Chapter 396 Emergency Measures
At this time, Chen Ming felt extremely dizzy when facing the closed space barrier.
He really didn't expect that the current situation would be reversed.
It was his turn to tear open the dimensional rift leading from Scarlet to the normal universe.
The existence in Scarlet wanted to completely seal the space rift and completely trap Chen Ming here.
Although repairing the space barriers in the scarlet dimension and phase space does not require him to think more.
As long as he can return to the phase space, he can return to the normal universe and solve the problem of the Scarlet Invasion.
Then here comes the problem.
How can he break through the limitations of Scarlet, tear apart the space barrier, and return to the normal universe under the current situation where his connection with the normal universe is almost cut off and he is unable to use the resources he has accumulated?
How can he tear apart this space barrier when he is in scarlet and under tremendous mental pressure?
And...
Chen Ming glanced in front of the scavenger who could no longer burn the blue-purple flames. There was a big eyeball staring at him.
Although the big eyeballs didn't really cause any harm to him just now, he had quickly adapted to the pure mental attack since the last time his spirit was severely damaged.
As for the subsequent collision of the Scarlet Eye, it also had no obvious effect. At most, it just smashed some scavenger structures.
Scavengers do more damage to the Crimson Eye than it does to scavengers.
But that doesn't mean he has a big advantage.
Because he is now on someone else's home court.
Chen Ming even had some suspicions that the way he controlled the Scavenger to repel the Scarlet Eye and enter the Scarlet Dimension was carefully designed by a brainwashed psyker.
How can he escape Scarlet with the Scarlet Eyes chasing him?
Chen Ming had no time to think about it, because the scarlet eyes had once again aimed their corrupting gaze at him.
Its blood-red pupils reflected the scarlet world, the body of the scavenger, and Chen Ming at the control console inside the scavenger's structure.
At this time, the scarlet eye gaze brought heavier pressure than when Chen Ming entered the scarlet dimension before.
The physical strength of the creatures in the scarlet dimension is not particularly outstanding, but the spiritual power and scarlet power they possess is the most terrifying thing.
The mental pressure caused by this inevitable visual attack can be dealt with when Chen Ming has the support of the resources of the normal universe.
But at this moment, Chen Ming felt that his mental power recovery speed could not keep up with the consumption speed.
His total mental power and mental power recovery speed usually have a huge increase from the hive mind network.
What allows him to enter Scarlet for a long time is to rely on the support of the upper limit of his mental power to prevent him from being directly consumed by Scarlet.
And then rely on the huge amount of mental power recovery speed that exists every moment to ensure that the consumption can keep up.
But at this time, his connection with the two hive mind networks is almost non-existent.
The hive mind network has become a mere decoration.
Although Chen Ming's total mental power has not decreased due to the weakening of the connection, the recovery speed of his mental power is like an ant crawling compared to the rocket-like speed before.
He could not delay in the Crimson and the Crimson Eye.
If he delays it for a little longer, his mental energy will be exhausted and exhausted.
When his mental energy is exhausted, he will die.
The experience of facing a death crisis in person is different from that of manually commanding and operating a fleet to fight.
Especially since this was the first time Chen Ming fought in such a disadvantageous environment.
This situation really made him extremely nervous...and excited.
Although adrenaline has basically no effect on his conscious body.
But Chen Ming still felt a sudden sense of excitement.
And it could be worse.
The particularity of the Scarlet Dimension itself.
There is no direct concept of time and space in the scarlet dimension. Everything is chaotic and there is no object to refer to.
It's like the existence of a quantum state. Only when it is observed will it collapse and become a temporarily stable space.
This is also the reason why the Scarlet Dimension has never been able to accurately locate the empire's position, unless a clone appears as an anchor point to determine the position between the two dimensions.
And if the scarlet dimension fails to connect with the normal universe and open a channel that serves as an anchor, chaos will fill this space all the time.
Just like the place where Chen Ming just tore open the space rift.
Even if he tears open a rift in space from this position now, it may not lead to any place in any dimension.
Chen Ming doesn't want to know what's in the black hole dimension or other dimensions hidden deeper.
But fortunately, his psychic powers are still working, and his connection with the normal universe has not been completely severed.
He could faintly sense that the things belonging to him were moving randomly and discretely in certain corners of some other dimension that was in contact with the scarlet dimension.
