Chapter 336 Inspection
Chen Ming's consciousness once again left the consciousness space and returned to the robot in the phase space.
This robot also survived when Chen Ming used the metal sky curtain to block the scarlet light. Not far in front of it was the wreckage of the space station, which looked even more dilapidated after the scarlet light shone.
And at a distance from the wreckage of the space station, the spaceship that was illuminated by the scarlet light was still there.
Chen Ming was about to go to the space station and the spaceship.
But he suddenly remembered something and immediately connected to the robot on the phase ship that had been disconnected after he concentrated his consciousness.
The phase ship had been taken away from the phase space by the president's psychic power at this time, in the normal universe, not far from the position before the spaceship entered the phase space.
Next to it was the area of the space station where the light pattern system was destroyed and could not be observed in the phase space.
And the facilities prepared by the Fanchao Research Institute to pull the space station out of hyperspace.
However, the facilities were not started at this time.
Because now no one except Chen Ming can be sure whether pulling the space station back from the phase space will lead to some bad results. Before figuring out the situation, no one dared to start the facilities.
Meanwhile, on those phase ships, Bian Gaoxuan was recording something in the control console of the spacecraft.
When he found that Chen Ming's robot parked next to him had started moving again, he said excitedly: "Director Chen, great, you're okay."
"I saw you blocked all the scarlet lights at last, and I thought... it was okay."
Chen Ming explained: "It was just that my consciousness was slightly impacted, which caused me to lose contact with the robot. It didn't have much impact."
"That's good, that's good."
Bian Gaoxuan said this, but he didn't think Chen Ming was telling the truth.
Was it really just a little impact?
He saw with his own eyes the scene of the entire space station being destroyed by those beams.
And from the results provided by the detection instruments on the spacecraft at the end, those beams had not only physical destructive power, but also had a bad impact on the mind.
If it weren't for the metal skylight blocking those beams, all of them would probably have died there.
Experimental deaths are common, even in their Fanchao Research Institute.
It is impossible to say that any experiment related to psychic power is absolutely safe. No matter how good the protection work is, you will still die if you encounter an accident.
Not to mention the experiments related to dimensional infection, it will only be more dangerous.
So he didn't think it was a simple matter for Chen Ming to block the light with the metal skylight.
But Chen Ming said so, of course he would not refute it in person.
Anyway, Chen Ming saved him in this failed and somewhat aggressive experiment.
Chen Ming can not mention it, but as the person who was saved, he must give a reward.
However, Chen Ming didn't care too much about Bian Gaoxuan's thoughts. He came here for other things.
"Do you still have the last video before the spacecraft evacuated and the last video before the space station was destroyed?"
"Yes, but I ordered it to be sealed and no one has seen it."
"That's good."
Chen Ming was also a little relieved. What he was worried about now was that the video was seen by someone, and the influence of the scarlet dimension was further spread through the video.
Fortunately, this situation did not happen.
It seems that Bian Gaoxuan was not without vigilance when facing dimensional infection.
After all, the organ infected when the Empire first faced dimensional infection was the eyeball, and dimensional infection of the eyeball can be transmitted through vision.
So it is of course necessary to be vigilant when facing visual recording devices such as video.
However, Chen Ming was afraid that other people besides Bian Gaoxuan did not understand, so he explained again: "I suspect that the power of that dimension has the ability to be transmitted through video, so I need to confirm where the video file is."
Bian Gaoxuan immediately sent a prepared file to Chen Ming.
Chen Ming also immediately opened the file and looked at it himself.
Then he found some situations that surprised him.
There was nothing to see in the video of the spacecraft, except for some scarlet light that did not directly illuminate the spacecraft.
The content of the video before the space station was destroyed was somewhat interesting.
Several surveillance cameras on the space station captured the expanding cracks and the eye with multiple pupils before it was destroyed, and sent them to the spacecraft and saved them.
But the content of this video is distorted.
The eye in the crack seemed to be blocked by a thick filter.
If Chen Ming had not seen the rift with his own eyes before, he would not have been able to tell that the thing under the filter in the rift was the eye.
The video has become invalid after being saved.
However, the distortion and invalidation also have advantages.
There is nothing wrong with this video, and it does not spread any dimensional infection.
This situation is different from the situation when Chen Ming controlled the space station and observed the rift in real time through the space station's monitoring, and the scarlet dimension could spread its power through monitoring.
It is not known whether this video is interfered by the power of the scarlet dimension itself or the power of the phase space.
But at least one thing that is certain now is that only by direct observation when the crack appears or indirect observation through certain equipment can the power of the scarlet dimension be observed and affected by the power of the dimension.
