Chapter 231 Missing Evidence

Although Chen Ming said that he was studying the synchrotron core, he had only come into contact with it once.

Because this thing, as a relic of another civilization, must be a device with psychic power, and Chen Ming found that the synchrotron core seemed to involve some microscopic things.

The simulation equipment is not very good at simulating psychic power and microscopic things, so Chen Ming would not waste time on this thing.

However, Chen Ming did get the synchrotron core, and conducted some simple experiments and recorded the data.

Generally speaking, there is no problem.

So Chen Ming continued to question Lou Wei when he had no idea how to deal with this matter: "I ask you, how to solve this matter?"

"This..."

Lou Wei really didn't expect Chen Ming to spend time in the simulation to study these things that he had basically never heard of.

As Di Jia's mentor and a fleet commander, he knew more about the simulation in terms of combat.

He was not a professional researcher, and he couldn't understand Chen Ming's research reports at all. He could only see Chen Ming staying with Cheng Xinghai in the institute every day.

In addition, this was just a simulation. In his opinion, even if Chen Ming was really doing some research, it would definitely not be something important.

God knows that Chen Ming actually had the leisure to do such a formal thing in the simulation.

So he didn't know what to do when facing Chen Ming's doubts.

Chen Ming saw this and understood that Lou Wei had almost no knowledge of research.

He immediately leaned on the conference table, leaned forward in the direction of Lou Wei, and said with a look of wanting to eat someone: "I am not only studying the synchrotron core in the simulation, I also have other research to do. How are you going to compensate for the other things?"

"Let me put it this way, I now have a research institute. I was responsible for all the things in the institute before, and I was promoting all the research tasks. I was studying what the institute was studying."

"What you are doing now is equivalent to directly unplugging the power supply of my institute, and even unplugging the backup power supply, resulting in the loss of data in the entire institute. What are you going to compensate?"

A colonel sitting next to Hong Guanghong's tutor at the conference table moved slightly to the side of Hong Guanghong's tutor's seat Leaning over, he whispered, "Chen Ming has a research institute here now? It's true that Lieutenant General Bai is unwilling to sacrifice his son to catch the wolf."

"But how do we calculate the severity of the damage to the research institute?"

Instructor Hong Guanghong also whispered, "Chen Ming just said that his is a small-scale research institute. It mainly depends on the importance of the ongoing tasks."

"Originally, the actual evaluation cannot be based on what he said, but Lou Wei directly unplugged the power and caused all the data to be lost. If Chen Ming has a good reason to conduct these studies in the simulation, then it's hard to say."

"I understand. It seems that Lou Wei is going to suffer."

While everyone in the conference room was talking privately, Lou Wei still couldn't speak for a long time.

Chen Ming simply acted a little impatient, knocked on the table hard, and said to Lou Wei, "Speak, hurry up."

Lou Wei's face turned a little red. The high simulation accuracy of the simulation equipment for the human body made the changes in his body clearly reflected in the simulation.

Let everyone see his embarrassment.

Chen Ming was about to continue to put pressure on Lou Wei, but a prompt suddenly appeared in the corner of his vision.

Cheng Xinghai sent him a private chat request.

Chen Ming immediately chose to agree.

And Cheng Xinghai's voice immediately appeared in his ears: "Hello, can you hear me?"

Chen Ming didn't say anything, and his eyes turned from Lou Wei to the side of the conference room.

Cheng Xinghai, like him, exited the conference room when the simulation was forcibly terminated, and she was now sitting in an empty chair by the wall of the conference room.

Although Cheng Xinghai's mouth did not move, the sound did reach his ears.

Chen Ming instantly understood the situation and silently said in his heart: "I can hear it."

"Okay, I didn't say what I was thinking when I used this function for the first time."

After Cheng Xinghai finished speaking, he stared at Chen Ming for a while, as if thinking about something.

Until Chen Ming couldn't help but ask her why she suddenly came to private chat, Cheng Xinghai finally said: "I have something to tell you."

"What is it?"

"When you just quarreled, I asked my uncle, Uncle Bai's friend, who works in the department responsible for the maintenance of simulation equipment."

"He said that the simulation equipment will have a regular backup record file when simulating."

"Although this large-scale simulation that requires deep consciousness to dive into has only one backup file due to the large amount of data calculation, and because it is forced to stop instead of normal closure, the data of the last few days of simulation may be a little disordered, but it should be barely usable after repair."

"I see that you have studied those things for a long time. It must be very uncomfortable to lose them. This should be good news for you, right?"

Chen Ming never expected that he could get an unexpected surprise from Cheng Xinghai.

