Space Odyssey from Abandoned Mining Space Station

His gaze once again shifted in the direction of Chen Ming.

Although it was invisible to the naked eye, the surging spiritual energy fluctuation could not lie.

He looked that way and felt around in his clothes pocket, retrieving a glass orb swirled with the same vortex pattern as before.

However, the swirling arms within this glass orb were noticeably denser, its color overall deeper, and the intensity of the spiritual energy fluctuation it contained was stronger.

Thousand Faces crushed it without hesitation and murmured to himself at that moment, ”An Wuping, you didn’t expect we would prepare this much for you, did you?”

”Now all you can do is watch as the civilians your hypocrisy protected perish. At this moment, your heart must be at its most vulnerable.”

”And the effect of my spiritual energy is more than just inducement.”

Chen Ming, turning around and flying back, stared blankly at the crumbling Space Station, where absolutely no one survived.

He felt no regret, no remorse, not even anger; his mind was just inexplicably chaotic.

Zuo Jing’s Cruisers came too fast, too many, and too scattered; he didn’t have time to intercept them.

Back when the army of the Galo-2 Star Zone was hunting him down, a Major General led a Ruler himself to pursue him.

The result then was the death of a Major General and a Star Zone’s army utterly snowed under by illusion.

And now, three Cruisers were casually deployed like that, what does this mean?

Chen Ming couldn’t say.

He was already prepared for Zuo Jing’s slander, ready to temporarily join Zuo Jing.

He even thought of proactively cooperating with Zuo Jing.

But because Zuo Jing’s initiation rite was too excessive, Chen Ming couldn’t harm civilians, so he chose to attack civilians.

This allowed Zuo Jing to slander as much as they wanted, as long as the propaganda angle handled all evidence related to Zuo Jing, fooling people into thinking Zuo Jing’s identity was that of ordinary civilians.

Chen Ming might even go along with it at that point.

But he didn’t expect Zuo Jing would directly kill off everyone who could voice out.

Overestimated their bottom line...

...

No...

Chen Ming suddenly denied his own thoughts.

Because he knew he was just trying to excuse himself.

He should have known, if he attacked a Zuo Jing Space Station, what Zuo Jing might do in return.

That is exaggerating the damage he caused, impacting civilians.

They might not even need exaggerated methods because from the previous ecological observation Space Station alone, it’s evident.

On such a Mining Space Station, at least hundreds of civilians had been lured in.

What Chen Ming thought was acceptable in his mind was actually just a way to rationalize the possibility that... he would unavoidably harm civilians.

He tried to convince himself that it was for neutralizing Zuo Jing rather than achieving his own goals that resulted in civilian casualties.

It was purely to satisfy his own internal needs.

In reality, he was just someone who only cared about his own ideas.

Chen Ming suddenly thought about what Zuo Jing’s Psychic said a few days ago, and he was suddenly filled with self-reproach; he seemed... indeed a bit hypocritical.

Chen Ming suddenly felt a little lost, as he had always been quite willing to protect civilians before.

But his unconscious actions had truly killed a large number of civilians right on the battlefield with Zuo Jing.

Chen Ming also suddenly felt a bit weary, as if he was fed up with everything.

He could sense that something was off.

But when he tried to think, he couldn’t escape the vicious cycle of pondering how bad his actions were.

Chen Ming felt a pent-up angst in his heart, yet had no outlet or voice to express it.

This feeling made him incredibly uncomfortable.

While Chen Ming was entangled in his thoughts.

He suddenly thought of something, stopped all his actions, and no longer manipulated An Wuping.

Instead, using a decoy linked to the Fourteenth Legion, he phoned Bai Quan.