Chapter 349 Pursuit
Although Bai Quan was not involved in the matters in Caimo Star Territory at all.
But the matter in the Caimo Star Territory was so big. Many important members of the Lud Zuo Path died, and the Zuo Path collapsed completely. He had heard of it at least.
Of course he also knew about An Wuping.
And after he told Chen Ming the information he had given before and received feedback, he already knew the connection between Chen Ming, An Wuping and the Zerg.
Therefore, he was not surprised that Chen Ming and An Wuping cooperated. He was not even surprised that Chen Ming took the initiative to betray An Wuping's information.
Because obviously this was a means that Chen Ming and An Wuping had agreed upon to achieve their goals.
But he was still surprised by the news about Zuo Jing.
Especially the most important person in Zuo Jing, the brainwashing psyker, Bai Quan was even more impressed.
The death of such a person is basically equivalent to a death sentence for Zuo Jing, but now Chen Ming told him that he was doing things to find out Zuo Jing, which obviously meant that Zuo Jing still existed and was lurking in the empire.
It even requires psychics like Chen Ming and An Wuping to personally sort out these matters related to Zuo Jing.
This made Bai Quan somewhat confused as to why.
Chen Ming could only say: "Brainwashed psychics are not that easy to die."
"Zuo Jing has been around for so many years. The empire has just started to take steps into the universe. It can't be that Zuo Jing can find a brainwashed psyker every hundred years, right?"
Bai Quan was very familiar with Zuo Jing's topic and said: "This statement has been mentioned a long time ago, but Zuo Jing did not have such a strong influence in the past."
"Only in the early days when the empire entered the cosmic era, the development of the left path was a little faster. In the subsequent pioneering era, the left path was at most disgusting in all corners."
"It wasn't until the years after the end of the pioneering era that the Left Path began to emerge again. According to this time, if more mechanical organ transplants are carried out, and the brains of psykers are strong enough, the earliest brainwashed psyker is It is possible to survive until now.”
"An Wuping didn't leave any corpses before his attack, and he didn't say he saw what the brainwashed psyker looked like. It's true that he couldn't see the brainwashed psyker after he turned into a monster."
"In addition, after the death of the psyker Zuo Jing, many people who were brainwashed, especially many people in many local governments and the military who were brainwashed by Zuo Jing, voluntarily surrendered, so it was basically regarded as a brainwashed psychic by default. The dead man came to see it.”
"How are you sure Zuo Jing is still alive?"
Bai Quan obviously has a very deep understanding of Zuo Jing's history, and there are basically no problems in his words.
But Chen Ming still believed more in what he saw with his own eyes: "I'm not sure, it's An Wuping who is sure."
"He said that when he was fighting against the brainwashed psyker in Zuojia, he sensed part of the psyker's memory due to the fusion of mental power."
"He discovered that there was something wrong with the memory of the brainwashed psyker. It was implanted by someone. Someone implanted the memory of the brainwashed psyker into him, making him think that he was the brainwashed psyker from Zuojia."
Chen Ming combined the appearance of the brainwashed psyker in Qianmen Mian's memory with the news that he finally saw the brainwashed psyker's head and confirmed that the dead brainwashed psyker was different from Zuo Jing's real brainwashed psyker. Take it out.
Bai Quan didn't understand much about spiritual things, and asked: "Is this useful? The spiritual nerves are all different, how can they have the same ability"
"An Wuping said yes. He said that after any psionic person loses his original memory and experiences life again through false memories, his spiritual nerves will also change along with the false memories."
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"You trust him so much?"
"Because he showed me things that prove it."
Bai Quan did not ask what An Wuping showed to Chen Ming or how he showed it to Chen Ming.
Thinking about the black mist psyker who became extremely deformed in the black mist but could control hundreds of thousands of Zerg cruisers, he could probably guess that An Wuping must have some important biotechnology in his hands.
Perhaps some kind of neural connection technology could allow An Wuping to share some memories with Chen Ming or something.
In his opinion, only in this way could Chen Ming believe An Wuping.
"Who is that?"
