Space Odyssey from Abandoned Mining Space Station

On the other hand, the number of Zuo Jing Psychics was already on par with those from the other factions here, and that was very wrong.

How many Psychics is Zuo Jing hiding exactly? Why do they have that many Psychics?

Of course, it was also possible that Zuo Jing had simply gathered all the Psychics under their influence, originally scattered across the Empire, and concentrated them here under the orders of the Zuo Jing upper echelon, then they all just happened to be wiped out by Chen Ming in one place, which was why it felt like a lot.

After all, Chen Ming had never heard of—nor had it ever actually happened—any dimension infection incident tied to Zuo Jing, or any information related to the Spirit Beast project.

This Star System was very likely a relatively important one to Zuo Jing, with key plans arranged here.

Only under that premise would they assign so many Psychics to guard it.

It was also possible that precisely because the plan here was important, it involved some people in Zuo Jing who were equally important.

So when something went wrong, the Zuo Jing higher-ups would naturally think of cleaning this place up first.

There was evidence supporting Chen Ming’s guess.

What he found in the database was not only a trail leading to the Cai Mo Star Realm, but also many other clues tied to people connected with Zuo Jing.

There should be some big fish among them.

Although the database did not explicitly record anything directly about individuals.

As long as one wanted to dig, it was still possible to find enough evidence to fully nail down those people’s identities.

But Chen Ming didn’t have that much time to track them down one by one.

So he picked a method that would hurt Zuo Jing the most, and was also the simplest.

Hand this information over to the Empire.

The Empire would naturally, under the premise of maintaining stability as much as possible and not agitating Zuo Jing too directly, wipe Zuo Jing out at lightning speed.

The Empire was about to enter another war with the Mechanical Race; any internal destabilizing factor would be eliminated before the war officially began.

Chen Ming didn’t need to worry about anything going wrong halfway.

After all, the dimension infection at this Space Station would definitely draw in people of significant weight, and there was no need to worry about such people being infiltrated by Zuo Jing.

If Zuo Jing could really infiltrate people at that level, the Empire should have collapsed long ago.

At the same time, Chen Ming also didn’t need to worry about the issue of who got the credit.

He still had some confidence in the Empire; at the very least, the Empire was not harsh toward those who contributed to it, and the various restrictions on Psychics were quite lenient.

Even if he used the identity of An Wuping and handed over all this intel for nothing, a portion of the merit generated by this intel would definitely be recorded under An Wuping’s name.

In the future, if An Wuping had a chance to get out in one piece after handling another dimension infection mess caused by Zuo Jing, then that merit would still be useful.

Besides, Chen Ming didn’t need to worry that acquiring too much information would expose his own identity.

The underground laboratory had already been blown up, and all the database contents had been transferred by him into the Space Station’s database.

And since the Space Station was now completely controlled by his Spiritual Energy, whether or not it had any data linkage with the underground laboratory was no longer something anyone but Chen Ming could determine.

With that premise, he hadn’t left even the slightest trace of himself.

Even Zuo Jing would, at most, assume it was An Wuping who stole the database data; it absolutely couldn’t be tied back to Chen Ming.

After confirming that he had left no traces or handles that could be used against him.

Chen Ming shifted his attention back to the Totem Pillar Crystal in his hand.

The multiple Spiritual Energy Fluctuations emitted under the guidance of his Spiritual Energy weren’t just for show.

With the crystal, he could fully direct the Spiritual Energy Fluctuations inside, letting them produce the effects they were supposed to.

Just like the Insect Race core Chen Ming had Manufactured himself, used to solidify the Insect Queen’s Spiritual Energy.

And also very similar in principle to those relics left by another civilization, such as the Purgatory Core.

Chen Ming even suspected that the structure used by that other civilization was actually modeled on the remains of some creature whose body had mixed multiple Spiritual Energy traits like this and then died.

As long as there was a supply of Spiritual Energy, the crystal could continuously convert external Spiritual Energy Fluctuations into the Spiritual Energy Fluctuations within the crystal.

Obsession, Heartless, Electromagnetic Force, even the Insect Queen’s Spiritual Energy and Voiding Spiritual Energy could all be directly invoked.

The only ability exclusive to the Totem Pole was Devour-and-Transform; even after becoming a crystal, only the Totem Pillar Crystal could use it to fuse more and more different types of Spiritual Energy into this small crystal.

Chen Ming could feel that this thing had extremely strong inclusiveness.

It could continue devouring more Spiritual Energy Fluctuations, binding them down and making them part of the Totem Pillar Crystal’s Spiritual Energy, for him to command.

To be honest, Chen Ming even wanted to try stuffing his own Spiritual Energy Fluctuations into this thing, but he felt like it might explode, so he dropped the idea.

In short, although the Obsession, Heartless, and Insect Queen Spiritual Energy inside this Totem Pillar Crystal didn’t mean much to Chen Ming—their effects were too single-purpose and only useful in certain situations.

The control over Voiding and Electromagnetic Force, though, these two were a different story.

The effect of Voidification could ignore a lot of tiers of attacks; if the Totem Pole didn’t become fragile when absorbing new Spiritual Energy Fluctuations, Chen Ming really wouldn’t know how to deal with it.