Chapter 316 Invitation

Half an hour passed.

Cheng Xinghai suddenly woke up.

She gasped for air as soon as she woke up, as if she had seen something horrible in her dream.

But she soon calmed down, and her breathing became stable again. Chen Ming's soothing, which had been consuming his mental energy, had worked.

"Awake?"

Hearing Chen Ming's concerned inquiry, Cheng Xinghai found that she was lying on the bed in her bedroom, and Chen Ming was sitting next to her.

Her face flushed all of a sudden, and she subconsciously checked her clothes, which were still neat.

Chen Ming did not do anything strange when she was unconscious.

Cheng Xinghai breathed a sigh of relief.

But she glanced at the bedside again and found that her slippers were neatly placed there.

Her mind suddenly had a picture of Chen Ming holding her to the bedside, helping her take off her slippers, and lifting her feet to the bed to lay flat.

Her face became redder.

Chen Ming, who had decisively thrown Cheng Xinghai onto the bed and put away his shoes, tilted his head and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Nothing."

Cheng Xinghai couldn't take the initiative to say that he had thought of some ambiguous scenes.

If he said these words in his bedroom, the atmosphere might develop in some direction.

She was not ready yet.

Cheng Xinghai covered her head and propped herself up. "What happened to me just now?"

Chen Ming said two words concisely and easily: "Dizzy."

"Of course I know I fainted, how did I faint?"

Chen Ming pulled the pistol out of the holster, turned it around and handed it to Cheng Xinghai.

"You are not afraid of accidental discharge."

Cheng Xinghai looked at the crazy language spirit stone covered with twisted and crazy patterns at the end of the revolver's handle, but still did not dare to take the pistol.

"This thing..."

"It's what I use to train my spiritual energy now, but the effect is getting less and less obvious."

"It's not effective for you?!"

"Yes."

The Madness Word Spirit Stone was made during the last dimensional infection. After using it for such a long time, Chen Ming has long been completely accustomed to such mental shocks, and the effect is indeed getting weaker and weaker.

However, what Chen Ming didn't expect was that after he casually said something that he didn't feel anything about.

Cheng Xinghai suddenly became a little depressed.

It seemed that his words made Cheng Xinghai feel an insurmountable gap.

Chen Ming comforted him immediately: "Don't be discouraged. I also started from Whisper and worked my way up step by step. In the past, just touching the spirit stone I gave you at the beginning would make my brain hurt."

Cheng Xinghai still said a little depressed: "How long ago was that..."

"Two years ago."

"At that time, I was still surviving in the wilderness of Ruimu, and there was an undiscovered mechanical mind pulse generator on Ruimu."

"It contained the Whisper spirit stone, which continuously released mind pulses to the surrounding area. I took the mind pulses for about a month."

"At that time, the mind pulse almost drove me crazy. I could only drive the spaceship to space every day during my rest time to exchange for some rest time."

"At that time, I was much more fragile than you are now."

Chen Ming's comfort had some effect. Cheng Xinghai cheered up a little and asked: "Then was the spirit stone you showed me at the beginning the Whisper?"

"No, it was the one behind."

"?"

Cheng Xinghai didn't react for a while.

Because the effect of the spirit stone called the Word of Madness by Chen Ming was too terrifying.

If Chen Ming had come into contact with the Word of Madness before...

Of course, it was not that exaggerated in reality.

Chen Ming immediately explained: "The spirit stone I got from the mechanical family's equipment is the Whispering Spirit Stone, and its situation is quite special."

"It grew from an ordinary spirit stone to a resonance spirit stone, and then gradually became what it is now."

Chen Ming still remembers that he put the Whispering Spirit Stone in the warehouse of his Iron Ore, and he was transporting the bodies of several pirates at that time.

It can only be said that when he got the coffin, the pirate in the coffin was not dead yet, and he died only when he got on the spacecraft.

Usually, the reason why the spirit stone appears is that some people have some extreme emotions in their hearts when they are dying.

These emotions will affect some ordinary stones in the world under the influence of the mental power of these people who are stimulated to the extreme by extreme emotions, and transform the stones into spirit stones.

Normally, when the pirate dies, the resentment in his heart will stimulate a stone around him to become a new spirit stone.

Perhaps it was because there were no suitable stones nearby in space at the time, or perhaps it was because this spiritual stone itself had its own special features.

In the end, the Whispering Spiritual Stone that Chen Ming placed in the storage compartment of the spacecraft was stimulated and became the False Spiritual Stone, and a unique resonance was generated.

Chen Ming was needed to complete the goal of resonance.

