Chapter 404: Chase

"I did it?"

Chen Ming couldn't help laughing and said, "I just found the people you controlled. You killed them. You said I did it? Is there something wrong with your brain or mine?"

He looked at the brainwashed psychic with a look of stupidity.

"The day you controlled these people, they were already dead. You want to use this to put psychological pressure on me. You're overthinking."

"Hehe."

The brainwashed psychic laughed twice, and the tense atmosphere suddenly eased.

"Just say it casually. It doesn't cost money to try it."

The brainwashed psychic said something seemingly harmless in a flat tone, but in fact, he did the most disgusting thing.

And he didn't finish yet, he continued: "They might have lived for many more years, and I might not control them even if they died of old age, but I can't do anything about it, right?"

"Stop being sarcastic."

"I've said that when an ordinary person's brain is affected by the psychic power of a psychic, he is already dead, and even if he is alive, he is just a walking corpse."

"What I did must not be good for you, otherwise you wouldn't come to me so anxiously."

"It's not good for you, but for me, this is what I have to do."

"You have the ability to kill everyone you control like you just did, otherwise I will continue to do this."

The brainwashed psychic shrugged and said indifferently: "I'm already killing."

Hearing this, Chen Ming immediately took a look at the situation on the planet that the psychic minister helped arrange.

Under the influence of his psychic power, everyone he brought there was scattered on the planet.

Many people were not directly controlled by the brainwashed psychic, and they still maintained their original consciousness. They had no idea what was going on.

They could only remember being wrapped in liquid metal, and then they appeared in this strange environment.

Panic and fear were their mainstream emotions.

Some of these people were not far away from the others when Chen Ming randomly assigned them positions.

Therefore, these people could see that the people around them were dying piece by piece.

Finally, it was the turn of those who saw this scene.

The way of death was the same as before, with the head exploding.

Such a cruel way of death made people despair.

It was like falling directly from a peaceful life into hell. Chen Ming could hardly imagine what kind of psychological torture the people there were going through.

But he could do nothing.

Because there would definitely be some people on the list of 60 million people who the brainwashed psychic had only contacted a few times and had not really controlled.

The ability of the brainwashed psychic was as special as his, and could not be simply detected by some means.

It was impossible to figure out who was really controlled, and who had only had contact with the people controlled by the brainwashed psychic.

Therefore, it was impossible for Chen Ming to kill all the people just to save trouble or to help people end their pain in advance.

Someone will definitely be able to return alive from this planet.

But the others...

It can only be said that when those people were controlled by the brainwashing psychic, such an outcome was already destined, and there was no way to change it.

Even if the brainwashing psychic was directly targeted, the outcome would be the same.

Because Chen Ming believed that if he tried to kill the brainwashing psychic, the brainwashing psychic would definitely drag all the people controlled by his psychic power into hell before he died.

This is not just speculation.

This has already begun to show signs.

Chen Ming saw from the news channels in different regions of the empire and the things controlled by his psychic power that he left in various parts of the empire that there were quite a few places in the empire where some people who were not on the list were dying in the same way.

They were also people controlled by the brainwashing psychic, and they had a certain connection with the people captured by Chen Ming. There was a very high possibility that they would be taken away by Chen Ming in the future.

The number was not large, at least not large compared to the 60 million people.

Obviously, this also meant that the brainwashing psychic did not kill all the people he controlled.

He just killed other people who might be found by the Empire and were related to the list of 60 million people.

After their identities were discovered by the Empire, they had lost their value.

Instead, they might become the path for the Empire to attack him in the future, so they must die.

This is what the brainwashed psychic did.

Chen Ming stared at the brainwashed psychic with a look of surprise and said, "That's good, but why don't you be more decisive and kill all the people you control?"

"Why should I do something without reason? You can't find it, and I don't have to take the initiative to kill them."

The brainwashed psychic, who had already sat on the sofa in Chen Ming's office, stood up again and walked to the TV.

The screen on the TV was blue, and the signal of the news channel that just reported that a large number of people died in the Empire had been cut off.

