Chapter 303 Departure

He Gu's strange expression at the end did not affect Chen Ming's actions.

He only needed to prepare a little, and then he could set off to finish his own work.

After he finished his own work, he could follow He Gu directly to the headquarters of the Fourteenth Corps.

But Chen Ming actually had nothing to prepare.

Anyway, he could make most of the things he needed when he went out, and the main thing was to arrange the work in the laboratory before leaving.

This was also simple.

There were still many things that could be tested for the special catalyst produced by the catalytic core he got before. Even if he went out for ten days or half a month, it would definitely not be possible to test them all. He just needed to do this for the researchers in the laboratory.

After quickly arranging the work.

Early the next morning.

Chen Ming drove away from the Fourteenth Corps branch without taking anything with him in a frigate he made by hand.

No one stopped him at all, and no one even asked him where he was going. It was completely different from the situation when he first came. The Fourteenth Corps just let him go.

But this was not a bad thing. No restrictions were better than restrictions.

After the spaceship entered the hyperspace, Chen Ming directly started the hyperspace channel jump engine and set the target location, the pirate space station.

He prefers to meet everyone he knows before going on a long trip.

To avoid himself or someone he knows suddenly dying and not being able to see them.

The spaceship arrived at the destination quickly.

It landed steadily at the dock.

As soon as Chen Ming entered the maintenance plant, he saw the bald man with a few newcomers teaching something.

As soon as the bald man noticed Chen Ming, he immediately came over with a few newcomers to say hello.

The maintenance plant still maintains a scale of about ten people.

There is still no robot, and basically all kinds of fixed equipment are used to do things, which is enough.

After learning from the bald man that the only surviving newcomer Chen Ming had personally led before was out on a mission today, Chen Ming did not stay in the maintenance plant any longer and went all the way to the city in the center of the space station.

Arrived at the bar that Lao Wu often went to.

The security guard at the door opened the door for him respectfully as always.

Old Wu was still sitting in the corner of the bar as before.

Although it was early in the morning, Old Wu was definitely not here because he suddenly got up early in the morning and was very diligent, but because he had not slept all night.

You can tell from Old Wu's red eyes.

But Old Wu's mental state seemed okay, and he happened to be talking on the phone about something serious, so there should be no problem.

Chen Ming did not disturb him directly, but asked the bartender for a glass of orange juice and a cup of refreshing tea and walked to Old Wu's side.

Before he got close, Chen Ming heard Lao Wu's angry voice on the phone: "The price has increased? How much?"

"10%? Are you robbing me?"

A helpless voice came from the terminal: "It has increased by 10% now, and it may increase more in the future. I really can't supply you with the previous price."

"Don't talk nonsense."

"I really don't want to talk nonsense. The price of raw materials has already started to increase last month. I should have increased the price last month."

"But I thought it was just a price fluctuation, and you are an old customer, so I continued to give you the original price for a month, but this month the price of raw materials has not only not dropped but has increased. I really can't continue at that price. I have no choice."

"If you don't believe me, go check it yourself. It's not like I don't know those things."

"Tsk, wait for me to ask first, and then I'll tell you."

Lao Wu hung up the phone.

Chen Ming happened to sit next to him.

After handing the tea to Old Wu, he said, "What's going on? I heard you say that the price of something has increased."

Old Wu took a sip of tea and said with a depressed look, "Yes, the prices of various weapons that have been released from the market have been rising recently, and the materials behind them have also been rising, except for Old Bai."

"Old Bai..."

"I can't just tell you that it's the Fourteenth Corps when I talk to you about this kind of thing."

"That's right."

"Then the supplier has raised the price, so you want to ask me?"

"Yes, I was going to call you, but I didn't expect you to come just in time, so what do you say? There's really nothing we can do about the price increase."

Chen Ming didn't have much to say, as the price increase was within his expectations.

"It can be increased, up to 20%. If it's higher, forget it. I'll find other people to use their connections to change the supply channel."

"If other manufacturers want to raise prices, it's the same. They can all raise the price a little bit, no problem."

"Okay."

Old Wu raised his glass and drank with Chen Ming.

After finishing his drink, Chen Ming whispered, "A war is about to begin."

Old Wu filled another glass of wine for Chen Ming and himself without changing his expression, looked around, and asked: "What's going on?"

"There's going to be a war, with the mechanical tribe. Although our Galo mainly borders Yuhui, there is also a place bordering the mechanical tribe. Sooner or later, this side will become the front line."

Old Wu lowered his head slightly and thought for a while, then said: "I was wondering why prices have risen so fast recently, so why did you come here this time..."

