Chapter 287 Battle

The star gate is a fixed means of long-distance large-scale fleet transportation within the empire.

And such a giant structure was seized at this special time.

It can't be said that someone seized it in order to evacuate the people of Caimo Star Region from this dangerous place, right?

It is also impossible to let Zuo Jing, who had already hidden in the Luxi Star System, retreat under the Earth Core Furnace Power Tower of Yunluo Star, after all, the star gate is in Caimo-1.

Then there is only one reason for the star gate to be seized.

Someone wants to use the star gate to come to Caimo.

After Chen Ming learned the news, he immediately contacted his Yuhui Fleet.

He has a total of 300 spaceships in Caimo, divided into four fleets of 75 spaceships each, staying outside four star systems.

Now, since he has confirmed that Zuo Jing's people are actually in the Luxi Star System, there is no need for the Yuhui Fleet in the other three star systems to continue to stay there.

At the same time, he does not need to continue to pay attention to the progress of the Fifth Legion's civil war.

These are things that the Fifth Legion should solve on its own.

So Chen Ming gave the order at this time, and the Yuhui Fleet of the two galaxies closer to Luxi in the other three galaxies went directly to Luxi and prepared to assist.

The remaining fleet immediately used the hyperspace channel jump engine to go to the location of the Caimo-1 star gate.

The news of the star gate being captured came from the boss.

But the boss only said this news, and did not explain the more precise content.

Obviously, the boss also obtained the information through his subordinates or other sources of information.

If he really needs accurate first-hand information, he can only investigate it through himself.

While the fleet is going.

Chen Ming also dealt with An Wuping's affairs at the same time.

When he received the boss's news, it happened to be the time when An Wuping jumped directly from the neighboring galaxy to the Luxi galaxy by hyperspace jump.

At this moment, An Wuping, who was in the space at the edge of the galaxy, could clearly see the large number of spacecraft wreckage nearby.

Obviously, there had just been a war here.

According to the situation of the surviving spacecraft and the content recorded by Chen Ming's Yuhui Fleet further away, the situation here has gradually become clear.

At the beginning of the chaos of the previous civil war.

The Fifth Legion cleared all the spacecraft that did not belong to the Fifth Legion camp at the first time with an absolute numerical advantage.

Only Chen Ming's Yuhui Fleet was too iconic, and it avoided the main battlefield at the first time and escaped.

Even just now, whenever a Fifth Legion spacecraft took the initiative to attack his fleet, it would immediately be counterattacked by other Fifth Legion fleets.

After all, Chen Ming came to cooperate with the Fifth Legion at the request of the president to help the Fifth Legion deal with some things that it had not dealt with in time.

A good man.

Whoever attacks Chen Ming must have a problem with his brain, and of course it is easier to become a target for others.

So even if Chen Ming's Yuhui Fleet did nothing, it was considered to have made some contributions.

While most people were obviously still sensible, those in the Fifth Legion who were not affected by the left-path psychic quickly controlled the situation after the battle.

After all, under normal circumstances, it is very likely that only a part of the people on a spaceship are affected.

As for those who are not affected, as long as they are affected, they only need to tie up or solve the affected commander.

At least in the Luxi galaxy, the fleet of the Fifth Legion won the final victory and stabilized Luxi.

However, in the chaos just now, some people took advantage of the Fifth Legion's lack of time to take care of too much, and took advantage of the chaos to pass through the Fifth Legion's blockade, enter the galaxy, and go to all the colonies and space stations in the galaxy where people exist.

Such a situation will definitely stimulate Zuo Jing, so the Fifth Legion had to send people to various places in the galaxy just now.

Since the specific location of Zuo Jing cannot be determined, a comprehensive investigation will be carried out directly.

Now some people should have landed on Yunluo Star.

I don't know if they will find Zuo Jing hidden under the Earth Core Furnace Power Tower.

If there are people controlled by Zuo Jing among these people, then I am afraid that many of these people will go to Yunluo to block those who may find Zuo Jing.

Just when Chen Ming analyzed what happened just now through An Wuping's perspective.

He also noticed that the Fifth Army had begun to reorganize the galaxy's defense line and was preparing to blockade the galaxy again.

With the civil war just now, most of the people affected by Zuo Jing were restricted.

Then the next blockade will definitely turn this galaxy into a complete blockade.

And An Wuping's current identity is not suitable for him to appear in front of the Fifth Army openly.

There is no other way.

Chen Ming did not hesitate too much and directly crushed the last Black Mist Heart Gathering Spirit Bead he got from Qianmian.