The brainwashed psychic next to the TV adjusted it again and switched to a new channel.

This is the news channel of a local TV station in a certain star region.

The screen of the channel shows the situation on the planet where Chen Ming concentrated the people affected by the brainwashed psychic.

Some of the people taken away by Chen Ming had photographic equipment on them, and they recorded what happened on the planet.

However, Chen Ming remembered that he had blocked the planet's communication signals.

It's a bit outrageous that the above situation can still be conveyed.

Maybe it had something to do with some of the psykers he had brought there.

The content of the news is to put the blame for this situation on psykers as a whole.

At this time, it was Chen Ming's turn to be indifferent: "It is impossible to use this kind of thing to drag the normalized identity of psykers back to the past. The empire has been laid out for so many years, and psykers are already a part of the foundation of the empire. "

"If you pay a little attention to the news, you will see from time to time that psychics who have committed crimes have been arrested. This is a mess left over from the past, and it is specially left to be dealt with now."

"One or two psykers getting into trouble won't change anything at all."

As soon as Chen Ming finished speaking, the signal on this channel was suspended, making no waves at all.

The brainwashed psychic tried to change several channels one after another, but the channel he wanted to change was all a blue screen without any external signal.

And some of the press releases on the Internet that Chen Ming could just search through the terminal were all completely processed in the blink of an eye.

It seems that the empire has also begun to exert its strength.

Although 60 million people disappeared within the empire in just a few minutes, the loss of these people was only a small number.

Even though there were a large number of people with status among them, it did not affect the overall situation of the empire at all.

Those afterglow cores that were put in place as quickly as possible after a person disappeared have begun to take over the work of the disappeared person.

Some departments with relatively good internal working structures found replacements faster than Yuhui core dispatch, and quickly resumed normal operations.

Just like Caimo Star Territory, after experiencing a dimensional infection and the infiltration of brainwashing psykers, it really took very efficient countermeasures.

The same goes for governments at all levels in other star regions and the military in various places. Although they may not have experienced similar things, You Caimo has made the consequences clear before, and any place that is slightly motivated will find a way to copy their new policies. .

With sixty million people lost to the Imperium, news of the many losses caused by brainwashed psykers was suppressed.

The empire was rapidly recovering from the pain of population loss, as if the loss of 60 million people was just a small thing that happened every day.

But correspondingly, the brainwashed psyker was not in a good mood.

Although the controlled person in Chen Ming's office had no expression on his face, this was clearly evident from the behavior of the brainwashed psyker.

Of course, this may also be the brainwashing psychic who deliberately acted like this for Chen Ming to let Chen Ming relax his vigilance.

But regardless of whether it was staged or not, it was still satisfying to see the brainwashed psyker deflated.

The brainwashed psyker also gave up at this time and continued to look for any remaining TV stations that had not been banned.

His idea of ​​using the news media to guide public opinion in the empire before many people at the lower levels had time to understand the specific situation was completely suppressed.

The brainwashed psyker shook his head, sat back on the sofa and said to Chen Ming: "You cooperated with the empire to suppress all the negative news related to me, cover up all the news about the deaths of more than 60 million people, and let everyone People die inexplicably, is this really a good idea?”

Chen Ming waved his hands and said: "It's useless for you to tell me these moral kidnappings, because I know that there is no good person in your world. Who are you kidnapping? Do you really think I have never seen the world?"

"The cause of everyone's death is very clear. It was a certain psyker who has been issued a wanted order by the empire. I don't know where this psyker is hiding and whether he dares to come out and admit it."

The brainwashed psychic suddenly laughed and said, "Even if I admit it, you can't take it seriously, can you?"

"Indeed, so why are you here?"

"It's nothing, it's just that you will probably find something wrong with this body soon, and I will just use it to talk to you in the end."

"By the way, I want to confirm with you how many methods the empire has prepared against me and the people I control."

"So? Are you sure?"

"Yes."

