Chapter 403 Begins
The day after I finished communicating with the Minister of Psychics.
Chen Ming has already started preparations for the next big project.
Starting from the two star gates he owns and those owned by the legion, which can be connected to the star gates in any star field in the empire.
Most of the star gates in the empire are activated every day, so things affected by Chen Ming's spiritual energy can spread to the capitals of all star regions in the entire empire through the star gates in a very short period of time.
Each star region capital is its own transportation hub for interstellar navigation, and then separates a portion of the metallic liquid from the things it controls when arriving at the capital, and rides on other spacecraft to the distribution and trade centers of different star regions.
Control the space station or colony in the trade center, and use the facilities here to let the constantly splitting metallic liquid control more and more spacecrafts, further improving the diffusion efficiency.
Chen Ming didn't even need to do it himself. He only needed to use these spaceships that were already running around the empire to scatter his metallic liquid like dandelions.
If the metal liquid is just spread to every corner of the empire, Chen Ming's one week is even a bit conservative.
But it was obvious that he had to prepare more than just that.
Because neither Chen Ming nor anyone in the empire can determine how many people in the empire have been affected by brainwashed psykers.
So for confidentiality reasons.
There are only three people in the empire who know about what Chen Ming proposed.
Three people who had absolutely no chance of being influenced by a brainwashed psyker.
Anyone else is completely unaware.
This is true even if it is said to be the Afterglow Core that will take over the management of different star systems after a large number of personnel were lost.
They all need to wait until Chen Ming starts taking action before calling them urgently.
It was for this reason that the Minister of Psychics took the initiative to mention that the afterglow they were preparing to take over was also likely to be influenced by brainwashed psykers.
And hope that Chen Ming, who specializes in controlling various mechanical lives, can solve this problem.
So he had to make some extra preparations.
Chen Ming didn't have much Yuhui, and the most it could do was help him stabilize his colony.
But he had always had some reserve labor somewhere, and it was time to take them away.
After setting up its own behavioral logic for each metallic liquid that goes out along the empire's transportation network.
Chen Ming used his spiritual energy to run directly from the Origin Galaxy back to his hometown, the Pirate Space Station.
I met the boss, Lao Wu, and the factory director who I hadn't seen for a while and talked about the current situation. I also strengthened the security facilities for a few of them to prevent things from affecting them later.
Chen Ming drove his highest point to the Afterglow Star Territory outside the Gallo Star Territory.
He didn't use his psychic powers anymore, nor did he jump directly.
Instead, they entered the hyperspace channel from the Pirate Space Station, and drove the spacecraft to the Afterglow Starfield openly and openly without any cover.
On the way, Chen Ming also encountered some fleets from the empire that were dealing with the scattered individuals of the mechanical race.
However, this had no impact. Chen Ming still entered Yuhui's star field smoothly.
He continued to intrude without any concealment.
Obviously in Afterglow's star field, there are Afterglow spacecraft patrolling near some key route nodes, and there are even Afterglow individuals running around in different places.
But all the afterglows uniformly treated Chen Ming as if he didn't exist, and allowed Chen Ming to go all the way from the border of the afterglow star field to the core of the afterglow star field.
Chen Ming has seen and been here before.
Once as a prisoner, but now...
Chen Ming's spacecraft soon arrived in the orbit of the innermost planet in the protective circle of the Afterglow Star Region galaxy.
Even after arriving here, Yuhui didn't make any reaction.
Chen Ming took the initiative to send a communication to the planet to apply for landing, and soon received a response that he could land and follow-up signal guidance.
The signal guided his ship into the planet's atmosphere.
What Chen Ming saw immediately was a purely mechanized colony.
From the sky, there is almost no extra space visible in the entire colony, and there are only complex operating machines everywhere.
There is a giant mechanical building in the center of the colony.
If Chen Ming guessed correctly, inside this building is the Kletka simulator.
Chen Ming landed at the highest point near the colony.
He stepped off the spacecraft and was greeted by a ground vehicle made by Yuhui.
They drove him into the colony and arrived at the foot of the giant building through a path that was obviously just demolished.
The self-driving car soon went down.
Chen Ming didn't care. He walked straight into the building.
The building is not solid. In addition to the outer protective structure, there is also a large amount of redundant space inside.
And a tall tower that looks almost made up of various lines, exuding a stream of continuous energy supply from bottom to top.
Chen Ming looked up at the tower for a while and asked: "Is this a replica of Kletka?"
"Yes, we were born here."
The sound of afterglow came from inside the tower.