"It's okay. There will be no problem with the video file. You can watch it as you like."
"However, the video is probably distorted due to the influence of psychic energy. If you want to try to restore it, you must be careful."
Chen Ming had no way to guarantee that if the video could be restored by technical means, it would bring back the power of the scarlet dimension.
Bian Gaoxuan responded solemnly: "I understand."
"This experiment can't be considered a complete failure. It at least proved the conflict between the scarlet dimension and phase space."
"So what's the situation in phase space now?"
Chen Ming responded: "I'm about to go see it."
He didn't hide it and relayed the robot's picture to Bian Gaoxuan.
But he made some delays to prevent anyone from seeing something they shouldn't.
The broken wreckage of the space station immediately appeared in Bian Gaoxuan's eyes.
Looking at the space station that was falling apart from the inside, he said smoothly while recording: "It seems that some kind of power broke out from the inside, and then something broke out and caused a conflict here."
"Yes, the power of the dimensional infection and the power of the phase space clash here."
Seeing that Chen Ming clearly understood the whole process, Bian Gaoxuan immediately asked Chen Ming: "Director Chen, can you tell me in detail what happened here?"
"The dimensional infected entities gathered together when they were about to die after being suppressed by the phase space. When they ran together to the center of the space station, they created a rift leading to the scarlet dimension. It should be regarded as a space rift."
"A space rift?"
"Yes, it is different from the dimensional infection we have seen. The dimensional infection is that dimension slowly seeping in. This rift really opens a rift leading to the scarlet dimension."
"You can enter the scarlet dimension directly through that rift."
Bian Gaoxuan's expression became nervous subconsciously. Apparently he thought about the possible consequences of opening a space rift connecting the two worlds.
"don’t worry."
Chen Ming comforted him: "The opening of the rift is in the phase space and will not affect the normal universe. Otherwise, how could I still be talking to you calmly now? I would have asked for help a long time ago."
Bian Gaoxuan breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good."
"After the crack appeared, a huge eye with multiple pupils appeared in the crack. It was suspected to be a creature that existed in the scarlet dimension."
"The light I blocked with my spiritual energy was emanating from that eye."
"But it's still not all blocked. There's another ship... wait, that ship..."
Chen Ming hadn't noticed it before, but now that he came back to his senses, he suddenly realized that there seemed to be something wrong with the ship.
Bian Gaoxuan also explained: "There are all death row prisoners on that ship, and they were originally meant to be left in phase space for experiments."
That's okay.
Chen Ming originally thought that the president had made a mistake or was worried that the ship was on the edge of his psychic protection and had been illuminated by scarlet light, so he was not prepared to take it away.
But looking at it now, it means that I didn’t take it away on purpose.
If the prisoner dies, he dies, it's not a big problem.
"Anyway"
After finishing speaking, he took a rough look at the wreckage of the space station through the robot's field of vision.
Chen Ming controlled the robot and came to the spacecraft floating quietly in hyperspace.
Open the hatch from the outside
Tearing apart the withered and decaying flesh and blood tissue covering the cabin
What came into view were the corpses of several dimensionally infected entities that were also dead.
Chen Ming stepped forward to confirm. After confirming that the entities had completely lost their activity, he pulled out a data cable from the robot, connected it to the spacecraft's control system, and read the video.
Judging from the content of the video, just after Chen Ming's canopy blocked the scarlet beam, the president's psychic energy took away the rest of the spacecraft.
The only prisoners left here were restrained in their respective positions.
They don't know what's going on.
But they soon saw the beam of light penetrating through the sky and shining on the spacecraft.
These beams do not directly destroy everything around them at close range like the space station.
Instead, it penetrated the outer armor and hull of the spacecraft, completely illuminating every inch of the interior of the spacecraft.
The death row prisoners had no time to react. They all lost their stable consciousness and fell into madness the moment they came into contact with those light beams.
The nature of scarlet light is the same as that of things existing in the scarlet dimension, filling every cell of these prisoners with seemingly endless knowledge.
Each cell seems to have its own consciousness and its own thoughts.
Distortion occurs as a matter of course.
Dimensional infection entities appeared on the spacecraft, and each one was a brand new entity.
"It's... terrible. Is this a new dimensional infection?"
"It can be counted."
Chen Ming agreed with Bian Gaoxuan's idea and said: "It can even be counted as several dimensional infections, but this is in the phase space."
"The phase space is very special. It seems to have a unique consciousness that covers the entire dimension. It will protect itself and eliminate invading dimensional forces."
"So these entities didn't survive and definitely won't survive."
