Chapter 256 An Wuping
The dimensional infection incident related to the left path made Chen Ming feel the same fear as before.
But after calming down, he suddenly found that the fear did not simply bring him fear.
While this fear was with him, he also inexplicably felt a little...excitement.
The excitement of being on the edge of danger made Chen Ming feel something indescribable.
He seemed to be expecting something to happen.
So after returning to the branch, Chen Ming would do those serious things honestly as soon as possible.
Just want to give himself some time to calm down, and take time to think after calming down.
As a result, Chen Ming confirmed that this feeling was not an illusion, but his real feeling.
He pursued stability when he was in danger, but he did want to pursue some excitement when he was stable.
Chen Ming felt a little contradictory.
At the beginning, he clearly pursued a stable life, but in the process of constantly encountering and solving dangers, he missed the feeling of being in danger.
As a result, the stable life he was living now was a bit boring for him compared to the past.
Moreover, Chen Ming found out in the process of thinking that there were some signs of his situation before.
For example, when the first temporary base was developed.
After the initial novelty wore off, all that was left was to look at the various surveyed data reported by Huihuang every day.
Chen Ming didn't even need to analyze the data himself. Huihuang had already processed all the valuable data when he took it out, and all the things that should be done would be done well, so he had nothing to do at all.
In addition to the regulation of the general direction, Chen Ming felt a little nauseous just by looking at the data.
Only when he helped some Yuhui individuals who encountered dangerous situations to escape from danger and repair the spacecraft could he barely feel a little interesting.
So Chen Ming took the initiative to develop the fake body technology later and let the fake body run to the 14th Corps.
And the 14th Corps is indeed more interesting than the almost unchanging development road.
Competing with nature, competing with the environment, and competing with people, it is definitely interesting to compete with people.
But in the same way, after the initial novelty wore off, the 14th Corps branch gradually became boring.
Although some people are indeed targeting him and Baiquan, they can basically use some ordinary means, which are reasonable means at the political level, or simply some insignificant means.
Only the time with Hu Yi really made Chen Ming feel that his adrenaline was stimulated and he became excited.
Although Chen Ming did not pay attention to his emotions when he fought with Hu Yi before, his attention was all on the surrounding volcanoes and using mental power to control the Purgatory Core to fight Hu Yi.
But now looking back, Chen Ming found that he was indeed excited about this matter.
Of course, there was also the time when the Black Mist Psychic sneaked into the spacecraft and tried to assassinate.
That time was an exception. After all, this was the first time that Zuo Jing took out the psychic, and it was also a rare opportunity for Chen Ming to confront a psychic head-on.
Speaking of confronting the psychic head-on, Chen Ming suddenly remembered the last time he confronted the psychic head-on, that is, when he fought with Yan Xiong.
He was on the field in person at that time, not with a fake body.
The excitement at that time is still unforgettable for Chen Ming when he recalls it now.
Of course, Chen Ming is not the kind of person who gets carried away by this feeling. He is always calm when doing things.
After all, if you really want to talk about boredom, the prosthesis has classes with Baiquan every day, and the main body still has to stare at the large amount of data transmitted back by Huihuang every day, and has to spend almost the entire day learning cruiser-level technology, which is even more boring, but he still insists.
Chen Ming only prefers the way he is more willing to accept in some optional things.
And at this moment, when the dimensional infection may lead to unpredictable serious consequences, and it is a serious consequence that no one can escape.
Chen Ming feels that he can participate in it.
It is not to satisfy his idea of actively seeking punishment for himself because his life is too good, but simply to find something to do.
Although there are other things that can distract his attention to a certain extent, such as the reconnaissance mission that Baiquan promised before and the upcoming war.
But a reconnaissance mission can only be completed in a few days at most, and the war will also take time to come.
From the official start of the war, even half a year may be considered short, and it will take longer to wait for the real war to start.
Moreover, Lou Wei's death happened recently, which caused Bai Quan to go back to the headquarters, which indirectly led to the fact that Chen Ming's investigation mission had to wait until Bai Quan came back.
So after finishing all the things that Chen Ming left for him to do so that he could calm down and examine himself, his mind was instantly filled with this matter again.
Under the influence of these factors, all Chen Ming could do now was to participate in this dimensional infection incident involving Zuo Jing.
Of course, Chen Ming still valued his life very much.