"Talk to you, because I need to go out for a while next, and I may not be able to take care of this side. If the war breaks out, no one can say what the scale will be. How about that.

"So I want you and the factory director to go back to the star field inside to avoid the limelight for a while."

Old Wu suddenly leaned back on the sofa and shook his head: "No, it's convenient for me to do things here. Old Wu's intelligence network and his colony are all built nearby. I can't go anywhere else."

"Old Lu may be able to go out to avoid the limelight, but I definitely can't."

Seeing this, Chen Ming didn't force it, but just asked: "Then do you take the terminal I gave you before?"

Old Wu reached into his pocket and took out the terminal given by Chen Ming, shaking it in front of Chen Ming.

"Okay, then you take this one with you."

Chen Ming reached out to Old Wu, and some metal liquid appeared out of thin air, gradually building a very ordinary men's necklace and a wristband.

Old Wu took the two things and asked, "What is this?"

"The necklace can detect your heartbeat and carotid artery pulsation."

"The wristband can detect pulse and has an alarm device."

In addition to what Chen Ming said, this wristband actually has a device that Chen Ming learned from the president to detect the surrounding psychic fluctuations.

As long as any offensive psychic fluctuations are detected, the wristband will automatically pop up a protective film made of psychic metal to protect the wearer.

"I hope you don't need to use it. I'll send another set to the factory director later."

"By the way, you have to carry the terminal with you."

These things will be the cornerstone for Chen Ming to provide support when Old Wu encounters danger in the future.

Old Wu put on the two things that Chen Ming gave him to protect him on the spot, and asked, "Are there any more?"

"No, just these three things."

"Okay."

Old Wu tidied himself up and hid the necklace and wristband.

Chen Ming nodded with satisfaction and asked, "By the way, has the boss come back?"

"No, the hardware store is still closed, and I don't know when he will come back."

"That's it."

Chen Ming's time was a bit tight this time, after all, He Gu was still waiting for him.

So Chen Ming didn't talk much with Lao Wu, and got up and left the bar.

After going to the factory manager again, chatting for a while, and giving the factory manager the same thing.

Chen Ming returned to the port.

Standing in front of his spaceship, he took out the terminal and called the boss.

The call was quickly connected.

The boss's voice came from inside: "Xiao Ming? How come you have time to call me?"

"I just don't have anything to do recently, and I have to go to the headquarters of the 14th Corps next, which may take some time. I wanted to find you at the space station, but you were not there, so I called you."

"Oh, then I'm still at Hong Mo, and I have some things to do here."

Chen Ming asked; "Is it still about Cai Mo?"

"The matter with Cai Mo is over, and I've finished what I need to do. The president wants to see me for something, and I should be back in two days."

"You're doing well there. Being able to go to the headquarters means that the 14th Corps has begun to treat you as one of their own."

"Well, it was He Gu from the Psychic Research Institute who invited me there."

"Psychic Research Institute?" The boss was a little surprised when he heard the name: "It's your Psychic Research Institute." Have you almost finished sending them?"

"That's not the case. He Gu just invited me to come over. The main thing is the next war. My psychic power can still be developed. It's not over yet."

"Tsk tsk tsk."

The boss sighed: "Your psychic power is outrageous. It can affect both machinery and biology. I don't know how you do it."

Chen Ming said very modestly: "In fact, I feel that my psychic power is still the earliest form, still based on controlling spacecraft, but I think biological spacecraft is also spacecraft..."

"Stop, don't say it, I won't believe it even if you say it. I still want to see what new changes your psychic power will have in the future."

"..."

"In fact, I am also thinking about how to continue to develop psychic power, but there is no good direction."

Chen Ming's words hinted at the boss to give some guidance.

However, the boss did not do as Chen Ming wished: "I can't give you any advice on this."

"Your psychic power development level has long exceeded the level I imagined at the beginning. At the beginning, I can teach you some basics, but I can no longer give you experience in the future. "

"You have to know that a psychic power is best understood by the psychic who has it, and only the psychic himself can best develop his psychic power."

"So it all depends on your own development in the future."

"Unless you go the official route."

"That's too early."

Chen Mingneng had just learned something new from the Scarlet Dimension and was waiting to use it to develop psychic power. How could he give up the upper limit of his psychic power development now?

"I think I can continue to develop it, and then learn it systematically when it's almost done. It seems that I can only find a way myself."

"Well, I wish you good luck. I look forward to seeing the day when you can fully develop psychic power."

After chatting for a few minutes, the phone was hung up.

The boss suddenly said to Chen Ming: "By the way, you said you went to the headquarters because of the mechanical war, right?"

"Yes."

