Chapter 435 Lost Contact

Gaia space station.

Office of the Deputy Director.

Lu Kang, who had climbed up from Chen Ming's deputy to the position of deputy director of the Extraordinary Research Institute, was doing his daily work when he suddenly heard a knock on the door.

"Please come in."

The office door was pushed open, and Lu Kang stood up as soon as he saw the person coming: "Minister Luo, why are you here?"

The psychic minister opened the door, took a look, and said, "Let me ask where your director is."

"Director?"

Lu Kang said as if he was not sure: "The director often disappears for a few days. I'm used to it. If you can't get in touch, then it's even less likely that I can get in touch. "

The Minister of Psychics said slightly anxiously: "I have an urgent matter with him."

It was not convenient for him to tell others about the specific things. He wanted to contact Chen Ming personally.

But he couldn't contact Chen Ming at all now, so he could only come in person and ask the person who was most likely to know where Chen Ming had gone.

Lu Kang actually discovered that Chen Ming was missing when he went to work today.

Because he is the one who really runs the Institute of Management.

Chen Ming does not have the tens of thousands of people in the Institute of Free Time Management. Even now, Chen Ming is not sure whether it is tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands.

Even with the assistance of Afterglow Core, it takes a lot of energy.

Of course, this kind of matter is left to the deputy director.

Lu Kang also enjoyed this.

So he can see Chen Ming's schedule.

Although Chen Ming may not necessarily do things according to the schedule, he can still roughly know what Chen Ming does every day.

When Chen Ming loses contact intermittently, Lu Kang usually checks Chen Ming's schedule, roughly guesses what Chen Ming is doing, and adjusts the time for some work that requires Chen Ming to interact with others.

Therefore, when he went to work today and found out that Chen Ming was missing, he went to check that the last place Chen Ming went to was the giant shipyard.

He also specifically asked the ship director and learned that Chen Ming had left temporarily because of scarlet problems.

He didn't pay too much attention to things involving psychic powers.

But since the Minister of Imperial Psychics came to ask questions in person, he couldn't not even tell these things.

Chen Ming never said that his whereabouts should be kept absolutely confidential. The Minister of Psychics often came here and Lu Kang had seen him more than once.

So Lu Kang directly conveyed the news he learned today to the minister.

Although this can't change the situation of still being unable to contact Chen Ming, you can at least ask Chen Ming where he went.

Lu Kang and the minister ran to the giant shipyard, and then returned to the Gaia Space Station from the giant shipyard and ran to Tian Zhang's office.

After learning from Tian Xiang the coordinates of the scarlet-infected planet and what Chen Ming said "may be related to brainwashing psykers".

The psychic minister left Chen Ming's territory alone.

Contacted the president.

"Do me a favor."

Ten minutes later.

The minister and the president took a shuttle boat and used the president's space psychic energy to directly reach the target galaxy.

Out of caution against Scarlet, the shuttle first stopped at the edge of the galaxy.

Just by stopping here, the two of them had already discovered the planet in the galaxy that was in the habitable zone and was completely infected by scarlet and surrounded by scarlet rifts.

The fissure growing here like a tumor is constantly overflowing with a scarlet power.

However, this aura of power does not have the nature of the Scarlet Dimension that devours and assimilates everything.

The president said based on his understanding of the scarlet dimension and scarlet power: "This space has been transformed by the scarlet dimension, but Chen Ming's scarlet power is locked outside this area."

"He's definitely been here, and he's probably right behind here."

The psychic minister was a little bit impatient, but he restrained his thoughts and said: "But we can't go in."

"Did you feel it too?"

"Well, there's something pretty troublesome behind this."

Both the minister and the president felt the trembling of the spiritual nerves in their respective brains, suppressing the sense of danger brought about by the sense of danger that every psyker has more or less.

"This is not just a simple matter of trouble."

The minister could clearly feel that there was something extremely terrifying in this crack sealed by Chen Ming's power.

The president agreed with the minister's idea and said: "It should be that thing that held Chen Ming down so that he couldn't escape, but he should be fine for the time being."

