Chapter 84 Attack

After leaving the black market.

Chen Ming originally planned to find a hotel to stay in.

But when Old Wu heard what Chen Ming said, he said hello and ran away.

He looked like he was not going to find a decent place to stay tonight.

Chen Ming had no reason to stop him, so he simply didn't look for a hotel.

He took some time to return to the colony's space station via the space elevator and went back to live on the ship.

By the way, he also received the two shaped charge anti-aircraft guns that had been sent to the temporary cargo storage center on the space station and sent them to the fighter's modified ship, intending to replace them after leaving the space station.

After finishing this matter, Chen Ming didn't wander around the space station, but went directly back to the Iron Ore.

He took out the terminal and began to check the information of tomorrow's auction.

Although there was no overly detailed information, the situation of the auction items could be roughly seen by just looking at the brief introduction.

The items sold at tomorrow's auction are basically some experimental or test weapons or equipment for spacecraft that have not been publicly sold.

There are items from different manufacturers. Such items should be sold to match the new armor-piercing class.

Chen Ming did see some things on the list that made him jealous.

As for the price, it can only be said that participation is important.

If Chen Ming is willing to spend a little money, he should be able to bid on one or two items.

But he doesn't want to be penniless, so he'd better wait until the time comes to see it in person before deciding.

Chen Ming quickly wrote down the list of auction items and closed the auction website.

He didn't rush to rest, but went to the engine room.

Came to the spiritual stone that has now become a lie.

Although Chen Ming didn't dwell too much on the familiar figure he saw that day.

But now that he was free at night, Chen Ming recalled and found that the familiar figure seemed to be very similar to the man who was shot dead when he touched the lie stone.

He felt that this kind of thing still needed to be clarified.

So Chen Ming directly opened the address book and sent a communication request to his boss.

All colonies and space stations within the empire are covered by superluminal communication technology, so it is not impossible to contact the boss.

The communication was quickly connected, and Chen Ming said directly: "Excuse me, boss, I have something to ask you."

The boss said in a rather casual tone: "I am very idle every day, so I won't bother you. What do you want to say?"

"My spiritual stone has changed."

The boss's voice gradually became more energetic from lazy, and asked: "Change? What change?"

"My whispering stone pattern has become more distorted, and the influence of the whispering is stronger. When I touch it, I will also see an illusion, an illusion of a person being shot dead."

The boss suddenly asked with a hint of curiosity: "What does that person look like?"

"A middle-aged man with a mustache, quite White and thin."

"Oh, I thought it would be me or you."

Chen Ming asked in confusion: "What do you mean?"

"It means literally."

"In simple terms, what you encountered is that there is some resonance between the spirit stone and the dead pirate."

"Resonance?"

"Yes, although you have seen fewer spirit stones, you should be able to guess that the spirit stone actually corresponds to human consciousness to a certain extent."

"Human consciousness includes a lot, such as personality, emotions, thoughts, desires, etc."

"Like my 'gentleness', it corresponds to the gentle personality, and your 'whisper' corresponds to the crazy and irritable emotions that can make people feel. ”

“Although they look different, they are both very extreme, extreme gentleness, extreme whispering, or irritability.”

“Can you understand what I mean?”

Chen Ming digested what his boss said a little bit and said, “Yes, the spirit stone corresponds to the extreme consciousness of people, and being gentle to the extreme is definitely not a good thing.”

“Well, you can understand it this way.”

“In short, the spirit stone itself represents extremes, and once something of the same extreme appears next to the spirit stone, it will affect the spirit stone with similar effects.”

“I think it should be the resentment or madness in the pirate’s heart when he died, and the emotional consciousness and whispering. The spirit stone resonates, so your whispering stone will change. "

"By the way, this situation will only occur when there is psychic power, and ordinary people will not be able to use it no matter how strong their emotions are."

"Maybe the pirate has some psychic talent, or maybe he has been in contact with psychic items. In short, the extreme emotions he had when he died affected your stone, that's about it."