And the False Spiritual Stone also completely resonated with him after he killed the middleman who pitted the pirate captain to death.

Later, the False Spiritual Stone came into contact with the creature infected by the dimension with the same crazy nature, and the death of the distorted heart once again promoted the change of the False Spiritual Stone.

It became what it is now.

Chen Ming explained to Cheng Xinghai in detail the origin of this crazy language spirit stone.

Finally, he concluded: "It also grew in the process of my growth, so I am lucky that I have always had such a spirit stone to practice my spiritual power."

"Even the stone can grow to this point, you will definitely continue to become stronger."

Cheng Xinghai's depressed mood had dissipated when she listened to Chen Ming's story about the past.

She was very interested in Chen Ming's past and listened very carefully.

"I remember you didn't explain so much in the simulation before."

"Because the situation was different then."

Chen Ming explained as a matter of course: "You were just a captive then, and I was just perfunctory, but now, I am telling you things seriously."

Hearing this, Cheng Xinghai got up and threw herself on Chen Ming's back, wrapped her arms around Chen Ming's neck and said: "I knew you were perfunctory before, staring at the computer every day."

She didn't use any force at all, she was just acting like a spoiled child.

It seems that Chen Ming's comfort is still very effective.

"Okay, okay, it's almost done, I can hear my mother-in-law's footsteps downstairs, if I don't go out..."

Hearing this, Cheng Xinghai quickly loosened her arm around Chen Ming's neck, jumped off the bed, put on her shoes and hurried outside.

She picked up a pen and continued to record the people who needed to be invited to the engagement party later.

Time came to noon in a blink of an eye.

Chen Ming also had a formal meal with Bai Quan's family.

Of course, there would be a chat session during the meal.

Chen Ming also roughly understood the progress of the engagement banquet.

After a morning of hard work, the guests to be invited to the engagement banquet have been roughly decided, and at most they will just make some simple additions and subtractions.

However, it has not been determined which company will host the engagement banquet.

The mother-in-law looked a little headache.

Because she went to a wedding company today to conduct an on-site inspection and ask questions, and on the way back, she had already received calls from dozens of different wedding companies.

It seems that it will take some time to select a suitable one.

The specific venue of the engagement banquet will be arranged according to the location of the wedding company.

The time for the engagement banquet has also been chosen, just two weeks later.

Leave enough time to prepare everything.

In addition to these, the matter of the engagement ring was of course mentioned at the table.

And Chen Ming decisively contracted this task.

But after hearing that Chen Ming was going to take on this task, Bai Quan suddenly signaled Chen Ming with his eyes, as if he had something to say.

After lunch, Bai Quan went to the balcony first.

Chen Ming understood and also went to the balcony and closed the door.

As the military family accommodation park of the Corps, the sound insulation here is quite good, and the people in the room can't hear the conversation between Chen Ming and Bai Quan.

Bai Quan didn't say much nonsense, just when he mentioned the topic of engagement ring to Chen Ming, he said: "You said you came to prepare the ring, do you want to use the things given by the Corps Commander?"

"Yes, spiritual stone, the characteristic is love, it's very suitable, isn't it?"

Bai Quan nodded slightly, but shook his head again.

"I heard some information from my friend at the Psychic Research Institute. The Love Spirit Stone seems to have some negative effects."

Chen Ming admitted: "Yes, after building a spiritual connection between two psychics, whether the relationship breaks down or one of them dies due to an accident or some other reason, it will have a great impact on the other party."

"Negative effects are the biggest flaw of this Spirit Stone."

"I know what you are worried about, but there is no need to."

"The special effects of the Love Spirit Stone require two psychics to actively activate. As long as they are not activated, there will be no negative effects. Just use it as an ordinary Spirit Stone."

"What is important is its symbolic meaning. What can be more suitable for Xinghai and me than it?"

"And it is because of its negative effects that I plan to use it on an engagement ring instead of a wedding ring."

For Chen Ming.

He even felt that even if he really wanted to trigger the special effects of the Love Spirit Stone, it would not be too smooth.

If he did not restrain himself, Cheng Xinghai might be knocked unconscious by the increase in his mental power.

Even if he really wanted to use it, he would have to start by training Cheng Xinghai slowly with the Whispering Spirit Stone.

And there is another problem.

Chen Ming himself is a mentally violent entity, so he can use various psychic things at will without being negatively affected.

But Cheng Xinghai can't.

Once she uses the Love Spirit Stone, it means that she needs to wear Love for a long time, and it will be more troublesome to use other Spirit Stones for training effects.

And Chen Ming doesn't think Love is a good choice for Xinghai.