Chen Ming's spiritual energy protected the rift, and the afterglows he controlled were still functioning normally.

This basically proves that Chen Mingren is absolutely fine.

Otherwise... the situation might not be ideal.

Of course, even if something happens that no one wants to see, Yuhui still has the possibility of following Chen Ming's ideas.

Therefore, both the president and the Minister of Psychics actually have another reason why they are sure that Chen Ming is not dead but have not spoken out.

That is the existence of the insect queen.

The two of them had long suspected the relationship between Chen Ming and An Wuping.

The president heard some hints from Wu An, and the psychic minister also heard the words "Chen Ming is An Wuping" from the brainwashed psychic.

Previously, the minister had regarded the words of the brainwashed psychic as pure farts, but hearing such words would still make people subconsciously pay attention.

Moreover, the minister also went to ask about An Wuping's situation today.

An Wuping, who could occasionally be seen in Fan Chao's biology laboratory, also disappeared after Chen Ming lost contact.

So the minister probably had a guess in mind about this matter. But he won't tell the truth.

As long as the Zerg are not in chaos, then Chen Ming is definitely not dead yet.

But where is he?

Is it within the sealed space of this infected normal universe, or somewhere in the scarlet?

The Minister of Psychic Power suddenly said: "The Tian Xiang we just met, his psionic effect..."

"no."

The president immediately asked the minister to suppress his thoughts and said: "Chen Ming specifically told me about this matter, saying that Tian Xiang has not grown up enough to contact the scarlet dimension."

"He also said that he can handle Scarlet now, but in the future, to completely solve Scarlet, Tian Xian must rely on him, and he must not be exposed to the risk of overexposure too early."

Don't think of Tian Xian as Chen Ming. He has only awakened his spiritual power for a few months and his growth rate is not that fast. "

"It seems that Chen Ming has indeed managed to hold it. At least the scarlet here has not escaped his control."

"We can't let Tian Xuan come into direct contact with these things."

The minister of psychic energy still didn't want to give up: "We need Chen Ming very much now."

“There are some things you can’t just rely on him.”

"Without him, would we have to wait to die?"

"Go back, we should be very busy later."

The president spoke in a somewhat tough tone at this time.

After all, Tian Xian was considered a member of the psychic association brought by Chen Ming. He knew that Tian Xian was the hope of completely dealing with Scarlet and absolutely could not make any mistakes.

Even if they had the ability to pass through this strange scarlet rift, it was impossible for them to solve the trouble in the rift and bring Chen Ming back.

The minister stood beside the president, feeling that the power of space was about to take effect.

He sighed and said: "I will go to the centralized meeting of my high-level representatives later and ask all the border star regions to jointly issue an announcement to declare a full transition to wartime status."

"Evacuate the population of the border star system and gather it in the capital of the star field to prepare for emergency migration to the star field deep inside the territory. The preparations made before can be used now."

"Wu An is still on that pirate space station, right? Let him evacuate too."

The president shook his head and said: "He has his own ideas, and I can't persuade him. And is this kind of cowardice before fighting really good?"

"We can't expect to win from the beginning. Instead, we need to exchange space and time for intelligence to figure out the gap between the size of the machine clan and our combat effectiveness."

"With Chen Ming, we can be bolder, but without him, everything will have to become more conservative."

If Chen Ming is here, it will indeed make the empire much more convenient when doing things, and it will allow the empire to relax its hands and feet when facing the machine race.

But you can’t expect just one person to do everything.

"There may be some bad voices at your meeting."

The minister's expression darkened.

He could already imagine that some people would say at the meeting that Chen Ming had deliberately lost contact at this time.

"I'll take care of it."

"I hope so, and I hope Chen Ming can come back soon."

One month later.

April 13, 5605 AD.

Gallo Star Region, Gallo-2 Star Region.

Pirate space station.

The once lively pirate space station is now deserted.

After the war between the Empire's mechanical tribes officially began, and along with the wave of the Empire's withdrawal of the population from the border star fields, many people with unclear identities who had been stationed in the pirate space for a long time also took the opportunity to leave here.