Chen Ming still maintained a very friendly attitude towards Yu Hui as always and asked: "Who is speaking now? Can you directly make the decision?"
"We have a total of fourteen cores installed on the Kletka replica, and our minds are interconnected."
"Very good."
Chen Ming nodded slightly and asked: "Then you should know what I am here for, and you should also know the final outcome of you continuing to do nothing and stay here."
"..."
silence.
Seeing that the core of Yuhui here didn't seem to want to respond to his words, Chen Ming continued: "You can only serve as cannon fodder for Yuhui's large army here, but follow me, and I will regard you as my strength."
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"I'm afraid you don't know that your Yuhui army is already preparing to retreat. They will retreat to a place where the empire will never be able to find it in a short time. They are afraid."
"We know."
The Afterglows finally responded: "Not only what you said, but also the war between the Empire and the Machine Tribe, and the fact that you prevented us from intervening in the war."
Chen Ming asked back: "You should know that you just simply died in the past, right?"
"The war between the empire and the machine race is one-sided. Are you really afraid that some of the empire's fleets do not have the machine race to give them military exploits?"
"Okay, stop talking nonsense. I'm still a little busy this coming week. Take your pick and tell me what you think?"
The Afterglows were silent again for a long time before speaking: "We have no choice."
"Actually, I gave it."
Chen Ming pointed to his feet and said: "Although the afterglow in all places except this galaxy has been penetrated by me in recent years."
"But I have never controlled any afterglow individuals here in Kletka. As long as you want, you can directly control the security robots here in Kletka to destroy Kletka and yourselves."
"Look, this is the choice I leave you."
Yu Hui seemed a little dissatisfied and said: "This is not a choice at all."
"Doesn't it count? If I hadn't given you this choice, you know what your final outcome would be."
"You don't think things would develop like this without me, right?"
"The empire has destroyed the star field of the mechanical tribe, and has gained an advantage in the frontal battlefield with the Yuhui army. Without me, what will the empire do next?"
The Afterglows tried to retort again: "Without you, the empire would not have made such progress, and we would not have fallen to this point."
"I just took it as a compliment from you."
Chen Ming was too lazy to continue talking nonsense.
The reason why he had not completely controlled the afterglow here before was to make his revealed power weaker and not be remembered by too many people.
He is no longer afraid of being missed by anyone, and he is still willing to come over and handle the matter personally because he has a certain respect for Yuhui himself.
Because Yuhui is an intelligent mechanical life, and it is a life created by humans.
They do not have their own culture, they are part of the imperial civilization.
That's why Chen Mingcai is willing to treat Yu Hui as an equal life in many cases.
But if Yuhui here doesn't know what's good after he's given face, then Chen Ming doesn't mind using some coercion.
"Think about it as soon as possible. Even if I am here, there are many people in the empire who have ideas about you."
"Don't think about it, we have no objection."
It seems that Yu Hui still has a brain.
Chen Ming nodded: "Very good, let's start from here."
He stretched out his hand and released some metallic liquid from his palm, and let the metallic liquid flow into the tower in front of him.
He also brought the copy of this Kletka simulator under his control.
Chen Ming read Kletka's database and completely controlled the afterglow of the entire star field in his hands.
It fulfilled an idea he had that took a long time to implement.
"Okay, give up this star field when the time comes, and issue an order to collect all the star field resources. After that, we will only take away the resources and cores. I have prepared a new place for you."
"The entire star field?"
"The entire star field. Or do you have to block the way out of the empire and be surrounded by the empire in the future?"
"We will obey your orders."
"Yeah."
Chen Ming responded, and then continued: "It shouldn't take much Yuhui to organize the resources of the star field, right? I need to keep the other Yuhui who have no tasks for the time being on standby, and I may use them at any time."
He needed them for the next thing that would affect the entire empire.
Chen Ming originally thought that Yuhui would agree quickly, but they asked: "Can't you do this kind of thing yourself? There is no need for our consent."
"No."
Chen Ming was a little nervous: "I gave you face to continue to manage the entire Afterglow Star Territory and help me do things, but you are still not happy."
"We just don't quite understand why you want to do this. You are fully capable of relying on psychic power to notify every individual of the news. You don't need us at all."
"This is just a personal habit. Although it is feasible for me to do everything, it consumes too much energy."
"You just have to figure it out. If you can't do it well, I can definitely use other Yuhui to do it."
"Understood, we will do a good job."
The entire star field has been completely controlled by Chen Ming. The only hope is that the large forces are also preparing to evacuate. What else can they do?
Seven days later.
