Chapter 352 City

Chen Ming opened his eyes.

For some reason, he suddenly appeared in a bustling city, standing on the top of a tall building in the center of the city.

Looking out, there were shuttles flying along the controlled waterways in the sky, and there were cars and pedestrians on the ground.

Where was he taken by the boss?

"Here..."

"In my head."

The boss's voice suddenly came from behind Chen Ming.

He looked back and saw that the boss was standing next to the elevator on the top of the building. There seemed to be some unclear meaning in his eyes when he looked at Chen Ming.

He didn't say anything directly, but waved to Chen Ming, motioning Chen Ming to come over.

The boss's consciousness space turned out to be a city where people lived.

Chen Ming had never expected that there would be such a situation.

But no one can say for sure about psychic energy.

Chen Ming accepted this special situation naturally and followed the boss.

The boss took Chen Ming into the elevator, turned his head and looked at him and said, "It's a good opportunity for us to talk now."

"I remember that you were always curious about why I was willing to help you and get you started at the beginning, but you didn't ask later."

Chen Ming replied, "Because it's no longer necessary."

No matter what the reason is, it affects everything the boss does, so there is no need to care too much.

"But I can tell you now."

The boss didn't say it directly, but continued to take Chen Ming to the shuttle boat landing pad outside the building.

Come on a shuttle boat with Chen Ming and rise to the sky, so that Chen Ming can see the whole picture of the city.

Seeing various details in the city, seeing different people doing different things, and even chatting with each other, everyone seems real, as if this is really a real city.

Of course, Chen Ming also saw those places that became more and more blurred in vision as they approached the edge of the city.

Let Chen Ming know that this is still in the consciousness space.

The boss suddenly asked again: "Did you see it? This city, and the people in it."

"Yes."

"This city is a replica of the city where I was born, and the people living in it are all projections of people I have heard of and learned about."

"Projection? Why do you want to make the consciousness space like this?"

"This... consciousness space can symbolize the power of psychics, and it can also become the power of psychics."

"It is actually the foundation of psychics, the spiritual foundation, and of course it can be called consciousness space."

"Everyone's consciousness space is different, and I chose to make consciousness space my power."

"So I created such a city."

The boss suddenly opened his arms, as if he wanted to embrace the whole city.

"By listening to other people's life experiences, I created projections that exist in the city, and each projection provides me with power."

"What is the principle?" Chen Ming asked in confusion.

"The existence of a person has power in itself. The experience of a person determines the size of the power, and the experience of each person determines the mind of each person."

"Most people who are not born with abilities awaken after experiencing some major and special things that affect their lives. You should know that, right?"

"So this is the source of the power given to me by replicating those projections."

Chen Ming thought of Lu Bai, who awakened his psychic power after taking great risks to break into Yuhui's giant dock and cooperating with Chen Ming to complete an unprecedented feat.

And his other familiar Qianmian, who awakened his psychic power after experiencing years of domestic violence and killing his father on the day of adulthood.

Indeed, they all awakened after experiencing major events.

Chen Ming asked again: "If you reproduce the projection by understanding people's experiences, what if what other people say is false?"

"False experiences have no power. They cannot correspond to or resonate with people's hearts, so they cannot be reproduced. Even if the real experience is just a simple narration, it will make my heart surge."

"Look at the projections carefully. Some are completely solid, while some look a little more 'virtual'. They are strong and weak. This is the difference."

"People with more experiences and strong hearts will reproduce stronger projections and provide more power."

"I went to the pirate space station specifically to meet all kinds of people."

Chen Ming said at this time: "It shouldn't be just like this?"

The prosperous star field must have more people to meet than the pirate space station in the marginal star field.

The boss, a level 6 psychic, ran to this place to hide. Obviously there are other reasons.

"I like people with rich experiences."

"Although the prosperous star field is prosperous, the truly valuable things that can be experienced are not more than those in the marginal star field."

"People living in a stable star field definitely have less experience than pirates struggling on the line between life and death."

"There are indeed other reasons, which involve many things. Let's talk about it later."

"I like people with rich experiences, and I also like to cultivate some people who may have rich experiences."

"You had a lot of stories at first glance, so I thought you had great potential, so I contacted you in a friendly manner and cultivated you."

