Chapter 295 New Doubts
The president failed to give a clear attitude towards An Wuping.
Chen Ming did not bother the president any more, hung up the phone, and returned to the underground of the Earth Core Furnace Energy Tower.
There was only a mess here now.
Although Chen Ming's main goal along the way was the recipient.
However, the tracking process and the aftermath of the battle with Qianmian and Zhen still caused considerable damage to the energy tower.
There was nothing left to save the energy tower, so just leave.
But before leaving.
A large number of tentacles controlled by the Queen Worm grew on Chen Ming's left arm and extended to the surroundings.
These tentacles invaded the body of the recipient, which had turned into a meat mountain, and devoured him.
Chen Ming's plan was obvious. Let the Queen Worm eat the recipient to see if he could get some of his memories from the body of the recipient, and by the way, see if he could get more information about Zuo Jing.
Anyway, the recipient is dead, and Zuo Jing has lost the core figure with brainwashing ability. The empire's suppression of Zuo Jing will definitely be more effective in the future. It is definitely not a bad thing to get more intelligence to target Zuo Jing.
At the same time that Chen Ming asked the Queen of Insects to do so.
His remaining little mental power was also protected by the Queen of Insects' mental power.
Once there is a problem, he will immediately help the Queen of Insects to cut off this part of consciousness to prevent worse consequences.
After all, this is the body of the recipient. After his death, there may be some means left. It is always right to be just in case.
The tentacles proliferated inside the meat mountain, growing and eating continuously.
When the Queen of Insects' tentacles ate half of the meat mountain and ate near the center of the meat mountain.
The Queen of Insects' tentacles suddenly stopped.
A tentacle twitched a few times in the center of the meat mountain, twisted back, and spit out a round thing in front of Chen Ming.
It was the head of a person with a certain chaotic flesh and blood on the edge.
The head dug out from the meat mountain should be the recipient's head.
Chen Ming didn't react to what happened to the head for a while.
After all, the Queen of Insects reads memories mainly by devouring the brain, so it's quite strange to spit out a complete head.
But the next moment, Chen Ming's expression became serious.
Because the face on this head is different from the face of the brainwashed psychic that Chen Ming saw through Qianmian's last remaining consciousness.
This is not the face of the brainwashed psychic.
Chen Ming immediately picked up the head, and his other hand turned into a tentacle and wrapped around the head to check the condition of the head.
He felt extremely strong psychic fluctuations belonging to the recipient from this head, and also found a dead spiritual nerve with the breath of the recipient inside the head.
But he didn't find any signs of plastic surgery on the head, nor did he find any evidence that this head didn't belong to the meat mountain or the recipient.
This is the original face of the recipient.
Judging from his age, he is probably in his forties, about the same age as Qianmian.
And the brainwashed psychic in Qianmian's memory is also in his forties in Qianmian's memory.
But Qianmian should have been less than 20 years old when he became a psychic and joined Zuojing. The brainwashed psychic at that time looked 40 years old.
So he should be at least 60 years old now.
This age is wrong.
The situation of the recipient does not match the brainwashed psychic of Zuojing in Qianmian's memory. They... are not the same person.
Chen Ming suddenly remembered something and quickly took out the resentment spirit stone that appeared after Qianmian's death.
This resentment spirit stone did not resonate after Chen Ming killed the recipient, and still caused hallucinations in front of Chen Ming when he held it.
And through the hallucination brought by the spirit stone, she also confirmed the appearance of the brainwashed psychic again.
That brainwashed psychic is really not the recipient.
Wait, that's not right.
Chen Ming suddenly thought of another possibility.
A possibility that is very similar to what he has been doing.
Chen Ming recorded all the data of the recipient's head in his hand, threw the head back to the Queen of Insects, and let the Queen of Insects eat it.
Soon, the memories of the recipient were transmitted back by the Queen of Insects.
From birth to adulthood to joining Zuojing.
From becoming the new generation of Zuojing's leader to the final death in a fight with Chen Ming on Yunluoxing.
The recipient's memory is very clear, so clear that almost all details can be found. Of course, there are also memories of the first meeting with the young Qianmian.
The actual time of these memories is more than 60 years, not 40 years.
There is an obvious gap with the recipient's physical age.
The recipient's memory is obviously problematic.
Such a memory that does not match the age and can be thoroughly remembered in all details can only be one situation.
That is, this memory is false, implanted by someone, or forcibly changed.
Chen Ming suddenly punched the power tower, shattering a large part of the wall.
The real brainwashing psychic is someone else, and is hidden in a more secret place.