The boss was silent for a while and said: "Well... forget it, it's okay, I'll hang up."

"Ah?"

Chen Ming was stunned when he heard the boss's words, but the terminal only had the busy tone of the phone being hung up.

Chen Ming was full of questions at this time.

Before, He Gu also gave an inexplicable smile when he talked about going to the headquarters at the end of the conversation.

The boss also ended with a strange question when he asked about going to the headquarters.

What does this mean?

I don’t understand.

Forget it.

Chen Ming didn’t get too entangled. He found He Gu in the address book and contacted him: "I’m ready here."

"Then let’s go, the spaceship will be here soon."

A few minutes later.

Chen Ming’s spaceship docked with the destroyer brought by He Gu in the star system of the pirate space station.

Chen Ming met He Gu again.

After a brief conversation, He Gu personally arranged a room for Chen Ming.

It should take a long time to arrive at the destination next.

Chen Ming was about to go back to the room to lie down for a while.

But before he did so, he found a problem.

The destroyer he was riding on was heading in the wrong direction after entering the hyperspace. This was not the direction to the headquarters of the 14th Legion.

So Chen Ming simply asked He Gu in front of him: "Where are we going?"

"Beinu Star Region."

"Beinu?"

"Yes, we go there and take the star gate back to the headquarters."

Chen Ming was a little surprised and pleasantly surprised.

It was definitely good news for him to be able to touch the star gate. It was his first time to try to ride a star gate.

If he had the opportunity to get close to the star gate, he might be able to obtain the entire three-dimensional image of the star gate and even further control a star gate.

Of course, this was just a thought.

Although the Fourteenth Legion was not so vigilant against him now, other places were different.

It was impossible for him to have the opportunity to encounter a facility as important to the empire as the star gate.

Of course, even going to Beinu would take time,

So Chen Ming went into the room that He Gu arranged for him to lie down, and then turned his attention to An Wuping.

At this time, the ship carrying An Wuping had stopped at a space station connected to the colony on the planet by a space elevator.

It was already morning. Although no one had come to An Wuping to ask about it or urge him, it should be soon.

So Chen Ming made the final preparations.

He used the spiritual energy that he had deconstructed to transmit a spiritual awakening nerve to An Wuping and implanted it into his brain.

Chen Ming also asked the Queen of Insects to help assimilate this spiritual awakening nerve.

In order to avoid being seen that the spiritual awakening nerve and An Wuping were not compatible.

Then the Queen of Insects ate the spiritual awakening nerve.

Just like she had eaten the condensed spiritual energy source that Chen Ming had originally intended to use to build An Wuping's heart.

Of course, the Queen of Insects also created a new spiritual awakening nerve as before.

Eating is also a way for the Queen of Insects to learn, so Chen Ming didn't say anything.

Although this was a bit of a drain on the Queen of Insects.

Creating a spiritual awakening nerve consumed a considerable amount of mental energy and a huge amount of biomass.

But at least the result is good. The new awakening nerves created by the Queen of Insects after absorbing the complete awakening nerves look no different from ordinary awakening nerves.

Of course, Chen Ming is referring to the awakening nerves sold by various forces with psychic research institutes.

That is, the kind that Bai Quan personally certified as having a 0% probability of awakening psychic power after implantation.

The real awakening nerves that can be used for implantation are not so easy to create.

Although Chen Ming always has a feeling that if he gives the Queen of Insects more time, or feeds her a few more awakening nerves, she can really create them.

But time is what An Wuping lacks now, and Chen Ming doesn't have many awakening nerves, so it's better not to do something risky.

Moreover, the ordinary spiritual awakening nerves that the Queen of Insects can now create are sufficient for camouflage.

After the Queen of Insects implanted the spiritual awakening nerve emitting its spiritual energy fluctuations into An Wuping's brain again.

This spiritual awakening nerve, which is of the same origin as An Wuping's spiritual energy, was quickly transformed by the fused spiritual energy fluctuations of An Wuping's individual, and completely merged with his brain.

Although this spiritual awakening nerve is still just a showpiece, it looks absolutely fine.

Even Chen Ming's other prosthesis was taken advantage of by him to make a fake spiritual awakening nerve.

And this spiritual awakening nerve implanted in another prosthesis was infected with Chen Ming's spiritual energy fluctuations by the Queen of Insects, and it perfectly matched the prosthesis without any deviation.

Everything is fine.

Half an hour later.

As expected by Chen Ming, someone knocked on An Wuping's door.

As soon as he controlled An Wuping to open the door, he saw Liang Fei and Niu Xin standing at the door.

"Are we going to start?"

"Yes."

