Chapter 453 The Curse of Time
Soon after.
The minister of psychic energy took the unconscious Tian Xian and Chen Ming's body through the star gate to the current Origin Galaxy.
And using himself as a cover, he completely covered up all the news about Chen Ming.
The accuracy of the sentinel array is not high enough to see clearly whether a person's eyes are empty, but his behavior is effective.
So far, everyone in the empire except the minister still thinks that Chen Ming has really come back and defeated the queen.
However, for unknown reasons and considerations, Chen Ming chose to return to his colony.
As for the minister, in addition to being a little excited about Chen Ming finally coming back at the beginning, he later learned about Chen Ming's true situation through Tian Xian's mouth.
He knew that Chen Ming’s news must not be announced,
Chen Ming's return with only his body is not good news, at least for most people.
Because the body is just a tool, there is a possibility that the tool will find a means of restraint.
Many people have already reacted and want to know Chen Ming's current situation through the minister's side.
The minister couldn't tell the real situation, so he chose the same approach as the senior officials of Chen Ming Colony.
in spite of.
That is, pretending to be dead.
Completely disregarding other people's thoughts and attitudes, just to hide the situation.
This approach is not a good approach, but it is indeed an approach that will not have much impact in the short term.
As long as Chen Ming's men continue to try to bring Chen Ming's consciousness out of that chaotic space, the subsequent negative impact of this approach can be minimized.
If it can't be brought out, then humanity will basically be doomed.
Even if Chen Ming's body is still there.
God knows if the Queen will find a way to target Chen Ming's body after she returns.
If it is really found and Chen Ming's consciousness does not return to his body to counterattack, there will be no need to worry about the subsequent problems.
So, the minister did the same.
He has clearly analyzed the pros and cons of the matter, and of course he knows what is the right thing to do.
And he will also play a role in finding Chen Ming's consciousness.
Like now.
Under his cover, Hui Hui controlled Tian Chuan's spaceship and the shuttle boat that had been modified by Chen Ming's body, passed through the star gate in the empire, and successfully arrived at Chen Ming's colony.
The two spacecraft landed in a newly built city on Gaia-2 that was only settled by the core members of the colony.
After handing over the unconscious Tian Xian and Chen Ming's bodies to Hui Hui.
The minister did not leave, but followed the ambulance shuttle sent by Huihuang and arrived on Gaia-2. Huihui currently does not have a hospital in the open area because the population on Gaia-2 is too sparse.
He wanted to wait for Tian Xiang to wake up and then talk to Tian Xiang more about Chen Ming's body.
There was no one and no afterglow to stop him from doing so.
While waiting, he was constantly sorting out the current situation in his mind.
Although Chen Ming only returned physically, he still gave the empire a big breath.
The desperate situation that the empire faced originally seemed like a joke in front of Chen Ming.
Not only was the Queen forced to retreat, but the Machine Tribe also seemed to have a plan to deal with it.
As long as Chen Ming encounters the mechanical tribe, he will be dead.
But this is all based on the fact that Chen Mingzhen comes back.
For now, the Empire has done nothing to change the dire situation in a practical sense.
The empire on the mechanical side has been able to maintain a balance of power for a long time.
But the empire still has no means to target the queen. If the queen comes to invade again next time, it can't throw Chen Ming's body in front of the queen, right?
The Empire must have a plan for the next step.
In fact, Tian Xiang has already laid out this plan.
He has proved that Chen Ming's consciousness did not die, but encountered some accidents that caused his body to return to the normal universe earlier than him.
Now that it's clear that Chen Ming's body alone can force the Queen back, isn't there only one thing left to do?
Bring Chen Ming's consciousness back.
How to enter that chaotic dimension? How to bring people out?
Also, what does it mean when Chen Ming finally raised his arm to show the tattoo-like mark on his body that seemed to have never been there before?
Maybe he can discuss with Hui Hui and conduct some research on Chen Ming's body...
Three hours later.
Tian Xian opened his eyes.
He saw the pure white ceiling of the hospital, a nursing robot next to his bed, and the psychic minister.
"Tian Xian, there is something I want to discuss with you."