Although using data to repair the data that was only available in the simulation and obtained in advance with higher permissions may not be obtained.

But at least his research data can be saved a lot.

"Thank you."

"Yeah."

Cheng Xinghai accepted Chen Ming's thanks, and then said: "One more thing, this Lou Wei is not actually targeting you, he is targeting Uncle Bai."

"Lou Wei and Uncle Bai knew each other before, but the relationship between him and Uncle Bai was not good. He just seized this opportunity, so he wants to use you as a breakthrough point to make a fuss."

Chen Ming immediately picked up the main point in Cheng Xinghai's words and said: "To put it simply, you borrowed the knife to kill someone and borrowed it from me, right?"

"Yes, that's what it means."

"Then do you know what happened to me the past few days?"

"whats the matter?"

Cheng Xinghai's reaction seemed to be because Bai Quan didn't tell Chen Ming about the seemingly accidental and actually man-made things that happened after Chen Ming came to the branch.

Then Chen Ming was not sure whether Lou Wei's behavior was a new step that was deliberately arranged by someone. He would have to go back and ask Bai Quan to find out.

"Forget it, it's okay. Where is his student Ogika?"

"There's nothing wrong with him. He's just an ordinary classmate I met when I was in school. Although there are problems with the tutor, there should be no problems with him, at least not now."

"Oh, one more thing. Uncle Bai has been suppressed by the headquarters. Basically, this is what Lou Wei's faction is doing."

"Uncle Bai has been unhappy with him for a long time, and now he's causing me to lose a week of playing games. I can't bear this even more."

Cheng Xinghai looked a bit like an internet-addicted girl, which made Chen Ming almost couldn't help but smile.

"So how should we deal with this kind of thing under normal circumstances? I'm talking about his situation that leads to unexpected research results."

"Normally, you will have to pay money and settle the matter. If the matter is more serious, you will be demoted."

"What about cheating?"

Cheng Xinghai did not answer immediately. Instead, he asked Chen Ming with a little uncertainty, "You didn't cheat, right?"

"of course not."

"That's good."

Cheng Xinghai breathed a sigh of relief, thought for a moment and said, "If it were on the scale of the first match you and I played, the most likely outcome would be that no one would play simulated battles with the cheater in the future."

"If this was the beginning, it wouldn't be a big problem if I just dragged people to play against each other. But Uncle Bai said that the results of winning and losing and performance should be sent to the respective schools, so the situation is different."

"So this battle is a little more formal, and cheating will definitely be punished."

Chen Ming asked again: "So what are the specific punishments for cheating?"

"Cheating can only be regarded as a violation of discipline. We will decide the final punishment based on the extent of the impact."

"If you were cheating, the most someone would scold you for is a few words. It would be nothing to you."

"But Uncle Bai seems to have guaranteed for you that you have not cheated. If you have cheated, this will be a stain on Uncle Bai's resume and may affect the future."

Chen Ming frowned slightly and said, "So, Lou Wei is ruining his future, right?"

Cheng Xinghai was obviously quite unhappy with Lou Wei, and said with a slightly suppressed anger, "Yes."

"Then it doesn't matter how I punish him now, right?"

"right."

"That'll be easy."

Chen Ming suddenly thought of a way and stopped talking to Cheng Xinghai.

He stopped talking about the loss of his research results in the simulation, and turned to Lou Wei, who looked stiff and didn't know what to do: "Suppose, I mean suppose, I really cheated, then this is just one time. What can you do about a private battle?"

"Looking at it on the other hand, your behavior of directly destroying my research results is not ten thousand times more serious than cheating?"

Lou Wei suddenly seemed to have found the key evidence, and quickly grasped the pain point in Chen Ming's words and said: "When Bai Quan said that he would send the records of this simulation to their respective schools, this simulation was no longer a private simulation. It’s a simulation competition organized by the Lieutenant General.”

"The consequences of cheating in a battle of this level are similar to mine, right? Lieutenant General Bai will vouch for you as a cheater. It's hard not to make people doubt something."

Taken the bait.

Chen Ming's face immediately showed an ugly expression, and he said: "How can you talk about the simulation that Cheng Xinghai privately invited me to come over to play with? You are also a talent."

"Why do we need to send evaluation results of private battles to our respective schools? Do you believe this?"

Chen Ming quickly returned to his expressionless look, but the clenched fists on the table seemed to betray his thoughts: "Then why don't you compare this battle with a formal competition like that?"

The more Lou Wei talked, the more confident he became: "In my opinion, this is a formal competition."