What he did was just to solve the trouble on the surface.
Chen Ming originally thought that the recipient was the source of the continuous spread of the cult of Zuo Jing. After all, a brainwashing psychic is in line with the underlying logic of the cult.
However, the real brainwashing psychic is someone else.
Although the recipient can also be regarded as a brainwashing psychic, he is incomplete, or in other words, he is a part of the real brainwashing psychic.
In short.
It is Zuo Jing's real brainwashing psychic who uses his psychic power to brainwash another psychic.
And this psychic was really transformed into a brainwashing psychic after his own memory was erased and he had most of the memory of the brainwashing psychic.
At least in his cognition, he is Zuo Jing's brainwashed psychic.
It's enough to just have the memory of the brainwashed psychic.
The key is that this psychic, that is, the recipient, actually became a new brainwashed psychic after possessing the memory of the brainwashed psychic, and possessed the psychic effect of brainwashing.
This is the most exaggerated part.
The recipient is actually no different from An Wuping in essence.
Both are psychics using their own psychic effects to achieve long-distance control of a certain individual.
It's just that Chen Ming relies on the biological technology level of the Queen of Insects, and the psychic control of An Wuping is absolutely stable.
The brainwashed psychic directly uses the bodies of other psychics to carry out a thorough brainwashing.
Use brainwashing to transform the consciousness of the psychic into the same consciousness as oneself, and control it in disguise.
Chen Ming doesn't even know if this situation is likely to happen again.
It shouldn't be the case. After all, if brainwashed psychics can be mass-produced, the empire should have been completely controlled by mass-produced brainwashed psychics.
The situation of the recipient is probably only a small probability event. It is even possible that the recipient's own psychic effect tends to affect others from the mind, so he is transformed into a brainwashed psychic.
The real brainwashed psychic should only control the high-level Zuojing forces such as the recipient, Qianmian, and Zhen.
But he does have the possibility of controlling this real power that belongs to Zuojing hidden deeper.
The threat of Zuojing has not been completely eliminated.
Who is supporting Zuojing?
Chen Ming originally felt happy about solving the core figure of Zuojing, the recipient.
As a result, it has not been long since then, and new troubles and new troubles have already shrouded his heart.
It is still the kind of trouble that cannot be investigated or solved in a short time.
This is really...
Chen Ming sighed. After repeatedly confirming through the Queen Worm that there was no real clue of the brainwashing psychic left in the recipient's memory, he could only clean up.
Following the passage of the power supply tower, he returned to the surface.
Before reaching the surface and stepping out of the half-collapsed power supply tower.
Chen Ming suddenly half-knelt on the ground again and coughed violently.
He felt a sharp pain in his brain, not An Wuping's brain, but Chen Ming's own brain.
After protecting the Queen Worm from devouring the recipient and controlling An Wuping to come out from deep underground, his mental power was once again close to exhaustion.
Even while his brain was in pain, Chen Ming could feel that An Wuping's abdomen also felt a pressure from the inside out.
Obviously, this was when he was fighting with the recipient just now. The psychic fluctuations of the dimension infection released by the recipient had already spread to the surface and formed a climate on the surface.
When he came up, these psychic fluctuations naturally found him.
Fortunately, Chen Ming had nothing but a very fast recovery speed of mental power.
He was able to resist the influence of the dimensional infection and walked out of the power supply tower.
Just when he saw the moment he walked out of the power supply tower.
A scene like hell entered his eyes.
Countless wriggling flesh and blood stuck industrial buildings to each other, and countless flesh and blood monsters wandered between the buildings.
When Chen Ming just arrived, many industrial buildings in the industrial zone were temporarily suspended, but at least Chen Ming could still feel that the entire industrial zone had a kind of vitality.
And now, this vitality still exists, but this vitality is active to the extent of being pathological.
If Chen Ming had come out a while earlier, he might have heard the screams of these monsters who walked by dragging their intestines all over the ground.
But now, the only thing left in the entire industrial zone is the sticky movement of the flesh and blood monsters wandering around.
Not only the industrial area, but also the residential area for employees outside the industrial area is in the same miserable state.
Even some places in the wilderness have begun to appear in large areas covered with blood and flesh.
The entire planet has fallen, and all places with living creatures will look like this.
This apocalyptic scene deeply stimulated Chen Ming, causing him to feel a suppressed pain in his temple.
This is the first time he has seen the final fate of the leaked area after the large-scale leakage of the dimension infection in reality.
It is more shocking than any photo or any record.
The president said that when a planet is infected by the dimension, the number of people who can actually survive may be 0.01%.