As long as Chen Ming can find those key nodes and tear open the spatial rifts in these places, he can return to the normal universe.
Chen Ming quickly thought clearly about his current situation.
Control the scavenger to turn around and run away.
It was impossible for him to fight head-on with the Scarlet Eye in the Scarlet Dimension. All he could do was stay as far away as possible.
The particularity of the scarlet dimension makes it difficult to return directly from the scarlet dimension to the normal universe. At the same time, its spatial chaos also allows Chen Ming to escape in disguise.
Any spatial uncertainty in the scarlet dimension will cause Chen Ming, who is currently in this space, to instantly appear in a place in the scarlet dimension where he doesn't even know where he went.
Can quickly escape the Scarlet Eye for quite a distance.
It's not appropriate to say it's distance, because the space in the scarlet dimension is chaotic and distance is meaningless.
And no matter how far away he is, as long as Chen Ming dares to stop for a moment, the scarlet eyes can still catch up and linger.
Scarlet has already locked onto Chen Ming. As long as he is in Scarlet, no matter how he escapes, he cannot escape the tracking of the indigenous creatures that exist in Scarlet.
Even if Chen Ming had tried his best to run away, the scarlet eyes could still suddenly emerge from a chaotic space and get into Chen Ming's face after breaking away countless times.
Chen Ming could only carry on with the mental pressure and continue running.
The huge pressure made his emotions, which had already calmed down, gradually become difficult to suppress.
He really wanted to turn around and fight with the Scarlet Eye, but he knew that doing so would make him even less likely to survive.
He could only keep running.
And while running, he must maintain a high degree of mental concentration and must pay exact attention to those contact nodes in the normal universe that may appear around him at any time.
Only by grasping these nodes dispersed in scarlet that were chaotically distorted by time and space could he leave.
Even though Chen Ming was controlling the scavenger while running, he had the outer protection of the scavenger and additional support in movement, so that he did not need to use more mental power.
At this time, the steel jungle in his conscious space had begun to corrode.
This is the manifestation that he has truly begun to lose the most essential part of his spiritual power.
And there's something worse happening.
The fuel inside the scavenger he controlled ran out.
The scavengers were able to suppress Scarlet in the space rift before, relying on the continuous flow of artificial phase matter provided by Chen Ming's use of spiritual energy.
After the space rift was closed, the scavengers had lost their comprehensive energy supply.
As the last trace of fuel is used up.
Most of the scavenger's functions shut down themselves and could only slowly slow down in the scarlet dimension.
Even if the scavenger now has nearly half of his flesh and blood body, it will be difficult to survive after losing the energy supply.
At this time, it was impossible for Chen Ming to hold on to the scavenger and not let go.
He could only choose to abandon it and move on alone.
Fortunately, Chen Ming gave away the nanoforge that could build an industrial colony on his own before bringing the scavengers in, so that his losses would at least not be that great.
Next, he could only rely on biological armor to continue to play speed chase with Crimson Eyes in Crimson.
It's a pity that he was the one who killed a bunch of entities created by Scarlet and was eventually hunted down.
Without the convenience of a vehicle, the flexibility of biological armor itself has indeed improved a lot.
But in Scarlet, the speed that can rely on distorted time and space to create distance in the actual sense is the most important.
But Chen Ming can't do anything now. He can only activate the armor's biological engine and continue to approach the nodes in his psychic perception.
But as his speed decreased, the Scarlet Eyes tracked faster and faster, becoming more and more efficient.
In the past, it might have taken about ten minutes for Chen Ming's Scarlet Eyes to catch up, which required a burst of engine power to get away.
And now it only takes five minutes for the scarlet eyes to appear behind him.
Obviously, the biological armor does not lose much speed compared to the scavenger, but the scarlet eyes can get to his back faster than before.
Chen Ming could only use his spiritual power again and again to make the biological armor burst out faster and escape faster.
Finally, after sustaining his somatosensory time for nearly an hour, he sensed a node in the nearby scarlet dimensional space that was connected to the normal universe.
Chen Ming didn't know when this node would disappear due to the time and space chaos in the Scarlet Dimension, but he knew that this was his closest chance to leave the Scarlet Dimension.
Taking advantage of the speed of the psychic energy burst just now, Chen Ming followed his own perception and quickly approached the space.
Fortunately, he did not suffer from the distortion of space in the process, causing his actual distance to this space to be further away.
He has truly arrived in this space.
