Chapter 278: Filling the Gap

Psychological problems, especially those involving Zuo Jing and civilians.

The first person Chen Ming thought of who could help him solve was Bai Quan.

Bai Quan answered Chen Ming's call as usual.

Before Bai Quan asked, Chen Ming said, "Let me ask you something. If you need to sacrifice a group of people to achieve your goal, will you sacrifice them?"

Bai Quan's mind was full of question marks because of Chen Ming's sudden and inexplicable question, but he still answered seriously, "If it's a battlefield, of course I will. Why ask this?"

"Just asking, what if it's not a battlefield?"

"If it's not a battlefield, it depends on the situation. It depends on whether what I do is in line with my values ​​when sacrificing a group of people."

Chen Ming gave an example, "For example, there is a Zuojing Space Station has kidnapped civilians. If you dare to approach them, you will explode. Will you sacrifice these civilians to kill these Zuojing? "

"Yes."

Bai Quan answered without hesitation: "As long as the purpose I want to achieve is not for myself, I will not hesitate. Did you encounter something? Or did your president encounter any problems with Caimo?"

"It's just that something suddenly occurred to me, so I want to ask."

"...Really..."

Bai Quan didn't believe that Chen Ming would think of such a question inexplicably when he was staying in the branch honestly.

He could guess casually that Chen Ming must have been secretly using his psychic power to do something, and then he happened to encounter a similar situation and came to ask.

Nowadays, bionic technology is so advanced that it is not difficult to spend some effort to make a robot that looks exactly like a human.

As far as he knows, there are indeed people in the empire who specialize in manufacturing and producing such bionic robots to accompany themselves.

Especially in the prosperous star field, such robots are not too rare.

Therefore, if Chen Ming's psychic power controls such a bionic robot and drives a spaceship by himself, it is generally impossible to distinguish.

Even if he had not secretly asked someone to do an accurate body scan and obtain hair samples for DNA testing when Chen Ming came to the branch, he would even suspect that Chen Ming in the branch was fake.

Chen Ming was embarrassed for a while when he heard Bai Quan's suspicion.

The psychic effect he showed had been analyzed by others a long time ago, and even before that, Bai Quan was the first person to analyze his psychic effect from the clues of his actions.

Therefore, the concept of using psychic power to create a mechanical clone must have been thought of by others a long time ago, and even the think tank that Bai Quan arranged for him had such an idea in advance.

However, Bai Quan certainly didn't know about the Zerg.

But this was enough for Bai Quan to think that Chen Ming was doing something outside.

Of course, it didn't matter to Bai Quan what Chen Ming was doing now.

Anyway, it was probably that he was controlling some robots or some self-driving spaceships to run around the empire, and then accidentally encountered something similar to what he just said.

Recently, there have been incidents related to Zuo Jing everywhere in the empire. It is impossible to guess where Chen Ming controlled the robot to go.

Although there is a main suspect, Caimo Star Region, the situation there is also extremely complicated.

The main direction of the 14th Legion is still the war between the Mechanical Clan and Yuhui. The internal affairs are handed over to other legions to handle, so there is not much attention, and it is indeed not very clear.

But no matter what, as long as Chen Ming does not violate the rule that is not written out in writing, it will be fine.

In other words, do not use psychic power to control things that do not belong to Chen Ming.

Even if Chen Ming is now clearly asking questions about this, and it is obvious that he is staying in the branch and controlling the robot or spaceship outside, Bai Quan still believes that Chen Ming can abide by the bottom line of reassuring people.

Of course, he is at ease, and there are always people who don't think so.

So Bai Quan has been trying his best to protect Chen Ming, and occasionally hinted to Chen Ming during class.

Chen Ming is certainly not stupid. He knows exactly how strong his psychic power is and how many people will be worried.

It is also fortunate that his psychic power can only be expanded through personal contact and indirect contact with the afterglow, otherwise there will definitely be more people trying their best to restrict him.

So he has always been very cooperative, at least the prosthesis of the 14th Legion is very cooperative.

All the afterglow cores brought by the prosthesis to the 14th Legion are clearly placed in front of Bai Quan for supervision.

The only other fleet with afterglow cores is the small-scale fleet that has been wandering in the Galo star field to earn pocket money.

Because Chen Ming does things clearly, Bai Quan is not worried about what Chen Ming is up to now, and answered purely from the heart: "Let me put it this way, even I am an object that can be sacrificed when necessary in my eyes."

