Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station

Soon after.

The Minister of Psychic Energy took the unconscious Tian Zhan and Chen Ming's body through the star gate to the current Origin Galaxy.

He used himself as a cover to completely cover up all the news about Chen Ming.

The accuracy of the sentinel array is not high enough to see whether a person's eyes are empty, and his behavior is effective.

So far, everyone except the minister in the entire empire still thinks that Chen Ming is really back and has repelled the queen.

But for some unknown reason and consideration, Chen Ming chose to return to his colony.

As for the minister, in addition to some excitement about Chen Ming's return at the beginning, he learned about Chen Ming's true situation through Tian Zhan's mouth.

He understood that Chen Ming's news must not be announced.

It is not good news that Chen Ming only has his body back, at least for most people.

Because the body is just a tool, there is a possibility that the tool can be restrained.

At present, many people have already reacted and want to learn about Chen Ming's current situation through the minister's way.

The minister couldn't tell the truth, so he chose the same approach as Chen Ming's colony leaders.

No matter.

That is, pretend to be dead.

Completely ignore other people's thoughts and attitudes, just to conceal the situation.

This approach is not a good approach, but it is indeed an approach that will not have much impact in the short term.

As long as Chen Ming's subordinates continue to try to bring Chen Ming's consciousness out of that chaotic space, the negative impact of this approach in the future can be minimized.

If it can't be brought out, then humanity is basically finished.

Even if Chen Ming's body is still there.

God knows whether the queen will find a way to target Chen Ming's body after returning.

If she really finds it, there is no need to worry about the subsequent problems without Chen Ming's consciousness returning to the body to counter.

So, the minister did the same.

He has analyzed the pros and cons of the matter clearly, and he certainly knows what to do right.

And he will also contribute to the search for Chen Ming's consciousness.

Just like now.

Under his cover, Huihuang controlled Tian Zhan's spaceship and the shuttle after Chen Ming's body transformation through the star gate in the empire and successfully arrived at Chen Ming's colony.

The two spaceships landed in the newly built city on Gaia-2, which was only for the core members of the colony to settle.

After handing over the unconscious Tian Zhan and Chen Ming's body to Huihuang.

The minister did not leave, but followed the rescue shuttle sent by Huihuang to Gaia-2. Huihuang has not yet opened a hospital in the area because of the small population on Gaia-2.

He wanted to wait for Tian Zhan to wake up and talk to Tian Zhan more about Chen Ming's body.

No one and Yuhui stopped him from doing so.

While waiting, he was constantly sorting out the current situation in his mind.

Although Chen Ming only came back physically, it still gave the empire a big sigh of relief.

The desperate situation that the empire was facing seemed like a joke in front of Chen Ming.

Not only was the queen forced to retreat, but the mechanical race also seemed to have a solution.

Chen Ming would be finished if he just went to the mechanical tribe.

But this is all based on the premise that Chen Ming really came back.

At present, the empire has not changed its bad situation in a practical sense.

The empire can maintain a balance with the mechanical tribe for a long time, let's not talk about it for now.

But the empire still has no means to go out and target the queen. If the queen invades again next time, it can't just throw Chen Ming's body in front of the queen, right?

The empire must have a plan for the next step.

In fact, Tian Zhan has already laid out this plan.

He has proved that Chen Ming's consciousness has not disappeared, but encountered some accidents that caused his body to return to the normal universe earlier than him.

Under the premise that it has been clear that Chen Ming's body alone can force the queen back, isn't there only one thing left to do?

Bring back Chen Ming's consciousness.

How to enter that chaotic dimension? How to bring people out?

Also, Chen Ming finally raised his arm and showed the tattoo-like mark on his body that seemed to have never existed before. What does it mean?

Maybe he could discuss with Huihuang and do some research on Chen Ming's body...

Three hours later.

Tian Zhan opened his eyes.

He saw the pure white ceiling of the hospital, a nursing robot next to his bed, and the Minister of Psychic Power.

"Tian Zhan, there is something I want to discuss with you."

Tian Zhan propped himself up, leaned on the backrest of the bed, rubbed his face with his hand, trying to suppress his fatigue, but the effect was obviously not very good.