Tian Xian supported himself, leaned on the backrest of the hospital bed, stretched out his hands to rub his face, trying to suppress the fatigue, but the effect was obviously not very good.
He shook his head and asked: "What happened?"
"I want to conduct research on Chen Ming's body."
Tian Xian's first reaction was to refuse: "No, we can't do anything we shouldn't do to his body."
"It's not an excessive research, I just want to see if there are any clues on his body that can help us find his consciousness."
"You also saw that Chen Ming specifically showed us the mark on his body at the end. There must be some clues on his body, right?"
The minister said that there was indeed no problem. Not only had the special lines on Chen Ming's body never been seen by anyone before, but they also helped his body to fully recover during the battle with the Queen.
Finally, when Chen Ming came back, he was conscious for a moment and even took the initiative to bring it up, indicating that there must be something wrong with it.
But Tian Xuan always felt that he seemed to have overlooked something. He always felt that doing so was not a good thing for Chen Ming or them.
He was thinking hard about the plan mentioned by the minister, but the pain that seemed to tear his brain was constantly affecting his thinking.
In the end, Tian Xiang gave up thinking and refused: "No, the Queen will definitely not come back in a short time after being driven back this time. Can't the Empire find a way to solve the problem on its own?"
Although Tian Xiang lay down for three hours, the consumption of entering other dimensions through consciousness twice in a short period of time made his mental state very poor, and there was no way to recover in such a short time.
The minister did not continue to disturb Tian Xuan's rest and left the ward.
After leaving.
A brilliant voice sounded from the terminal in the minister's hand: "I told you, Tian Xiang will most likely not agree."
"And he is an important member of ours. It was his desperate efforts that brought back Chen Ming's body. We must respect his thoughts."
The minister also had some knowledge of the internal situation of Chen Ming's management, but he had to give it a try.
"He should understand later. Is there a place to live? I don't plan to go back for the time being."
"You can just find a place to live in the city."
Brilliance has no intention of driving people away.
Obviously its ideas are not the same as Tian Xian's, but rather similar to the president's.
His attitude towards Chen Ming's body was relatively indifferent, and it was perfectly fine to use it for some research.
Because he had really seen Chen Ming do all kinds of things that had no human bottom line to the various clones created with his own genes.
In Chen Ming's own words, I have no influence on what I do, and these things are not even clones, they are all transformed from insects.
Huihuang was once worried that Chen Ming would lower his bottom line because of these things.
Fortunately, Chen Ming has never done anything out of the ordinary to anyone or anything other than his own clones.
But this has little relevance now. But in short, because Chen Ming had done similar things before, Huihuang didn't mind it when conducting various studies on Chen Ming's body.
Just now when the minister came to inquire when Tian Xian was unconscious, it also agreed immediately.
As long as Chen Ming's consciousness can be brought back, if this body is damaged, it will be damaged, it doesn't matter at all.
Chaofan Na, who was also very interested in Chen Ming's body, was even more excited.
It has also seen Chen Ming use his clone body to do various things, so it basically has the same idea as Hui Hui when it comes to experimenting with Chen Ming's body, or even more radical.
However, Chaofan was sent away by Huihuang, and it was left to Huihuang himself to handle Chen Ming's matter.
As it just said, it needs to respect Tian Xuan's ideas.
Therefore, even if it agrees, it cannot start the experiment directly. It needs to consider how to persuade Tian Xian and how to study Chen Ming's body in the future.
But...
If you want to study something, you really need to convince Tian Xian first.
But if we just conduct basic observation and research on Chen Ming's body, it will have no impact at all, so just do it casually.
Only by observing and clarifying the general situation can we have better reasons to persuade Tian Qiang.
Two days later.
Tian Xiang wakes up from coma.
Being in Gaia and having the same source of power allowed him to recover quickly.
Then, he was called by Huihuang to a research institute in an unopened area on Gaia-2.
Tian Xuan arrived at the place quickly.
After entering the research institute and arriving at the experimental area, they found that Chen Ming's body was placed safely on an experimental table, with a lot of equipment surrounding the experimental table.
Tian Xuan was not angry because of this situation.
Because judging from his increased understanding of various life states through Gaia.
It is true that Chen Ming's body has not been subjected to experiments, the equipment is only for observation.
