Chapter 82: Changes in Whispering, Illusory Figures

After the Iron Ore was successfully on the route.

Because of the previous conversation with the boss, Chen Ming planned to try to contact the Whispering Stone more often in his daily life as the boss said.

Maybe in the future, he can directly rely on psychic fluctuations to activate the range effect of the Spirit Stone like the boss.

Although the activation effect of the whispering seems to be a bit wrong, it will also affect the activator himself.

But there must be a way to solve this, otherwise the boss would not mention the concept of psychic weapons.

Like the boss's "gentle" Spirit Stone, it is definitely not as suitable as Chen Ming's "Whispering" as a weapon.

So Chen Ming took advantage of the spaceship being halfway and Lao Wu was playing with Xiao Shi to come to the engine room.

However, when Chen Ming took out the Whispering Spirit Stone sealed in the tin can.

He suddenly found that the Whispering Stone, which had been sealed, had undergone some unexpected changes.

The most obvious thing is that the twisted black patterns on the stone itself have all turned into a dark red pattern like blood coagulation.

Moreover, these changed patterns are more distorted than before, and people can feel obvious discomfort when looking at them with the naked eye.

After actually getting close to the spirit stone, Chen Ming can directly feel the irritating whispering without even touching it.

Realizing that something is wrong, Chen Ming immediately turned back and put on a heavy protective suit.

Approaching carefully, and after feeling that the influence range of the whispering stone has increased, he carefully stretched out a finger and pressed it.

Just when Chen Ming just touched the spirit stone, a whispering sound that was stronger and more difficult to suppress than before sounded in his ears.

If touching the spirit stone before was like a madman whispering in Chen Ming's ear, then now it was like a group of madmen were stuffed into Chen Ming's head, telling their delirium.

The strong whispering stimulated Chen Ming's brain, causing him to let go of his hand immediately.

The whispering faded, but Chen Ming's brows were still furrowed.

He didn't just hear crazy whispers, he also saw something in the whispers, something visible to the naked eye.

It seemed like a person was shot dead with a gun against his head.

The gun itself and the person holding the gun were very blurry, but the appearance of the person who was killed was very clear.

A middle-aged man with a mustache, fair-skinned, thin, and about 1.75 meters tall.

He was wearing a more formal work suit, which looked like it was velvet and very warm.

In addition, this person's pocket was slightly bulging.

At the moment he fell to the ground, a thumb-sized stone rolled out of his pocket.

Although Chen Ming couldn't see the specific appearance of the stone, nor the pattern on it.

But he was sure.

This was also a spiritual stone.

Although this scene was extremely real.

But Chen Ming still couldn't be sure if this was an illusion caused by the whispers.

After thinking about it, he directly opened the panel and took a look.

What he didn't expect was that the spirit stone on the panel actually changed.

The original [Spirit Stone (Whisper)] became [Spirit Stone (Falsehood)], and the change in the name alone made people feel even more uncomfortable.

However, the 16 grams of spirit energy obtained by disassembling this spirit stone was still the original, without any change.

Chen Ming shook his head to get rid of the aftermath of the whisper in his mind, thinking about what reasonable explanation could explain the sudden change of the Whispering Stone.

After thinking about it for a while, Chen Ming felt that the most likely cause of the current situation should be the corpses in the coffin.

The appearance of these corpses was the most obvious and most likely to be related to the change of the Whispering Stone on the Iron Ore spacecraft in the near future.

But what is the truth? Chen Ming, a half-baked psychic, can't come to a correct conclusion at all.

Old Wu, an ordinary person, certainly doesn't know about this.

Although Xiao Shi seems to be sensitive to psychic energy, it is just a hamster and can't do anything.

If Chen Ming wants to know the answer, he can only ask the boss for help.

But now the Iron Ore is in the hyperspace channel, and there are no large signal adapters in the space station or colony around, so there is no way to connect to the star field network.

There is no way to contact the boss.

Fortunately, after the Whispering Stone became the Liar Stone, except for the abnormality when contacted, the only other thing that happened was that the range of influence of the whispering only increased a little.

As long as the stone is placed in the corner of the engine compartment, it will not affect other parts of the spacecraft.

Chen Ming also spent some time observing it and confirmed that the range of influence of this stone will not continue to expand.

It should not be a big problem to contact the boss after arriving at the star field capital galaxy.

And Chen Ming will only spend two days at most this time, so he will talk about it when he returns.

Chen Ming doesn't need this much time.