He has had many opportunities to contact Xinghai and knows what Xinghai's psychic fluctuations are like, so he knows that Xinghai's psychic nature is not very compatible with Love.

The Love Spirit Stone is just more suitable for Chen Ming and Cheng Xinghai's engagement banquet, not for Xinghai itself.

So, Chen Ming really used the Love Spirit Stone as an engagement ring.

He will not actually use the special effects of the Love Spirit Stone.

At least not for the time being.

Chen Ming felt that Baiquan seemed to want to say something, but he hesitated and finally didn't say it and swallowed his words.

However, Chen Ming could probably guess what Bai Quan wanted to say, which must be about the legion commander.

After all, the love spirit stone was given to him by the legion commander.

It is not that the legion commander wants to use this thing to restrict Chen Ming, or use Cheng Xinghai to kill him.

The reason is also very simple.

Chen Ming is a psychic after all, and he is also a researcher with a relatively complex research direction.

Although he has not systematically studied psychic energy, he has a lot of knowledge about psychic energy.

And he also knows people who work in the Psychic Energy Research Institute.

Therefore, Chen Ming is absolutely clear about the nature of the love spirit stone itself.

Even if the legion commander does not know whether Chen Ming is clear about the effect of the love spirit stone.

When he gave the gift, Chen Ming could see the unique effect of the spirit stone without even reaching out to touch it. After understanding the legion commander's intentions and thanking him, he probably understood that Chen Ming was an expert.

What's more.

Chen Ming has more than one good thing with psychic properties on hand, which many people know.

He had never deliberately hidden the crazy words spirit stone inlaid on "Ming" and "Ming" that did not emit any spiritual energy fluctuations but had spirit stone patterns.

If you think about it, you will understand that this is a spiritual weapon inlaid with a special resonance spirit stone.

And "Ming" was given to Chen Ming by Baiquan, let alone.

Therefore, ordinary spirit stones with many restrictions such as love cannot be compared with what Chen Ming has.

It is purely because of the unique symbolic meaning of the love spirit stone that the legion commander gave it to him.

With the means of the legion commander, it is impossible and unnecessary to expect Chen Ming to use this spirit stone himself.

If he really wants to hold Chen Ming's handle, he should use some other means.

Of course, judging from the current performance of the legion commander, he has no intention of doing such a thing. He seems to really want to maintain a good and friendly relationship with Chen Ming.

Although Baiquan did not say it clearly, he must be worried about these issues.

Chen Ming also gave Bai Quan a little hint and said, "Don't worry about these problems. I will take care of all matters related to psychic energy."

Bai Quan turned his gaze from the distance back to Chen Ming, his eyes intertwined with complex emotions.

"Then... leave it to you."

Two weeks passed in a flash.

The engagement banquet of Chen Ming and Cheng Xinghai was held as scheduled.

The specific process of the engagement banquet was not complicated, and it was much simpler than the formal wedding banquet.

But there still had to be various ceremonies.

Anyway, Chen Ming didn't like it very much, and Cheng Xinghai disliked it even more than him.

The day before, she pulled Chen Ming and yelled that it should be over quickly and not to make too many fancy things.

Then she was pushed back by her mother-in-law.

This was a very important matter after all, and the two still had to cooperate.

Of course, it didn't take long.

Compared with the wedding banquet, the engagement banquet was mainly to entertain guests and announce the details of the wedding banquet in the future.

Generally speaking, there were not too many procedures. The two protagonists of the engagement banquet only needed to attend halfway and meet some important guests.

For example, Chen Ming needed to meet the directors of the Ship Research Institute, the Psychic Research Institute, and the Shining Civilization Research Institute.

Because he now had three honorary members.

There was also Bai Quan's adoptive father, and some old people in Bai Quan's faction who were closely related to Bai Quan.

And He Gu, who was invited by Chen Ming.

The three directors all welcomed Chen Ming.

Bai Quan's adoptive father, his old boss, was also quite optimistic about Chen Ming.

When Chen Ming saw He Gu at the engagement banquet, he suddenly realized a problem.

The Psychic Research Institute is a place for systematic research on psychic energy.

And he has not systematically learned anything related to psychic energy until now.

This means that even if Chen Ming goes there now, there is not much he can learn.

He seemed to have been fooled a little bit.

But this was his own problem, there was nothing to say.

The other two research institutes did not need to have a very systematic understanding of psychic energy, just be diligent when going to those two research institutes.

But Chen Ming also suddenly discovered the "sinister intentions" of the legion commander.

