Chapter 254 Doubt, Belief

After Chen Ming opened the permissions for Bai Quan and He Gu, the two immediately contacted the people they should contact.

Chen Ming also picked up the terminal after returning to his room.

Dimensional infection is of great importance, and he must ask the person who knows the matter clearly.

After finding the president's communication code in the address book, Chen Ming called directly.

The president also answered the phone soon after and greeted: "Chen Ming, I haven't seen you for a while. I heard that you recently joined the 14th Corps? Have you met Shao Yang?"

"I have met him once, but he is at the headquarters and I am at the branch in the Galo star field, so I have met him once, but I am still in contact."

"I see, then do you have something to talk to me about today?"

"That's it."

Chen Ming explained to the president what happened today, and at the same time concealed the identities of the people involved in this matter today. After all, the person who died was Lou Wei, a former major general.

If such a person dies, it is not good no matter where it is spread.

But if the president really wants to know, it is not difficult.

The gambling agreement just ended today. Someone was found to have a connection with Zuo Jing to assassinate Chen Ming, and then someone was found to have a connection with Zuo Jing to destroy the agreement, and then someone died.

You can tell who the dead person is by just looking at it.

So Chen Ming did this to live up to his current identity played by his prosthesis.

But to be honest, what happened today, even if Chen Ming himself was telling it, he felt that these things just sounded unrelated to dimensional infection.

Because dimensional infection is not just a simple flesh and blood organization, but there are more complicated situations.

But what Chen Ming felt from the moment Lou Wei exploded was indeed the feeling brought by dimensional infection, and Lou Wei was only affected by the aftermath of the aftermath of the dimensional infection, which led to his death.

But Chen Ming couldn't just come up and say that he felt that way, so he could only finish the whole process a little stiffly.

He emphasized a few points that he suspected were related to each other.

The president did not ignore Chen Ming's suspicion of dimensional infection just because of a few seemingly related reasons, but listened to Chen Ming's story very seriously.

After Chen Ming finished speaking, he confirmed: "You mean, you think that someone died on your side, and it was indirectly affected by a situation similar to dimensional infection?"

"Yes."

"Well... Although I told you before that there was a problem with the time node and location of the outbreak of the sequelae of dimensional infection."

"But dimensional infection has only occurred twice, one of which was in Yuhui's side. You only have a small amount of information, and the sample is too small."

Seeing that the president did not seem to believe it directly, Chen Ming added again: "I feel that this is too coincidental."

"The sequelae of the last dimensional infection did spread from the place where the dimensional infection broke out to the surrounding areas. This time, it should have started from the Galo star field at the earliest."

"But I also paid attention to the news some time ago. In fact, within the empire When many star regions have already started to have deformed babies, there was no movement in the Galo Star Region at all. "

"Until recently, the Galo Star Region has started to have similar situations like other star regions."

"Even if the Empire is deliberately suppressing similar news, I can be sure that I don't think that the Galo Star Region broke out late because the Empire blocked the news. This is actually the sequelae of the outbreak that are relatively late."

The president said to Chen Ming in a gentle and patient tone: "I know what you said."

"But the things summarized for the first time are not statistically a rule at all. Instead, they are more likely to be random, unless there are more samples."

Although it was the president who summarized the rules from the first dimensional infection, when talking to Chen Ming about this matter, the president denied his own thoughts.

After all, dimensional infection is definitely not a small matter, and it is impossible to say that it can be determined purely by suspicion.

He must have more concrete evidence before he can put this matter in the right place to deal with it.

Of course, after saying that, he will definitely investigate according to Chen Ming's words, but before there is evidence, Chen Ming's suspicion must not be directly raised to the level of dimensional infection.

That might waste the limited manpower he has for dimensional infection research.

At least he should wait until there is enough evidence to prove that dimensional infection has occurred before investing more.

So now the president chose to comfort Chen Ming: "I understand your worries."

"Before, I also experienced dimensional infection and saw something similar and thought it was related to dimensional infection, but later I found that many of the things I suspected were actually very normal and had nothing to do with dimensional infection."