Although it was interesting to pursue excitement, death was also a truly terrifying thing.
The danger level of dimensional infection is definitely one of the top two in terms of the horror level of things Chen Ming has experienced.
The first one was when Chen Ming was almost killed by Yu Hui's tachyon spear in the space arm of the pirate space station.
So even if Chen Ming has this idea now, he will not do anything personally.
But if this matter is completely handed over to others to investigate, the efficiency, time, degree of danger, and whether the news will be transmitted back in time are all uncertain.
He must personally choose an indirect way to participate.
He only has one choice left.
Prosthesis.
It just so happens that the president has clearly stated that the dimensional infection marks the body that has experienced the dimensional infection event.
This body determines the location of another dimension and establishes a connection with another dimension, rather than a prosthesis with the same or different genes.
So in reality, as long as Chen Ming is not running around with his original body, even the prosthesis in the 14th Legion can participate.
But this matter is related to Zuo Jing.
Chen Ming knew that although Zuo Jing wanted to get rid of him as soon as possible, he would never take the initiative to cause trouble to him when there was no chance, especially after losing a psychic.
So the involvement of the prosthesis might have a counter-effect.
Moreover, the prosthesis is currently restricted by the rules of the 14th Legion and cannot run around. It needs to spend its days in the 14th Legion.
Therefore, both the main body and the prosthesis are restricted in a sense.
But Chen Ming has another choice.
He created and sent to the empire some time ago, another hybrid creature of the prosthesis and the special combat unit of the Zerg, An Wuping.
An Wuping is also one of his prostheses.
He has the genes and flesh and blood imitated by the Queen of the Zerg, and the ferocious creature hidden under the flesh and blood.
It is not impossible for such a guy to participate in this matter alone with the help of Chen Ming behind the scenes.
An Wuping happened to appear everywhere in the empire, which can also be regarded as a link that Chen Ming has been arranging.
But speaking of An Wuping, Chen Ming suddenly thought of something.
An Wuping is the product of the combination of the prosthesis created by the Queen of the Zerg and the special combat unit of the Zerg.
The process of making a prosthesis seems to have a certain similarity with the process of cloning.
And the fake body made is actually no different from the cloned person.
But the cloning process will cause dimensional infection, and the process of the Queen making a prosthesis has never happened before.
Chen Ming missed this point before, and it was not until now that he suddenly realized this problem, so he immediately looked at the Queen.
Then he suddenly realized that it was not just the process of making a prosthesis, but also the process of the Queen breeding new Zerg individuals.
Chen Ming remembered that the Queen would lay eggs before breeding new Zerg individuals.
After the eggs hatched into larvae, the Queen would put a relatively weak part of her consciousness in the Zerg hive mind into the larvae, and develop with the larvae, and then expand the size of the entire population.
Before the eggs hatched. There should be no ordinary Zerg consciousness inside, and even within a certain period of time after the larvae hatched, the larvae themselves should also be a simple Zerg body.
Why didn't the existence of another dimension target the Queen?
This question just emerged in Chen Ming's mind.
After devouring Chen Ming's condensed spiritual energy source, the Queen Worm, whose spiritual power was completely linked to Chen Ming, suddenly sent a consciousness and told Chen Ming the reason.
The Queen Worm will fill her consciousness into the eggs before hatching. Before the new Zerg consciousness enters the hatched larvae and the fragile consciousness adapts to the larvae's body, the Queen Worm's consciousness will not be withdrawn.
Therefore, there has never been a moment when the body of the individual Zerg does not have consciousness.
When Chen Ming continued to ask the Queen Worm the reason.
The Queen Worm's answer made Chen Ming feel a little unexpected, but thinking about it carefully, it was indeed reasonable.
It was instinct, and the instinct told the Queen Worm that it needed to do this.
Chen Ming continued to ask the Queen Worm if she had any memories related to this instinct.
The Queen Worm decisively denied it.
That's a bit interesting.
In the process of hatching eggs into larvae, if we don't look at the dimensional infection and only look at other environmental conditions, it is completely unnecessary for the Queen Worm's consciousness to exist in the eggs and larvae for protection.
But the Queen of Insects did it instinctively, and Chen Ming felt that the meaning of this was somewhat intriguing.
Even now.