The boss paused for a moment, and then said: "In fact, what I can't understand is why the person you saw was not you or me, but the middle-aged man you said."

"But this should be a good thing, which means you can try to do what you see according to the illusion. "

Chen Ming asked in surprise: "Do as the illusion tells you? Why?"

"Well... how should I put it? The effect of your Whispering Spiritual Stone is also changing, right?"

"Yes, the effect is getting stronger."

"As long as you find that person and kill that person, the illusion will disappear, and the spiritual energy that constitutes the illusion will become part of the Spiritual Stone itself."

"This extreme resonance of consciousness will be completely unified and completely integrated into the Spiritual Stone, continuing to increase the strength of the Spiritual Stone's effect."

Chen Ming glanced at the Liar Stone placed next to him, and he couldn't imagine what kind of tormenting ability it would have after its effect continued to increase.

"Does this person really exist? Also, if the effect of the stone becomes stronger, can I still keep touching the Whispering Stone as you said before?"

The boss answered Chen Ming's questions one by one: "If the effect of the spirit stone is stronger, you can just keep touching it for a shorter time. As long as you don't carry it all the time, there will be no problem. You are a psychic."

"As for whether this person really exists, I ask you, do you know this person?"

"No."

"Do you think you can construct a complete image of such a person with all kinds of details just by imagination? "

"No."

"That's it, this person is actually the object of the pirate's greatest resentment when he was dying. ”

“That’s why I’m wondering why it’s not you or me. I really don’t understand.”

“Forget it. Anyway, as long as you follow his social network, you will definitely find this person.”

The boss told Chen Ming all the benefits of following the illusion, but Chen Ming still had some questions: “What if I don’t do this?”

The boss was not surprised that Chen Ming had such an idea, and said: “The power of resonance will gradually fade, and it will disappear completely after a period of time.”

“By then, your spirit stone will only have the enhanced effect of the resonance produced at the moment, and the extra part will disappear with the disappearance of the illusion.”

In other words, there is no actual disadvantage.

"I understand."

"Well, it's up to you to do it. I'm just watching... ahem... explaining the situation and giving you some advice."

"You can find me if you have this kind of thing in the future. I like doing this kind of thing."

"If you want to find someone with specific clues..."

Chen Ming immediately thought of a suitable person and said, "I can ask Lao Wu. He should know where to start."

"Yes, it's a good idea to find him. That's it."

"Thank you, boss."

"Don't be so polite. If you have any questions, keep contacting me."

The communication ended.

Chen Ming threw the terminal away and prepared to rest.

Lao Wu said during the day that he knew where to sell intelligence here, so the intelligence dealers here must know one or two.

It shouldn't be a big problem to check the identity and background of this pirate through the intelligence dealers, especially when this pirate has become a corpse.

However, Lao Wu ran out to have fun, so he can only ask before or after the auction tomorrow.

If he finds that this middle-aged man is easy to deal with, he will spend some time to find a way to get rid of him.

When Chen Ming thought of this, he suddenly became a little dazed.

He found that he no longer seemed to have any aversion to killing, even if he didn't know whether the other person was a good person or a bad person.

The indifference of the surrounding environment to the rules was affecting him, and he was getting further and further away from the prosperous star field where rules and order coexisted.

He was getting further and further away from the peaceful and stable life he once wanted.

But it didn't matter.

Chen Ming suddenly made up his mind.

When he relied on his ability to get everything he had now, it was already difficult for him to return to the prosperous star field.

If you want to stay in a place like the marginal star field for a long time, you must never follow the rules of the prosperous star field.

He must never give up an opportunity to gain benefits because of some ideas within the rules.

Unless Chen Ming trusts enough people and a coveted benefit is placed at both ends of the road, he needs to consider the trade-off between benefits and people.

At that time, Chen Ming was not reluctant to use benefits in exchange for friends he could trust.

