Chapter 221 Thoughts

Chen Ming took Cheng Xinghai and floated in the hyperspace for a while.

Until the civilian passenger ship had completely disappeared from the visible place, Chen Ming's own spaceship slowly flew to Chen Ming's side.

As soon as he entered the spaceship, Chen Ming directly tried to unlock the special terminal that he got from Cheng Xinghai.

But soon Chen Ming found that he couldn't unlock this thing.

It's not that there is a password that can't be cracked, it's simply that it can't be opened, even his psychic power can't work on it.

It seems that he can only take it away and restrict Cheng Xinghai from using this thing, but can't steal the information in it.

Chen Ming thought about it, after all, this thing itself is something outside the normal setting.

If he can see some important information posted by the other side in the channel, then the other side basically doesn't need to fight.

Then Chen Ming directly put away the terminal, and then found an empty independent small room on the spaceship and threw Cheng Xinghai in.

After turning Cheng Xinghai's protective clothing into liquid again, Chen Ming also changed her into a pair of lighter handcuffs.

At the same time, the structure of the entire room was changed, and there were no exposed sharp objects and metal walls to prevent Cheng Xinghai from taking the opportunity to commit suicide.

A living person is definitely more useful than a dead person.

During this process, although Cheng Xinghai had been observing quietly, there was no big movement.

Even though she was arranged by Chen Ming in this room, she just sat quietly in the corner of the room.

She lowered her head and hugged her knees, saying nothing, looking autistic.

Only her body seemed to twitch slightly.

Chen Ming glanced at her, the armor on her body gradually liquefied and disappeared, and turned to leave the room.

However, Chen Ming did not go far, but passed through the one-way transparent window structure similar to the two-story door of the corridor of the previous civilian ship, and continued to observe whether Cheng Xinghai in the room had any movement.

After waiting for a while, Cheng Xinghai was still sitting in the corner, but the trembling of her right leg gradually became more and more obvious.

Chen Ming thought for a moment and took out the thin steel needle that he had taken from Cheng Xinghai before.

In order to prevent the possibility of toxins or something like that, Chen Ming disassembled the steel needle and threw the disassembled materials into the warehouse.

He made a new and identical steel needle in his hand and gently stabbed it with his fingertips.

The sharp pain in his fingertips reminded Chen Ming that the pain in the simulation was no different from the real one.

It was just like the burning sensation in the lungs when smoking.

No wonder a bunch of detection equipment had to be installed where he lay when he was in deep consciousness. It would be too embarrassing if he died of pain.

Chen Ming glanced at Cheng Xinghai in the room, whose right leg and ankle were unnaturally crooked and looked like he was enduring pain.

Then he opened the warehouse on the spaceship panel.

He made this spaceship by robbing other spaceships, and some of the things in the warehouse of the spaceship were also moved to the warehouse by him.

Chen Ming searched for a while and found a few medicines and two splints, and put them in front of Cheng Xinghai.

Then he arranged tables, chairs and beds for rest in Cheng Xinghai's room, and also found a set of pillows and quilts from the warehouse that Chen Ming didn't know where they came from.

After considering what else the next person would need, Chen Ming set up a TV program projection screen on the wall next to him.

Then he directly connected to the local public signal. When a pink piglet appeared on the screen, Chen Ming quickly cut off the screen.

"Why is there such an ancient program in the simulation?"

Chen Ming noticed that Cheng Xinghai's arms around his knees were slightly raised, covering his face. He didn't know whether he was laughing or doing something.

Chen Ming shook his head.

He actually did this because he didn't know much about the arrangement conditions for prisoners of war in this era.

He didn't know anything, so he could only follow the standards of the prison he knew.

At least put a TV out so that people wouldn't have to stay in this small room for the next month.

If Chen Ming was captured and couldn't do anything for a month, it would actually be no different from torture.

After arranging these things for Cheng Xinghai.

Chen Ming took out his special terminal and asked in the communication channel: "Will injuries such as fractures in the simulation be fatal?"

Song Pu immediately asked in the channel: "Are you injured? Treat it and come back to see a doctor as soon as possible. Even if it is a fracture, if you delay it for too long, it will worsen. You won't know how you died when you die."

"Got it."

Chen Ming put down the terminal and looked at Cheng Xinghai, who didn't want to move at all and didn't want to treat himself at all. He suddenly had a headache.

If Cheng Xinghai had been assassinated by him at the beginning, there would not be so many things if she died.

But since Chen Ming had successfully captured her alive, it is definitely impossible to kill Cheng Xinghai directly for the sake of saving trouble.

But Cheng Xinghai had clearly stated that he wanted to commit suicide before being captured to prevent trouble for his teammates. It should be impossible for Cheng Xinghai to treat him.