With the help of the shadow of the Fifth Army's fleet, Chen Ming successfully entered the interior of the galaxy and began to approach Yunluo Star.

At the same time.

In the core of the Caimo Star Region, Caimo-1 Star Region.

The fleet sent by Chen Ming finally arrived at the edge of the galaxy where the star gate is located.

Even outside the galaxy, Chen Ming can see through the sensor that in the center of the huge star gate device located inside the galaxy, there is a layer of film that looks a bit illusory like a mirror slowly filling inside the star gate.

This is the external manifestation of the star gate being activated.

It seems that the people stationed at the star gate not only lost, but also had no time to cut off the power and block the star gate.

Under normal circumstances, it takes a long time to power off and restart the Ai Star Gate, but if it is just a star gate in standby mode, it can be started at any time.

Around the star gate that is being activated, there is a mixed fleet that looks a bit chaotic.

Not only are there fleets of various forces, but even the fleet of the Fifth Corps, which should have driven away these forces, is also mixed in.

It seems that when the Fifth Corps was stationed here, chaos happened to break out internally.

Perhaps they themselves could suppress the chaos like the Fifth Legion in the Luxi Galaxy.

But obviously when they wanted to do so, those forces that were driven away in the other four star systems came to make trouble.

In the end, the Fifth Legion suffered heavy losses and had to evacuate in a hurry, and the control of the star gate was completely seized.

The Fifth Legion here failed.

Sure enough, many of the people from other forces that had gathered near the Fifth Legion before were also influenced by Zuo Jing.

Otherwise, they would not have come to such a place to make trouble after giving up the idea of ​​​​the four star systems where the Fifth Legion had gathered.

It was reasonable for them to snatch the psychics of Zuo Jing or the psychic beasts released by Zuo Jing from the Fifth Legion.

But using violent means to seize a star gate that had nothing to do with Zuo Jing was of no benefit to those people.

Moreover, after ending the attack on the Fifth Legion, they gathered together and jointly guarded the vicinity of the star gate.

This situation made Chen Ming completely certain of how great the influence of Zuo Jing's brainwashed psychics was.

However, Chen Ming is now watching the situation in the galaxy from a distance, and no one influenced by Zuo Jing's psychic comes out to stop him.

People influenced by Zuo Jing don't seem to care that someone is staying at the edge of the galaxy.

Because in addition to Chen Ming's fleet, there are actually many other spaceships at the edge of the galaxy.

It was someone on one of these spaceships who provided the boss with information here.

And those who were brainwashed by Zuo Jing obviously only care about the situation of the star gate.

They have to wait for the star gate to be completely opened to welcome the people behind the star gate.

Chen Ming has only come into contact with some information about the star gate on paper, so there is really no way to prevent such a situation from happening at this time.

Anyway, it is impossible to fight.

Although the fleet here is mixed, there are at least nearly 60 cruisers and more destroyers and escorts.

Fortunately, there are no capital ships here, otherwise Chen Ming's fleet would have to run away as soon as it came.

But even if there were only cruisers, he couldn't come out and cause trouble in front of so many cruisers.

Although Chen Ming has the ability to build cruisers, he has not moved the number of cruisers he has on hand, and has only kept twelve cruisers, which is enough for him.

One reason is that the cost of building cruisers is too high, and the other reason is that no one and Yuhui can drive the cruisers that are built.

Even if we count the individuals with strong consciousness born in the hive mind network of the mechanical race during this period, Chen Ming can control nine cruisers himself, as well as the Alpha-class Yuhui on Chen Ming's hand.

Chen Ming can only make more than 20 cruisers that can be driven in a short period of time.

It can fight with the fleet on the Star Gate side, but there will definitely be losses.

These more than 60 cruisers are enough to focus fire and directly destroy his cruisers before his repair psychic power takes effect.

And if he really wants to fight, he has to jump back the cruisers continuously.

Let's not talk about whether his mental power is enough to build more than a dozen cruisers and then jump back a total of more than 20 cruisers from abroad.

Let's just say that the current situation is purely caused by the Fifth Army's inability to resist, and he will not help the Fifth Army clean up its mess.

It's not the boss of Baiquan, the old factory director Wu and others.

So Chen Ming still plans to continue to watch from Caimo-1.

See the subsequent movements of Zuojing. Who are they going to send here by occupying this place?

While Chen Ming's Yuhui Fleet in Caimo-1 was waiting for the star gate of Zuojing to move.

An Wuping, who was also controlled by Chen Ming in the Luxi Galaxy, finally approached Yunluo Star.

This is a planet that looks almost pure white from the outside.