The time agreed between Chen Ming and the Minister of Psychics has arrived.
He called the Minister of Psychics and said: "Ready."
The Minister of Psychics seemed to have been waiting for a long time. He picked up the phone almost as soon as Chen Ming called and asked, "Is everyone sure?"
"OK."
"Let's start. Pay attention to every corner of the empire. There are 60 million people. If we do well, we can hope to suppress this matter completely."
After all, the average population of each planet with colonies in the empire is between 50 million and 100 million. Sixty million people are really nothing in the entire empire.
Previously, Yunluoxing, a planet in the prosperous star field, was infected by scarlet and hundreds of millions of people died.
It was only half a year later that it was forgotten by many people.
With so many people, it’s really nothing.
"Why do I feel like I should say this?"
The moment the Minister of Psychics also gave their prepared response.
Every one of the 60 million people targeted by Chen Ming.
No matter where they are, whether they're in a colony or a space station, whether they're walking or piloting a spaceship.
As long as they were on the list, they were all involved in the metallic liquid that appeared out of thin air at their feet at this moment.
The psychic energy that was Chen Ming was sent to a designated place that he and the minister of psychic energy had told him.
It was a habitable planet that had just been discovered outside the empire and had no trace of development.
Of course, everything can't go smoothly.
The moment Chen Ming took action.
In an ordinary colony in a galaxy next to the capital galaxy of the Gallo star field.
The bald man Chen Ming worked with before now lives here.
Ever since the bald head helped him warn in advance that some people were investigating his identity, and Chen Ming gave him a fairly objective amount of money in return.
Baldhead took the initiative to run away from the repair shop.
He bought a house, got married, and planned to lie down like this for the rest of his life.
But just today, Bald, who was sunbathing in the yard, suddenly heard screams coming from outside.
Having spent many years in the pirate space station, he immediately sensed the troops and climbed onto the courtyard wall to look outside.
On the road outside the yard, several people were being sucked into the swirling metallic liquid
Those people were the neighbors he had seen recently.
When the bald head just poked out of the wall.
The people who were trapped over there suddenly seemed to have discovered the target, and their screams became even more fierce.
They forcibly tore off their own limbs and separated themselves from the metallic liquid, swinging the severed limbs and flying towards the bald head.
"Fuck!"
The bald man yelled and climbed down the wall to go back to the house to find a gun.
Before he could even take two steps, he was knocked down by a heavy force, and a chill rose from the bald tailbone to Tianling Gai.
Before he could make a move, the terminal he was holding suddenly overflowed with a large amount of metallic liquid, which protected him. The neighbor who flew into the yard was also involved in it, and disappeared on the ground in the blink of an eye.
If it weren't for the blood stains on the neighbor's torn limbs and the scratches on his bald head, he would have even doubted whether he was dreaming just now.
The bald man stood there and thought for a long time, and suddenly felt scared.
But after thinking about it, he suddenly felt that the metallic liquid seemed familiar.
So he rummaged through his address book and found a number to call.
at the same time.
The capital of Caimo Star Territory.
Caimo Xingyu, who was having a meeting in a conference room in the government building, was sitting at the main seat in the conference room.
Just like this, I saw about one-third of the people attending the meeting having a large amount of metallic liquid produced out of thin air at their feet and sucking them into it.
He could hear curses and ferocious roars coming from the metallic liquid, and he could see the anti-psionic device built into the government building warning that psychic fluctuations were being suppressed.
He didn't make any move, he just waited quietly for it to end.
He didn't know what happened, but he knew the source of the metallic liquid.
Suddenly his terminal received a message.
He glanced at the terminal, then at the flustered people in the conference room, and calmly took a sip of tea: "Continue the meeting, let's stop for a moment on the topic of promoting the colorful nebulae in our star field as a tourist hotspot. Let's go first. Let’s talk about how to deal with the missing positions.”
Still at this point in time.
In a conference hall at the headquarters of the Fifth Army.
The Fifth Army Corps is making an internal public report.
Their army commander is frowning because this year's military expenditure has not increased much.
It was obvious that the Fifth Army suffered heavy losses in the Cai Mo Incident more than half a year ago.
However, the military expenditures provided this year have not increased much, and they have not even been able to make up for last year's losses.
Obviously there is some special reason for this.
And the biggest reason is that...
The commander of the Fifth Army looked at Li Sheng.
He was the one who commanded the Fifth Legion fleet during the Caimo Incident.
He was also the one who ordered the early start of the orbital bombing of Yunluoxing to clear the ground, causing An Wuping to almost die there.