"Look at the people who participated, five champions of the legion's internal simulation battle competition, three champions of the empire-level simulation battle competition, one runner-up, and you, you are also a psyker after all."

"A competition of this scale cannot be considered a private simulation even if Lieutenant General Bai does not take the lead in organizing it. This is a formal battle."

Chen Ming suddenly slammed the table, pointed at Lou Wei's face and said, "If you have the ability to declare this battle, who would say it is an official battle?"

Chen Ming's words reminded Lou Wei, and he immediately contacted someone to do this.

With his authority and the connections behind him, he could indeed approve this matter in a very short time, even without the approval of the majority of people.

Lou Wei held back his words until the people he arranged handled the competition approval matter at the speed of light.

He slapped an approved document directly on the table and said angrily: "Why not?"

"I've already registered you, but I want to see what you have to say about cheating in a regular competition."

"Ha ha……"

Suddenly there was slight laughter from the corner of the conference room.

It was Cheng Xinghai who was laughing. Seeing everyone in the conference room looking at her, she was so scared that she quickly covered her mouth.

Hearing Cheng Xinghai's laughter, Lou Wei suddenly realized something was wrong.

Chen Ming's words seemed to be a trap for him.

If Chen Ming really did not cheat, but he suspected one of the participants of cheating in a formal battle and forcibly stopped the formal battle, then he would definitely bear a huge responsibility.

Moreover, there was another problem before this battle became a formal battle, a problem that he did not dare to mention to anyone.

Just thinking about it made Lou Wei's limbs a little stiff and cold.

He suddenly slammed the table and said with force: "Everything you say now is false. The people from the Psychic Research Institute will be here soon. Go and tell him about your cheating."

After saying that, he closed his mouth, as if he didn't want to talk to Chen Ming anymore.

After Cheng Xinghai laughed, Chen Ming no longer had any unnecessary expression on his face. He knocked on the table again and said, "Hey, don't pretend to be stubborn and change the topic. How do you plan to compensate for the loss of my research institute?"

Chen Ming's question did not receive a reply from Lou Wei. He just leaned on the chair with his eyes closed as if he didn't want to say anything.

Chen Ming really couldn't force him to do this.

Bai Quan, who had not spoken for a long time, suddenly received a private chat request from a student.

He is a student from Cheng Xinghai's side.

After the private chat was connected, the student immediately said: "Lieutenant General Bai, I am Lin Sen, majoring in logistics support. I feel that someone is cheating on our side."

"When we started as the new rebels, there were many obvious problems with some of the logistical arrangements when I look back now, but I don't know why these problems didn't break out."

"Originally I thought it was luck, but later on we were in a hurry, so not only me, but also several of us who were still alive made mistakes in our work, and we all confirmed it to each other, but none of these mistakes led to problems. "

"We went back to check and found that it seemed that the NPCs under our command had corrected the problem for us."

"We consider it lucky to have one or two, but no problems have occurred. This situation is obviously not right. It is considered good if the NPC does not make mistakes. How can it be possible that it will help us correct almost all the mistakes?"

"Our commander-in-chief seemed to have roughly guessed the reason, but he didn't tell us and only hinted us not to mention it."

"I've probably figured it out now, maybe someone cheated."

Listening to Lin Sen's story, Bai Quan gradually realized that something was wrong.

When he saw the new rebel army being established before, he thought that the opponents' few little guys did a good job and could find a chance to breathe in a desperate situation.

Therefore, when the new rebels developed rapidly later, they did not have too much suspicion, and just regarded the abilities of a few little guys as good.

But now that people have come to talk about it in person, Baiquan has begun to think in this direction.

Now it seems that the speed of development of this new rebel army has almost caught up with Chen Ming's development speed of using psychic powers. Is this a bit too exaggerated?

But the matter of cheating cannot be concluded just by talking about it.

Lou Wei forcibly terminated this simulation, causing the simulation data to be damaged.

Not only the participants and simulated world data, but also the referee's data were affected.

He has no way to retrieve the record files now to confirm whether Lou Wei has tampered with the data.

But Bai Quan suddenly thought of something. Even if the simulated data is damaged, there will still be a place where the data will not be affected.

Bai Quan suddenly coughed and said, "Lou Wei, where did your administrator authority come from?"

"Please call out the administrator log now, immediately, immediately, and see if there is any record of you tampering with the data of the simulation process."

The conference room immediately became a little lively again.

"Tampering? Lou Wei also cheated?"

"What do you mean? Chen Ming's situation hasn't been decided yet."

"Slip of the tongue. When Lieutenant General Bai suddenly mentioned this matter, I feel like we should be inseparable."