Of course, to be on the safe side, Chen Ming finally threw the Whispering Stone directly onto the Mule.

Stay away from the coffin, stay away from the Iron Ore, stay away from Gamma B, and stay away from Chen Ming himself.

From the space station to the dark cemetery, from entering the hyperspace channel to exiting the hyperspace channel, including the time for acceleration in the middle, it only takes less than one minute.

And it took Chen Ming more than six hours to reach the star system where the star government is located from the dark cemetery.

And as Chen Ming's spaceship approached the star capital, many other spaceships passed by around the channel.

Most of them were caravan spaceships, but there were also some that looked like bounty hunter spaceships, and even military spaceships Chen Ming saw some.

So that his Gladiator Modified was a little inconspicuous.

But this was also good news for Chen Ming.

Before Chen Ming controlled the spaceship to jump out of the hyperspace channel and head to the star system, he turned on the spaceship transponder in advance.

In case they are targeted by patrols and cause trouble as soon as they enter.

The four spaceships quickly jumped out of the hyperspace channel and arrived at the edge of the galaxy of the RJW star system, the capital of the star region.

Here, Chen Ming can see the situation inside the galaxy at a glance.

This is a galaxy with seven planets.

It revolves around the yellow dwarf star named RJW located in the center of the galaxy.

The seven planets in the galaxy from the inside to the outside are two high-temperature planets close to the star.

A bare, earthy brown and barren planet.

One is half covered in white, and the other half is white except for some green in the equator.

This planet is where the colony of the capital of the star region is located.

Further out is a planet with red flames.

And on the outermost side are a gas giant and an ice giant.

The sensors of the Iron Mine show that these planets have built space stations of different shapes and functions in their orbits around the stars.

And every space station and every planet surface, there are a large number of spacecraft taking off and landing every moment.

At the same time, there are more flying out of the galaxy.

This scene is more than Yuhui's colony.

In addition to these signs of development and vitality within the galaxy.

What attracts Chen Ming's attention most in the entire galaxy is the crystallization of human technology built on the orbit of the fourth planet in the galaxy, the star gate.

Here is the capital of the Galo star field where Chen Ming is currently located.

Here, Chen Ming seems to be able to see a glimpse of the prosperity of the star field.

Chen Ming turned off the automatic driving, manually controlled the Iron Ore and took the other three ships to approach the space station on the white habitable planet in the galaxy.

He had done some homework before.

The functions of the outer space stations surrounding the colony planet are basically the same as those of the space stations on Yuhui's side.

It is a small branch of a colony.

Complete some simple tasks here, or provide some supplies for passing spacecraft.

It saves people time by not having to land on the planet for a small matter.

But it doesn't work for pirate bounties.

Chen Ming still has to go to the surface of the planet and go to the government's professional agency to carry out follow-up operations.

If the Iron Ore had not been modified with a militarized system, it would have only needed to apply to land directly.

But now, the several armed spacecraft that Chen Ming brought can only temporarily dock in the space station.

He can go up and down the space station and the surface by himself through the space elevator or the public personnel transport ship provided by the space station.

Otherwise, if he violates the rules and directly breaks into the atmosphere of the planet, the heavy defense array weapons deployed on the surface are no joke.

As the several spacecraft controlled by Chen Ming gradually approached the space station on the orbit of the white planet.

Chen Ming took the initiative to send an entry request to the space station.

Then the communication from the space station came.

After the call was connected, a gentle female voice sounded in the communication channel: "Hello, please explain your purpose so that we can register your spacecraft."

"Submit the bounty."

"Okay, your identity and purpose have been recorded, please follow the signal light to enter the dock."

In less than a few minutes, Chen Ming successfully parked all four ships in the dock of the space station.

Two maps were quickly sent over the network of the space station.

One map of the space station and one map of the surface.

The places where Chen Ming needed to pay the bounty were specially marked on it, which was very humane.

As before, Chen Ming stuffed the small stone into the protective suit helmet and took it down the Iron Ore.

Looking at the architectural style around and the pirate space station, which was somewhat different.

Chen Ming looked at it more with some interest, but as he looked, he suddenly thought of a very realistic problem.

He turned his head and looked at Old Wu, who had a comfortable expression on his face as if he had been relieved from his busy work, and asked: "By the way, how much is the parking fee at the space station?"

"With your current wealth, do you still care about this parking fee?"

"Oh, that's right."

Chen Ming nodded and followed the map to the location of the space elevator connecting the space station and the surface of the planet.