So Chen Ming picked up the terminal again and wrote a sentence in the input box: "Is Bai Quan here?"

Chen Ming did not send it directly, but waited.

At this moment, Bai Quan, who was acting as a referee, couldn't help but smile.

He could see the situation of everyone present at any time, and naturally he could also see Chen Ming's actions.

But he certainly would not take the initiative to destroy this scene that he was very happy to see.

So Bai Quan just said in the communication channel of his psychic friend who also had the authority to referee: "Not here."

Choose to continue watching the fun.

Chen Ming waited for a long time but didn't get Bai Quan's response. He sighed slightly. It seemed that he had to deal with this problem himself.

Chen Ming walked in front of Cheng Xinghai, half squatted on the ground, picked up the untouched splints and bandages on the ground and the spray for treating bruises and injuries, waved them in front of Cheng Xinghai and asked: "Can you treat it yourself?"

Cheng Xinghai raised her head slightly, and her eyes, which were blocked by her hair and made Chen Ming unable to see clearly, stared at Chen Ming's face for a while, and shook the handcuffs.

Chen Ming thought for a while and untied the handcuffs on her wrists.

Cheng Xinghai immediately jumped up. Even if only one leg could move normally, it hardly affected the speed of her movements. In an instant, she punched Chen Ming's temple.

Then there was another sound of flesh and metal colliding, and a slight sound of bone cracking.

Cheng Xinghai's eyes were red, and his right hand twitched unconsciously as he sat back in the corner where he had just squatted.

Chen Ming was not a fool. When he uncuffed Cheng Xinghai, he must have been ready to put on another set of power armor.

But he did not expect Cheng Xinghai to be so stubborn. He knew that he must be on guard, but he still dared to play like this.

Cheng Xinghai's right hand was already stiff and unable to move, and there were large pieces of blood on the back of his hand and knuckles.

After personally experiencing how real the pain in the simulation was, Chen Ming sighed and grabbed Cheng Xinghai's hand.

Chen Ming had only learned some simple medical skills from the doctor's terminal when he was on Raymu.

Although he had learned the blueprints of medical robots and could build them, he could not get the chip with the required medical data input now.

So he could only roughly reset the broken bones in Cheng Xinghai's hand, and found something that could be used as a splint from the warehouse.

However, when doing the last bit of delicate work, the hand structure of the power armor was a bit too rough.

Chen Ming glanced at Cheng Xinghai's lowered head, thought about it, and removed the power armor on his body again.

This time Cheng Xinghai did not hit Chen Ming, and honestly let Chen Ming put on the splint for her.

However, just when Chen Ming finally fixed the splint with a strap, Cheng Xinghai's left hand swung at Chen Ming's temple again.

Finally, it was still a punch on the helmet of the power armor.

Except for continuing to leave some bruises on her fist and making her eyes gradually moist, it did not play any role.

"Are you really not afraid of pain? Do you really want to bet that my reaction speed can't keep up with your speed?"

Chen Ming was also a little helpless at this time. After all, he was a captive, and it was impossible for Cheng Xinghai to really kill himself.

Chen Ming tightened the straps that had just been loosened, fixed the splint on the injured hand, and sprayed some medicine on it.

Then he grabbed Cheng Xinghai's other hand and continued the steps of applying medicine and splinting just now.

After Cheng Xinghai's hand was taken care of, Chen Ming looked at her right leg that had just kicked him in the neck and said, "What's wrong with your foot?"

Cheng Xinghai raised her two injured hands, and it was obviously impossible for her to apply medicine or splints.

Chen Ming exhaled.

"Sorry."

He reached out and pulled up the leg of Cheng Xinghai's sweatpants, took off her sneakers and socks, and revealed the white and tender skin on her calves, which did not look like she had been exposed to too much wind and sun.

And with these thin arms and legs, it did not look like she could kill Chen Ming with just that kick.

But Chen Ming would not be fooled by superficial things.

He only believed in Cheng Xinghai's explosive power and speed that he had just experienced in person.

And what he saw with his own eyes now was the fracture, bruises and swelling on the instep and ankle of Cheng Xinghai's slender calf caused by her kick just now, as well as the abnormal limb tilt of about 30 degrees.

The force that caused this injury was the strongest strength that Cheng Xinghai's seemingly weak body could exert.

And it was obvious that if the injury was not treated and continued to worsen, the person would definitely not survive.

So Chen Ming built an ice machine on the spacecraft and found ice cubes to temporarily apply ice to Cheng Xinghai's ankle.

At the same time, he used an X-ray machine to roughly take a picture of her injury.

