Space Odyssey from Abandoned Mining Space Station

The dimension infection incident related to Zuo Jing made Chen Ming feel a familiar fear from the very first encounter.

But after calming down, he suddenly realized that this fear didn’t just bring him fear.

As this fear accompanied him, he inexplicably felt a trace of... excitement.

The kind of excitement lingering on the edge of danger gave Chen Ming an indescribable feeling.

It was as if he was anticipating something to happen.

So after returning to the branch, Chen Ming would immediately engage earnestly in those serious tasks.

He just wanted to give himself some time to calm down and then spend time thinking after calming down.

As a result, Chen Ming confirmed that this feeling was not an illusion; it was his genuine feeling.

He pursued stability in danger, but when things were stable, he indeed wanted to seek some thrill.

Chen Ming felt a bit conflicted.

Initially, he clearly pursued a stable life, but during the continuous encounters and resolutions of danger, he developed some nostalgia for that feeling of being in danger.

As a result, the relatively stable life he was living now had become somewhat boring for him compared to the past.

Moreover, during his introspection, Chen Ming discovered that indications of this situation had actually appeared before.

For example, during the first development of a temporary outpost.

After the initial novelty passed, all that was left was to look at the various data reported by Brilliant every day.

Chen Ming didn’t even need to analyze this data himself. By the time Brilliant brought out the data, all the valuable information had been processed, and all necessary tasks had been completed, leaving nothing for him to do.

Apart from the overall control aspect, purely looking at this data made Chen Ming feel a bit nauseated.

Only when helping certain Dusk individuals, who encountered dangerous situations, escape danger and repair ships did he barely feel a bit of interest.

So later, Chen Ming took the initiative to develop stand-in technology, allowing the stand-in to join the Fourteenth Legion.

And indeed, the Fourteenth Legion was more interesting than the almost unchanging development trajectory.

Competing with nature, the environment, and people, it’s definitely more interesting competing with people.

But similarly, once the initial novelty passed, the branch of the Fourteenth Legion also gradually became less interesting.

Although there were indeed some people targeting him and Bai Quan, the means they employed were mostly ordinary methods that were reasonable on the political level, or simply insignificant tricks.

It was only Hu Yi that once truly made Chen Ming feel his adrenaline being stimulated, making him excited.

Even though Chen Ming hadn’t noticed his emotions during his previous confrontation with Hu Yi, his focus had been entirely on the surrounding volcanoes and controlling the Purgatory Core with his Spiritual Power to counter Hu Yi.

But now, looking back at the past, Chen Ming realized that he indeed was excited by this event.

Of course, there was also the time when the Black Mist Spirit Ability User infiltrated the ship attempting an assassination.

That was an exceptional case, after all, it was the first time Zuo Jing brought out a Psychic, and also a rare chance for Chen Ming to confront a Psychic head-on.

Speaking of confronting a Psychic head-on, Chen Ming suddenly recalled the last time he faced a Psychic directly, during the confrontation with Yan Xiong.

He personally appeared on the scene back then, instead of using a stand-in.

The thrill of that time still made Chen Ming somewhat unforgettable upon reflection.

Of course, Chen Ming wasn’t the type to get carried away by such feelings; he always remained calm when handling things.

After all, if he were to describe it as boring, then having the stand-in attend classes with Bai Quan every day while the real body still had to track the massive amount of data transmitted back by Brilliant, even spending nearly the entire day learning Cruiser-level technology, was even more tedious. Yet he persisted.

Chen Ming would simply lean toward more enjoyable alternatives when there were choices available.

And at this moment, with the potential unpredictable severe consequences of the dimension infection affecting everyone, leaving no one able to escape.

Chen Ming felt he could get involved.

Not to satisfy a self-destructive tendency born from leading too content a life, but simply to find something to do.

Though there were other things that could somewhat distract him, like the reconnaissance mission Bai Quan promised and the impending war.

But a reconnaissance mission could be wrapped up in a few days at most, and the war would take time to break out.

Even with a short estimate, the real start of the war would still be months away, and it may take even longer before it truly commenced.

Moreover, with the recent event of Lou Wei’s death, which led Bai Quan to return to the headquarters once, this indirectly meant that the reconnaissance tasks Chen Ming could participate in would at least have to wait until Bai Quan’s return to commence.

So after finishing everything left for him to cool down and examine himself, his mind was once again filled with this matter.

Under these various influences, all that Chen Ming could do now was to get involved in this dimension infection event entangled with Zuo Jing.

Of course, Chen Ming still valued his own life.