Chapter 125 Self-Awareness, the Spiritual World

Three Gauss shells had reached the sky above the institute in the blink of an eye.

If there were no targeted measures, then these three Gauss shells, which were almost unaffected by resistance and even assisted by gravity acceleration, would definitely destroy the institute completely.

At this time, Yuhui did not seem to have enough countermeasures.

The only ones that could play a role were the three giant mechanical bodies that had just completed their mission and were ready to go into hibernation.

But the giant mechanical bodies themselves were extremely heavy, and even if they could jump up, they could only jump a few meters at most, and basically could only move near the ground.

It was impossible to block the Gauss cannon shells with the body.

Moreover, Gauss cannon shells rarely use magnetic materials.

So even if the giant mechanical bodies now use electromagnetic pulses to generate high-intensity magnetic forces for traction, it is basically unlikely to work.

Even if the shells fired by the rulers were really made of magnetic materials, the giant mechanical bodies would basically not have time to pull the shells apart, and at most they would slightly deflect their direction before the shells landed.

But the final speed of the Gauss cannon shells and the terrifying power brought by such speed, whether they hit the institute head-on or hit somewhere next to the institute, actually made no difference.

Anyway, the result is the same.

And at this time, Yuhui had no other means of protection.

Since they did not stop the ruler at the beginning, it seemed destined that the ruler's shells would hit the institute after entering the planet.

Danger is coming.

Chen Ming, who is still in the experimental area of ​​the institute, seems to be about to become the only victim of the Gauss cannon.

However, what Yuhui, who was paying attention to the three shells, did not expect was that.

The paralyzed Iron Ore next to it suddenly moved on its own.

On its main control computer, which was controlled by Chen Ming's psychic power for a long time and was infected by the persistence of psychic power, several commands that needed to be executed appeared for no reason.

At the same time, all the equipment on the Iron Ore that had just been destroyed by the last electromagnetic pulse self-explosion of a giant mechanical body were self-repairing without Chen Ming's active control.

In a blink of an eye, the Iron Ore was active again.

It flew to the sky above the institute and blocked the Gauss shells.

And before the Gauss cannon actually hit, it tried to use the ion pulse of the ship to destroy the Gauss cannon shells.

But the Gauss cannon's shell is just a solid, high-quality "block of iron". It is not easy to destroy such a thing.

Even though the ion pulse is pretty good for small weapons, it is still too weak for a large weapon's shell.

It has no ability to cause actual damage at all, and the impact caused by the energy weapon's hit can be said to be close to zero, and it can't hit the high-speed shells at all.

The Gauss shell bounced off dozens of energy restraint bombs fired at it with an unstoppable momentum, and hit the Iron Ore that was blocking its way.

The shield of the Iron Ore was shattered instantly.

But Chen Ming's previous design and the peculiar situation that the Iron Ore is still autonomously repairing the spacecraft itself played a role.

The shield of the Iron Ore was not directly broken, but after breaking eight of the ten layers of shields with different amplitude frequencies, the Gauss cannon's shells were successfully slowed down to a barely acceptable range.

Although the Iron Ore in mid-air also lost its balance directly and rolled and rotated in the air.

The shield of the Iron Ore was also deformed significantly, and it was possible that the shield system would completely fail at any time.

But at least it had taken the opportunity to change the force direction of the shell, so that the first shell turned over the research institute and flew to the open space in the distance.

The solid shell splashed a lot of dust when it landed, and even covered the research institute from a considerable distance.

In the flying dust, the Iron Ore readjusted its posture and flew over the research institute again.

It didn't even have time to make a complete repair.

The second Gauss shell had already arrived here after the first shell.

The Iron Ore blocked it again, and its remaining shield was completely shattered, but the second Far Gauss shell still hit the hull of the Iron Ore with its remaining force.

The Iron Ore had no intention of dodging, and directly relied on the hull to withstand the attack of this large weapon.

The once solid Baiyun steel now seemed a little fragile in front of the Gauss shell.

The shells, which were already buffered by the shield and slightly deflected in direction, still caused nearly a quarter of the spacecraft to be damaged due to the impact.

Even a corner of the spacecraft was completely shattered in the collision with the shells.

But at least the second shell was successfully deflected and fell in another direction.

Chen Ming is still safe now.

However, this safety period will not last long. The third, which is the last Gauss cannon shell is about to arrive.

The Iron Ore can only barely support a fragile shield with only one layer of layers at this time.

It is already an exaggerated thing that its shield can be opened again after enduring the attack of the large weapon Gauss cannon.

But it continued to block in front of the Gauss shells without hesitation, using itself as a buffer, and blocking the Gauss cannon outside the institute and in front of Chen Ming even if the ship itself was destroyed.