After waiting for a few minutes and passing through security checks, he boarded this thing that he had only seen in science fiction movies.

During the descent of the elevator, Chen Ming could even see through the transparent porthole next to him that the almost flat surface of the planet was getting closer and closer.

And when passing through the atmosphere, Chen Ming could even see the heavy snow outside.

This is the origin of the white color of the planet.

Protective clothing can keep warm in the space environment, so this low temperature that is acceptable to humans is naturally no problem.

At this time, Old Wu suddenly said like a tour guide: "Although this planet has snow all year round, the temperature at the equator is above 20 degrees Celsius for four months a year, so it is also considered a habitable planet."

"Originally, there would be no colonies on such planets. After all, there are many good habitable planets, but the other planets in the galaxy are too good."

When Chen Ming heard Old Wu's chatter, he remembered the situation of Yuhui's colony before. After comparing the development gap between the two sides, he asked with great interest: "How good is it?"

Old Wu suddenly seemed to be excited and said: "The galaxy The two innermost planets contain a large amount of common metal resources and advanced metal resources. "

"Being close to the star results in a high temperature environment, and there is no need to worry about pollution due to the lack of atmosphere, which has a unique advantage when building industrial smelting equipment."

"The two outermost giant planets, a gas giant and an ice giant, can provide a large amount of rare isotopes such as deuterium that can be used in industry."

"Although the remaining two planets are relatively ordinary, they also have resources worth developing."

"That barren planet was once a habitable planet, and the rock layers inside contain a lot of Fossils can be studied. "

"Although the planet with violent geological changes and volcanoes everywhere has no development value, the patrol headquarters of the galaxy is built on it."

Chen Ming also asked in confusion: "The patrol headquarters of the galaxy is built in such a harsh environment?"

"Yes, in fact, most galaxy governments that can build patrol headquarters will choose to build patrol headquarters on volcanic planets in the galaxy if possible."

"I don't know much about this aspect. Why is this?"

Old Wu smiled at Chen Ming and said, "Hey, I don't know either."

"In short, because of the relationship with those other planets, the star domain government finally settled on the only habitable planet in the galaxy."

"This galaxy is simply a perfect galaxy template. It can almost achieve self-sufficiency in the galaxy alone."

"There should be no such galaxy in the surrounding thousands of light years."

Chen Ming turned his attention back to the heavy snow and asked, "How do you know so much?"

Old Wu shook the terminal in his hand with some pride and said, "Just checked."

"..."

The space elevator successfully arrived at the ground after a while.

Because the climate of the planet itself is a bit cold, most of the buildings with permanent residents are basically built on the equator.

The space elevator just goes directly to the equator and is not too far from the star domain government.

With the help of the transport robot carrying the coffin, Chen Ming and Old Wu quickly arrived at the government building.

Although it seemed that the sky outside was approaching night, the government departments continued to work.

According to the regulations of the empire, no matter what time the local time is, the working hours of all government departments must be stipulated according to the Earth standard time.

Anyway, with the level of human technology, when it gets dark, the worst that can happen is to add some more lighting.

Similarly, relying on technical means, the room can be as dark as at night during the day, which will not affect people's normal rest.

Such a unified plan is conducive to the flow of people between galaxies.

There is a security check at the gate of the government park, just like at the space elevator.

And the person in charge of the inspection is just like the person in charge of the security check of the space elevator. It seems that he didn't see what was lying in the coffin at all, and he just let Chen Ming go.

He even pointed to the place where Chen Ming was going to go next, the government police department.

Only the guard in charge of letting him go had clearly received the news that he was allowed to pass, but he seemed to want to say something, but he was immediately blocked by Lao Wu who stuffed something into his hand.

Chen Ming and Lao Wu still successfully entered the government park with the coffin and came to a separate small building next to the government building.

This is the Colony's Security Bureau.

There are several service windows next to it, all empty, and no one wants to do anything.

Chen Ming walked up and tapped the glass gently.

The clerk who was processing the documents raised his head and noticed the transport robot behind Chen Ming and the coffins on it, and said: "Hello, do you need to confirm the bounty?"

"Yes."

"Okay."

After receiving Chen Ming's affirmative answer, the clerk familiarly picked up a terminal from the side and tapped it a few times to show it to Chen Ming.

"Please scan it with your terminal, register your identity, and then prepare the required materials, such as combat records and videos, spaceship wreckage, etc."

