Chapter 211 The Psychic's Backdoor

Chen Ming, who was about to start the Purgatory Core, frowned and answered Bai Quan's call.

Bai Quan's voice came from the other end of the phone: "The geological activity is suddenly a bit intense tonight, and the volcanic eruption will be more serious. It's best to go to the second underground floor to rest."

Chen Ming's frown loosened. He thought that Bai Quan came to inform him in the middle of the night because someone was looking for trouble with him, but it turned out to be this matter.

"Got it."

Chen Ming responded and hung up the phone.

Chen Ming knew that geological activities have been frequent in recent days without Bai Quan's reminder, and tonight is the peak of activity.

Because the main control room of the dome is connected to an observation system of the 14th Legion base.

There will be regular weather forecasts sent to each dome.

Although this "weather forecast" does not say whether it will be sunny or rainy, but the intensity of geological activities and the intensity of volcanic eruptions, the effect is still similar.

Although Chen Ming basically does not leave the laboratory once he enters the laboratory, he still pays attention to the situation outside every day.

And he has actually been waiting for this day.

The best day to test the Purgatory Core.

The extremely hot environment of the volcanic planet is the most suitable environment for testing the Purgatory Core.

Chen Ming put away the terminal, took one end of the line connected to the Purgatory Core in the laboratory and walked out of the laboratory.

Through the transparent dome, the situation outside appeared in front of Chen Ming.

Although the entire planet seemed to be covered by gray volcanic ash, fortunately, the hot magma emitted firelight, allowing Chen Ming to see the general situation near the dome.

But it can only be said that the situation seems to be somewhat bleak.

The intensified geological activities have caused a large amount of surging magma to accumulate on the surface, and the area near the dome is now almost an orange-red ocean.

"Uh... Is this situation a bit wrong?"

Chen Ming remembered that when he came here two days ago, he specifically asked Baiquan about the site selection of the dome, whether it would be affected by geological activities and cause damage to the dome.

Baiquan said that the site selection of the dome is all on large plates with relatively stable geology. Generally speaking, only magma erupted from far away can fall near the dome.

Why is it that the surrounding area is flooded by magma now?

But it's not a big problem.

Since Chen Ming wanted to test the Purgatory Core, the testing environment must be as difficult as possible.

Although the Purgatory Core cannot reduce entropy, it should be no problem to transfer entropy to a farther place.

Chen Ming held the Purgatory Core connected to the micro antimatter reactor in front of him, so that he could observe the core's condition during the next test.

Then, he directly poured his mental power into the core entropy in his hand.

The psychic fluctuations also spread from his body to the inside of the Purgatory Core.

The Purgatory Core was stimulated by Chen Ming's psychic fluctuations, and the psychic fluctuations generated by the activation of the internal psychic components were all restrained in the core by the isolation material of the isolation layer.

Only the final effect produced after the activation of the Purgatory Core took effect outside the core.

The Purgatory Core, which was as cold as an iron block, gradually began to warm up.

The surrounding environment temperature, which was originally stabilized by the dome life support system and was specially raised by Chen Ming for testing today, was gradually decreasing.

The entropy existing in the dome did not disappear, but was dispersed outside the dome.

The activity of the magma near the dome quickly became active.

However, since the temperature inside the dome did not change much, the activity of the magma outside was only active for a while.

The entropy released from these domes was released into the surrounding environment by itself and merged with the environment.

No longer exerting excessive influence on the local environment.

Chen Ming was quite satisfied with the effect.

He adjusted the set temperature of the life support system to a suitable level to avoid further wasting the power of the dome.

Then he continued to control the Purgatory Core and conducted subsequent tests.

That is, he continued to transfer the surrounding entropy to a farther direction.

After surging for a while, the magma near the dome gradually calmed down under the influence of the Purgatory Core and cooled into black rocks covered with magma lines.

The area covered by these rocks that suddenly appeared in the extremely high temperature and magma-filled environment is still expanding in a circular shape at a speed visible to the naked eye.

However, it takes time for the effect of the Purgatory Core to act on the bottom of the magma.

Therefore, the magma in those areas that have not yet had time to transfer the entropy out has some problems due to the sudden increase in temperature and sudden change in the environment caused by the dissipation of entropy to the surroundings.

The rocks that had solidified due to the transfer of entropy were constantly blasted by the active magma below.

The broken rocks melted again under high temperature, and the sprayed magma continued to surge towards the dome.