Chen Ming is an orphan, and he has few friends since he was a child, almost none.

So he would value the friends he already has, but what does he have to do with other strangers?

Killing this middle-aged man can allow Chen Ming's spirit stone to continue to be strengthened, and in the illusion, there is another spirit stone in the middle-aged man's pocket.

If the middle-aged man is as real as the boss said, then this spirit stone is also very likely to exist.

And this spirit stone is an unknown spirit stone.

There is a possibility that it is gentle like the boss's spirit stone.

A possible existence, with the function of calming people and erasing distracting thoughts, gentle spirit stone, it is impossible for Chen Ming to give up because of the rules.

Chen Ming closed his eyes and gradually settled the thoughts in his mind.

Waiting for the arrival of the next day.

While Chen Ming was resting.

After having a good meal and drinking some wine, Lao Wu found a foot washing city according to his experience of coming here before.

Such places are not lacking anywhere.

After all, the construction of the colony cannot be born from scratch with only a few people. It must be a large-scale population migration based on the stated dividends.

These migrated populations are not necessarily high-quality populations.

There are always some ordinary people to fill the gaps in the foundation.

When there are more people, competition will naturally appear.

Once a person cannot compete with others, his social status will naturally sink to a suitable place.

Even in the most advanced interstellar era, there will never be a shortage of people at the bottom.

So places like foot washing cities will naturally never be lacking.

Of course, this has nothing to do with Lao Wu, whose mind is full of *waste at this time.

Since Chen Ming said he would reimburse him, he was not polite.

Before starting the meal, he had to have a proper meal.

Old Wu said yes at the front desk and found a recliner to lie on.

Just as he was about to close his eyes and enjoy it, he suddenly saw an acquaintance out of the corner of his eye.

A middle-aged man with a mustache walked to the other side of the foot massage parlor surrounded by three people.

Old Wu whistled and said, "Wow, you are so awesome today? Wasn't it the same before?"

The middle-aged man turned his head to look at the source of the voice, and said in surprise, "Old Wu? Why did you come to this place?"

"I came here to do something."

The middle-aged man frowned slightly and asked, "What is it?"

"It's just a small matter. I've finished it and will leave tomorrow."

The middle-aged man felt a little more relaxed and didn't want to chat with Old Wu. He said as he walked, "Then I wish you a safe journey."

"Good luck."

In fact, Old Wu wanted to ask the middle-aged man about the group of pirates that Chen Ming had killed before.

But Old Wu felt that they came here to pay the bounty for these pirates, and it was not good to ask someone who had close contact with the pirates directly.

And Old Wu remembered that the middle-aged man with a mustache and those pirates were not just in the relationship of intelligence trading. The pirates got the Luddite from the middle-aged man.

If he brings up this topic and angers someone who has something to do with Lude Zuojing, that's not what Old Wu wants to see.

Time flies and it's the next day.

Chen Ming met Old Wu early in the morning outside the Colonial Development History Exhibition Hall, where the auction was going to be held.

After arriving, Chen Ming found that there were a lot of guards here, a lot of them, which gave Chen Ming the feeling that there were more than those at the government building.

It seems that they are all here to protect this auction.

So after the meeting, Chen Ming was not in a hurry to bring up the intelligence for the time being, and he watched the auction first.

The identity and entry qualification review for the auction does not need to be conducted on site, and it is also quite simple.

Just confirm that there is money in the card on the auction website.

Then verify on site whether the identity registered on the website and the terminal can match each other, and nothing else is needed.

Although it is indeed very convenient and the identity protection of the auctioneer is also very good, the security of the auction seems to be a bit problematic.

However, it seems normal to have more guards responsible for the security of the auction.

Chen Ming understood the auction organizer's train of thought.

He barely made it into the auction with the assets of over 20 million in his card.