There are indeed good things in these departments, but they definitely take a lot of time to learn, and it is best to participate in the learning method in person.

In other words, the legion commander gave Chen Ming the identities of these three honorary members, which was equivalent to using a large piece of fat meat to tempt Chen Ming to stay in the headquarters.

After all, after leaving, although the identity of the honorary member is still there, the environment in which it can be applied is not so good.

This is also what he needs to focus on in the future.

After all, he can't stay in the headquarters for a lifetime.

While Chen Ming was thinking about it, he suddenly found that there seemed to be a lot of people around Baiquan.

Chen Ming listened casually, and it seemed that they were mainly talking about the incident two weeks ago.

There are vacancies in many departments, and someone needs to fill them.

Many of these vacancies were assigned to Baiquan.

Of course, there would be a bunch of people around Baiquan.

Chen Ming didn't care about other things, but he had to pay attention to the special materials management department.

Because energy crystals are considered special-grade materials, the development of energy crystal crab resources must go through the special materials management department.

Before Chen Ming was not in the 14th Legion, he had already handed over the transaction of energy crystals to Baiquan as an agent, allowing Baiquan to force his way into this department.

Now that several factions have been affected, there are many vacancies, which just allows Baiquan to intervene more.

Let's not talk about anything else.

As long as Baiquan's people can be placed in this department, it will be absolutely meaningful for Chen Ming to make money using the resources of energy crystal crabs.

And it seems that because the news that Chen Ming intends to sell energy crystals, energy crystal crabs, and energy crystal crab cultivation technology was announced by Baiquan, many people also want to talk to Baiquan about this emerging material.

Although Chen Ming is the original source of goods, because Baiquan is helping, people basically go to Baiquan.

It was good, Chen Ming was also happy to be alone.

After meeting almost everyone he should meet, he quietly slipped outside the banquet hall to take a breath.

However, he had only been alone for a while when someone came to him.

"Hello, Mr. Chen Ming."

The person who spoke was a gentle-looking man in a suit.

He should be someone's relative or friend.

Although Chen Ming didn't know him, and it was not necessary to be too serious in such an occasion.

But since the man in the suit was like this, Chen Ming still greeted him: "Hello, who are you?"

"Please allow me to promise in advance before talking to you that I will leave the legion headquarters after today and will never appear in front of your family."

Chen Ming's face suddenly darkened. If the man in the suit was not going to talk about something dangerous, he would obviously not say so first.

"Go on."

"I'm from the Empire."

This short sentence made Chen Ming's heart surge.

However, he still calmly asked back: "I know what you want to do, the ruling party and ruling class of the empire?"

The man in the suit said in a gentle tone: "I just want to get to know you, because the empire needs people like you."

"You want me to leave the legion and join the empire? Is this coercion or invitation?"

"Of course it is an invitation. We just want you to know that the foundation of the Fourteenth Legion is the existence of the empire, and the legion can also give you the empire."

"We just gave you an additional choice. There is no forced nature in my conversation with you."

Chen Ming disagreed with him: "It's hard to say."

"It is precisely because you may have such an idea that I will make a guarantee before communicating with you."

"We also know that you have someone in the legion who cannot be separated, so we just sent me here to send you the most basic invitation."

"If you are interested, please contact this person."

The man in the suit took out a business card from his pocket and handed it to Chen Ming with both hands.

Chen Ming thought about it and finally took the business card.

The man in the suit bowed slightly to Chen Ming, turned around and left.

It seems that he is indeed going to fulfill his promise.

Chen Ming glanced at the business card, which only had a communication code on it.

This was an invitation from the Empire.

Chen Ming suddenly had mixed feelings.

Because he had finally grown to a level that was worthy of the Empire's attention and worthy of the Empire's invitation.

Belonging to the Empire and belonging to the Legion, although both were working for the Empire, but these were two different concepts.

It is no wonder that the commander of the army would rather bleed heavily to solve this matter immediately and find a way to keep him in the army.

Unknowingly, Chen Ming has grown to such a point.

This can be regarded as an additional choice.

If Chen Ming is not satisfied with the army, he can leave at any time and contact him using this contact method.

Although he has no intention of leaving at present, after all, the attitude of the commander of the army is very good, but he has to leave a way out for himself.

With a way out, there is also bargaining capital.

It does not mean that he must join the empire. He can use the empire as a springboard for his further development.

It is just that getting along with the army and getting along with the empire are also different concepts, and different things need to be considered.

If he has a close relationship with the empire, it will be more difficult for him to leave in the future.

However...

Chen Ming now only has a prosthesis left in the empire, and he does not need to consider this issue at all.