After the Queen of Insects evolved from devouring the psychic fungus, her reproduction method has changed from simple oviparity to oviparity plus the breeding methods of various fungi.
And corresponding to the change in breeding methods, the technology of the biological building larvae incubation pool has almost matured, and larvae can be automatically hatched.
But Chen Ming found that even at this time, when the biological building hatched new Zerg larvae, the Queen of Insects would still use consciousness to control the biological building and instill part of her consciousness into these eggs and larvae.
Ensure that there is no lack of consciousness in the individuals cultivated by the Queen of Insects throughout the process.
The same is true for the cultivation process of the prosthesis.
The Queen of Insects fills it in with her own consciousness, and when Chen Ming needs to cooperate with the experiment, she will extract her consciousness and let Chen Ming's consciousness enter the prosthesis.
Even if it was a prosthesis, it still had a certain consciousness of the Queen of Worms before Chen Ming took control of it.
Chen Ming tried to make the Queen of Worms not do this, not to use consciousness to protect the eggs.
But then, for the first time, the Queen of Worms sent a response of extreme resistance, but in the end it agreed to Chen Ming's request.
Of course, Chen Ming did not commit suicide and immediately withdrew his request.
Through what he had just said, he basically understood what the Queen of Worms' instinct was.
If the history of the Thorn Zerg of the Queen of Worms could be traced back, then basically based on the history of the Thorn Zerg species, it could be determined how many years ago the dimensional infection had occurred.
It was a pity that no more information could be obtained from the Queen of Worms for the time being.
The memory of the Zerg would be lost in the reproduction of the Queen of Worms from generation to generation. Chen Ming's memory of the Queen of Worms only had part of the first generation of the Queen of Worms, not all of it.
So if Chen Ming wanted to know more, he had to start with the first generation of the Queen of Worms.
But the first generation of the Queen of Worms had long gone away, and the probability of encountering it was lower than finding a needle in a haystack.
For the time being, I'll just ignore it.
At least it can be confirmed that the Queen of Zerg has never encountered similar problems of dimensional infection during the prosthetic experiment and the hatching of new Zerg.
And Chen Ming does not have to worry about the situation in the future that the Zerg will be affected by him, a witness of dimensional infection, and the dimensional infection will act on the Queen of Zerg.
Chen Ming recorded that the Queen of Zerg's instinct is to protect the Zerg body without consciousness during the cultivation process with her own consciousness.
Then he turned his attention back to An Wuping, who arrived in the empire not long ago.
An Wuping's mission has been determined from the beginning.
It is to help Chen Ming do something that he cannot do personally, or something that is inconvenient to do personally.
For example, kill someone from the enemy faction of the 14th Legion who he doesn't like.
For example, help Chen Ming run around in several star fields to find traces of Zuojing.
Before, the location of the Zuojing stronghold that Chen Ming obtained from the illegitimate son of the lieutenant general in the two industrial colonies that now belong to him was left to An Wuping.
Chen Ming intends to let An Wuping handle matters related to Zuojing, so the current matter is the same.
However, it is not easy for An Wuping to go directly to Caimo-3. A person who appears inexplicably may even be targeted by his own people who are unaware of the situation at the first time.
Chen Ming does not want the president or the people arranged by the empire to target An Wuping, nor does he want to expose the fact that An Wuping is related to him.
So he must arrange it step by step and extend the logic of An Wuping's actions to the Caimo star field.
And everyone must know that An Wuping is a friend, not an enemy.
This requires a certain amount of preparation.
And the best preparation is Zuo Jing's body.
The location of the Zuo Jing stronghold, which Chen Ming deliberately concealed, is the only way for An Wuping to go next.
He has always been personally controlling and arranging everything about An Wuping, and it has been like this since the day it was manufactured.
When An Wuping was first manufactured, he directly sent An Wuping to the vicinity of the empire by spacecraft.
Before reaching the territory of the empire, An Wuping was directly stuffed into a large escape capsule that only activated the function of sending a distress signal but did not activate the freezing and hibernation function, and was thrown into space.
Anyway, An Wuping's physical strength is enough to enter the universe physically, so it won't be a big problem to do it directly.
Chen Ming also confirmed the traces of an active pirate fleet in the nearby star field through the news from Lao Wu in advance.
The distress signal naturally fell into the eyes of this pirate fleet.
Then Chen Ming directly controlled An Wuping to break into the flagship of this pirate fleet alone.