There were still many people in the Star Region Capital who could gather tens of millions of movable assets. When Chen Ming took Old Wu in, there were only a few hundred people in the large conference hall of the exhibition hall.

But it was hard to say how many people really came in person.

Chen Ming quickly found the seat arranged on the auction website.

The official list of items was placed at everyone's seat.

It listed all the items for today and their detailed introduction.

This naturally included a detailed introduction to the main item, the armor-piercing spacecraft.

In the conference hall, Chen Ming could also follow the one-way glass wall next to it, which was obviously recently renovated, and see the armor-piercing spacecraft that was placed in the empty exhibition hall next door in advance.

The armor-piercing spacecraft had a spear-like appearance and a sharp momentum, which attracted Chen Ming's eyes deeply.

What attracted Chen Ming's attention next was the biggest feature of the armor-piercing spacecraft.

Its "spear tip" is occupied by a large load-bearing point.

A large load-bearing point that can be equipped with large weapons.

Generally speaking, only cruisers can support the radiation energy growth and energy consumption of large weapons.

If a destroyer is to carry large weapons, these two problems need to be solved urgently, and a lot of new technologies must be supported to achieve this.

The armor-piercing class released by Xinda Company now may have completely solved these two problems.

No wonder so many people are interested in this spaceship.

Moreover, Chen Ming also found that this armor-piercing class uses the relatively high-value Baiyun steel composite armor.

Although this material, which is largely derived from the mechanical family, is often used by advanced spaceships.

But Chen Ming remembered that when Xinda Company designed the spaceship, it would try to control the proportion of high-grade metal materials used in order to mass produce it.

Now that this material is used on the armor that accounts for a very large proportion of the material on the spaceship, it can be seen that the company really attaches great importance to this armor-piercing class.

With this armor-piercing class next to it, Chen Ming basically has no interest in other items at the auction.

Even though the auction will start soon, Chen Ming's attention has always stayed on this armor-piercing class, thinking about whether there is any way to get in touch with it.

However, the isolation belts and the large number of guards next to the armor-piercing class forced Chen Ming to give up this idea.

But at least it was still worth watching.

While Chen Ming was staring at the armor-piercing class, the items at the auction were being auctioned one by one.

Two hours later, the auction finally came to the last item, the armor-piercing class destroyer.

But before the last item was officially auctioned.

The auction opened the closed area next door where the armor-piercing class was placed, allowing people present to go over and take a close look at the armor-piercing class.

Many people did not move, but many people got up and went through the small door next to them.

Chen Ming and Lao Wu were naturally among them.

Both of them were attracted by the absolutely violent large load-bearing point of the armor-piercing class.

However, as Chen Ming approached the armor-piercing class, he suddenly realized that there was a trace of danger around him.

Chen Ming immediately became alert and looked around the crowd around him.

And in the crowd rushing towards the armor-piercing class, Chen Ming suddenly saw that person.

In the illusion brought by the liar stone, Chen Ming saw the middle-aged man who was shot in the head.

At this time, the middle-aged man's hand was in the pocket of his formal velvet suit, as if holding something.

And when Chen Ming saw him, the vague sense of danger suddenly became clear.

Chen Ming's hand subconsciously reached to his waist, wanting to touch the holster on the protective suit.

But Chen Ming stopped before he really did it.

Because once he pulled out the gun, he would definitely not have time to shoot and would be shot into a sieve by the fully armed guards around him.

The individual weapons made with current technology are much more sophisticated than the civilian spacecraft weapons that Chen Ming has seen. It is definitely not difficult to accurately hit the target in the crowd.

The same is true for the middle-aged man. If he dares to do anything wrong, he will definitely be besieged by the guards around him.

However, Chen Ming always believed that his sense of danger would not deceive people, so he quickly pulled Lao Wu away from him and fell to the back of the team watching the armor-breaking class at close range.

Just when Chen Ming saw him and pulled Old Wu to slow down his pace.