In addition to Chen Ming's body and equipment, the minister of psychic energy was also here, saying hello to Tian Xian: "Here he comes."
Tian Xian nodded, walked to the edge of the experimental table and asked: "Is there anything you want to tell me?"
"Yes."
This time it was not the words of the minister, but the brilliant voice that sounded in the laboratory.
"I want to persuade you to agree to experiments on Chen Ming's body."
"What's the reason?"
"You'll know right away, just wait."
"How long?"
"Three seconds."
The glorious words fell.
Tian Xuan saw the spiral mark on the right hand of Chen Ming's body lying on the experimental table suddenly light up.
Just like when his body was torn apart by the Queen's power.
It's just that... when the mark turned dark again, Tian Xian didn't notice any changes in Chen Ming's body.
The surrounding observation equipment was activated again to examine Chen Ming's body after what had just happened.
Huihuang did not continue to sell things, and handed Tian Xian several documents, all of which contained observation reports on Chen Ming's body.
It explained: "This has happened four times during the two days you were off."
"Although it seems that nothing has changed every time the mark lights up, his physical condition will actually recover."
Tian Huan could understand the word "restore", but when the words "restore when the mark lights up" were put together, he couldn't understand it.
"What do you mean?"
"We observed that his cells returned to a better state after the imprint lit up."
"In the simplest terms, his life is flowing backwards."
The minister also spoke at this time: "We found traces of time regression. Chen Ming's body seems to be trapped in a time loop."
"Judging from what we see now, there is a cycle approximately every twelve hours. At the end of each cycle, Chen Ming's body will return to twelve hours ago."
Tian Xian glanced at Chen Ming's body that had just returned to twelve hours ago and said: "This sounds good. This should be regarded as a kind of immortality in disguise."
The minister said again: "The brain cells will also return to what they were twelve hours ago."
Tian Xuan's expression suddenly changed.
This doesn't sound like a good thing.
Although Chen Ming does not rely on his body to survive, and his conscious body already exists independently, God knows whether the effect of this time regression will affect his consciousness.
If so... maybe this is the reason why Chen Ming didn't come back.
The minister also expressed his thoughts again at this time: "We need to conduct in-depth research on this phenomenon, so that maybe we can figure out what happened to him."
Tian Xian sighed and said: "Actually, my previous refusal was not because of research issues. I also know that if I don't do research, I will have no chance."
"I'm worried about the researcher."
Who should conduct the research on Chen Ming's body?
At present, Chen Ming's colony has adequate equipment but insufficient personnel.
Even if Chen Ming has been working hard to recruit people, and even if Huihuang has been trying to recruit people since he lost contact, there are still not enough people.
The strongest psyker in the entire colony before was Wu An. After Wu An's death, he directly became Tian Xian.
They lack the manpower to deal with psychic powers, and they even lack the manpower to study psychic powers.
People who understand psychic powers must be transferred from other places.
"So you can do research, but you must bring people to us for research, and it must be done in our colony. We cannot give Chen Ming's body to anyone."
"And confidentiality work must be done well. If the information is leaked, the consequences will be disastrous."
After receiving Tian Zhang's reply, the minister immediately said: "I can guarantee you that the news will never leak from me or any other channels related to me. I also know the consequences of the news leaking."
Even to prove his attitude, he directly contacted the Grand Archon using his private number on the spot.
The Grand Consul was also very surprised as to what the minister was doing when he went to Chen Ming's side in the past two days. He also wanted to confirm Chen Ming's attitude.
After all, Chen Mingming came back but didn't see anyone for several days. If nothing else, he should at least go back to the empire to see Bai Quan and Cheng Xinghai.
But he didn't, so the Archon was always worried about this.
However, the minister did not say anything about this, and simply asked Fan Chao for permission to dispatch personnel.
Moreover, they also followed the template and got a freshly drafted contract document, which made it mandatory to sign a confidentiality agreement after the assignment, and have a closed management agreement for at least two months.
It is stated that it will be signed by those personnel who are transferred later.
This strange request was of course questioned by the Grand Archon: "What do you want to do?"
"Do what I think is most important."
"The most important thing?"
"The most important thing."
"Then do as you say."
(End of chapter)