The thin shield was shattered the moment it came into contact with the Gauss shells, and it did not have any effect.

The speed of the shells did not decrease at all. The third Gauss shell hit the Iron Ore head-on after breaking the shield.

A frigate was hit head-on by a large weapon without any protection other than armor. The result can be imagined.

But what the Iron Ore wanted to do was successful.

Although the Gauss shell did not show any performance when hitting the shield, it was indeed affected and deflected when hitting the hull of the Iron Ore.

In the end, the shell finally hit the working area diagonally opposite the experimental area with less destructive power.

The structure of the institute itself is quite solid.

The dome was broken by the Iron Ore before, and the door was blasted open.

Now the Gauss shell hit an area after the power was reduced to a certain extent.

In this case, the institute still remained standing.

The damage suffered near the entire institute was only some industrial equipment.

And the Iron Ore itself.

The Iron Ore was completely destroyed after enduring the frontal attack of the Gauss shells, leaving only the shattered wreckage scattered throughout the research.

At this time, Zhang Feng had confirmed that the source of the positioning signal had disappeared, and retreat became the only thing they needed to do now.

The entire joint fleet covered each other and jumped away from here.

A large number of ship wreckages were left floating in space.

The Yuhui Fleet organized a smaller fleet to patrol the interior of the galaxy, and arranged more other ships to search in other surrounding galaxies to prevent the joint fleet from taking other actions after the jump.

After the ships responsible for the battle left, a large number of Yuhui responsible for logistics began to control various engineering ships to clean up the battlefield.

Recover the wreckage of the ship, find the core that has not been destroyed, capture the human captives who escaped through the escape pod, and collect the bodies of the dead humans.

The latter two are bargaining chips that can be exchanged with humans later.

At this time, G3 just moved his perspective away from the outside of the research institute and moved back to Chen Ming, who was in frequent accidents.

Obviously, the sudden break of the nerve just now was not normal.

It was Chen Ming who had an unknown effect on the stone after activating it.

And after Chen Ming fell into a coma, the Iron Ore that moved on its own outside also confused G3 at this time.

It must submit a complete and clear report on this.

Fortunately, it does not need to worry too much now. The other afterglow in space cannot give humans a second chance to attack the surface of the planet when there is already a precedent.

The only thing it needs to worry about is that Chen Ming may have stimulated the nerve just now, causing the final result of the use of this device to deviate, and eventually lead to his death.

So G3 immediately controlled the robot to start a more detailed and comprehensive examination of Chen Ming.

It needs to make sure that there is no problem with Chen Ming's body function.

At the same time, he also needs to confirm whether Chen Ming has really fainted and whether it is him who controlled the Iron Ore just now.

In addition, it has to confirm whether there is anything strange hidden in Chen Ming.

To avoid the possibility of accidents in the use of the equipment just now.

Soon, G3 confirmed that Chen Ming was in good physical condition, and his brain waves were consistent with those of a person in a coma. Only the fluctuations in mental power were quite obvious.

However, this kind of fluctuation is normal when using psychic equipment. As long as it does not exceed a certain peak value, there will be no problem.

And while confirming Chen Ming's physical condition, G3 also confirmed that in addition to the Liar Stone, Chen Ming also had a lower-quality Spiritual Stone.

This was actually the most unexpected point for G3.

Because it had never thought that Chen Ming would carry a high-intensity negative-effect Spiritual Stone with him, and there were two of them.

Even one of them did not take any safety measures, and was directly carried close to the body, without taking the negative effects into consideration.

This also explains why Chen Ming's mental power has improved far beyond expectations during this period.

A psychic who carries this thing every day will either go crazy because of the mental pulse, or because of the resistance to the mental pulse, the psychic power will increase significantly.

G3 is still quite suspicious that Chen Ming's Spiritual Stone has a special effect that it is not aware of.

Because before this, the detection equipment inside the institute could not detect the existence of this spiritual stone.

The spiritual stone with a weaker effect was placed in a box made of silent alloy and could not be detected.

There must be some special reason why this spiritual stone with a stronger effect was not detected even though it was placed in the pocket of clothes.

As the responsible individual on Chen Ming's side, G3 must investigate it clearly and give a reasonable report.

But all he can do now is to arrange robots to collect the fragments of the iron ore scattered around the institute.

At the same time, keep an eye on the data of Chen Ming's physical indicators to prevent Chen Ming from getting into trouble suddenly.

The reason is that Yu Hui has only mastered the way to use this equipment, but not the principle.

So when they encountered unexpected situations one after another.

For example, the sudden attack by humans forced them to activate the psychic equipment before it reached the optimal level.