"Also, please explain the person you need to collect the bounty from."

Chen Ming recalled the information he had written down before and said: "A pirate nicknamed Ascaris, his real name should be Liu Kang, with a bounty of 22 million, and his three men."

"There are no combat videos and spaceship wreckage, but we brought the body."

Chen Ming reached out and patted the metal coffin behind him.

After all, combat videos and records would expose his Yuhui ship, and things like spaceship wreckage have basically become materials.

Chen Ming still has use for the Mule-class destroyer, so it is impossible to hand it over. Besides, it has been repaired and has no value as evidence.

A trace of surprise flashed in the eyes of the clerk. Twenty-two million pirates is not a big deal, but it is not small either. It still has some weight.

He continued to type on the computer in front of him and said, "It's okay to bring only the bodies. Please wait a moment."

The clerk quickly printed a paper form and handed it to Chen Ming.

It recorded all the information Chen Ming just said.

"Please take this to the white building next to you. Someone will guide you after you enter."

"Yes."

When he walked out of the Security Bureau, Chen Ming suddenly found that he seemed to see a familiar figure flashing in the distance and disappeared outside the gate of the government park.

Chen Ming narrowed his eyes and wanted to take a closer look, but the figure seemed to have disappeared out of thin air.

He frowned slightly and ignored the man. He might have seen it wrong.

Chen Ming continued to follow the direction the clerk had just given him and found the white building that looked like a laboratory.

As soon as Chen Ming and Old Wu entered, a researcher in a white coat came up to greet them. He smiled and said to Chen Ming: "Hello, Mr. Mu, this is the pirate you want to hand over, right? Can we open it to confirm it?"

"No problem."

Chen Ming asked the transport robot to place several coffins flat on the ground, and reached out to press the corner of one of the coffins.

The coffin lid opened automatically, revealing the body of the pirate leader who was no longer in human form.

Fortunately, the metal coffin given by the boss was also equipped with a small freezing device to prevent the body from rotting, otherwise the situation Chen Ming saw now might be even worse.

Chen Ming couldn't help but whisper to Lao Wu beside him: "The boss looks very angry."

Lao Wu also whispered: "The colony that was built with a lot of money and connections is still in the development stage, and suddenly someone took away the supplies. You are also angry."

The researcher took the terminal and carefully looked at the body for a long time before barely recognizing that the things in the coffin and the person on the bounty list were the same person.

He put away the terminal and said to Chen Ming as if he was reciting a formula: "No problem, Mr. Mu, then we will take the body away."

The researcher didn't seem to have too many doubts. After all, Chen Ming and Lao Wu had registered their identities all the way here, and they had to come in person to collect the bounty.

If you want to cheat the bounty by using fake things instead of real ones, the final outcome will be a cell.

"We will conduct DNA tests on them and contact you after the results come out. We expect to give you a reply within one working day."

"As long as the verification is OK, you can go to the place where you did business before to collect the bounty."

"The bounty does not need to be taxed. If you are short of money when you collect it, you can go directly to the building to find the relevant department to complain."

After the researcher finished speaking, he immediately summoned a humanoid transport robot that was obviously more advanced than Chen Ming's spider-type transport robot technology, and took away several coffins together.

Chen Ming couldn't help but look at the robot a few more times. It was basically certain that this robot could not only transport, but also had no shortage of combat power.

This is the good stuff of the government.

Chen Ming is just jealous now, but he doesn't have any special ideas.

After leaving the government park, the somewhat depressed Old Wu suddenly seemed to be resurrected, and asked Chen Ming excitedly: "We still have one day, go and have some fun?"

Chen Ming considered Old Wu's suggestion. He really hadn't had a thorough rest for a long time.

It's not bad to think about relaxing for a day.

So Chen Ming did not refuse and replied: "Then you can tell me a place."

"I'll tell you. OK."

Old Wu thought for a moment and said, "I know a place you might be interested in."

"What place?"

"The black market."

Half an hour later.

Chen Ming and Old Wu took the bus to the black market that Old Wu mentioned.

Originally, Old Wu wanted to take a public shuttle, but because Chen Ming wanted to see more of this snowy city, they finally took the bus to get here.

Although the black market that Old Wu mentioned is called the black market, Chen Ming only discovered it after he actually arrived.

The black market is a commercial street that looks very prosperous.

Outside, you can see guards without identity badges maintaining order.

It is basically similar to an ordinary commercial street, except that the shops inside are basically large shops with large storefronts.