Chen Ming immediately tried. He gathered spiritual energy in his hands, stretched forward, and penetrated the space in front of him.
Curl your fingers into claws and use one claw forcefully.
A faint scratch was left in front of him suspended in the scarlet void.
Although the scratch was only half the size of a human being, at this time, Chen Ming could not continue to tear open an excessively large spatial rift and cause additional loss of mental power.
The stability of this space was immediately affected, but there was still quite a distance before the space was torn apart.
Chen Ming stretched out his hand again, wanting to accomplish the most with the least mental burden. But his mental energy was still more consumed than he expected.
Moreover, the rate of consumption growth continues to rise.
This is not because the consumption of tearing space continues to increase, but that the scarlet eyes are circling over again like a vulture that has discovered a dying animal.
Chen Ming gritted his teeth, concentrated all the psychic energy he could control within the current limit on his arm, and forcibly cracked a small space barrier the size of a fingernail in front of the Scarlet Eye.
Behind this space barrier is a blue-purple space.
Chen Ming did not have time to escape through this gap.
Because this gap is too small to allow Chen Ming's complete consciousness to pass through.
And the moment he opened the gap, countless scarlet substances poured into the gap on their own, and completely sealed the gap under the influence of the Scarlet Eye.
Often it's easier to break than to fix, but that's certainly not the case right now.
Chen Ming could only give up this opportunity and continue to evacuate.
As long as the Scarlet Eyes are still tracking him, they can't let him tear apart space.
Even if the mental attack cannot affect Chen Ming's behavior in a short period of time, its physical impact and blockage can ruin Chen Ming's space-tearing operation.
It doesn't need to cause much damage, as long as it can knock Chen Ming away and prevent Chen Ming from being able to stably contact a space for a long time, its purpose will be achieved.
Chen Ming must solve this problem, otherwise he will definitely not tear enough space for his consciousness to pass through.
With the amount of mental power he currently has left, he still has at most two chances left.
If he is not lucky enough to encounter a node that is connected to the normal universe, then as time goes by, he may only have one chance left, or he may never have a chance again.
Chen Ming was a little nervous, but not panicked.
Anyway, the worst outcome is nothing more than death. Only by doing things calmly can you have the greatest possibility of survival.
He was thinking about how he could avoid being hunted anymore, and he was thinking about how he could tear apart the space barrier most efficiently.
He was thinking about how he could make a comeback.
As Chen Ming continued to wander along the sensory nodes in the scarlet, he suddenly noticed subtle changes in the scarlet material in the surrounding environment.
If the scarlet substance just gave him a kind of mental pressure of being spied on all the time.
So the red substances he came into contact with at this time gave him a kind of chaotic thinking, and all the things he thought about would be affected by this substance, causing the illusion that he would be contaminated with twisted flesh and blood during his thinking.
The content of thinking is an illusion, but the feeling that the content of Chen Ming's thinking is an illusion is not an illusion.
He seemed to have unknowingly arrived at the territory of another scarlet creature.
Chen Ming immediately had an idea in his mind.
Immediately following the concentration of the scarlet substance, he changed his direction of travel.
No matter what this scarlet creature is or what its position is, he must go and have a look. This is an opportunity.
Anyway, even if this new scarlet creature is an enemy, it will not affect him from continuing to run.
But if it can be brought into conflict with the Scarlet Eye, that would be the best result.
Chen Ming's actions seemed to cause the Scarlet Eye to feel trouble. It once again accelerated its speed, and its efficiency in catching up with Chen Ming in this chaotic time and space was once again improved.
Such a change made Chen Ming immediately feel that there was something going on, and he quickly moved further in the direction that made the chaotic thoughts flying in his brain aggravated.
Soon, a sense of danger appeared in his consciousness. .
The new crimson creatures have noticed his presence.
And, it is approaching rapidly.
Chen Ming seemed to have guessed what this new scarlet creature would look like.
But he didn't care.
Because he once again used his psychic powers to make the armor explode at its maximum speed, and after escaping from the pursuit of the Scarlet Eye, he discovered a node leading to the normal universe for the second time.
Even if he is being hunted, Chen Ming must not miss this opportunity.
The scarlet dimension is too random. Even if he has special perception, there is no way to confirm whether he can go to the area where he senses the node in the chaotic time and space.
He has to try and try at every opportunity.
Especially at this time of extraneous matters.