"Shh, just watch, don't interfere."

Lou Wei opened his eyes amid the discussion of others in the conference room.

When Bai Quan once again asked the question that he had just prevaricated, he knew that he had no way to escape, and he would definitely have to bear this crime.

But he at least wanted to drag Bai Quan into the water.

Lou Wei was silent for a while and sent Bai Quan the record of the administrator's log adjusting the strength of the new rebels in the simulation.

"I don't deny that I cheated, but this is just my personal behavior and has nothing to do with anyone."

"But what about Chen Ming? Aren't his first words the same as admitting to cheating?"

Bai Quan couldn't help but laugh angrily when he looked at the records in the administrator's log: "You cheated and couldn't beat Chen Ming, and then you think Chen Ming cheated?"

"No, you probably felt that Chen Ming was cheating from the beginning, so you were angry and cheated, but found that you still couldn't win. In the end, you were so angry that you used the cheating permission to close the simulation, right?"

Lou Wei did not reply, Bai Quan asked again: "Who gave you the administrator privileges? You are not related to this simulated battle, how can you get the administrator privileges?"

"You, a major general, don't know the seriousness of cheating in a formal battle? You are a bastard who has neglected your duties. Even your students will be held jointly responsible by you, even if they know nothing."

Lou Wei's face was dark and he said: "I will take my own responsibility. No other students know that I cheated. I just can't stand Chen Ming cheating and bullying my students."

Bai Quan pointed at Lou Wei and said: "What you say now is all false. Someone will investigate how many people know about this matter."

"You yourself elevated a private simulated battle to the level of a formal battle, then you Just accept it honestly. "

"Rules are rules. I have contacted a special inspection team to investigate you. Your cheating has been confirmed. I hope that next time I see you, you are not in jail."

Lou Wei's eyes passed Song Pu and turned to Chen Ming: "What about Chen Ming? Of course I can take responsibility. Chen Ming must also take responsibility for cheating."

Chen Ming waved his hand at him casually, squinting at him and said: "I have said it many times. Where is your evidence? You should think about how to compensate me now."

Lou Wei did not dare to say more about the research that he did not understand at all. He just said as if grasping the last straw: "Wait, wait for someone to arrive."

The conference room was left with the whispering of the students and their respective tutors.

Bai Quan did not continue to force Lou Wei, but turned around and contacted his psychic friend who was also infiltrating the deep consciousness but was kicked out of the channel several times by him.

After the private chat was connected, Bai Quan heard his friend's voice immediately: "Hey, you remember me now?"

"Don't talk nonsense, you have been watching Chen Ming, how is his mental power?"

"Well... let's put it this way, Chen Ming's mental power has always been maintained at a certain level when using psychic power, and the rate of recovery of the consumed mental power is unchanged each time."

Bai Quan didn't quite understand and asked: "What does it mean?"

"It means that Chen Ming has been controlling his mental power consumption in the simulation and never exceeds a fixed upper limit. This fixed upper limit is the amount of mental power he actually has."

"But this amount of mental power is a bit exaggerated, and the recovery rate is also exaggerated to death. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is the current No. 1 genius in the empire."

"I can't figure out how he can achieve this level in a year. If it is really based on Lou Wei's document, a normal psychic can't achieve this level even if he starts extreme training from the moment of psychic awakening."

"Chen Ming is not an ordinary person, I believe Chen Ming."

"Then believe it."

Half an hour later.

Lou Wei suddenly said to Bai Quan: "The person I know at the Psychic Research Institute has arrived. Please give him permission."

Bai Quan looked at Lou Wei, who had administrator privileges, and thought about it but didn't say much.

He just said, "It's done" after approving the newcomer's application.

As a figure gradually turned from virtual to real, Chen Ming suddenly said to Cheng Xinghai in the private chat channel: "Why does it feel like everyone has the permission to use this simulation device?"

Cheng Xinghai said as a matter of course: "People at the Psychic Research Institute must have permission. This is the most important department in the 14th Legion. The person who came might be a psychic."

"Then which faction does this Psychic Research Institute belong to in the 14th Legion?"

"Purely neutral faction, they are people that no one dares to offend."

Chen Ming nodded slightly and said nothing more.

Soon, a researcher in a white coat appeared in the conference room, nodded slightly to everyone present and said: "Excuse me."

"I didn't expect that a document I wrote casually would lead to such a thing. I'm really sorry."

"But it's about cheating, which is of great significance, so I still have to confirm it."

"Mr. Chen Ming, do you have any explanation for Mr. Lou Wei's doubt that your mental power can't reach the current level?"