"I can't tell from your words whether the death of your people is related to dimensional infection. I will think about it more."

"Or you can also find a more sufficient reason and tell me how you thought of this?"

Chen Ming was silent for a while. He really wanted to use a normal way to make people reasonably associate it with dimensional infection.

But at this time, facing the president who had known him for a while, Chen Ming still chose to tell the truth: "Feeling."

"What?"

"My feeling is telling me that this matter is probably related to dimensional infection."

"Feeling? Psychic feeling?"

"right."

"..."

The president put down the work he was doing and completely fixed his gaze on the terminal next to him.

He and Wu An had talked about Chen Ming more than once when they were chatting about some things some time ago. Chen Ming's keen perception was something Wu An often mentioned in front of the president.

For the president, if Chen Ming really died because someone died due to body explosion, he then thought of other things, and finally thought it was a dimensional infection.

Then the president needs to consider whether Chen Ming is over-worrying. As he just said, he did associate many things with dimensional infection, for fear that he could not completely get rid of the infection part. out of the normal universe.

But if Chen Ming said that it was his feeling that gave him the feeling that this matter was related to dimensional infection.

The president must think about it seriously.

Psychics have more or less a sixth sense. When facing bad things, they will have some subtle feelings.

Chen Ming is definitely a genius psyker that the empire encounters once in a hundred or even a thousand years. The perception ability of such a psyker...

The president thought for a moment and finally decided.

He chose to believe Chen Ming.

The president suspended all the work on hand and prepared to prioritize solving the possible dimensional infection incident mentioned by Chen Ming. He asked: "What was the specific feeling you had before?"

Chen Ming was slightly relieved when he heard this. Since the president could ask this, he would at least have an impression of this matter.

Chen Ming can basically ensure that this matter is related to dimensional infection. It is still necessary for the president, the person responsible for handling dimensional infection incidents, to remember this matter.

"When I saw that person die, I felt the same instinctive fear that I felt when I first faced the dimensional infection."

"But when that person died, I didn't feel dangerous. It was just seeing this scene that gave me that feeling. So it gave me the feeling that the person was the aftermath of being infected by the dimension, or was being used by Zuo Jing. Some method of dimensional infection caused a similar effect."

"I've seen a lot of dead people, and I've seen a lot of scenes like this with blood and flesh flying everywhere. What makes me feel scared is definitely not the scene itself, but what it represents."

Chen Ming emphasized his feelings again, fearing that the president might misunderstand him because he didn't explain clearly.

However, the president did not misunderstand and knew what Chen Ming meant.

"You just suspected that it was a problem with the left diameter, right?"

"right."

"check it out.

The president sent a document to Chen Ming.

Chen Ming had obtained similar documents before, which were various information and recorded data obtained when the president went to investigate the dimension infection.

Although Chen Ming is always running around, he usually chats with people he knows.

Whether it was factory director Lao Wu, boss or president, or even Shao Yang and Chen Ming, they would occasionally chat with him.

Therefore, the president had sent Chen Ming some of his research on dimensional infection when chatting with Chen Ming.

It can also be regarded as care for Chen Ming, a person who has also experienced dimensional infection like him.

And this time the content on the file...

Chen Ming flipped through the documents quickly.

It can be seen that although the document still does not know much about the overall situation of dimensional infection, it is also unclear how the other dimension exists.

However, there are still very detailed records on some information files that can be learned in normal space.

Of course, there is a lot of content, and it would take a while to read it all in detail, even if it was Chen Minglai.

However, the president did not give him time to read it slowly. Instead, he asked Chen Ming to flip to the middle of the document.

This document contains a three-dimensional image of the empire's star map.

On the star map, the situation of deformed children in different star fields, star districts, and galaxies that the president investigated since the last dimensional infection outbreak is marked.

"Have I seen something like this before?"

"Yes, one of the two star maps I showed you before is the data from the previous dimension infection I experienced. I was not prepared at the time and the situation was quite critical."