Chen Ming's right arm was once again entangled with spiritual energy waves that tore apart space, and he once again tried to tear apart space.
The cracks in space reappeared, and a force originating from the phase space behind the cracks also tried to break through the limitations of the space barrier and bring Chen Ming out from the originally closed phase space in an unprecedented attempt.
Chen Ming could feel that his mental energy was almost exhausted.
The only two opportunities I thought I would have are now the only one left.
He will no longer have another chance to tear open the rift in space.
He must take advantage of the present and solve all the troubles in one fell swoop.
Take advantage of this brief moment of peace.
Chen Ming suddenly took out several metal blocks that looked like palm-sized pieces from inside the power armor.
And all the remaining spiritual energy was used on these metal blocks.
The metallic liquid overflowed from the metal block and condensed behind Chen Ming, forming two floating cannon-like weapons more than ten meters long.
The muzzle of the floating cannon opened, and several blue-purple split laser beams swept across Chen Ming's body.
Although it failed to completely clear out all the scarlet substances, it still gave Chen Ming a chance to breathe.
This weapon was not brought over from the normal universe by Chen Ming.
It's something he always carries with him.
Chen Ming had previously thought about how he would use his psychic powers if he lost his material storage one day.
Of course it was not the current situation of being disconnected from the normal universe. This situation was really beyond his expectation.
He just briefly considered some emergency measures.
Then it happened to be used now.
In fact, Chen Ming just used his spiritual power to control these materials, compressing the volume of some common and frequently needed materials to the extreme, and carrying them with him.
Although compressing hundreds of cubic meters of materials to a portable level will definitely cause their properties to change due to problems with their internal particle structure.
And the quality of the materials that are compressed to the extreme is also an issue that needs to be considered.
But Chen Ming's control over materials is the earliest effect of his psychic powers, and the thing his psychic powers are least afraid of is damage.
Just use the most basic psychic effects to repair.
He can restore the material that was damaged by excessive compression to its original state.
And take the opportunity to use these few materials to make some special targeted weapons.
For example, the current two sects, the Ape Eater.
This name is a little bit of bad taste for Chen Ming.
This weapon was actually developed from the digestive organs of the corpse of the Phase Beast Clan Leader some time ago, a weapon specifically designed to target Scarlet.
In the early stages of the research and development of Chen Ming's capital ship project, the idea of using the phase behemoth's native weapons, namely their digestive organs, was first ruled out in the battleship's weapon system.
Because the digestive system of the phase beast is too targeted.
And this joke is not something that Chen Ming can absorb, digest, understand, and become part of his own power.
The digestion of the phase beasts is digestion in the true sense. They don't care what is in the scarlet matter.
They're really just eating.
Except for the dead leader of the phase beasts who was truly influenced by scarlet and possessed some power, the other phase beasts just regarded scarlet as food.
Weapons converted from such digestive organs are meaningless in the design of Chen Ming's battleship and are not suitable as universal weapons.
But they still have a use.
Just before, a bunch of people contributed to Chen Ming's project, and Chen Ming divided some organ materials that were not important to the spacecraft design.
Of course the organs and so on were all sorted out.
The scientific research company assigned to the digestive organ came up with this thing during this time.
This is something Chen Ming knows very clearly. After all, he and the president are handling the entire empire and scarlet-related matters.
Chen Ming paid a lot of attention to this weapon as soon as it appeared, and even took advantage of the first test of the weapon to optimize it.
He happened to kill the Astro-Eater during that time, so Chen Ming directly called this scarlet-digesting weapon the Ape-Eater.
Those who didn't know better thought it was an orangutan, but in fact, it was clearly the best weapon against scarlet in the entire empire.
It is small enough for a single soldier to hold a rifle, and large enough to be directly installed on a capital ship.
It can also use two modes to release a cone-shaped jet of concentrated firepower, or a material jet that is split into several laser states.
The material composition of these jets is similar to the material used by the phase beast to digest scarlet.
It can be manufactured in batches only by using the medium of the phase space and some of the materials found in the normal universe and space environment.
With the help of the Ape Eater at this time, Chen Ming successfully tore open a whole crack.
But at the same time.
A giant brain also appeared behind him.
Chen Ming turned around and looked.
I saw a bottomless crack between the left and right hemispheres of the giant brain.
A small shadow suddenly appeared in the crack.
It was the figure of the brainwashed psyker.
(End of chapter)