Chen Ming said in a very helpless tone: "God knows, An Wuping said that he only saw a moment of memory, and he roughly remembered what it looked like. If he could see it and recognize it, it would be impossible to recognize it."< br>
"I also tried to use the software for him to draw based on description, but it was not very good. I couldn't draw the effect that An Wuping said or the precise appearance of the person."
"But I am basically certain that there is indeed such a person."
Bai Quan thought about it seriously and said: "If I can't create this person, I feel like I have to go..."
"Don't."
Chen Ming interrupted directly: "There is a reason why An Wuping did not publicly announce this news before."
"The empire has no way to eradicate Zuo Jing. The problem is that Zuo Jing is well hidden, and may even be hidden in high positions in the empire. A brainwashed psyker can be hidden anywhere."
"Of course the one at the top is definitely not the one. Otherwise, the Human Empire would have been renamed the Zuo Jing Empire. How could Zuo Jing be allowed to hide here and there like he is now, and even kill important people."
Bai Quan nodded and agreed with Chen Ming's idea.
"So An Wuping and I plan to use our combined skills to disguise ourselves as Zuo Jing and do things in the name of Zuo Jing."
"It reminds the empire that Zuojiao has not completely died out, they just increased in number like before."
"Then we can remind the left paths that are still hidden in the dark. Maybe those left paths will come directly to us"
Baiquan said: "The forces that are hiding in secret and accumulating strength are disguised and exposed on the bright side. It is indeed possible to go directly to the person who is pretending."
"But what about the specifics? Just rely on you to disguise yourself as Zuo Jing and attack the machine clan?"
"Of course not." Chen Ming immediately denied: "We will make new moves in the future. My fleet will fight with the Black Mist Zerg fleet, and then it will look like I am at odds with these Black Mist Zerg clan."< br>
"When the time comes, I need you to cooperate with me a little. Just send some ships out to show your attitude."
"Then I will ask An Wuping to send some Black Mist Zergs to the empire, and try to cause some losses that will not have such a big impact, at least it cannot be just a small fight outside the empire."
"At least to the extent that the empire should pay attention to the left path again."
"As long as we raise the news about Zuo Jing again, someone will do the rest, whether it is the Anti-Cult Bureau or Zuo Jing himself."
"I understand."
Bai Quan finally understood the reason behind Chen Ming's initiative to expose the Zerg clan and the Black Mist Zerg clan.
As long as these ideas can be completed, it is indeed, as Chen Ming said, something that is beneficial to everyone.
And Chen Ming's concern about concealment is indeed justified.
If there is someone in the upper echelons of the empire who has an affair with Zuo Jing, then this plan is a pure waste of resources.
It was not only a waste of Chen Ming and An Wuping's, but also a waste of the empire's resources.
Therefore, he only found An Wuping, a person who had a deep hatred for Zuo Jing, to cooperate with him to complete all of this.
That makes sense.
Bai Quan is not an unreasonable person, and he is willing to do the necessary evil.
Whether it was experiments on black mist psychics who were leftist elements, or he was helping Chen Ming hide some specific information from others.
"Then let's talk about something serious."
Many people behind Bai Quan and elsewhere wanted to learn more about Chen Ming and An Wuping through his mouth, instead of going to investigate in person to avoid offending Chen Ming.
What Bai Quan just asked was what he wanted to know.
What he said next was what others wanted to know.
Bai Quan cleared his throat and returned the topic to a time when he didn't know a lot of more detailed information: "Last time you gave me a photo saying that an unknown Zerg occupied a planet, but An Wuping told many things about it. Accounted for, including your contact and cooperation with him.”
Chen Ming said calmly: "Oh."
"What are you doing?"
"Just oh."
"You have nothing to say?"
"No, it was originally planned like this, and it's not normal for the bullshit to be discovered. Look, no one dares to come to me and question me, right?"
Bai Quan held his forehead and said: "But the superiors are still worried about what you will do to An Wuping, so they just told me to ask about the relationship between you and An Wuping. If there is anything the empire can do, Help An Wuping carry it.”