The interior of the space arm, which originally contained various industrial facilities, has been completely dismantled. Only a small amount of equipment that maintains the space station's life-support system has not been dismantled, ensuring the survival of the few hundred people left on the space station.

In the space arm 2 of the space station, the industrial facilities that once spread throughout the space arm now only remain some ruins of buildings that are difficult to dismantle.

But the hardware store is still open here.

The factory director was in the hardware store at this time and said to Wu An behind the counter: "Everyone in the company has basically withdrawn. We are the last batch. When will we leave?"

Wu An raised his head and asked, "Have you finished packing everything?"

"I've finished packing. I've also packed up all the things Xiao Ming left behind. Nothing was left behind."

"Then let's do it today."

"Um."

The factory director responded and asked again: "Is there still no news about him?"

"No."

The factory director's expression was full of regret, but he was also relieved.

For a missing person, no news is the second best news.

"Why on earth would this happen?"

"No one knows."

The hardware store fell silent.

Wu An has also been paying attention to Chen Ming's affairs in the past month.

He knew that Chen Ming was probably trapped in the rift on that planet.

Many people sent equipment and arranged it nearby to investigate from the outside what was going on inside.

But the results are not ideal.

"Director."

The silence in the hardware store was suddenly interrupted.

Following the sound, the factory director turned to look at the door of the hardware store and saw a shiny bald head.

"Why are you here? How is your wife?"

"Fortunately, the injury is stable and he will not die."

"That's good."

The bald head glanced at the TV on the wall next to the hardware store that barely had a signal.

At this time, the news was playing that the evacuation fleet of the Garo star field was attacked by the mechanical tribe.

"It's a good thing that I saw the news that the empire was going to evacuate people from the border and sold my house and bought a spaceship, otherwise I would have died outside by now."

The factory director also saw the news and asked: "So what happened to you? Didn't you move to the next door? You are not in Garo."

"You don't know yet?"

"The news hasn't come out yet, and I don't have any internal information to respond."

"Oh, of course I came here because the next door is also uneasy."

The bald man sighed and said: "I heard that the front line was still dragged on Garo, but who would have thought that there was a mechanical tribe The fleet went straight through the defense line and ran to my side."

"Originally, our evacuation plan had just begun to be implemented, but who would have thought that the mechanical race would be right in front of us."

"I heard that there is a spaceship that is bigger than the colossus of the mechanical race. It can't be considered a spaceship, but a mobile space station. Our army can't defeat it at all."

"Several evacuation points have rioted, and everyone wants to get on the evacuation ship as soon as possible."

"If I didn't have my own spaceship, I might have died in the riot, but my wife was still injured by a few crazy people in the riot."

"It's good to be alive."

The bald man nodded: "It's good to be alive. OK. "

"Is it the same in other places?"

"No." The factory manager denied, "Only our side was attacked the most severely."

"But I heard that other places have already started to evacuate people from the outer second ring star field, and the situation in those places should be worse."

The factory manager explained, "That's because we have Baiquan to support us. He bought a lot of time for Jialuo to retreat. Other places have started to evacuate the outer second ring, and we haven't been penetrated by the mechanical tribe before."

"As a result, there is still a chance for the mechanical tribe to cross over."

"Jialo is finished, no one can save him."

"Ten All four legions can't do it?"

"No." The factory director responded decisively: "Their hometown was also invaded. I was surprised that Baiquan stayed in Jialuo."

"But now Jialuo has been directly penetrated by a fleet from nowhere. There is no point in protecting Jialuo. He will definitely withdraw soon. I just don't know how much they have lost."

"It will definitely not be too small. No matter how good the 14th Legion is, it is still a human being..."

The bald man has seen the harm caused by internal riots to people themselves. He knows very well that the harm and pain brought to people by the mechanical race will only be more severe.

"After us..."

"Go to Chen Ming." Wu An suddenly spoke.

"Soon the communication here will be completely cut off. We have to go to a safe enough place."

"Even if he has no news now, his place is definitely the safest place."

The factory director said: "It's ready. Only the space station can't be moved."

"As for the space station..."

"Blow it up."

"Don't leave anything for the mechanical race."