"In addition, the empire had not issued a ban on cloning at that time, and there were also many clones suffering from deformities, so the data is not that detailed."

"The other is rough data that hasn't been investigated before, so it's just a general look at the situation."

"What I'm showing you today is data that has been thoroughly investigated and is being updated in real time."

"This dimensional infection has no real impact on the empire compared to the one decades ago. Coupled with the experience last time, we have made a lot of preparations in advance. The entire empire is also supporting me in doing these things. , so there are a lot more data samples.”

"I asked someone to make a database and hang it on the Imperial Hospital's general database. It will automatically record cases of newborns and fetal malformations."

"There may be some errors in taking the data directly, but the errors will not be too big. This is the basis of this star map."

Chen Ming clearly continued to look at the star map.

It can be seen from the star map that the density of deformed children starts from a certain point within the empire, and expands outward like layers of hollow balls stacked on top of each other.

And with the relative change of distance, the closer to the periphery of the hollow ball, the lower the frequency of deformed children.

Of course, this low is also relatively low. In fact, the probability of high amounts is still more than 50%.

The inner star field is even more exaggerated. The probability of occurrence is 70, 80, 80 or 90, and childbirth has become a pure gamble.

This situation, which directly led to the reduction of most of the birth population in the entire empire, makes one feel numb even just looking at the figures, let alone those who have experienced it personally.

It was hard for Chen Ming to imagine how the empire could suppress the whole matter and find ways to resolve the conflict externally as soon as possible.

Although the empire is currently somewhat negative in terms of public opinion, overall it is currently in a relatively stable situation.

However, if there is no way to solve this problem or transfer the conflict away, then this temporary stability will only be the calm before the storm.

This is what the empire is going to have a headache for. All Chen Ming can do now is to protect himself and tell others about the dimensional infection.

At this moment, Chen Ming has also found the star field on the star map where the wave of deformed children breaks out earliest and most frequently.

This is a star field that is not highly developed and is still under development in the center of the connection between the empire's core and the empire's border star field.

The place with the highest frequency of deformed children in the entire star field is the Caimo-3 star area in the Caimo Star Field.

No matter how accurate the data is, the data is basically the same for the entire star region. This is the smallest location that can be determined based on the data.

"This place may not be the base camp of Zuo Jing, but it must be the source of this dimensional infection. Hasn't it been investigated before?"

The president explained to Chen Ming's question: "There has been an investigation, but we did not find any clues when we investigated this sector before."

"A star district can be called big or small. It's still very difficult to find anything specific."

"And the sequelae of dimensional infection are pure interference from another dimension to our normal universe, affecting the growth of fetuses with weak consciousness. There will be no residual psychic fluctuations."

"It's no problem to find this star area based on data, but it's basically impossible to continue to find the location of the source of the sequelae. We can only find it purely by looking for a needle in a haystack."

"Even with the support of the empire, it is impossible to investigate every corner of all planets."

"So after a round of investigation, the focus of our work actually began to shift to Yuhui. The location of the infection outbreak in their dimension is certain, but the progress is not ideal."

Hearing that this involved his professional matter, Chen Ming immediately said: "Why don't you come to me? Everyone should know that I must have a backup plan left in the Afterglow Galaxy, right?"

"This is the truth, but there are also reasons for it. One is that I am worried that asking you for help early will prevent you from completely controlling the Afterglow Star Territory."

"The other thing is, if I ask you for help, who will come to you? At what cost will you help? You were a free psyker before you joined the Fourteenth Legion some time ago. The empire will not force you to help, so this matter has always been Dragging."

"And the last reason is that the empire found the remains of another civilization some time ago."

"In that ruins, some documents that may be related to dimensional infection were found."

Chen Ming immediately realized the connection and asked: "Has another civilization encountered dimensional infection?"

"Yes, the document is still waiting for translation by linguists, but just those parts that have been translated can confirm that similar things did occur in the history of another civilization."