This situation made Chen Ming immediately change his mind about calling the Purgatory Core, and chose to transfer the entropy at the bottom first while stabilizing the entropy at the top.

Soon the situation was under Chen Ming's control again.

The area covered by the cooled rocks was expanding in a circle, and the originally surging magma was like boiled water in front of Chen Ming.

Everything went very smoothly.

Even if there seemed to be magma constantly erupting underground nearby, Chen Ming could quickly call the Purgatory Core to cool it down.

All the problems near the dome were completely solved.

During the test, Chen Ming was also thoroughly familiar with the use of the Purgatory Core.

But at this moment, Chen Ming suddenly saw a bright fire behind him that completely covered the red of all the gushing magma in front of him.

He immediately turned his head and found that behind the dark dust covered by volcanic ash, a mountain with cracks and flowing magma suddenly rose on the originally flat ground.

The appearance of this mountain, which was almost vertical to the ground, caused the surrounding terrain to become rugged instantly.

It was like a bamboo suddenly protruded from a small hill with only some weeds, and then the bamboo gave birth to many bamboo shoots that could destroy the terrain.

And the vertical mountain with magma flowing was obviously also a volcano.

If it can be seen clearly at this distance, this vertical volcano is probably two thousand meters high.

When Chen Ming turned his head to look at it, its first eruption had just reached its peak.

The gushing magma flow was the branches, and the flying volcanic ash was the leaves.

This volcano is like a world tree with magma as its core.

"Turtle."

Is this the power of nature?

Chen Ming just sighed.

Then, after a short interval between volcanic eruptions, the thick smoke from the second violent eruption enveloped it in an instant.

Chen Ming could only barely see the huge lava column that reached the sky.

Although Chen Ming could see that the volcano was some distance away from the dome, and the magma inside the cracked volcano was mainly pouring from the top to the bottom.

But there was always some magma ejected during the volcanic eruption that would soon fall on the dome.

Although the magma ejected from the huge volcano of two thousand meters did not seem to be threatening at first glance, after all, Chen Ming had heard of many larger and higher volcanoes.

It was just based on the scale of the vertical volcano he had never seen before before it was covered by volcanic ash.

Chen Ming felt that the dome seemed a little unreliable.

Even with Bai Quan's previous assurance that the dome was safe, Chen Ming's own armor should be enough to block the high temperature outside, but he would not gamble his life.

So Chen Ming made a prompt decision and hid in the second underground floor with the Purgatory Core.

By the way, he also used his own high-grade metal stock at the temporary base and mixed it with various metal materials to fill the entire underground floor between the second underground floor and the surface, completely protecting himself.

At the same time, Chen Ming's monitoring of the surface and outside the dome has not stopped.

Even underground, the test of the Purgatory Core can still continue.

And Chen Ming's test target was changed to the vertical volcano.

It's just that the magma flying from the sky is not easy to test. After all, if it cools in the air, it may cause these magmas to turn into stones and hit the dome, which is no different from meteorites.

Just in case, it's best not to do this.

Just as the influence range of Chen Ming's Purgatory Core continued to expand and extend to the volcano.

There was also continuous magma falling nearby and on the dome.

Looking out from the inside of the dome, it was all large pieces of magma, and when the magma flowed to the bottom, all of these magmas were transferred by Chen Ming.

The temperature of the magma dropped, extinguished, cooled, and formed rocks piled up around the dome.

Although some rocks with incomplete entropy transfer near the dome exploded and burst into clumps of magma.

But magma often cools down within a few seconds of exposure.

All the magma flowing near the dome is completely controlled by Chen Ming.

The entropy control test has been completed.

Next, we only need to test the effect of the Purgatory Core on the volcano and figure out the limit effect of the Purgatory Core, and the test can be over.

But accidents always happen quickly.

Just very close to the dome, the solidified magma suddenly exploded and exploded completely.

This was not caused by the original small-scale entropy instability, but by the sudden appearance of a new heat source underground, and a new magma flow erupted at a very close distance.

At the same time, an extremely violent earthquake occurred underground near the dome.

Even though the dome has perfect earthquake-proof measures, Chen Ming on the second underground floor can clearly feel the direction of the earthquake source.

Looking at the source of the vibration through the dome's monitoring, Chen Ming suddenly saw a bulge on the ground covered with magma.