He shook his head and asked, "What is it?"

"I want to study Chen Ming's body."

Tian Zhan's first reaction was to refuse: "No, we can't do something we shouldn't do to his body."

"It's not an excessive study, I just want to see if there are some clues on his body that can find his consciousness."

"You also saw that Chen Ming showed us the mark on his body at the end. There must be some clues on his body, right?"

The minister said that there was indeed no problem. Not only had the special lines on Chen Ming’s body never been seen by anyone before, but they also helped his body to fully recover during the battle with the Queen.

Finally, when Chen Ming came back, he was conscious for a moment and took the initiative to bring it up, indicating that there must be a problem.

But Tian Xuan always felt that he seemed to have overlooked something. He always felt that doing so was not a good thing for Chen Ming or them.

He was thinking hard about the plan mentioned by the minister, but the pain that seemed to tear his brain was constantly affecting his thinking.

In the end, Tian Xiang gave up thinking and refused: "No, the Queen will definitely not come back in a short time after being repulsed this time. Can't the Empire find a way to solve the problem on its own?"

Although Tian Xiang lay down for three hours, the consumption of entering other dimensions through consciousness twice in a short period of time made his mental state very poor, and there was no way to recover in such a short time.

The minister did not continue to disturb Tian Xuan's rest and left the ward.

After leaving.

A brilliant voice sounded from the terminal in the minister's hand: "I told you, Tian Zhang will most likely not agree."

"And he is an important member of our team. It was his desperate efforts to bring back Chen Ming's body. We must respect his thoughts."

The minister also had some knowledge of the internal situation of Chen Ming's management, but he had to give it a try.

"He should understand later. Is there a place to stay? I don't plan to go back for the time being."

"You can just find a place to live in the city."

Brilliance has no intention of driving people away.

Obviously its ideas are not the same as Tian Xian's, but rather similar to the president's.

His attitude towards Chen Ming's body was relatively indifferent, and it was perfectly fine to use it for some research.

Because he had really seen Chen Ming do all kinds of things that had no human bottom line to the various clones created with his own genes.

In Chen Ming's own words, I have no influence on what I do, and these things are not even clones, they are all transformed from insects.

Huihuang was once worried that Chen Ming would lower his bottom line because of these things.

Fortunately, Chen Ming has never done anything out of the ordinary to anyone or anything other than his own clones.

But this has little relevance now.

But in short, because Chen Ming had done similar things before, Huihuang didn't mind it when conducting various studies on Chen Ming's body.

Just now when the minister came to inquire when Tian Xian was unconscious, it also agreed immediately.

As long as Chen Ming's consciousness can be brought back, it doesn't matter if the body is damaged.

Chaofan Na, who was also very interested in Chen Ming's body, was even more excited.

It has also seen Chen Ming use his clone body to do various things, so it basically has the same idea as Hui Hui when it comes to experimenting with Chen Ming's body, or even more radical.

However, Chaofan was sent away by Huihuang, and it was left to Huihuang himself to handle Chen Ming's matter.

As it just said, it needs to respect Tian Xuan's ideas.

Therefore, even if it agrees, it cannot start the experiment directly. It needs to consider how to persuade Tian Xian and how to study Chen Ming's body in the future.

but……

If you want to study something, you really need to convince Tian Xian first.

But if we just conduct basic observation and research on Chen Ming's body, it will have no impact at all, so just do it casually.

Only by observing and clarifying the general situation can we have better reasons to persuade Tian Qiang.

Two days later.

Tian Xiang wakes up from coma.

Being in Gaia and having the same source of power allowed him to recover quickly.

Then, he was called by Huihuang to a research institute in an unopened area on Gaia-2.

Tian Xuan arrived at the place quickly.

After entering the research institute and arriving at the experimental area, they found that Chen Ming's body was placed safely on an experimental table, with a lot of equipment surrounding the experimental table.

Tian Xuan was not angry because of this situation.

Because judging from his increased understanding of various life states through Gaia.

It is true that Chen Ming's body has not been subjected to experiments, the equipment is only for observation.