The middle-aged man seemed to have noticed Chen Ming here, but he didn't look at Chen Ming, but at Old Wu.

There seemed to be a half-second hesitation on his face, but it disappeared immediately.

Then he looked determined and clenched his hands hidden in his pockets.

The next moment.

Something happened that Chen Ming was extremely surprised.

A wave of mental pulses that Chen Ming had experienced many times suddenly spread out from the middle-aged man.

It swept through the people participating in the auction, swept through him, and swept through the guards on the periphery, and even penetrated the walls of the exhibition hall and swept through the people outside the exhibition hall.

Chen Ming could feel that the intensity of this mental pulse was quite high. Although this level did not cause any impact on him who was now accustomed to whispers and mental pulses, it was absolutely unbearable for ordinary people.

Just as he expected, chaos and screams broke out in the exhibition hall in an instant, and people present fell down in groups.

The guards on guard around could not withstand the influence of the mental pulse at all, and fell to the ground one by one, losing their ability to fight.

Only a few guards were still struggling, but they could not hold on for long under the influence of the mental pulse, and they fell into a coma.

Old Wu also fell to the ground with a painful expression on his face.

But Chen Ming was stunned for a moment when he saw Old Wu for the first time, and then pretended to be like this.

Moreover, before Old Wu fell, he pulled Chen Ming's trouser legs and made Chen Ming lie on the ground and pretend to be dead. Obviously, he was not affected by the mental pulse at all.

Although Chen Ming was curious about how Old Wu, an ordinary person who was definitely not a psychic, could resist the influence of the mental pulse.

However, he still fell down under the push of Old Wu, and mixed with him in the crowd of people who fell down.

Hundreds of people in the entire exhibition hall fell down soon.

After a short and violent noise, the exhibition hall suddenly fell into silence.

Most of the people inside and outside the exhibition hall and nearby fell down in the heart pulse. Even if a guard sent a distress signal before falling down, it would take at least a few minutes for the nearest support to arrive.

In these few minutes, the exhibition hall was under the control of the few people who were still standing.

However, these few people did not include the middle-aged man who caused all this.

He fell to the ground like everyone else.

But Chen Ming estimated that the middle-aged man should be pretending to be unconscious like him.

The other few people who were still standing looked around and confirmed that there were no people still standing, and suddenly showed a fanatical and excited look on their faces.

They suddenly ran, passed the people lying on the ground, and rushed to the armor-piercing level parked next to them.

Chen Ming, lying on the ground, whispered to Old Wu, who was also paying close attention to the situation, "What do they want to do?"

"I think you will know soon."

Old Wu said, and began to crawl on the ground carefully, pulling Chen Ming to crawl to the support column next to him.

The attention of the few people still standing on the scene was obviously on the armor-piercing level, and no one noticed the two people next to them.

Just when Old Wu took Chen Ming to hide behind the support column.

The man who rushed to the front suddenly stiffened, a bloody hole appeared on the back of his head, and he fell to the ground.

Chen Ming slowly turned his head and saw a guard who was barely leaning against the wall of the exhibition hall, with the gun in his hand pointing forward.

His hands were shaking, and he was obviously in great pain.

Just as he was about to fire the second shot, the body that he had shot and fell suddenly exploded violently.

The violent shock made him fall to the ground completely, and he could no longer stand up.

Along with the shock, the surging air waves, smoke and dust, and a large number of things shattered by the explosion hit the support column where Chen Ming was hiding.

There were more miscellaneous things flying past Chen Ming.

"Fuck."

Chen Ming's heartbeat almost slowed down.

Fortunately, he had noticed the danger before and deliberately fell behind the crowd, and Old Wu had pulled him behind the support column in advance.

Otherwise, he would definitely be affected by the bomb now.

Wait, Old Wu pulled him in advance?

Chen Ming pinched Old Wu who was lying next to him pretending to be dead and said; "Is this the fucking Lud's left path? You'd better explain to me what's going on."