Chen Ming also understood the boss's meaning.

Obviously, the boss's results did not disappoint expectations.

His experience can be said to be quite rich, and because his boss treats him sincerely, he is not shy about telling most of his experiences in full.

And Chen Ming also understood the boss's ability.

The boss is also a psychic.

But it was completely different from the Zuojia psychic that Chen Ming killed before.

The boss's psionic powers were about the power of the human mind, whereas the psionic person's psionic powers were about the power of the psionic power itself.

The boss needs to rely on the existence of "people" to improve himself. No wonder he hates the scarlet dimension so much.

After all, something like this that affects people's consciousness will have an extremely terrifying impact on the boss's city, which is far away from his consciousness.

"What are you thinking about?"

Just when Chen Ming was thinking, the boss asked.

Chen Ming explained his thoughts.

"wrong."

The boss corrected: "It's just because the source of power in my consciousness space is the human mind, so the power I show is spiritual."

"There is a reason why I deliberately guided it. You know I used to study psychology, so I let my spiritual energy change in this direction."

Chen Ming nodded and did not bother about the specific way to realize spiritual energy. It would be useless to worry about it.

He asked curiously: "Is my projection here too?"

"Here I am."

The boss said something and suddenly started talking about another topic: "Actually, I have to thank you."

"Thank me?"

"Look at this city, what do you think?"

Chen Ming looked outside through the porthole of the shuttle boat that was flying to the outskirts of the city and said: "It's very lively, very much like reality, but it seems like something is missing."

"Yes, all inhuman existence is missing."

The boss did not show off and directly stated the key issue: "I have always regarded human beings as the key, so there were no living creatures other than humans in my city before."

"I don't have much chance to come into contact with those creatures. The only chance I have to come into contact with animals and plants on the space station is at the dining table."

"It wasn't until you mentioned that you wanted to rely on my spiritual power to communicate with the phase beast that I realized that not only people, but any living beings and even any things can be recorded in my consciousness space,"

"Everything is animistic."

"The power of the mind is not limited to humans. I can continue to grow, so I have you to thank."

Chen Ming said that when he mentioned this matter to his boss two days ago, his boss suddenly agreed decisively and then remained silent for a long time.

Presumably, the city in this consciousness space has gradually begun to gain more vitality.

Boss abilities should also be enhanced over time.

"What about the phase beast?"

"It's already in the city, we'll see it later."

"But before that, I have to tell you something. You need to see what you look like."

The boss waved his hand, and a light screen projected the picture of a place over.

Chen Ming looked over and found that it was his projection in the boss's consciousness space at work.

His projection serves an important function in the city's government building where he just stood on the top floor.

The other people working around are all extremely solid projections, which are obviously different in intensity from ordinary people outside.

Chen Ming took a few glances, but didn't see any problem, so he asked, "What's going on?"

The boss waved his hand again, dissipating the light curtain.

"Your body is still intact, and you even have multiple bodies in reserve, but your consciousness has begun to have problems."

As he spoke, he took out a small mirror from his pocket and handed it to Chen Ming.

Chen Ming took the mirror and looked at the mirror.

His eyes widened subconsciously.

Because he doesn't look like a normal human being in the mirror.

His body in the mirror has two heads that almost completely overlap.

He has a mechanized body, but the mechanical structure does not completely protect his body.

Through the gaps in the machine, one can see the translucent gray-green internal organs, as if there is some thick liquid flowing in them, and his right arm has also become the shape of a tentacle.

Although the left arm still barely maintains a human appearance, if you look carefully, you will find that there are blood-colored threads running through the pores in this arm.

His legs were nothing, but he could still stand where he was.

Apart from maintaining the overall human shape, there is no sign that he is a human being.

"..."

Chen Ming can probably understand why his consciousness looks like this.

The two overlapping heads are the basis of his ability, which is caused by the fusion of consciousnesses of the time traveler Chen Ming and the repairman Chen Ming.

The mechanized body corresponds to his most basic ability, controlling spaceships and machinery.

The organs and tentacles of the Zerg correspond to his connection with the queen.

The bloodshot veins on his arms represent the power he wrested from the scarlet dimension.

As for the empty legs.