"It means I suspect that you are threatening An Wuping, asking you to let go, and the empire will compensate you."
"What? What can I do? How can serious cooperation be called a threat?"
"Stop for a moment."
Bai Quan felt that Chen Ming was talking nonsense again, so he asked in the way of private communication between the two: "How do you and An Wuping cooperate? How did he agree to cooperate with you?"
"Oh, it's his insect queen here."
"..."
Bai Quan was silent for a moment and said nothing more.
After discussing with Chen Ming, he needed to tell the public about the news, and he needed to hide the news for Chen Ming.
After asking these questions, he asked Chen Ming an irrelevant question: "Do you have any thoughts on the situation on the front line?"
"The front line of the Machinery Clan is almost completely undefended. We have only sent out a few probing troops and are already close to making a concave shape in the defense line of the Mechanical Clan's star field. To be honest, I feel more and more that this is The trap of the mechanical tribe, but I have no clue.”
"Um..."
Chen Ming really wanted to say that this was not a trap. It was his actions behind the mechanical tribe that attracted the main force of the mechanical tribe to their rear.
But it was really hard for him to tell the news directly.
After all, these are what he really wants to hide, another part of his hidden strength.
Therefore, Chen Ming chose to guide the situation of the mechanical clan in other directions.
Such as the phase beast.
It just so happened that Chen Ming had actually come into contact with giant beasts many times.
He used this excuse to argue that the machine clan had no good means of dealing with the phase beasts, and was forced to reveal the situation of stuffing cruisers and battleships into phase space in order to drive away the phase beasts.
He spent some time explaining to Bai Quan the techniques for temporarily sending ordinary battleships into phase space.
Then, the mothership suspected of carrying the Destroyer appeared in the area where the Black Mist Zerg appeared, throwing a blame on An Wuping's head.
Then he talked about the possibility that the reinforcements from outside the Machine Tribe were still hidden somewhere, and helped Bai Quan confirm that there might indeed be traps set.
Chen Ming used this information to make Bai Quan and others ignore the losses of the mechanical clan caused by Chen Ming's power.
Chen Ming didn't know how much Bai Quan believed it, but everything he said was true, and he just deliberately concealed some information.
It's not that Chen Ming doesn't trust Bai Quan, it's just that there is some news that he really can't tell others.
After chatting with Bai Quan, An Wuping's phone call happened to come in.
Then Chen Ming was immediately ready to start asking and answering questions for himself.
Answer An Wuping's call.
Chen Ming immediately asked: "What's wrong?"
An Wuping's voice sounded from the terminal: "Have you seen those black fogs?"
"I saw it, you probably didn't do it."
"Yes, it's something else that's using force to control my bugs."
"So?" "So I guess..."
An Wuping was interrupted in the middle of his words by Minister Lu Han on the other end of the terminal in the hands of Minister Hou: "Director Chen Ming, can I talk to you?"
"?"
A question mark suddenly appeared on Chen Ming's head.
No, that was not your attitude just now.
Why was the commanding element in his tone so strong when talking to An Wuping, but his attitude suddenly improved when he came here? Do you have the attitude of asking for help?
What's the meaning?
After all, he is also a national-level minister. Why is there such a big gap?
Are you afraid of his psychic powers?
But if you really want to talk about it, Chen Ming is only level 5, and An Wuping is already level 6 as he said personally.
Or is it because An Wuping couldn't find him even at level 6, and although Chen Ming was only at level 5, his psychic threat was obviously greater?
Is it really just "prescribing the right medicine"? Is it easy to bully someone if you have a good attitude?
Chen Ming thought of the past again for a moment.
He has always maintained a humble attitude, but as soon as he arrived at the headquarters, someone gave him a "surprise" and forced him to act violently. The entire empire looked at the legion's joke and asked the legion commander to personally go out to solve the problem.
After that and until today at least within the Legion and the Empire, everyone who knew him put a smile on his face.
Just like the last time he talked to Bai Quan, he said this sentence that no one dared to ask him questions.
As a result, Chen Ming enjoyed the treatment he had enjoyed once, and An Wuping actually enjoyed it again. It's true that good people can be bullied.