The climate of the entire planet is relatively cold.

It snows for most of the revolution cycle.

Of course, this planet can still be considered a habitable planet.

It is precisely this climate of snowing for most of the year that gave this planet the name Yunluo.

However, although it is snowing in most areas of the planet, there is no such situation near the Earth Core Furnace Power Tower, the most important industrial building on this planet.

The large amount of heat brought by the Earth Core Furnace Power Tower has already affected the nearby climate in a macro sense.

So when it snows in other places.

It only rains near the power tower.

In the drizzle.

With the last bit of spiritual energy effect given by the Black Mist Heart Gathering Spirit Bead that he just crushed, An Wuping arrived at the industrial area near the Earth Core Furnace Power Tower.

Stepping out of the shadows, he appeared near the warehouse not far from the power tower.

Chen Ming could sense some spiritual energy fluctuations from various locations in the industrial area at this time.

Obviously, there are other psychics who have come here, and it is unknown whether they are enemies or friends.

However, apart from the psychic outside, he did not find the psychic fluctuations of the cloaked man called the recipient in Zuo Jing.

But Chen Ming was sure that he was under the power tower of the Earth Core Furnace not far away.

Chen Ming identified the direction and stepped out.

However, before he took a few steps, he suddenly heard a subtle scream that was immediately cut off.

He turned his head and saw a middle-aged woman in her forties wearing work clothes next to a nearby warehouse.

She was holding a large bag full of food in her hand, covering her mouth, and her eyes were full of fear.

Chen Ming was used to seeing such eyes.

After confirming that this middle-aged woman was not a psychic, nor was she someone in charge of surveillance.

Chen Ming withdrew from the insect form, revealing the appearance of a normal person, and waved to her to leave quickly.

After the middle-aged woman covered her mouth and nodded frantically and walked away quickly.

Chen Ming also entered the insect form again and ignored her.

But he still felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.

Because there are still ordinary people here...

Chen Ming sighed.

He could only sigh.

Because he had no way to solve this problem.

No one on this planet could be evacuated.

Zuo Jing's threat had spread to the entire empire. No one dared to bet that if they evacuated the civilians on the planet, there would be important people from Zuo Jing among them.

What's more, the population of an industrial colony in a prosperous star field could not be evacuated in a day or two.

All the governors of these planets could do was to let all the people stay at home, rely on government assistance, and wait for the incident to be resolved.

Zuo Jing probably knew this and chose to carry out the final stage in such a place.

Chen Ming could only silently wish her good luck in his heart.

At the same time, he continued to step out and walked towards the energy tower.

Just as Chen Ming arrived at the surface of the planet.

Deep underground of the Earth Core Furnace Energy Tower.

In an empty area.

Qianmian leaned against the support column.

Next to him was the person who had been in contact with him.

He was also wrapped in a cloak, making it difficult to see his specific appearance.

In the center of this area, the cloaked man, or the recipient, was sitting there quietly.

Qianmian rubbed his eyes, which were a little dry from staring at the front for too long.

When he raised his head, he suddenly found that the cloak on the recipient was torn.

A creature with a human upper body and twisted flesh and blood in the lower body appeared in front of him.

"Him!"

"Don't worry."

The person next to Qianmian comforted Qianmian and said, "He is evolving, he is receiving the body given by God."

The upper body of the recipient also broke as the voice fell, and a large amount of flesh and blood spilled out, leaving only a head that was quickly submerged in the surging flesh and blood.

A unique psychic wave that could not be detected by ordinary psychics emerged from its body and spread to the entire planet.

"You go upstairs, someone is coming outside."

Qianmian nodded, turned around, and took the elevator.

At this time, Chen Ming just stepped into the interior of the Earth Core Furnace Power Tower, a slightly messy but not too spacious hall.

As soon as he came in, he felt an extremely obvious spiritual energy fluctuation suddenly appearing deep underground.

An unprecedented greedy emotion that seemed to come from his heart suddenly enveloped him.

The familiarity of this spiritual energy fluctuation was obviously released by Zuo Jing's recipient.

Are they not going to pretend?

Chen Ming continued to walk into the interior of the power tower with doubts.

His spiritual energy has covered the power tower with his arrival.

He can now directly destroy the entire Earth Core Furnace Power Tower.

However, the collapsed power tower may not necessarily kill Zuo Jing below.

So Chen Ming still planned to go down and kill Qianmian and the recipient Qianmian mentioned.

He had the ability.

Chen Ming was just thinking about dealing with Zuo Jing below.

Suddenly, a sound of breaking through the air came from behind him.