But after experiencing it personally, Chen Ming found that the president actually concealed some information from him.
Even An Wuping's body was torn by the power of the dimension infection.
How can ordinary people resist this power?
A colony in a prosperous star field has a population of at least one billion even in this era.
Can there really be 100,000 people who can survive?
Even... can there really be 1,000 people?
Even if we count the psychics who arrived on the planet and then retreated safely, can there really be so many people?
It seems that no one cares about this.
Chen Ming looked up at the sky, and could vaguely see the traces of the Fifth Legion fleet outside the atmosphere.
They did not make any rescue operations, nor did they try to eliminate the dimensional infection.
They just arranged the fleet and watched there.
Death, it seems, is really just a number.
Chen Ming remembered that when the president took the initiative to tell him about this matter just now, the president's attitude was the same.
Obviously, the president is usually willing to protect civilians, but when he said the estimated number of deaths, Chen Ming did not hear any waves from his tone.
Even Chen Ming has always respected civilians. When he concluded from the information about the surrounding environment that the entire planet had fallen and the number of survivors might be only one in a million, he had no feeling at all.
After all, it's just a string of numbers, how can there be any feeling?
But as long as you specifically learn about the actual situation on the planet, knowing that countless living lives and countless harmonious and happy families on the entire planet have disappeared, you will naturally feel heavy in your heart.
For example, the middle-aged woman that Chen Ming met before entering the Earth Core Furnace Power Tower.
The bag in her hand may be the relief supplies she received from the material warehouse near the Yunluo Star after the industrial zone stopped working. She will go back to make a dinner for her husband and children.
But now...
There is only nothingness left.
Chen Ming sighed and shook his head.
Prepare to find an opportunity to leave the planet to avoid being attacked by those flesh and blood monsters.
His mental state is not good, and the best way to evacuate the planet now is to steal a spaceship directly.
Although Chen Ming can see through the atmosphere that the fleet of the Fifth Legion has blocked the planet, it is obvious that the psychics who leave the planet in the last bit of time will be checked.
However, as long as he reaches space, he has various ways to get out.
And there should be people who will not watch him fall into the hands of the Fifth Legion.
Just as Chen Ming was scanning the surroundings, trying to find a suitable spaceship.
He suddenly heard a strange sound.
Chen Ming turned his head immediately.
His eyes widened instantly, but his pupils shrank subconsciously.
Because he saw the bag.
The bag taken away by the middle-aged woman was now hanging on the flesh and blood monster that had just made the noise.
This monster was the person he had just seen.
She was dead, and became such a monster after death.
Chen Ming lowered his head with a gloomy face, he really couldn't bear to see these.
Quality inspection A small ball of plasma suddenly flew out from Chen Ming's fingertips, completely annihilating the flesh and blood monster.
At least in this way, her body would not continue to suffer in this world.
But when the plasma dissipated.
The bag hanging on the extended flesh and blood tentacles was not annihilated together, but fell to the ground.
The food inside was scattered all over the floor.
Among the raw meat that had grown some flesh tentacles, Chen Ming saw a small gift box.
A piece of paper attached to the gift box was blown by Feng and fell in front of Chen Ming.
There was a line of words written on the paper.
"A twelve-year-old gift from my mother (definitely better than my father's)"
Chen Ming's movements froze.
He took a deep breath, took two steps, and picked up the gift box.
After opening it, a delicate and small spaceship model was lying quietly in the gift box.
This was a model of a storm-class spaceship.
It was obvious that this was not a relief item.
Instead, it was something that the family had prepared long ago.
On the birthday of the child at home, the family wrapped up the gift under the pretext of going out to collect relief supplies and prepared to take it home.
The mother could no longer bring the gift home to the child, and the child could no longer wait for the mother who had not returned yet.
Chen Ming stared at the model of the spaceship in his hand for a long time with an expressionless face, put it back into the gift box, and put the gift box into the backpack he carried with him.
He closed his eyes.
A few minutes later, a ring of plasma swept out from his body, turning everything left in the entire industrial zone into dust.
Let these people be buried here.
Chen Ming opened his eyes again and looked into the distance.
There are more places on this planet where people live.
There are more places, and more similar things are happening.
Chen Ming saw with his own eyes the world eroded by dimensional infection and the consequences of dimensional infection.
This is the horror of dimensional infection.
Chen Ming sank slightly into the consciousness space.
The breath of the scarlet dimension was still giving him the power from the dimension.
This power was really heavy.
A few minutes passed again.
Chen Ming calmed down, controlled An Wuping to enter the insect state, and flew a distance away from the industrial zone.