The brainwashed psyker looked like he was chatting with Chen Ming and said to Chen Ming: "I feel that I don't have to worry too much. After all, you still can't find a way to target my psionic power, just like I can't find a way to deal with it." The same method applies to you.”

"Actually, we are quite similar. We both climbed up from little people step by step, and we both relied on ourselves to enter Scarlet and master the power of Scarlet, surpassing most people."

"But I don't understand why you are still stuck on the concept of 'people'?"

"Obviously 'people' have hindered you a lot and caused you quite a lot of trouble."

Chen Ming asked back: "Then how did you abandon your 'people'?"

"I gave it up the moment I entered Scarlet. If I didn't give it up, I might die in Scarlet."

Chen Ming said with some regret: "What a pity, are you Scarlet or a human now?"

"I am myself, who are you? Scarlet has a huge impact on people. Even I can't bear it and can only accept it. How did you stay unaffected?"

"I'm so powerful. I can absorb scarlet without affecting myself at all. Do you have any opinions?"

The brainwashed psychic didn't believe Chen Ming's words: "I feel it's not just that, there are many secrets in you that we can still be in contact with in the future, and I'm not in a hurry to find out now."

"That's it."

He said as he stood up from the sofa and walked to Chen Ming's desk, looking like he was ready to blast Chen Ming to pieces.

Chen Ming also stood up and asked, "Are you going to leave now?"

"Yes, what's wrong? Do you have anything else to say?"

"Not talking, I have something else to talk to you about."

The metallic liquid suddenly spread from Chen Ming's feet, completely covering the office.

"Want to do it?" The brainwashed psychic reached out and tapped the head of the body he controlled and said, "This person's brain is just a small part of my consciousness. Even if you kill him, it won't have any effect on me."

"Of course I know, but I'm still going to do it."

The expression of the brainwashed psychic really changed at this moment.

He knew a lot about Chen Ming, and he knew that Chen Ming would not do useless work for nothing.

Just like when he took the initiative to contact Chen Ming several times, Chen Ming would not waste his energy to kill the body he controlled.

But this also means that when Chen Ming really prepared to do it, he must have a considerable degree of confidence.

He was just about to commit suicide and get rid of this small part of his consciousness. To prevent Chen Ming from using it to do anything.

Chen Ming's mental power had already pierced into the mind of the body controlled by the brainwashed psychic like a sharp knife.

The brainwashed psychic had built a hive mind network using people.

This was the information Chen Ming got from the last confrontation with the brainwashed psychic.

Coincidentally, he also possessed the same ability.

It was even more diverse, more complex, and more powerful than that of the brainwashed psychic.

So he knew where the key points of a hive mind network, especially the hive mind network built by the psychic, were.

He knew how to target such an ability.

As Chen Ming pierced his mental power into this small part of the brainwashed psychic's consciousness.

Use mental power to gather this part of consciousness.

This small part of consciousness instinctively resisted, relying on the scarlet power mastered by the brainwashed psychic to easily pass through Chen Ming's mental blockade and the office blocked by Chen Ming with silent alloy, and wanted to leave.

This is what Chen Ming wanted to see. When the brainwashed psychic called on the scarlet power to break away, Chen Ming, who also mastered the scarlet power, could also use this power to lock the core of the brainwashed psychic's gathered consciousness.

This was a fleeting opportunity.

Chen Ming seized it.

His action successfully dragged the brainwashed psychic far away into the final confrontation between the psychics through the feature of the hive mind network connecting to the main body.

Even though the two people may be tens of millions of light years apart, under the environmental conditions of the psychic's special hive mind network, this thing has become possible from impossible.

Chen Ming once again came to the consciousness space, and once again saw the brain that seemed to be filled with divinity.

Without any hesitation, he controlled his mental power to attack the brain of the brainwashed psychic, and said with a hint of sarcasm: "Why don't you guess why I am talking so much nonsense to you."

"Also, when we fight with our mental power next, will there be someone outside who will follow the mental power connection between you and me to find your body?"