For example, Chen Ming anticipated their methods in advance and responded, which led to them having to control Chen Ming by force and conduct experiments instead of relying on drugs to make Chen Ming fall into a coma before conducting experiments.

For another example, Chen Ming, whose mobility was restricted, still had the ability to use the spirit stone to fight back, which eventually led to an accident in the device startup process.

After these things happened, Yu Hui and the others could only wait and hope that the final result would be in their favor.

After G3 arranged for the robots of the institute to start cleaning up the wreckage of the iron ore around the institute and the ruins of the work area.

While paying attention to Chen Ming's situation, he began to write the report he was going to submit.

"The spiritual awakening nerve extraction device was not activated at the highest point of the spiritual energy fluctuation intensity, and the actual success rate was reduced by 20% to 30%."

"The artificial ineffective spiritual awakening nerve was stimulated by the false spiritual stone carried by Chen Ming and broke, and failed to maintain normal operation. The broken part completely entered Chen Ming's body and could not be recovered."

"Before Chen Ming woke up, it was impossible to confirm whether the artificial ineffective spiritual awakening nerve successfully absorbed Chen Ming's spiritual awakening nerve."

"But the equipment program is still in operation, and the subsequent reaction needs to be observed."

G3 finished writing the summary, and then began to add more details to this report, and also attached various complex data recorded in the equipment.

And when Chen Ming had fallen into a coma just now and his brain waves were completely calm, the Iron Mine moved on its own, protecting the institute and Chen Ming.

At present, G3 is also collecting and collecting the wreckage of the Iron Mine for investigation, but this is the same as Chen Ming's current situation, and it also takes time for follow-up monitoring.

G3 is observing Chen Ming here.

And Chen Ming, who was being observed, was having a hazy dream with a vague consciousness at this time.

He dreamed of a chaotic steel jungle consisting of mechanical equipment, broken metal and a large number of spaceship wreckage.

He wandered in it like a lost traveler, holding a cup of fairy leaf tea in his hand for no apparent reason.

Chen Ming, who had no idea what was going on, drank the tea in the cup in one gulp, gradually quickened his pace, and walked through the steel jungle.

After walking for an unknown period of time, Chen Ming found a special open space in the steel jungle.

It was about a 0.5 square kilometer open space, about the size of a cruiser.

In the center of this open space, there was a small hill made up of various spaceship wreckage.

Chen Ming took a closer look and found that all the spaceship wreckage on the wreckage hill were spaceships that he had personally controlled.

The relatively flat open space under this wreckage hill was actually the top armor of the refraction-class ship that he had recently controlled.

However, as Chen Ming counted all the wreckage, he found that there was one ship missing from the wreckage hill that he had personally controlled, the Iron Ore.

The wreckage of the Iron Ore did not appear here.

Although there are many spaceships that Chen Ming indirectly controlled through the Yuhui individual, they did not appear.

But the Iron Ore was his first ship, so this shouldn't happen, right?

Chen Ming approached the mountain of spaceship wreckage with doubts and stood there thinking for a while.

But before Chen Ming could figure it out, a person who looked exactly like him suddenly walked out from behind the wreckage mountain.

His eyes were full of desire, as if he wanted to replace him.

If Chen Ming hadn't just seen from a distance that this thing that looked like a person was transformed from a white, tender, plump, insect-like giant nerve.

And the maintenance engineer Chen Ming in the current Chen Ming's memory had already been completely assimilated in the process of the current Chen Ming learning technology through memory.

Chen Ming almost thought it was the maintenance engineer Chen Ming who had come back to life.

So when facing this monster that looked exactly like him, Chen Ming hesitated for a while and drove the complete Iron Ore that suddenly appeared in his dream to crush it.

Chen Ming didn't know where the Iron Ore came from, nor how he got on the Iron Ore.

But anyway, he did it.

And after he did it. The crushed meat suddenly turned back into the fat nerve.

Although it was still crushed, it moved like a living thing.

It was broken into the smallest fragments, like some kind of fluid that penetrated the armor of the Iron Ore, and gradually stuck to Chen Ming.

At the same time, it began to shrink into a normal-sized nerve, along Chen Ming's palm, from the position where he used his ability to transport materials over a long distance, and drilled into his body.

Chen Ming did not feel pain or danger during this process.

This crushed nerve was like a docile dog, no longer looking like it wanted to eat people.

When the nerve was completely drilled into Chen Ming's body.

The dream suddenly stopped.

Chen Ming opened his eyes immediately.

He subconsciously wanted to reach out and touch his eye socket where the nerve had drilled in.

