen Ming was somewhat surprised by the materials needed to repair the device.

Such a small generator uses more types of materials than all the materials needed for repairing and modifying equipment Chen Ming has ever seen.

So Chen Ming looked at the materials that could be obtained by dismantling it with curiosity, and found that there were a small amount of special-grade materials mixed in it.

Although the device looks like an ordinary mechanical object, its internal structure is probably more complex than Chen Ming could imagine.

But come to think of it, when Chen Ming dismantled the mechanical clan's mind pulse generator, he did find some valuable materials.

Moreover, the size of the mechanical equipment is many times larger than this small device.

It is reasonable that the materials used are complex and high-grade.

Fortunately, the special materials used to make this device are not consumables that are affected by the number of times they are used, so Chen Ming does not need to repair them.

Although the demand for other materials is large in quantity, the requirements are not high.

As long as Chen Ming is willing to spend some time looking, he can even find all the materials needed for repair right here.

But there is no rush for this matter.

Not only because Chen Ming had other things to do in the remaining hours.

Another reason is that if he goes back, Chen Ming can buy materials from the owner of the store that Lao Wu recommended before, and the price will be cheaper.

The overall prices in the capital are much higher than those in the space station.

In addition to the repair function, Chen Ming also wants to take a look at the function of modifying this device.

Then Chen Ming discovered that the modification of this generator was even more important.

Although Chen Ming had basically no knowledge of psychic energy and was not clear about the internal structure of the generator, a transformation option still appeared on the transformation panel.

Option to replace internal Ectoplasm.

His Liar Stone can be directly transformed into it, and it does not require any consumption except mental energy.

However, such a Whispering Stone that has no effect on Chen Ming can cause large-scale coma among people in a large area.

If he put in the Talking Stone, which now causes Chen Ming to have aftereffects for several minutes, and activated it, Chen Ming estimated that the situation he encountered on Raymu would be repeated.

This is not what he wants to see.

And Chen Ming actually has another idea now.

Since the Liar Stone cannot be stuffed in, if the boss's "gentle" spirit stone is stuffed in, will the released mental pulse have the opposite effect? ​​I might ask the boss about this idea after I go back.

Chen Ming temporarily placed the generator in the box that he had also taken from Shen Yi, and would deal with it when he returned.

Chen Ming also took a look at this box. Its name was [Mind Blocking Box].

It should be something specially used to store spiritual stones. After disassembling it, a material called Silent Alloy can be obtained.

Chen Ming had never heard of it, but it was definitely a special metal-grade material that was more advanced than high-grade metal materials.

You can also ask a knowledgeable boss later.

After putting away the portable mind wave generator.

Then the highlight is coming.

Chen Ming turned off several panels in front of him.

Then he opened the panel of the armor-piercing ship he was controlling.

(End of this chapter)