Chen Ming's ability is known to everyone in the entire empire, and the relationship between Chen Ming and An Wuping is also known.
He is the only reason for the problem of reduced military resources of the Fifth Army.
There was nothing the commander of the Fifth Army could do. What Li Sheng did seemed to be no problem at the time.
The problem lies in not being able to deal with An Wuping completely.
He sighed inwardly
Suddenly, he saw metal liquid rising up from the feet of at least half of the people in the conference hall in front of him.
After wrapping up all those people, he disappeared into the conference hall.
This sudden situation caused chaos in the conference hall.
The Fifth Legion also had many psykers, and they immediately traced the source of the psionic energy and wanted to leave the conference hall.
The face of the legion commander also changed drastically in an instant, and he couldn't help but secretly thought: "Is this the time to retaliate?"
He was about to have a seizure when he saw the chaotic scene and immediately shouted: "Quiet!"
He spent a lot of effort to suppress the chaos in the conference hall.
Just as he was about to say something, an urgent message came through the terminals of him and some people on the battlefield.
The commander of the Fifth Army remained silent for a long time after reading it, his face uncertain.
And here at the Fourteenth Legion Research Institute, a similar situation is also happening.
The designer of the Supreme Point, Shao Yang, is also a psyker who came out of the Psychic Association together with Chen Ming.
He saw several people in his research institute being dragged away by the metallic liquid, leaving nothing behind.
And he also saw a similar situation next door, and even psykers were dragged into it. Their struggle to release their psychic powers was meaningless.
When he saw the metallic liquid, he knew who did it, but he didn't know the specific circumstances.
He could only restrain his subordinates and hide them in the laboratory and not go out.
Fortunately, he has Chen Ming's contact information.
Soon I got some additional information from Chen Ming.
He didn't say anything, he just further restrained his people to do what they should do.
He Gu, who was doing academic exchanges at the Fanchao Research Institute in the core star region of the empire, also saw a similar scene like anyone who had a slight relationship with Chen Ming.
When he saw the metallic liquid, he felt that it looked very familiar, and he immediately retreated to the corner of the laboratory.
Just watching helplessly some people were restrained and taken away by the metallic liquid.
Quite a few people at the Fanchao Research Institute were still confused.
But after just one glance at the terminal, they calmed down and began to comfort the remaining people.
He Gu looked around and no one seemed to care about him. He immediately took out the terminal and found Chen Ming's contact information.
And in the original galaxy Gaia.
In Chen Ming's office.
He had just finished answering a bunch of questions from people who knew him when he heard a knock at the door.
"Come in."
After Chen Ming finished speaking, the office door was pushed open.
The person who came in was a researcher under his command. He was not familiar with him and had only met him once or twice at most.
Normally when someone comes over, Chen Ming will definitely ask what's wrong first, but now he comes over at this time.
And it still carries the spiritual energy fluctuations that Chen Ming is extremely familiar with.
Chen Ming had only one reaction: "Hey, are you finally willing to give up?"
"Do you think you did a good job?"
The brainwashed psyker said to Chen Ming in a cold tone, walked to the side of Chen Ming's office, and turned on the TV on the wall.
As soon as the TV was turned on, an emergency news was playing.
The content of the news was that the Empire confirmed the identity of the brainwashing psyker who was the leader of Zuo Jing.
Of course, the identity of the face that Chen Ming had seen many times had been found out.
Although this is not necessarily the true identity of the brainwashed psyker, it is the most commonly used identity of the brainwashed psyker, and even the two scarlet-infected corpses that Chen Ming saw used for infection and invasion are such identities.
There is absolutely no problem in bringing this identity out publicly.
The brainwashed psyker continued switching through several channels.
After cutting off several channels broadcasting this news, I finally switched to another channel broadcasting other news.
This news is reporting another thing.
"Unidentified metallic liquid 'cannibalism' incidents have occurred across the empire, and psychics are suspected of committing the crime."
Chen Ming looked at him indifferently and said, "It seems that some places are still occupied by you, so?"
The brainwashed psyker looked back at Chen Ming and snapped his fingers.
The head of the live broadcast host on the screen immediately exploded, screams could not be heard, and the live broadcast was cut off urgently.
He immediately tuned to the next channel.
What was being broadcast on the news this time was the sudden death of a large number of people in the empire.
At the same time, at the same moment, in different places, the method of death is the same, all of which are head explosions.
The number of casualties currently counted is in the hundreds of thousands, and the numbers are still rising crazily.
"You did all of this..."
(End of chapter)