The spaceships near the industrial zone were basically wiped out. The flesh monsters had already destroyed the spaceships.
Otherwise, he would not have ignored the spaceships and directly washed the ground with plasma.
So next, he had to go to the nearest aerospace airport, where there should be spaceships left.
But before Chen Ming found the right direction, a shuttle suddenly came to Chen Ming's vicinity at high speed.
The hatch opened, and a man in military uniform shouted to Chen Ming: "Hey! An Wuping! Are you interested in joining our Fifth Corps?"
"Your mental power seems to be almost exhausted? Join us and we will take you away."
"Hurry up and give us a reply. We don't have time to wait for you, unless you want to be buried with the monsters below."
The man who spoke was a psychic, full of arrogance.
Chen Ming took a special look at the shuttle, and the logo painted on it was indeed the Fifth Corps.
Since the people inside and outside Yunluoxing are all from the Fifth Corps, then this shuttle can come here like this, it is indeed from the Fifth Corps.
But Chen Ming has no interest in the Fifth Corps.
Their way of doing things is completely inconsistent with his three views.
Even if An Wuping can't even stand up now, Chen Ming doesn't bother to pay attention to them.
Chen Ming landed beside the road and found a ground vehicle that was hastily abandoned and didn't even turn off the engine.
He drove the car directly to the airport, not paying any attention to the shuttle of the Fifth Corps on the other side.
The psychic of the Fifth Legion sneered at the direction the car left, closed the door of the shuttle, and drove the shuttle away from the planet.
Chen Ming drove alone towards the aerospace airport for about ten minutes.
The sky suddenly became brighter.
Chen Ming immediately stuck his head out of the window of the car.
He saw that outside the atmosphere, the main weapon of the offensive, the thermal pulse laser, had begun to accumulate energy.
The red stream of light surrounded the muzzle, and in a blink of an eye, the thermal pulse laser that could take away the cruiser with its shield and ship had already swept towards the surface of Yunluo Star.
It won't take long for it to sweep to Chen Ming's side.
The main battleship has begun to clean the ground.
Chen Ming suddenly felt a surge of anger in his heart.
The people of the Fifth Legion just came to ask him if he wanted to join, and he refused. The Fifth Legion chose to clean the ground directly?
Did they treat him as a human being?
Chen Ming did not question it. Those people from the Fifth Legion who had cooperated with him before, these people had nothing to do with the main fleet.
He chose to call the president directly: "President, how come the Fifth Legion has already started?"
"Has it already started?"
The president also asked back in surprise, and immediately went to confirm the news, and said to Chen Ming: "It was started by the Fifth Legion themselves. They said that their people have been evacuated, and they started to prevent the dimensional infection from spreading further."
"Started when they knew there might be living people on the planet?"
Chen Ming's questioning made the president feel a little awkward.
He knew Chen Ming's situation, and knew that since Chen Ming was willing to selflessly help him deal with the dimensional infection, it meant that Chen Ming must be a good person.
The Fifth Legion's current and previous behavior was obviously stepping back and forth between Chen Ming's bottom line.
But sometimes, they have to make some choices after all.
So the president still told Chen Ming the truth: "When facing dimensional infection, even I actually prefer to solve the problem earlier. The threat of dimensional infection is too great."
"And for the Fifth Legion, except An Wuping, no one else is worth their second glance."
The president was willing to reason and explain the pros and cons of a matter, and Chen Ming was actually very willing to accept it.
He was never a pedantic person, but he had just seen the tragedy of the abnormal human world, and then An Wuping was targeted by the Fifth Legion.
The two things together made him unable to suppress his anger.
But he couldn't tell An Wuping's identity clearly, so he could only say indirectly: "But they seem to be shooting in the direction of the power tower, An Wuping is there, right?"
The behavior of the Fifth Legion seemed to be a bit contradictory.
The president felt this, so he simply said to Chen Ming: "Then I'll go ask."
A minute later, the president came back and said to Chen Ming: "The other side doesn't answer the phone."
At this time.
The flagship of the Fifth Legion fleet stationed in the orbit of Yunluoxing, the offensive-level command room.
The captain of this offensive ship and the commander-in-chief of the fleet, Li Sheng.
That is, the person who had been delaying time with Zuo Jing's fleet before and brushing Zuo Jing around.
He was silently watching the offensive level clean up Yunluoxing.
There was no emotion in his eyes, as if he was just giving an order to do a small thing.
His deputy next to him seemed to want to persuade him, but Li Sheng directly stretched out his hand to block the deputy.