Then Chen Ming directly used the folk method he learned from the doctor's terminal to start, first bending the broken bones back.

When Chen Ming held Cheng Xinghai's ankle, Cheng Xinghai's body trembled subconsciously, and his eyes stayed on Chen Ming's face.

In addition to the reaction caused by pain, there are other reasons.

Cheng Xinghai was thinking back to the past in his mind at this time.

After hearing about Chen Ming, she took the initiative to mention to Bai Quan that she wanted to find Chen Ming for a simulated battle.

Bai Quan's attitude was completely different from the attitude Bai Quan had when he found any other male close to Cheng Xinghai's age in contact with her.

Maybe at the first moment her mind was full of defeating Chen Ming, the person who defeated Cheng Xinghe. Fortunately, she turned around and mocked Cheng Xinghe, and did not notice the difference.

But later, when Bai Quan took the initiative to send Chen Ming's contact information to her instead of Bai Quan helping to arrange a battle, she completely discovered the problem.

The difference is too obvious.

Cheng Xinghai is 19 years old after all, and her psychic power directly improves intelligence. Many things can be understood with a little thought.

Bai Quan's obvious thoughts can be seen at a glance.

Combined with the identity background of Cheng Xinghai, Chen Ming and Bai Quan himself.

The direction of what Bai Quan wants to see most can also be easily analyzed.

Knowing all this is not too surprising for Cheng Xinghai.

She is half apprentice and half daughter of Bai Quan, the lieutenant general of the 14th Corps. She is also a psychic and is under the rules of the 14th Corps.

Her living environment determines that she will not be able to decide her future at will like many people who grow up in a normal environment.

Her future path is almost predetermined.

If everything goes well, she will either rely on psychic power to rise to a high position in the military or die alone.

Or she could maintain the current level and find an opportunity to marry a young officer in the 14th Corps who is the same as Bai Quan or slightly worse.

She originally had only two paths to choose from.

But she was better than others in that her psychic power would never make her a victim of politics.

At least she had the ability to make her own choices in a limited number of paths.

Although she didn't want to choose either of these two options.

But if she had to choose one, she would rather choose the latter.

As for the former, Cheng Xinghai had heard that a lieutenant general had been captured in a certain war zone, and there was also a situation in front of her that Bai Quan's old boss had to ask Bai Quan to find a way out as he gradually lost power due to old age.

This feeling of losing power in old age made Cheng Xinghai feel uncomfortable, and therefore she didn't value military positions and power too much.

As for the latter candidate, Cheng Xinghai had never decided.

So the appearance of Chen Ming was actually a very normal thing for Cheng Xinghai.

But she was a little confused about her attitude at this time.

Although she was quite resistant to political marriage, she knew that she had no power to change it, so she could only accept it.

And Bai Quan had not disrespected Cheng Xinghai's opinions for so many years, and had not asked Cheng Xinghai to do something she didn't want to do early, and even took the initiative to help her block many people.

He gave her plenty of opportunities to choose a suitable marriage partner.

But Cheng Xinghai had not been able to find a suitable person who could convince her in terms of personal qualities and personal abilities for so many years.

Chen Ming was the only person that Bai Quan, her adoptive father, took the initiative to build a relationship with.

So Cheng Xinghai actually didn't mind having more contact with Chen Ming.

I just don't know why, when facing Chen Ming.

Although Cheng Xinghai had no feelings at all, and was purely considering from the perspective of political interests, she just couldn't be sure of her own thoughts.

Obviously, Cheng Xinghai could quickly give an answer to many things as long as she thought about them, and whether it was suitable or not was just a matter of one word from her.

Even if she really made it clear what she meant by her opposition, Bai Quan would never force her.

But the current situation made it impossible for her to answer this question in the first place.

She has been struggling.

However, her competitive spirit made her temporarily suppress those extremely complicated problems for her in the past few days, and chose to do the original thing first, inviting Chen Ming to participate in the battle.

The battle is over, maybe there will be an answer.

Unexpectedly, this simulated battle has just started for a few hours.

At a time when it is almost impossible to suffer losses, she was directly captured by Chen Ming, and there is no possibility of escape.

Let her have time to think about these problems again.

Just thinking about this kind of problem makes her a little headache.

And Chen Ming actually gave her an acceptable feeling at the beginning.

Because Chen Ming was the person she wanted to contact after she heard about this person, not someone forced to come.

So Cheng Xinghai at least did not dislike Chen Ming, but it seemed that there was nothing more.

And she is still not sure about Chen Ming's attitude.

No, it's not a question of Chen Ming's attitude, but Chen Ming seems to have no attitude at all.

Cheng Xinghai finally found something wrong.