Minister Hou on the side saw that his superior's words made An Wuping's expression become more and more uncomfortable, and cold sweat broke out in his heart.
He and An Wuping had met each other several times, and they tried to communicate in a slower tone, and An Wuping was very cooperative.
As a result, my boss's attitude became like this not long after.
Even if it is said that this is to use different attitudes to affect the relationship between Chen Ming and An Wuping, it will not put his own relationship with An Wuping's relationship at risk.
But there was nothing he could do. He was really not qualified to talk to his superiors.
Chen Ming had a panoramic view of Minister Hou's expression, and did not let An Wuping directly show any destructive performance. At the same time, his prosthesis in the legion responded on the terminal: "You are?"
Lu Han introduced himself as before and mentioned his idea of letting Chen Ming help transport supplies using psychic energy.
By the way, I also asked Chen Ming to investigate this matter in depth and find out the person behind the black mist.
At the same time, he also specifically explained the black mist psyker that Chen Ming killed before.
Of course, his attitude was towards Chen Ming, expressing some people's suspicions in a very tactful way, hoping to help Chen Ming prove his innocence.
It's just that it takes a lot of time for the empire's fleet to travel, so I can only ask Chen Ming to investigate it himself.
After learning about the situation of the black mist, the empire was already somewhat suspicious of the black mist psyker and Zuo Jing.
This was a good thing for Chen Ming, but Minister Lu's attitude made him completely unhappy.
There was no reason for him to have an attack. He just exchanged information normally and talked about some of the things he had explained to Bai Quan.
Then the communication ended.
But An Wuping was different here. He took one last look at Minister Hou and the terminal on the table in front of him, and left directly with a dark face.
Minister Hou's face also darkened after An Wuping left.
But he still maintained a normal tone when speaking: "Minister Lu, An Wuping is gone."
"It's okay. He is a psyker who can be manipulated at will by Chen Ming, and another psyker has robbed so many Zerg warships. His abilities should be just like that. Don't pay too much attention to him. You can just do things as before."
"Then I will send other psykers to investigate the area."
Lu Han seemed to be aware of the difference in attitude when communicating with Chen Ming and An Wuping, but he had no intention of changing.
People in high positions don't care too much about what people below them think.
As for the specific definition of the following people, everyone has their own opinions.
Minister Hou silently accepted orders from his superiors and would do nothing else.
The next day came in a blink of an eye.
Chen Ming has basically arranged the affairs between An Wuping and the Zerg.
At the same time, I also learned further through Baiquan that most of the insiders in the empire suspected that the ugly black mist prosthetic in the Black Mist Zerg incident was made by Zuo Jing.
Although this kind of creature that is a mixture of humans, machines, and Zerg really looks like something created by the cooperation of Chen Ming and An Wuping, it is also an existence that the two of them actively exposed.
An Wuping and Chen Ming had no reason to take the initiative to tell the empire about such an existence.
Moreover, what Chen Ming said about black mist psychics dying without intact corpses is supported by Baiquan.
In addition, Zuojia really has a history of human experimentation.
It's not like the mechanical device is impossible to obtain, and the Black Mist Heart Gathering Pearl is even easier for Zuo Jing to obtain.
And there is another point that is not too critical, but it also affects many people’s judgment.
That is, what Chen Ming has been working on is all kinds of high-end machinery, and the biological spaceship built by An Wuping is also very biologically beautiful.
It is completely different from the ugly black mist prosthesis.
So after thinking about the difference between what Chen Ming and An Wuping made and the black mist prosthesis.
Although many people will not regard this situation as the main basis for judgment, they will subconsciously regard this situation as an important auxiliary basis for judgment.
Therefore, the situation in the empire is developing in the direction that Chen Ming wants to see.
No one will come to interfere with what he is going to do behind the mechanical clan.
However, Chen Ming was not in a hurry to take action so quickly. It would take time for the Zerg to develop.
And he had another thing to deal with.
That's the thing about phase monsters.