An Wuping nodded, followed Niu Xin off the ship, signed the port registration form, and boarded a shuttle.

The shuttle did not take An Wuping to the nearest city.

Instead, it landed in the suburbs some distance away from the city.

There is a huge manor here, which is the base of the association.

All psychics are guys who can make a lot of noise.

Places like the suburbs with open space and few people are really good.

After getting off the shuttle, An Wuping continued to follow Niu Xin into the hospital of the base.

Although the association has always adhered to the style of allowing psychics to improve naturally, it must have all the necessary detection devices.

But Chen Ming still has to pretend.

Before lying in the instrument prepared by the association, An Wuping asked Niu Xin beside him: "I heard that the Psychic Society has always been a laissez-faire attitude towards psychics, allowing psychics to develop on their own and not conducting such physical examinations to avoid affecting the development of psychics."

"Yes, if you are worried that knowing these things about the nature of your psychic power will affect you, we can also not provide you with reports in this regard."

"You can still continue to develop freely. Even if we have some of your data, we will never interfere."

"That's it."

An Wuping did not ask any more questions and lay directly in the equipment.

The inspection process was very long.

It was not until five or six hours later that An Wuping was finally able to see the light of day again.

And Niu Xin also brought good news.

All the tests on An Wuping passed, confirming that everything An Wuping said was fine.

At the same time, the inspection of the Heart Convergence Spirit Pearl that An Wuping left behind was almost done, and it can also be confirmed that psychics can obtain the psychic effects of others through the Heart Convergence Spirit Pearl.

A face can't prove anything in this era, so Chen Ming can completely get rid of the suspicion of being involved with Zuo Jing again.

At this point, Niu Xin also formally invited An Wuping on behalf of the president.

Liang Fei happened to be next to him, and explained the nature of the association and the possibility of joining two forces at the same time for An Wuping, who probably didn't know the true situation of the association.

Then An Wuping agreed.

Liang Fei then also issued a formal invitation to An Wuping.

The result was of course the same.

Chen Ming also learned at this time that Liang Fei's real name was Liang Fei.

Li Weiqi, who was still lying in the hospital, was named Li Wei.

To be honest, Chen Ming was a little embarrassed when he heard these two names.

Why did the two psychics in the Odan star field also use the same pseudonyms as him?

Although it was a little embarrassing, it also made Chen Ming feel a little closer to them.

And after the test.

Chen Ming didn't stay here for too long, because Liang Fei hurriedly took him away from the hospital in the association's base, and he wanted to go back to the Odan star field.

Chen Ming asked in confusion: "Are you in such a hurry to go back? The medical conditions here should be better than Odan, right?"

"It's better, but not much worse. The main thing is that there is something in Odan that requires us to go back."

"What is it?"

"Prepare for the mechanical war"

"War?"

An Wuping's identity obviously does not allow him to be exposed to the mechanical war, so Liang Fei explained the basic background to Chen Ming.

Then he said: "Although our Aodan Selenium Drum is not adjacent to the star field of the mechanical race, and there are still one or two edge star fields between us and the mechanical race star field, the distance is still too close to escape, and the war is very close to us."

"Then I heard from my superiors that psychics can participate in this war action... You may not know it, but psychics were restricted in previous wars."

"This action allows psychics to join, maybe there is some special meaning."

"So I have to go back."

Chen Ming has heard from many people that the empire will have some special actions against psychics in the mechanical race war.

It doesn't matter if I hear one more.

And it's good this way.

He was thinking about how An Wuping could get involved in the war of the mechanical race.

It seems that as long as he follows Odan's arrangement, it won't take long for An Wuping to run to the mechanical race star field.

An Wuping shouldn't have to think too much in the short term.

Chen Ming can pay more attention to the prosthesis of the 14th Legion.

Just after An Wuping followed Liang Fei out of the base.

Niu Xin, who was still at the base, looked at the shadow of the shuttle in the sky and said to the terminal in his hand that was contacting the president: "The person has left and went to Odan. I will synchronize the test results to you immediately."

"Is there anything worth mentioning?"

"Yes."

Niu Xin looked at the terminal and said: "We still haven't found anything valuable in the shadow at the position of his heart. His heart hides his secrets."

The president said: "Everyone has secrets, what about others?"

"His genes are also special. Even in the human form, he is not a pure human. And after he enters the mutant state, his genes will also undergo new changes. It can be said that before and after the mutation, they are almost two different creatures, but neither is human."

"It is not the genes that determine whether a person is a human, but his consciousness. Is there anything else?"

"No, there is no problem."

"Then this is also a good result. We can trust An Wuping."