"For example, if I sacrifice now, I can get rid of the mechanical race, Zuo Jing or afterglow, I am willing to sacrifice now."

Bai Quan said it openly, and Chen Ming believed that Bai Quan would really do it, but he was not Bai Quan, and he would definitely have different ideas when thinking about some things.

He wanted to rely on Bai Quan's ideas to make a reference for the dilemma he was facing now.

"What if it is not for this goal, but a more personal goal? For example, you are not the government army that encircled Zuo Jing in the past, but an ordinary person who has a grudge against Zuo Jing."

Bai Quan further confirmed his guess that Chen Ming was controlling some kind of robot to run around the empire and cause trouble for Zuo Jing, and said: "Is this question different from the previous one? Can't you put your personal goal on such a big goal?"

"Your goal is to kill Zuo Jing, and the goal of those who encircled Zuo Jing is also to kill Zuo Jing."

"The same goal, put the two things together and see if different ideas and processes will lead to the same result."

"If the result is the same, then do it."

"Sacrifice cannot be avoided, so try to minimize the number of sacrifices."

"In the Empire , human life is equal, at least to some extent, and more people cannot be sacrificed to save one person. "

Chen Ming asked again: "What if the number of casualties among civilians in these two choices is different?"

"What is the key to this operation? Is it to rescue civilians? Or to eliminate Zuo Jing? There is always a main goal."

"If it is to eliminate Zuo Jing, then I can only say that it is unfortunate to the civilians and express my sincere apologies and compensation to their families. If it is to protect civilians..."

"I only have one sentence, when it is really necessary, sacrifice is just a number."

Chen Ming asked the question he wanted to ask the most at this point: "But who will take this responsibility?"

"Take responsibility? Are you worried about this?"

Bai Quan asked back.

After thinking about it, I found that this seemed to be a problem for Chen Ming.

Chen Ming did work as a manager, but he was an ordinary manager, who only managed dozens of people at most, and never really involved a large number of lives.

If he really had to take the responsibility for the deaths of so many people, the psychological pressure would be much greater than directly killing the same people.

Chen Ming had killed people, but they were all enemies.

Not everyone has the mental quality to cause the death of a large number of ordinary people who have no hostile relationship with him because of his own actions.

This situation made Bai Quan wonder what happened in which part of the empire that would require Chen Ming to bear this pressure.

However, as before, the current situation in the empire is that Zuo Jing is being besieged everywhere. It is really hard to say which star field or galaxy has such a thing happened again.

So Bai Quan simply said directly: "You have to think clearly about who killed them, you? Or Zuo Jing?"

"Tracing back to the source, is it you who caused this situation, or Zuo Jing who caused this situation, who killed them?"

"As for the responsibility, I will say it bluntly. In the example just now, unless you directly transformed into Zuo Jing and rushed into the space station to massacre civilians, otherwise it has nothing to do with you if all these people died, and you don't have to bear any responsibility."

"It's that simple."

Chen Ming has roughly understood what Bai Quan meant.

The confusion in his heart gradually dissipated, and he finally got out of the vicious circle of self-blame.

Chen Ming relaxed a little and complained to Bai Quan: "It's a bit ruthless."

"It's true, but this is my experience of surviving on the battlefield."

"Of course, my mentality has changed after I came down from the front line. When I really encounter multiple-choice questions, I might be confused for a while."

"Oh, by the way, let me ask you something. How is Xinghai's teaching recently?"

Chen Ming suddenly coughed and said, "It's okay... um... I have something else to do, let's talk later."

When it comes to embarrassing topics, Chen Ming didn't know what to say.

Cheng Xinghai had already started teaching him two days ago. It was okay at the beginning, but Chen Ming always felt weird during the class later.

No matter how he thought about it, he had a headache, so he simply stopped thinking about it.

He still has things to do now.

The communication ended.

Chen Ming's mentality finally returned to normal.

He asked himself a question in his heart, what was the purpose of letting An Wuping go?

It was to cooperate with the president, provide support to the president, help find the psychic who made him discover that Zuo Jing was also infected by the dimension, and then solve the huge trouble in Caimo Star Region.

And the purpose of his coming to this space station halfway.

It was because Zuo Jing had ideas about him, and he also wanted to take the opportunity to play, try to sneak into Zuo Jing, and try to disintegrate them from the inside of Zuo Jing.