Chen Ming could only communicate very briefly with the phase beast, and could not share his detailed thoughts for the phase beast to understand.
If the phase monster runs away like last time when they meet next time, Chen Ming is really worried about whether it can come back alive.
So it must find a way to solve the communication problem.
Chen Ming had already started thinking about it when the phase beast left before.
The first solution he thought of was to let the insect queen absorb the three scales that the phase beast took the initiative to leave for him last time.
After thinking about it, he still didn't do it for the time being.
Because he felt that if the insect queen absorbed the scales of the phase beast, it would most likely enter the evolutionary state again.
It's not a good thing for the insect queen to suddenly evolve at this time.
So Chen Ming thought about it for a long time and thought of many ways to communicate.
The final choice was to let the insect queen figure out the way to communicate with Chen Ming before it had absorbed Chen Ming's condensed spiritual energy source, the neural link.
Using a nerve derived from the outside of the body, he tried to directly communicate spiritually with the phase beast.
It’s not too difficult, but the insect queen has to make it thicker when making this nerve.
Today, after conducting some simple tests, the nerves used to communicate with the phase beast have been created by the Queen of Worms.
And the time is almost up.
The phase beast had been out for a few hours before returning.
So now, if the phase beast is still alive, he should be looking for traces of him.
The method of searching must be related to Chen Ming's use of the power of the scarlet dimension.
Therefore, what Chen Ming did was to find a random place outside the mechanical tribe's star domain, and use psychic energy to send a robot to the phase space of this place through the scarlet dimension.
Then wait, just wait.
After waiting for about half an hour.
The phase beast's transition fluctuations appeared in this galaxy, and Chen Mingzhen was waiting for the phase beast.
The phase beast that appeared in front of Chen Ming had many scars on its body.
This time there were not only horrific wounds from being bitten by the same kind, but also some marks that looked like they had been violently whipped with their tails by other phase beasts.
The scales on these wounds were almost all broken, and purple blood was even slowly flowing out in some places.
The injury was more serious than last time.
But the phase beast still came to Chen Ming's robot very excitedly.
He pushed the piece of scarlet flesh in his mouth, which was larger than before, towards Chen Ming.
Chen Ming did not touch the flesh and blood, but once again used the scarlet dimension to send the nerve here.
The phase beast sensed that Chen Ming had used part of the power of the scarlet dimension, and suddenly seemed a little more excited.
But after discovering that Chen Ming only used the power of the scarlet dimension for a moment, the excitement dissipated and he continued to push the scarlet flesh and blood towards Chen Ming.
Chen Ming still did not touch flesh and blood, but let the robot drag this nerve that was connected to Chen Ming's mental power to try to get closer to the phase beast, while making friendly and comforting sounds.
But the phase beast seemed unable to understand Chen Ming's idea of connecting to the nerves, and it also resisted Chen Ming's approach to this tentacle-like thing.
He kept keeping a distance from Chen Ming's robot and kept gesturing for Chen Ming to touch the piece of scarlet flesh.
Going in circles with Chen Ming.
The robot couldn't catch up with the phase beast at all, no matter how fast Chen Ming accelerated.
The phase beast just wanted Chen Ming to absorb the piece of scarlet flesh, but it didn't want to come into contact with this nerve.
Chen Ming had no choice but to temporarily return to the piece of flesh and blood, and completely absorb the larger piece of flesh when the phase beast approached.
The phase beast immediately came closer, observing Chen Ming carefully while still avoiding the nerves in the robot's hand.
After observing it for a long time, it suddenly seemed a little disappointed and soared into the sky again, as if it was still going to search for scarlet flesh.
No matter how Chen Ming called it, there was no movement. The goal was very clear.
Chen Ming couldn't hold himself any longer this time.
He really couldn't accept other people being kind to him for no reason, even if that other person wasn't a human being, but a giant phase beast.
It just so happened that he was not at war with the mechanical tribe right now.
So Chen Ming chose to build a cruiser directly next to the robot, and followed the phase beast's jump position directly.
If his calculations were correct, the phase beast's location should be somewhere within the mechanical race's star field.
(End of chapter)