"I see, then why doesn't our universe have such dimensional consciousness to protect us?"
"who knows."
While Chen Ming and Bian Gaoxuan were watching what was happening in the phase space.
Chen Ming also reconnected the prosthesis at the legion headquarters, allowing the prosthesis to move again.
Of course, Chen Ming's holographic projection in the conference room also became active.
The noisy discussion in the conference room and the president's voice reached Chen Ming's ears at the same time: "I thought you were asleep."
"It's just that my attention is entirely on the robot in the phase space and I don't dare to be distracted."
"What exactly happened? I just heard you say you were helping to get people and you stopped moving. I can only sense that there was a conflict between two very powerful forces over there."
Chen Ming thought for a while, and after asking Bian Gaoxuan where he was, he walked directly to the main seat and picked up the microphone.
Amidst the sharp sound of the microphone sound check, the conference room fell silent.
A projection screen next to the conference room lit up immediately, and the space station and phase spacecraft video files were played on the projection screen.
Chen Ming also immediately explained to the people on the battlefield what had just happened.
He roughly explained the original experimental process and the accidents that occurred midway, and explained the existence of the "crack" and the scarlet light emitted by the crack.
At the end of his explanation, he released the sky curtain to block the scarlet light.
Chen Ming couldn't help but used the terminal to secretly send a message to the president: "President, your time to recruit people is too slow, and Bian Gaoxuan's spaceship was almost destroyed together."
The president looked a little helpless and sent a message to Chen Ming: "There are two extremely powerful forces in conflict in the phase space. The aftermath of the conflict prevents my psychic energy from affecting it."
"I was anxious too, but it wasn't until you used your psychic energy to create a curtain to block the aftermath of the conflict for a moment that I could penetrate with my psychic energy and take the person away."
That’s okay too.
Chen Ming didn't even dare to look directly at the conflict of power between the two dimensions. His huge mental power had been exhausted and he was unable to intervene.
It is normal for the president's psychic power to be unable to intervene across space.
That is, it was not until Chen Ming used the metallic liquid composed of the silent alloy he had obtained to block it for a moment that the president could take the person away through the aftermath of the conflict between the two spaces.
Wait, having said that, Chen Ming remembered that in the past, the people on the phase ship seemed to be wearing protective suits mixed with silent alloy.
But the president used his psychic powers to recruit people.
"President, can your psychic power ignore Silence Alloy?"
"I can't be like you."
The president immediately denied Chen Ming's speculation and said: "It's just that if the silent alloy exists with other things, I can fish out the silent alloy through other things."
"But my psychic energy cannot directly act on the silent alloy. Even the sealed environment made of silent alloy can isolate the impact of my psychic energy."
"It's like picking up a hedgehog."
"You can't touch the places that are full of thorns. But it doesn't matter where there are no thorns."
"As long as they can find a place without thorns, people can build hedgehogs, so my psychic powers can still work through indirect effects."
The principle behind the president's ability to take away people wearing silent alloy protective suits is completely different from Chen Ming's ability to directly ignore the silent alloy.
Otherwise, the president wouldn't have been so shocked when he saw Chen Ming sending a piece of silence alloy with his spiritual power.
Chen Ming was communicating with the president.
At the same time, he also roughly explained to all participants in the conference room what happened in the experiment in phase space.
Just when Chen Ming finished speaking, the door of the conference room was pushed open.
Bian Gaoxuan had already used Chen Ming's help to confirm that there was no longer anything related to the scarlet dimension in the phase space, and then brought the wreckage of the space station and the remaining spacecraft back to the normal universe through the facility.
At least there is no problem with the device that brings objects into and out of phase space, which is good news.
Those wreckage and spacecraft can be used for study later, but now...
Bian Gaoxuan came to Chen Ming's side and said to the others in the conference room: "The experiment failed, but we can learn from it and prepare for the next experiment. Let's do this for today."
"The experimental report will be compiled soon, and I will send it to you at that time. If there are any questions, we can discuss it later."
After the conference room was noisy for a while, the holographic projections gradually disappeared one by one.
Only the people sent by the empire's high-level officials stood up and came to Bian Gaoxuan and said to him: "This experiment is a bit too aggressive. You need to start from scratch and do it step by step. Don't rush in just after you understand the principles of a project." Going through large-scale experiments.”
"Be careful next time, and today's situation must not happen again."
As a member of the Fanchao Research Institute, Bian Gaoxuan didn't mind what the people in the empire preached to him. This was not what the person in front of him wanted to say, but what the real high-level officials in the empire asked him to convey.
He nodded and agreed one by one, and said that he would report to the research institute later and reorganize the experimental process.