It may be caused by the power of the phase, or it may be that part of his consciousness is in other places, which leads to a partial loss of his consciousness.

Chen Ming feels it is more likely to be the latter.

Of course, this does not mean that the other prostheses controlled by Chen Ming are controlled by the legs. The lack of conscious body should be more symbolic.

Just like now, when Chen Ming looked at his conscious body, everything was normal.

His understanding of himself is that of a normal human being.

But Chen Ming was not sure whether the boss had made a mistake.

So he immediately contacted the Queen of Insects with part of his external consciousness and asked the Queen of Insects to describe the appearance of his conscious body.

The consciousness space of the Insect Queen is linked to his, which is the giant Zerg warship next to Chen Ming's steel jungle island.

So the insect queen must have seen what his conscious body looked like.

The insect queen understood what Chen Ming meant and directly created two prosthetics, or in other words, two monsters.

The human being was the first time the Worm Queen saw Chen Ming's consciousness when she faced the recipient of Zuo Jing after the spiritual connection between her and Chen Ming.

It is very similar to the boss's conscious space at this time, except that there are no bloodshot holes on his left arm, and his legs are normal human legs.

The other one is now, exactly the same as the one in the boss's consciousness space, but the legs are still intact. It can be determined that the consciousness body is incomplete due to the separation of part of the consciousness.

His consciousness is indeed the monster it is now.

Wait a moment.

So he just kept talking like this with his boss for a long time?

No wonder the boss looked at him a little strangely at first.

Then why did neither the recipient nor Qianmian express any problem with his appearance before?

The recipient can be said to have gone crazy.

But Qianmian was at best brainwashed, not to the point of madness, not to mention that the Qianmian who communicated with him could be said to be very sane.

Maybe it was because Qianmian used his consciousness space to construct the environment in his memory at that time.

The consciousness space corrected his appearance, so that the remnants of the Thousand Faces Consciousness did not see the problem.

Of course, it is also possible that Qianmian realized that Chen Ming was a monster and asked An Wuping's clone to merge with the source of chaos as his own power.

So it doesn't matter what Chen Ming looks like.

But to be honest, Chen Ming felt that it was normal for his consciousness to become like this, or that it should be like this.

He is not an ordinary person.

He is a psyker, he is a time traveler, he is a psychic entity.

However, Chen Ming didn't know what to say better. In the end, he said ambiguously: "I think everything is normal in myself. Maybe only others think I am abnormal."

"That means there is a problem with your cognition, and your state of consciousness is also very wrong. I think it is because your psychic abilities are too numerous."

"Just like the mental rampage entity, the superposition of multiple psychic abilities will lead to rampage, and the superposition of multiple psychic effects should have similar negative effects."

"Although there is no problem yet, I think this problem must be solved."

"You need to sort out your psychic powers."

Chen Ming asked: "How to comb it?"

"It depends on you. I can only speak from my own experience because I've been in similar situations before."

"When I first started projecting into my city, the experience of projection would interfere with my consciousness and make traces of other people appear on my consciousness."

"You see, everything is fine with me now."

"As long as you can figure out who you are, the traces of other people will naturally disappear."

Chen Ming said: "Find out who you are? I've always known it."

"As I said, this is my experience and cannot be directly applied to you."

"I can only tell you that you are a human being. You cannot only see yourself as a human being in your own eyes. That is wrong. You must let others know that you are a human being."

Chen Ming has always considered himself to be a very obvious and standard person.

But the boss's words at this time and various mutations in his consciousness made him less confident.

He focused his awareness on his conscious body.

In the end, there are only three powers in his consciousness.

A basic spiritual energy awakened based on the concept of dimensional infection, initially a mechanical power.

A power belonging to the Zerg derived from the spiritual link between the biological spaceship and the Zerg Queen.

And the power belonging to the Scarlet Dimension that he personally captured after entering the Scarlet Dimension.

Plus the foundation of everything, people.

These three forces and the concept of "people" are all part of him, and they are all important parts that he can never let go of.

Then there is only one way left.

Chen Ming temporarily combined all the consciousness outside into one body, completely solidifying his consciousness.

Immediately, his body twisted.

Humans, machines, Zerg, Scarlet, everything is twisted and blended together.