That was enough.

Chen Ming did not take the initiative to massacre civilians, but Zuo Jing pressed the weapon launch button, and he did not need to blame himself for it.

You must know that once Cai Mo has a problem, the more severe consequences caused by the dimensional infection may affect the entire empire.

It is equivalent to sacrificing a small group of people in exchange for the survival opportunities of a larger group of people.

It can be said that this is too utilitarian.

But in Chen Ming's view, this is also a solution that will not cause the greatest loss in the shortest time.

If he really feels sorry, Chen Ming will go back to build a monument for them and give their families some compensation.

I believe that the empire will definitely not be stingy with these compensations.

Chen Ming put down this pressure in his heart.

In reality, An Wuping, who was drifting in the cosmic environment, finally moved.

He adjusted his posture and faced the position of the third left-hand cruiser that had just appeared and destroyed the space station.

The gorgeous colors instantly condensed into a plasma spear in his hand.

Even faster than before in the underground laboratory, the energy gathered in the plasma spear was accumulated to the intensity close to the plasma light ball that destroyed his mind-destroying entity.

After solving the trouble in his heart, Chen Ming even became more adept at controlling the Queen's psychic power and An Wuping's body.

At this moment.

His fury reached its peak.

And this time it was not a disguise, but he really vented the anger accumulated in his heart because of his previous thoughts.

The gorgeous color of the plasma spear has gradually turned into pure white with energy condensed to the extreme, and it is gradually covered by the Zerg keratin wrapped outside the spear by Chen Ming, allowing it to be held more firmly in his hand.

At the moment the spear was thrown out of Chen Ming's hand.

The carapace covering the plasma broke because it could not withstand the terrifying acceleration, revealing the glow of the plasma again.

I saw a flash of lightning in the galaxy.

The third cruiser from the left channel, along with its shield. It was pierced from head to tail by this lightning.

At the moment the lightning penetrated the tail of the cruiser, the lightning disappeared.

The colorful colors representing death completely enveloped the spacecraft.

In just a few seconds, it was annihilated in the light.

Seeing this scene, Chen Ming's depression was swept away.

He adjusted his posture and leaned against the biomass vent to the vicinity of the destroyed space station with only wreckage left.

The space station had been destroyed and broken into pieces, and Chen Ming fell on the largest piece of the space station wreckage.

He was digging around and found the location where the escape pods were concentrated, trying to find the living people.

Of course, he also knew that it was impossible for anyone to survive the power of the entire space station being destroyed.

He was just pretending and waiting for someone.

Soon, the people Chen Ming was waiting for came.

Qianmian, wearing a protective suit, floated out from the shadow of the space station wreckage.

His face under the mask of the protective suit was a little ugly.

Because he had noticed that the high-intensity Heart-Gathering Spirit Bead that he had just crushed, which cost him a lot of energy to make, did not seem to have a good effect.

An Wuping in front of him did not look like his mental loophole had been broken, only the rage caused by his berserker syndrome.

Did the berserker syndrome protect the mental loophole from interference to a certain extent?

Qianmian was not sure, but he did not show it.

He just threw a terminal to Chen Ming, on which a program for two-way conversion of voice and text was running.

Chen Ming took it. He was now extremely calm, but he continued to control An Wuping's body and showed a surging killing intent.

The mental power that should have only acted on himself was overflowing crazily, and even the seeds left by Zuo Jing in his brain in the backpack he carried with him were completely dispersed.

Even Chen Ming felt that a trace of psychic fluctuations from the brainwashed psychic on his body were completely killed.

Chen Ming was slightly stunned when he sensed this psychic fluctuation in his consciousness.

He did not notice that his consciousness was still affected by this special psychic fluctuation that had the effect of bewitching people.

Although there was no obvious feeling, only a very subtle impact.

But it seems that it was this influence that made him confused just now.

This spirit could find the weakest part of his soul and magnify his weakness.

He, who was friendly to civilians, had a mental hole because of the death of civilians.

Chen Ming thought that what he thought just now was really his own idea...

No, it should be considered as such.

Because under normal circumstances, although Chen Ming would not blame himself too much when facing the death of a large number of civilians, he would indeed feel a little uncomfortable, but he would not have such a big reaction.

His previous reaction was purely magnified by his mental hole.

A thousand-mile dam is destroyed by an ant hole. Any small problem may lead to a disaster at a critical moment.