It can be seen that the Fanchao Research Institute and the empire are highly bound.
The empire has the authority to issue orders to Fanchao Research Institute.
After the Empire man finished talking to Bian Gaoxuan, he suddenly turned to Chen Ming and said, "You... you did a good job. Keep working hard. The Empire has been paying attention to you."
After all, Chen Ming saved the people who participated in the experiment, so he deserved to be praised.
And from the fact that the Empire specially invited him to the last engagement party, we can also see the Empire's attitude.
So Chen Ming nodded in a friendly manner and said nothing else.
The Empire people did not mind Chen Ming's slightly cold attitude, and the holographic projection disappeared in front of the two.
Bian Gaoxuan breathed a sigh of relief after the Empire people left, and was about to say something to Chen Ming, when his terminal suddenly lit up.
He looked down and said to Chen Ming, "Our institute is collecting the name of the dimension infected by the dimension."
"Oh, you are asking me, right?"
"Uh... yes."
Although he is the person in charge of the experiment of the interaction between the scarlet dimension and the phase space, the Vanchao Institute is actually responsible for the research on the scarlet dimension by other people.
It was just that Bian Gaoxuan had studied phase technology and was later transferred to the dimensional infection research department. He had experience in both directions and was considered to have done well.
So after Chen Ming discovered that the two dimensions had an impact on each other, he took the initiative to initiate and undertake this project.
But he was indeed not qualified to name that dimension.
Only Chen Ming, the only one who had contacted the dimension source of dimensional infection many times without any impact and was still conducting in-depth research on that dimension, had this authority.
Of course, the president could have named it before, but the president had not given it a formal name because he thought he did not have enough understanding of this dimension.
When he was doing research, he used that dimension as a synonym when communicating with Chen Ming.
It seems that the president had negotiated with the Fanchao Research Institute and decided to officially name the dimension of the source of dimensional infection today.
Today is indeed a special day.
Human research on the scarlet dimension and phase space suffered a serious failure, which is worth commemorating.
"Then just call it Scarlet Dimension."
"Okay."
Although Bian Gaoxuan felt that Chen Ming was a little casual, he sent the name back.
After talking to the person through the terminal for a few more words, Bian Gaoxuan put down the terminal again, as if to Chen Ming and to himself: "This experiment is really dangerous."
"But we will never give up the subsequent experiments. This is the power we must strive to fight against it after suffering the sequelae of dimensional infection twice."
"That's good."
Chen Ming responded casually: "The sequelae of dimensional infection may last for twenty years. As long as there are results in ten years and the remaining time is shortened, everything will be worth it."
Judging from the scale of today's meeting, this matter will definitely be taken seriously in the future.
Chen Ming will not have to worry too much for the time being. There will definitely be a lot of people and resources invested in it.
He will just sit back and enjoy the fruits of his labor.
It's just that he still needs to spend some energy on learning.
Chen Ming's holographic projection also disappeared in the conference room.
But his communication with the president has not ended yet.
The president asked Chen Ming another question at this time.
"Are there any other details in this experiment that we can talk about more?"
Chen Ming had not thought about this question, but in his opinion, the only thing that could be talked about more was the rift.
An Wuping had actually triggered a rift practice a long time ago, but because the experiencer was actually Chen Ming himself, he could not tell this matter through An Wuping's mouth.
But since the rift appeared again, Chen Ming still had to make it clear.
This kind of thing that would cause the normal universe to be associated with the scarlet dimension must be treated with extreme vigilance.
If the normal universe is infected with dimensions again, it must be fully prepared.
Speaking of which, Chen Ming thought of something.
In fact, the appearance of the two rifts was related to him, and the opening of the two rifts did not occur in the normal universe.
One occurred in Chen Ming's consciousness space, and ended with the death of the recipient, leaving a rift in Chen Ming's consciousness space.
The second time it occurred in the phase space, and the result was that the phase space cleared the intruders and closed the rift, and even reinforced the rift left in Chen Ming's consciousness space when the last rift appeared.
But logically speaking, when the dimensional infection occurred in the past, those dimensional infected entities could have gathered together to form a rift and opened it.
As long as the rift is opened, with the technology and ability that humans currently have to deal with the scarlet dimension, there is almost no suitable response plan.
Even during the first dimensional infection, the dimensional infection had already infected the entire galaxy, so why didn't the rift open?
The second dimensional infection, that is, the dimensional infection on Yuhui's side, was smaller than this time, but from the current perspective, it was enough to open the rift.
Why didn't they do that?
Is it a coincidence, or is there any other reason?
Chen Ming is not sure, but anyway, he still explains it to the president.