In addition to Chen Ming's body and equipment, the minister of psychic energy was also here, saying hello to Tian Xiang: "Here he comes."

Tian Xian nodded, walked to the edge of the experimental table and asked, "Is there anything you want to tell me?"

"have."

This time it was not the words of the minister, but the brilliant voice that sounded in the laboratory.

"I want to persuade you to agree to experiments on Chen Ming's body."

"What's the reason?"

"You'll know right away, just wait."

"How long?"

"Three seconds."

The glorious words fell.

Tian Xian saw the spiral mark on the right hand of Chen Ming's body lying on the experimental table suddenly light up.

Just like when his body was torn apart by the Queen's power.

It's just that... when the mark turned dark again, Tian Xian didn't notice any changes in Chen Ming's body.

The surrounding observation equipment was activated again to examine Chen Ming's body after what had just happened.

Huihuang did not continue to sell things, and handed Tian Xian several documents, all of which contained observation reports on Chen Ming's body.

It explained: "This has happened four times during your two days off."

"Although it seems that there is no change every time the mark lights up, his physical condition will actually recover."

Tian Zhan could understand the word "recover", but he was a little confused when he heard the words "recover every time the mark lights up".

"What do you mean?"

"We observed that his cells recovered to a better state after the mark lit up."

"In the simplest terms, his life is flowing backwards."

The minister also spoke at this time: "We found traces of time reversal, and Chen Ming's body seems to be trapped in a time cycle."

"Judging from what we see now, about every twelve hours is a cycle, and at the end of each cycle, Chen Ming's body will return to twelve hours ago."

Tian Zhan glanced at Chen Ming's body that had just recovered to twelve hours ago and said: "This sounds good, this should be considered a disguised form of immortality."

The minister said again: "Brain cells will also recover to twelve hours ago."

Tian Zhan's face changed immediately.

This doesn't sound like a good thing.

Although Chen Ming does not rely on his body to survive, his consciousness already exists independently, but who knows whether the effect of this time reversal will affect his consciousness.

If so... could this be the reason why Chen Ming didn't come back?

The minister also expressed his thoughts again at this time: "We need to conduct in-depth research on this phenomenon, so that we may be able to figure out what happened to him."

Tian Zhan sighed and said: "In fact, I refused before not because of the research problem. I also know that there will be no chance without research."

"I am worried about the researcher problem."

Who should conduct the research on Chen Ming's body?

At present, Chen Ming's colony has sufficient equipment but not enough personnel.

Even if Chen Ming has been trying hard to recruit people, and even after he lost contact, Huihuang has been desperately recruiting people, there are still not enough people.

The strongest psychic in the entire colony before was Wu An, and after Wu An died, he became Tian Zhan directly.

They lack psychic manpower, and even more lack psychic research manpower.

People who understand psychic power must be transferred from other places.

"So if you want to study, you can, but you must bring the person to us for research, and it must be conducted in our colony. We can't give Chen Ming's body to anyone."

"And confidentiality must be done well. If the news leaks, the consequences will be disastrous."

After getting Tian Zhan's reply, the minister immediately said: "I can guarantee you that the news will never be leaked from me or any other channels related to me. I also know the consequences of news leaks."

In order to prove his attitude, he even contacted the Grand Archon directly on the spot with his private number.

The Grand Archon was also very curious about what the minister was doing in Chen Ming's place these two days, and wanted to confirm Chen Ming's attitude by the way.

After all, Chen Ming had clearly returned but had not been seen for several days. Apart from anything else, he should at least go back to the empire to see Bai Quan and Cheng Xinghai after he came back.

But he didn't, so the Grand Archon has been very worried about this.

However, the minister did not say anything about this, but simply asked for the personnel dispatch authority of Fan Chao.

Moreover, he also followed the template to get a newly drafted contract document, which required the signing of a confidentiality agreement after the assignment, and a closed management agreement of at least two months.

He said that the assigned personnel would be required to sign it later.

This strange request was of course questioned by the Archon: "What do you want to do?"

"Do what I think is the most important thing."

"The most important?"

"The most important."

"Then do as you say."