"I'm not sure if you know one thing, that is, there is a psychic in the empire whose psychic power is specifically restrained by you."

Long before today's incident, after Chen Ming just knew how the brainwashed psychic controlled ordinary people, Chen Ming asked the boss if his psychic power could be used to save people.

The answer is no.

The brainwashed psychic controls those people more tightly and deeply into the consciousness of everyone.

When a person is affected by a brainwashed psychic, this person has become a puppet of the brainwashed psychic, and there is no way to change it.

But for the brainwashed psychic itself, the boss feels that there is something to say.

So after today's incident, Chen Ming immediately went to the boss to explain the situation in detail and the help he needed.

This time it is not about saving people, but about finding the brainwashed psychic.

The hive mind of the brainwashed psychic creates a special connection between all the people controlled by him. As the boss of the psychic who specializes in human spiritual abilities, it would be strange if he could not find the connection.

And the boss was able to discover the special condition of Chen Ming's consciousness.

Now, when Chen Ming has locked part of the consciousness of the brainwashed psychic through consciousness hedging, it is not impossible to find the main body of the brainwashed psychic.

How could the cooperation between Chen Ming, the Minister of Psychic and the Empire really only target those 60 million people?

Without 60 million today, the brainwashed psychic may control 600 million tomorrow!

Don't do too much to treat the symptoms instead of the root cause. The symptoms and the root cause must be treated together.

Start from this moment.

The brainwashed psychic felt the danger from Chen Ming in a real sense today.

He didn't dare to waste time responding to Chen Ming. He could only desperately think of a better way to get out than the last time.

But at this critical moment, he couldn't think of a suitable method at all. He could only continue to use the old method to tear open a small piece of the divine brain in his consciousness space to split out a smaller brain, so that the consciousness link between Chen Ming and him could be transferred to the small brain.

Such a split meant that Chen Ming could see the face inside the brainwashed psychic's brain clearly.

The facial information can be directly transmitted by Chen Ming to the Queen of Insects, and then stored in the storage unit by the Queen of Insects, and repaired immediately.

Then submit the repaired photo data to the Minister of Psychic Power, and let him search the Empire database to confirm the location of each person.

Anyway, the situation of the people controlled by the brainwashed psychic has been completely exposed by the Empire, and there is no need to hide it.

Now all we have to do is to arrest all these people without leaving any.

It's just that the troubles encountered this time will be more than Chen Ming's own.

But this is the Empire's own business.

Chen Ming's goal is always the brainwashed psychic itself.

Although the brainwashed psychic barely escaped from the consciousness space by separating the brain, he escaped from Chen Ming's pursuit.

But he didn't have time to be happy, the next moment, Chen Ming's figure appeared next to a body he controlled.

Without saying a word, Chen Ming once again stabbed his mental power into the body, once again building a mental link between him and the brainwashed psychic, dragging each other into the consciousness space.

This is the disadvantage of the hive mind network. Every time the separation occurs, the "thread" of consciousness and psychic energy will be broken at the end.

Before this thread is completely broken, it is enough for the boss to help Chen Ming find the next person who is related to the consciousness of the brainwashed psychic, so that Chen Ming can continue to chase him.

Just separating a part of the brain cannot get rid of Chen Ming's pursuit.

And this time when Chen Ming chased him.

The brainwashed psychic did not separate the small brain directly.

Instead, he said to Chen Ming: "You know that every time you do this, someone will die, right?"

"I know, but they are all killed by you. If you die honestly, won't they die?"

Chen Ming was not affected by any words at all, and his mental power rushed towards the brainwashed psychic mercilessly.

The brainwashed psychic could only be forced to give up part of his brain again and get out.

If he was really caught by Chen Ming, he would definitely die.

And this time he deliberately talked to Chen Ming just to adjust the position of the head inside the brain of his consciousness space symbol.

So that some unimportant people can be exposed first, and protect the other important people under his control.

He successfully actively adjusted the position of the face, and once again escaped from Chen Ming's tracking.