She has made some preparations herself, and Bai Quan is obviously here for this, but what about Chen Ming?

Chen Ming seems to have no idea in this regard at all.

Cheng Xinghai glanced at Chen Ming in front of him again, and struggled for a long time in his heart.

Until Chen Ming was almost finished.

Cheng Xinghai didn't think of a suitable answer.

Forget it, let it go.

Cheng Xinghai found that although her IQ improved after the awakening of psychic power, many things could not come up with an idea that made her feel comfortable just because of her high IQ.

At this time, Chen Ming, who had just tied the splint on Cheng Xinghai, didn't expect Cheng Xinghai to think of a bunch of messy things for him.

He was just temporarily treating Cheng Xinghai's injuries to prevent the injuries from worsening and dying halfway. If he really treated them, he had to go back to find a serious doctor.

There was another problem after returning. Chen Ming could control Cheng Xinghai, but the doctor obviously couldn't.

So we have to find a way to keep an eye on it when the time comes.

After taking care of the injury on Cheng Xinghai's right leg, Chen Ming stood up and prepared to take out the terminal and contact others. He had everything done.

However, Cheng Xinghai suddenly raised his head at this moment and said to Chen Ming, "Thank you."

Chen Ming was stunned for a moment, and after confirming that this was not a trap by Cheng Xinghai, he nodded and said, "You're welcome."

After saying that, he turned around and left the room, and directly sent a sentence on the terminal: "It's done."

This time Cheng Xinghe spoke even faster than Song Pu: "Okay! Are you dead?"

"No, I caught him alive and I'm on my way back."

"pity……"

Chen Ming didn't know what Cheng Xinghe was feeling sorry for.

But before he complained, Song Pu quickly followed up and said: "You handle your prisoner. My suggestion is to put a TV on her and close the small dark room. After all, this is just a simulated battle, not a real fight to the death." We can’t really interrogate the war.”

"By the way, the fracture you mentioned before should be Cheng Xinghai's fracture, not yours, right? Don't leave all the treatment to the NPC, otherwise she is very likely to run away."

"I know this."

Chen Ming still listened to Song Pu's explanation. After all, he had much more experience in this kind of thing than he did.

And he happened to have done this before and had such thoughts.

But Chen Ming still has a question to ask: "Is Cheng Xinghai a prisoner of any use?"

Although Chen Ming thought when he captured Cheng Xinghai that the living were more useful than the dead, he really didn't expect the specific uses.

Song Pu's answer also surprised Chen Ming: "As far as I know, prisoners should be useless in most cases."

"As I said just now, this is just a simulation after all, and death is a common occurrence. Everyone knows each other, so we can't really torture and interrogate."

"Really, the only purpose of the captive is to distract her teammates."

"We are a team of five. When anyone in the team dies, our teammates will get a prompt from the terminal."

"If you take away Cheng Xinghai's terminal, her teammates will be completely unable to contact her and will not be able to learn about her situation. They will only know that she is still alive."

"The specific effect this can have... it should be just like that."

"As for using prisoners to threaten teammates..."

Chen Ming helped Song Pu add the last sentence: "It doesn't seem to make any sense."

This is just a simulation after all.

At this time, Chen Ming looked back at the room where Cheng Xinghai was imprisoned. Cheng Xinghai was already lying on the bed he had arranged. He covered his eyes with his arms and didn't know what he was thinking.

"Then let's take care of it first. Anyway, there are no physiological needs such as eating and sleeping in the simulation."

"Well, we can officially start this battle after you come back."

"Having such a big advantage at the beginning, we can let go and do things."

Song Pu then said to Chen Ming: "As the supreme leader of the rebels, I can arrange your current status at will. It must be arranged in the most suitable place, so what do you think?"

Chen Ming still couldn't think of what he should do. After thinking about it, he could only say: "Let me get in touch with the rebels' warehouse."

"I remember this. When you come back, I will arrange for you to visit the logistics center system and several industrial colonies. Even if you pass by, don't go there by yourself. The garrison may not know you."

"I see."

Chen Ming finished speaking, but Song Pu was still thinking.

Although Chen Ming seemed to have answered Song Pu's question just now, Song Pu could clearly see that Chen Ming was actually blind now.

He had no idea what he should do in the team during this large-scale battle between government forces and rebels.

Obviously he has no experience and is used to doing things alone.

So Song Pu simply started to help with arrangements. Putting the right people in the right positions is what people like him should do.

As long as this kind of thing is done right, then the rest is just a matter of watching other people's performance.

Even a completely inexperienced person in the right position will be more effective than an experienced person in the wrong position.

And this is even more true for a person who has no experience at all but is extremely capable.

Chen Ming's arrangement requires him to think carefully.