But it doesn't matter now.

After Baiquan's guidance, Chen Ming would no longer be restricted by any universal ethics and morals in such major events involving the entire empire. Everything would only serve to achieve the goal.

His mind became more resolute after this attack on his mental loophole.

Qianmian was in front of Chen Ming at this time. Of course, he could also feel that Chen Ming relied on the surging psychic fluctuations to disperse the seeds in his brain.

However, it didn't matter whether the seed mark was there or not at this time.

Qianmian stretched out his left hand with a missing little finger, pointed at the collapsed space station under his feet and said: "We accept your pledge of allegiance."

"Soon the news of what happened on the space station will be placed on the meeting table of the local government."

"But no one will know that there are our people on the space station, and no one will know that what you are doing is actually helping them."

"We will help you build momentum, and you will be a madman who kills indiscriminately because of rage."

"It's useless for you to be angry now. It doesn't matter how psychics conflict with each other."

"But once it involves civilians, it's still for civilians. "If you carry out massacres, it is hard to say whether you, a psychic, are still a psychic in the eyes of the Empire."

"You will definitely be on the Empire's blacklist, and it is impossible for you to act freely in the prosperous star field with your identity."

"For you, even if your mental state barely recovers to normal, what will happen next? What if the rage becomes more serious? What else can you do? You don't still think you can find our territory in the Empire at will, do you?"

"For a psychic with rage in the Empire, the best outcome is to be a harmless guinea pig in a mental hospital."

Qianmian's words obviously have a lot of exaggeration.

But what he said about Zuo Jing is indeed correct.

Zuo Jing will definitely put the blame on Chen Ming for the small number of civilian casualties on the space station, and it is even possible that they will use the people hidden in some departments to put the blame on Chen Ming.

Chen Ming has a targeted method in his hand.

Because he has a complete video of everything that happened here.

He also saved all the data in the database of the space station. The destruction of the space station did not affect his data preservation at all.

If he really wanted to pass on the blame, he only needed to hand over the video.

But Chen Ming did not intend to do so.

He had more ideas.

Chen Ming continued his performance.

He pretended to be extremely angry, stepped forward and grabbed the collar of Qianmian's protective suit, and said with his own voice as a medium: "I have another choice, which is to kill you here."

Qianmian did not make any excited resistance.

After all, if An Wuping wanted to take action, he could just do it directly, and there was no need to drag him to talk.

And An Wuping's violent disorder had obviously been stimulated to the extreme. If he continued to force him, it would be counterproductive if he forced him too hard.

So Qianmian relaxed his tone and said, "In fact, there is another option. We can cooperate temporarily, only for the next period of time."

"I know that your understanding of us is negative and you are unwilling to contact us, but you must know that rage is the sword of Damocles hanging over your head."

"Other people in the empire have to consider what will happen after you get sick and be wary of you."

"But we are different. We have the means to completely cure rage."

"This is a fair deal. You work hard and we help you treat it."

"When you are cured, you can find a way to have plastic surgery, change your appearance, and return to the empire."

"In this era, if psychics like us really don't want to do it one day, find a place to have plastic surgery, hide and don't cause trouble, who can find us?"

Chen Ming didn't show more irritability, but let go of his hand, took a step back, lowered his head slightly, and looked thoughtful.

But he suddenly raised his head again and asked, "Your psychic power gives you the ability to change your face, so why don't you repair your little finger?"

Chen Ming pretended that he still needed time to think, so he temporarily changed the topic and raised this question.

Of course, this is indeed what Chen Ming is more curious about.

Because before, when he saw the glass bead psychic in the place where the black fog psychic was captured, his little finger was also missing and not repaired.

It is obvious that modern medical technology can easily regenerate a finger. If it doesn't work, the mechanical finger is the same.

Then why doesn't this guy repair it?

Qianmian raised his left hand and looked at it, and said, "This has to be traced back to the past, which is not what we are going to talk about now."

"Think about it carefully, we still have time, you have to think about how many ways you can go now."

Chen Ming completely stopped looking ahead and leaned back on the wreckage of the space station.

Qianmian picked up the terminal that Chen Ming had just thrown away and put it back in An Wuping's hand.

He looked up at the pair of scarlet eyes on top of the tall body and said, "We are not as crazy as you look."

"At least we have always been communicating with you in a friendly manner before, and it is the same now, isn't it?"