He killed almost all the pirates on the ship in a human form wearing a military power armor that can be stuffed into a large cryogenic hibernation chamber.
Only some surrendered pirates who had no bounty and could fly spaceships were left.
After relying on command technology to operate the strongest flagship to kill nearly half of the remaining pirate spaceships, the remaining pirates all chose to surrender.
An Wuping completely seized the command of the pirate fleet and took the disabled fleet to the nearest pirate space station.
Because he was going to enter the human society, Chen Ming had to be careful when playing An Wuping in front of most people.
In order to prevent An Wuping from being suspected in the future, Chen Ming must design everything about An Wuping in advance from the first step into the empire.
For example, the background story, personality and character setting.
The background story is easy to solve, anyway, there are many black households in the empire, so the background story is almost enough.
The personality setting should also be dark and crazy, and it is better to have some mental power-related diseases.
For example, Chen Ming recently learned about the diseases suffered by the animals that were affected by the mental pulse on Ruimu Star.
Rage.
Those animals suffered from acute rage, while An Wuping suffered from chronic.
Of course, it can also be random rage, depending on what Chen Ming needs to decide.
Such mental power diseases just fit the character setting of An Wuping who suddenly grew to three meters in size and turned into a ferocious monster.
Anyway, An Wuping's transformation will be exposed sooner or later, and because he can change back, it can be explained as psychic power at that time.
So this aspect was designed in advance, so that if someone traced back to Chen Ming in the future like they did before, there would be a trace to follow.
And this character design also made it convenient for Chen Ming to have An Wuping appear nearby when he wanted to kill someone in the future, and then suddenly go crazy and kill the person.
Later, after An Wuping led the pirate fleet to the nearby pirate space station, Chen Ming also let An Wuping get off the spacecraft wearing power armor.
It showed that he had a worn-out military power armor, which might be stolen, seized, or originally belonged to him.
So the rumors spread by the pirates later were not outrageous, at least it was not a person who broke into a mule and robbed pirates with his physical body, and no one had any unnecessary doubts about An Wuping.
And those pirates who were frightened by An Wuping wearing power armor and breaking into the spacecraft alone and killing all those who dared to resist and management also gave up the idea of robbing this thing, which was a good thing for ordinary pirates to a certain extent.
In short, An Wuping found a local boss under the guidance of several captured pirates and obtained a fake identity.
And then sold all the spaceships and dismissed all the pirates.
Then he bought a second-hand frigate that had been heavily modified and could be driven by one person in this pirate space station.
At the same time, he also bought a second-hand robot that had also been roughly modified and some supplies.
The remaining money was used by Chen Ming to eat and drink on the pirate space station.
One reason was to expand An Wuping's personality and leave more traces in this pirate space station.
Another reason was that Chen Ming really wanted to do this.
Of course, Chen Ming was not as indulgent as Lao Wu, he still had a bottom line.
After spending almost all the money, Chen Ming controlled An Wuping to control the spaceship and left the pirate galaxy in the edge star field.
After killing a pirate fleet that wanted to come and cause trouble, Chen Ming took about half of the bodies of pirates who were frozen in the cold storage of the spaceship and had bounties on their heads and went to the local government to collect the bounty.
Although the bounties of these pirates were not high, the bounties also gave this fake identity a layer of government protection.
It allowed An Wuping to stay in some colonies for a long time, so that he would not be regarded as a pure illegal household.
Then Chen Ming continued to use this identity to go to an ordinary comprehensive colony in a nearby galaxy.
It took a day to find a place to live, and then he kept an eye on the government department for a whole day, and stared at a person in the government department stationed in this galaxy.
After spending some time to make the person unconscious, Chen Ming used the Queen of Insects' ability to disguise An Wuping as a person in this government, stole his identity, and mixed into the government department.
With this identity, he hacked into the local government system and found the local identity system database.
Chen Ming had never been exposed to this system before, and now he knows that the identity system database is divided into two.
One is the personnel database of local people from birth to death, and the other is the database of foreign population.
The foreign population database is also divided into two.
One is the kind that can be connected through the database, and there are related records such as birth certificates in other colonies, which means that people with such certificates are not illegal or have fake identities.
And those who cannot be connected through other regional databases are likely to have fake identities, or at least have problems.
An Wuping's identity is in this database.