"They are also intelligent creatures. Based on the size of the equipment found, it can be determined that their body shape is similar to ours. Although no bone fossils have been found, it is also certain that they have gone through the same stages as us and have been cloned. It’s so normal to encounter dimensional infection.”

Chen Ming asked again: "Is it possible that the demise of another civilization is related to dimensional infection?"

"Such a view has been raised, but there is no need to expect to be certain of the conclusion until enough information is investigated."

"I will keep following up on this matter. If there is any news you want to know, I will tell you when the time comes. For now, let's talk about our current affairs."

"good."

Chen Ming curbed his curiosity and said, "Then are we going to investigate Caimo-3 again?"

"Yes, we must conduct a more targeted investigation. You also said that Zuo Jing is involved in this matter, so now I have reason to suspect that Cai Mo-3 may also have Zuo Jing involved."

"Zuo Jing is usually hidden in the crowd, so it is very likely that the location where Zuo Jing caused the dimensional infection is in a public place within the empire, but they have cleaned up the traces left behind. This time the investigation will be Mainly for these places.”

"But try not to get involved. I can't even go there myself. I have to find someone else to do it for me."

This reminder from the president can be regarded as repeating what he has said before. After all, if Zuo Jing really actively caused dimensional infection and someone survived, then what if Chen Ming or the president unknowingly and Witnesses of dimensional infection came into contact.

Although it may not completely expose the relative coordinates of the empire and another dimension, it will definitely have an impact. The most obvious one is that it may prolong the time of sequelae.

So Chen Ming has no opinion now.

When the president said this, he suddenly remembered some things he had discussed with Chen Ming, and said: "Also, I have now completely understood the way that dimension positions us, I mean you and me, our two coordinates."

"What is it?"

"It's us. You were the first to propose this concept of coordinate positioning."

Chen Ming immediately said: "I just had this feeling before, so I said it, but I definitely don't understand the specific situation, and didn't you, the president, perfect this concept before?"

"Let me put it this way, I actually had a similar idea before, but not as specific as you."

"And you said it specifically, and the content is fine, so I added my ideas to yours, and then perfected this concept."

"So I can be sure that the way another dimension positions us is in us, that is, ourselves."

Chen Ming asked again: "How did you determine it specifically?"

The president's eyes suddenly showed some nostalgia, and he said: "During the last dimensional infection, I was temporarily trapped on the planet where the dimensional infection broke out. I had nothing to do, so I did some experiments by the way."

"I won't say more details. I can be sure that only your body that has experienced dimensional infection is the target of the lock."

"The existence of another dimension will mark us with a special thing that cannot be observed by our naked eyes, psychic power, or any other means."

"It's not clear what it is, it may be similar to pheromones, and they can only determine our location with this thing."

"As long as the bodies infected with pheromones do not meet, there will be no overall impact."

Chen Ming asked in confusion: "It is our bodies that are marked? Isn't it our consciousness or psychic power?"

"Think about what I said before?"

Chen Ming immediately recalled the several times the president had talked, but he couldn't find a similar topic.

However, when Chen Ming came to the first time he met the president, the president had said something.

Psychics are resistant to infection from another dimension, and the consciousness of psychics will resist infection from another dimension.

Obviously, the consciousness of a psychic can never be the object of being marked by another dimension, but the body is different.

Unless the psychic can maintain the mental power to completely protect the body during the whole process of dimensional infection, otherwise it will be marked if it is a little lax.

The body will not instinctively resist the invasion of another dimension.

After all, consciousness is the foundation for people. Without consciousness, the body is just an empty shell.

The same is true for psychics. For people who use their own consciousness to influence reality, consciousness is even more important.

Unless it is a psychic who specializes in strengthening the body, the body will be more important, such as Yan Xiong...

However, there is no clear case of a psychic with physical enhancement who has experienced dimensional infection, so whether dimensional infection can mark this type of psychic is still in pure theory.

Chen Ming followed what the president said, and a lot of ideas flashed through his mind in an instant.

After speaking these ideas out, the president gave Chen Ming a positive answer.