But then, Chen Ming appeared next to a body in the empire he controlled like a ghost.

And this time, Chen Ming did not give him the opportunity to talk nonsense again, and the brainwashed psychic could only be forced to tear his brain again, and he didn't even have time to adjust the position of the face.

Even if the brainwashed psychic personally controlled so many people, it was unlikely that he would be sure who was in the brain that constituted the symbol of his consciousness space.

At most, he confirmed some really critical tasks, and roughly divided out a part of the space, and divided people of different importance into different areas of his consciousness space brain.

When he divided the brain, he couldn't confirm how many people he protected. He could only roughly know that he must have lost a lot of important people.

But at this moment, he didn't dare to think too much, nor did he dare to resist at all.

He could feel that a force independent of Chen Ming was madly tracking him.

As long as he dared to hesitate for a moment, he would be completely locked by this force.

"Wu An..."

Outside the consciousness space.

Chen Ming barely got some news from the outside world through the Queen of Insects and the Afterglows.

As he hunted down the brainwashed psychic, a large number of casualties occurred in the empire.

There was almost no way to suppress the news of casualties, because a small number of people suddenly died on almost every planet in the empire.

And what was even more troublesome and terrifying was that all the people in a galaxy in a prosperous star field in the empire died almost at the same time.

The tragic situation was telling the terrifying coverage rate of the brainwashed psychic's psychic power.

And this was only a small matter.

Because as the loss of personnel increased.

The number of Afterglow cores originally prepared by the empire was a little insufficient.

And some of the empire's Afterglow cores were indeed affected by the psychic power of the brainwashed psychic.

Chen Ming's Afterglow core was already trying its best to fill the gap, but before the core was dispatched, there would still be many places that lost government control.

After losing government management, all kinds of bad things happened at the same time in almost every corner of the empire.

The Empire can only rely on the top psychics of the Empire and the garrisons in different places to use force to supervise different star systems.

The number of people who died because of Zuo Jing may not even be as many as the number of deaths caused by the subsequent chaos.

However, when Chen Ming asked the Minister of Psychic Power through Yuhui whether he needed additional help, he was rejected.

It was said that the Empire had the ability to solve these small problems.

Then Chen Ming was relieved, and he could continue to track the brainwashed psychic.

And just when he once again established a mental link with the brainwashed psychic.

The brainwashed psychic suddenly shouted at Chen Ming: "Wait! I admit it!"

At this time, the size of his brain was less than one-third of the previous one, and the consciousness space exuded the meaning of mental exhaustion.

But Chen Ming did not listen to him at all, and continued to rush towards him with full spirit.

No matter what he said today, it would not be possible for Chen Ming to give up the opportunity to kill the brainwashed psychic.

This is the best chance to kill him.

The brainwashed psychic also understood Chen Ming's thoughts.

He knew that he had no chance to bargain.

The brain in his consciousness space suddenly split open completely, exposing the real head of the brainwashed psychic inside.

Chen Ming was about to chase.

The split brain of the brainwashed psychic alone formed a new complete brain.

Compared with the previous small brains, this brain contains all the people controlled by the brainwashed psychic.

All the remaining people who are still controlled by him are in it.

He abandoned all his controlled objects and only wanted to escape.

The bald head disappeared in the consciousness space in an instant.

The boss also told Chen Ming the coordinates of the next location where the brainwashed psychic was found through the mental connection with Chen Ming.

But... the location of this coordinate is after the wormhole.

The brainwashed psychic really abandoned everything in the empire. Maybe even including his own body.

He pinned his hopes on the leader of the negative matter group who had escaped from Chen Ming's colony some time ago.

If it was someone else, it would be easy to deal with, but Chen Ming had no way to track this person down in a short time.

"What a pity."

Chen Ming really had no way to track down the person who was the first to be exposed and the first to escape from his influence.

But at least as the brainwashed psychic survived, his influence within the empire had been completely wiped out.

What Chen Ming did had solved a major concern for the empire.

The concept of the left path was truly completely wiped out from the empire.