There was even a hint of blue-purple light quietly blending in.

The product of chaotic fusion condensed into a human form under the control of Chen Ming's power, condensing all the organs and tissues a person needs to survive.

Finally, based on the human form, a layer of skin appeared that looked exactly the same as that of a normal person.

All the products of chaos are contained under human appearance.

Chen Ming moved a little, adjusted some of the chaotic structures inside his consciousness, and said, "It's sorted out."

"I feel...good."

Chen Ming's consciousness clenched his fist.

After following his boss's teachings and choosing to fully integrate power into a part of who he is as a human being, his level of control over all powers has improved again.

He felt that he was becoming more and more of a standard psychotic entity.

He Gu had said that the psychic energy of the early psychotic entity was still scattered and clear, and different psychic energy fluctuations controlled different psychic powers.

In the middle stage, the psychotic entity only needed to call on one psychic energy fluctuation to control all psychic energy.

He was in this stage now.

He didn't know what would happen if he continued.

Chen Ming thought it would not be a bad thing.

If he was an ordinary person, an ordinary psychic, then becoming a psychotic entity was indeed the worst thing.

But if he had come from another dimension, there was no difference between dimensional infection and a psychotic entity.

Then becoming a late psychotic entity would be no problem.

The boss on the side fell silent as he watched Chen Ming crush his consciousness and restore it to a human form again.

But at least the result looks fine, so it shouldn't be a problem...

"I remember a long time ago when you were still in the Pirate Space Station."

"One night you came to me, and you were a person who never drank, but you drank a lot that day."

"Although you smelled of alcohol, your consciousness was not disturbed at all."

"I actually felt strange at that time, but I didn't say it until later when it was officially confirmed that you had the ability to create clones."

"Later, I learned that An Wuping was also your clone, and the power of the Zerg almost made me think that you were possessed by something."

"But you gave me a lot of surprises, surprises, and shocks in the end."

"Then your clones became more and more strange."

"I can't tell what your consciousness is like."

"From today on, I may really have nothing to teach you."

"I think there is." Chen Ming said: "And I am always me, I am Chen Ming."

"Well, speaking of it, you don't need your own body now, right?"

"Yes."

For Chen Ming now, consciousness is his essence.

Whether it is the body, the prosthesis, or a robot made at random, or even any Zerg, as long as Chen Ming's consciousness passes, it is him.

Of course, Chen Ming's essence is still human, and he is also a nostalgic person. He is willing to keep controlling his body.

Even if it is damaged one day, he will find a way to make a new one that is exactly the same.

Of course, some subtle changes may be made.

For example, implant some Zerg organs, modify some mechanical structures, and adjust the original genes by the way to achieve the most perfect level in the concept of human beings.

His psychic power is used for this.

Hearing Chen Ming's answer, the boss said: "I heard before that when the ability of a psychic reaches a certain level, the spiritual nerve is just a sign."

"I thought before that it was only possible to reach the legendary level 7 psychic. It seems that the conditions are not what I imagined."

The boss was a little emotional.

"But why do I feel that the intensity of your psychic energy fluctuations has not changed for a long time?"

"Have you encountered any problems with psychic energy? Or have you finally reached the limit?"

"It's not a limit, it's a bottleneck."

Chen Ming explained: "The amount of my mental power has long exceeded the normal situation. It is enough to cover a galaxy of normal size when it is released, but I just can't break through this bottleneck."

"I can feel that it is there, but I can't find a way to contact it. Even if I get a lot of power through the scarlet dimension, the Zerg and the mechanical race, I can't break through it."

"I feel that I still need an opportunity, so for the time being I can only develop horizontally and see if I can take advantage of this period of time when I am stuck at the bottleneck to study more about the uses of psychic energy in other aspects."

The boss thought about it thoughtfully and said; "Then let's do it this way for now, and we will talk about consciousness and psychic energy later."

"Let's talk about it with your big friend first."

He snapped his fingers.

The shuttle that had flown to the outskirts of the city entered the phase space.

The phase space of this city that belongs to the boss's consciousness space.

There should have been no phase space before.

This phase space did not exist until the arrival of the phase beast.

The consciousness of the phase beast was now wandering over the suburbs of the city in the boss's consciousness space.