But as soon as he moved, he found that he was still lying on Yu Hui's psychic device. Although the restraints on his hands and feet had been removed, he was still shackled on the device and could not move.

The chapped lips made Chen Ming know that he had been unconscious for at least four hours.

And everything on him that Yu Hui had not carefully checked before was taken away.

The pistol, the Whispering Stone, and the portable psychic wave generator equipped with the Whispering Stone were all gone.

But Chen Ming doesn't care about these external things now.

after all……

"I'm actually still alive."

Chen Ming tried to struggle for a few times, but found that he couldn't get away, and Yuhui didn't show any sign of wanting to talk to him.

He simply threw his head back and closed his eyes.

Concentrate on what just happened.

First of all, he was certain that the thick nerve that transformed into his appearance in the dream must be the severed nerve that drilled into his eye socket before he fell into coma.

The longing in its eyes after it became a human was directed at Chen Ming himself.

Maybe it's a parasite that controls the body.

It may also be some kind of insect related to psychic energy that has some special effect on psychic energy.

After all, the device itself emits psychic fluctuations, and this nerve also emits psychic fluctuations.

Then the problem arises.

What does the steel jungle he was in just now represent? What does that mountain of debris in the steel jungle represent?

What concept does it symbolize? Or is it his spiritual world?

Although Chen Ming doesn't know the specific situation now.

But he was certain that this steel jungle was most likely a place related to his psychic powers and his brain.

Maybe you can ask your boss later.

When it comes to psychic abilities, the boss definitely knows a lot more than he does.

For now, Chen Ming plans to treat this steel jungle as his spiritual world for the time being.

From this point of view, the nerve first physically penetrated into his eye socket and into his brain.

Entered his spiritual world and wanted to replace Chen Ming's existence.

The result was naturally a failure.

It was completely crushed to death by the Iron Mine that suddenly appeared, and was finally absorbed in reverse by Chen Ming.

But thinking about it this way, that nerve should still be in your mind, right?

Chen Ming tried to use his mental power to gradually emanate from his brain.

But he didn't feel anything strange, nor did he find anything in his mind that didn't belong here.

Rather.

Chen Ming felt that his mental power had greatly increased, and his spiritual power seemed to have also been enhanced a lot.

And it is either temporarily enhanced through various equipment, or it becomes stronger in the actual sense.

It seems to be the result of that nerve being absorbed.

Chen Ming immediately checked his panel, which could most intuitively reflect the intensity of his psychic energy.

Then he discovered that the number of controllable spaceships jumped from 4 to 10, more than tripling.

You must know that the number of controllable spaceships is linked to Chen Ming's mental power.

Since the number of controllable spaceships has doubled, his mental power should also have doubled.

Chen Ming immediately thought about modifying something and testing it.

But when he selected the target, he discovered that the Iron Ore had disappeared from the list of spacecraft controlled by him.

Was it demolished by Afterglow?

This thought flashed through Chen Ming's mind.

Then he suddenly noticed that he seemed to be able to sense the remaining fragments of the Iron Ore.

On the planet he is on now, in a factory in the colony on the planet.

Although only the wreckage of the Iron Ore is left, although it does not have any monitoring equipment to record the footage.

But Chen Ming directly saw the situation around the wreckage of the Iron Mine.

This should also be the effect brought about by the increase in spiritual power.

These scattered fragments, which add up to thousands of pieces, were separated by Yuhui into different parts of the factory, but they were in the same situation, that is, they were also surrounded by a large amount of equipment.

Sunset seemed to be studying the wreckage.

Chen Ming took a quick glance and found that the black box of the Iron Ore was still there.

He can even read the data directly with his brain.

This kind of reading would not have any impact on the device itself, so he did it directly.

Chen Ming skipped a lot of useless data recorded in the black box and jumped directly to after he was unconscious.

At this time, the Iron Ore, like a normal spaceship, was paralyzed in place after losing Chen Ming's remote control.

Contrary to Chen Ming's expectation, the three giant machines did not directly dismantle the Iron Mine, but stood by in place.

Many robots in the institute took advantage of this moment to swarm out and repair the entrance to the institute and the dome outside.

Everything looked very peaceful, and there were no signs that the Iron Ore would be destroyed by violence.

In addition to the ongoing battle in space.

Although Chen Ming couldn't see the specific battle situation clearly, he could still see the continuous explosions that stretched across the entire front.

This must have been a mistake on one side, causing the battle to become one-sided.

As for who made the mistake.

Chen Ming knew it when he saw the familiar appearance of Gauss cannon shells coming straight from space to the research institute.

This was launched by the Fourteenth Army Corps and was used when the possibility of rescue was finally lost.

The shells used to take him out.