Chen Ming did not feel any danger, so he simply turned around on the spot.

A translucent claw suddenly tore across Chen Ming's face.

However, the claw did not leave any trace on Chen Ming's dark shell.

After the claw scratched, a half-human, half-beast guy was gradually transforming from translucent to a real appearance.

From the psychic fluctuations on his body, it can be clearly distinguished that this guy is also a psychic, and a psychic of the physical mutation type.

And the direction of his physical mutation happened to be a creature that Chen Ming knew, the night owl.

A creature that survives on a planet located underground in that special ecosystem.

This creature relies on darkness to sneak attack its prey.

When such an ability is manifested in a psychic, it becomes the ability to hide one's breath to a considerable extent.

Chen Ming really didn't notice his existence at the first time when he couldn't sense the danger.

Unfortunately, the ability of this psychic is still too weak.

The Night Owl psychic also found that his attack was completely meaningless to An Wuping.

He just wanted to retreat, but Chen Ming had already commented on this guy in his mind, stretched out his arm and grabbed his head, and crushed it directly.

He didn't have time to capture these psychics now.

Chen Ming shook off the blood on his hand and looked to the side.

He had heard the movement of the elevator next to him from just now.

Just when Chen Ming turned his head, he happened to see Qianmian taking the elevator to the ground floor of the Earth Core Furnace Power Tower.

At the moment the elevator door opened, Qianmian showed a not surprised expression on his face and said: "It's you... As expected, you have been a complete spy from the beginning."

Just as Qianmian's words fell.

Chen Ming had already disappeared from the spot, punching the elevator that Qianmian was riding.

However, Qianmian immediately turned into black mist to avoid this violent attack.

The air created by Chen Ming's punch formed a fist wind under the force of the force, and it could only hit the elevator and the wall next to it.

The wall of the Earth Core Furnace Energy Tower, which was strong enough to support its huge weight, had obvious cracks, and it looked like it could collapse at any time.

Chen Ming looked around at the complex environment full of shadows, and asked Qianmian the same question: "At the beginning? How can you be sure that I was a spy at the beginning?"

Qianmian's voice came from the shadows: "Because only you can spread the news that there are two mind beasts on the space station."

Chen Ming punched again in the direction where the voice came from, and completely cleared all obstacles in front of his fist.

After confirming that the punch missed, Chen Ming asked again: "Why don't you doubt Hu Yi? Isn't there someone else besides me in the news you released?"

"He doesn't have the brains or the ability, so you are the only one left."

"Since you know everything, can you just die?"

After saying the word "die", Chen Ming also confirmed Qianmian's position through his mental perception. Plasma wrapped around his fist, and a simple punch hit Qianmian's position again.

A violent explosion occurred at the location where his fist hit.

An almost pure, clear and transparent ice appeared in front of Qianmian, blocking Chen Ming's punch and the impact of the fist explosion.

Qianmian stood behind the ice, his eyes locked on An Wuping.

Qianmian was silent, and Chen Ming spoke again: "I am curious, as a psychic, besides copying other people's psychic power, do you have your own psychic power that can be used for combat?"

"You will know soon."

As soon as Qianmian finished speaking, Chen Ming discovered that his psychic power fluctuations were leaking.

Leaking in the direction of Qianmian in front of him, Qianmian was absorbing this spiritual energy fluctuation and converting it into his own ability.

Chen Ming's eyes once again flashed with confusion about Qianmian's ability to extract such spiritual energy effects.

However, he did not hesitate and broke the ice with a full punch.

When Qianmian once again turned into black mist and disappeared in the hall, a ball of plasma condensed in his palm and was thrown directly to his feet.

The blazing white light instantly enveloped the entire hall.

The explosion of plasma pierced through the ceiling, the ground, and several walls.

The space of the three floors above the ground and the three floors underground was completely opened up, and all the debris was cleared away.

The glow of plasma continued to wrap around Chen Ming's arm, completely illuminating Chen Ming's side.

The effect of black mist spiritual energy will be greatly reduced in a strong light environment.

Qianmian's position appeared in Chen Ming's perception.

The movement of the battle under the Earth Core Furnace Power Tower naturally attracted the attention of many people.

And that completely undisguised psychic fluctuation was enough to attract the attention of all psychics on Yunluo Star.

Several psychics that Chen Ming had discovered in the industrial zone immediately began to move towards the power supply tower. Of course, some people also told others that there were people fighting in the power supply tower.

And the special psychic fluctuation that just came from the recipient deep underground also aroused the greed in the hearts of all the psychics who came over.

Everyone was affected, but the difference was whether it was serious or not.