It seems... the sharp vertical volcanic peak that rushed straight into the sky just now is about to rise very close to him.

If the volcano over 2,000 meters high appears at this distance, the dome above his head may not provide any protection.

Chen Ming's face showed a little seriousness for the first time in a long time.

He must find a way to solve this problem.

Just a few minutes before Chen Ming saw this fatal vertical volcano suddenly rising from a position very close to the dome where he was.

Bai Quan had just finished most of the work he had to do today and went to a control center for external equipment.

This control center was connected to the satellite in the orbit of the volcanic planet.

One of the satellites was observing the situation on Chen Ming's side.

Of course, he was not worried about the dome being destroyed by the volcano.

In his opinion, there was no need to worry about the dome's protective ability.

He had been here for a while and knew the local geological environment and the scale of various disasters, and also knew what kind of protective performance the dome had.

So he was quite assured of Chen Ming's safety.

In addition to being on guard against a psychic, he was also curious about one thing when observing the situation on Chen Ming's dome.

That is, since Chen Ming had the Purgatory Core in his hand, would he make any moves?

The Purgatory Core and the volcanic planet are a perfect match. If Chen Ming had any results, there might be some movement.

And today, when Bai Quan came to the satellite control center, he found that something unexpected really happened near Chen Ming's dome.

"It's true."

Bai Quan said silently in his heart, and randomly asked the staff on duty to zoom in on the situation near Chen Ming's dome.

It can be seen that the magma in the circular area near the dome has been completely solidified, which is obviously Chen Ming's attempt to use the Purgatory Core.

It seems that Chen Ming's research should be about to produce results.

Bai Quan nodded slightly and prepared to leave.

However, just as he was about to continue doing his own thing, the picture on the satellite suddenly changed.

The unique vertical volcano rising from the ground instantly attracted Bai Quan's attention.

"Lava waterfall?"

The staff member next to him immediately locked the satellite on the volcano and said, "Yes, it is a lava waterfall."

"How can such a phenomenon that only appears outside appear near the dome?"

The staff member's face was bitter, and he obviously couldn't give an answer.

Bai Quan didn't embarrass him. He knew that something was wrong, and immediately took out the terminal and called another person in the geological monitoring department to ask about the previous question.

The other end of the phone was instantly busy.

After a while, the director of the geological monitoring department appeared on the other end of the phone and replied to Bai Quan: "There is only one possibility for the lava waterfall to appear. There is a problem with the flow direction of the underground magma veins."

"We are conducting a test here, please wait."

Bai Quan knew that it was useless to just urge.

So he simply took advantage of the moment to let the staff of the control center start to detect whether there is a special phenomenon near the surface of the dome cluster on this side of the base, which is also in the shape of a vertical volcano, actually called a lava waterfall.

While arranging the work of the people in the control center, Bai Quan also notified several domes in the area near the lava waterfall and asked them to retreat underground and wait for subsequent rescue.

The signs of the lava waterfall have already appeared. At such a close distance, the dome's protective ability may not be able to withstand it.

Moreover, there may be more than one lava waterfall next, and there may be problems.

Just after Bai Quan arranged all the rescue teams, the geological monitoring department finally responded: "Lieutenant General Bai, the results are out."

"Go ahead."

"We detected high-frequency entropy fluctuations underground. These entropies affected the originally solid plates, and eventually caused problems with the direction of the underground magma, which overflowed directly from the middle of the plates."

"Entropy fluctuations?"

"Yes, it's entropy fluctuations."

Bai Quan frowned and looked at the situation on the satellite, and several thoughts flashed through his mind.

Is there a problem with Chen Ming's research? Or is it a problem with the Purgatory Core itself? Is the effect of the Purgatory Core so strong?

No matter what the actual situation is, it's always right to rescue people first.

Just when Bai Quan was thinking about the cause of the current situation.

Chen Ming was busy on the second underground floor.

Just when the signs of vertical volcanic spearheads appeared very close to where he was just now.

He used his own spiritual power again and reinforced the foundations of the first and second underground floors with his own materials.

Then he moved all the research equipment in the laboratory to the second underground floor.

Chen Ming was relieved.

In the current situation, even if the magma of the entire volcano flows to him, he should be able to stay in the magma sea until Baiquan finds something wrong.

But when Chen Ming turned his attention back to the ground, he saw two new huge bulges appear in the magma around the dome.

Together with the vertical volcano that had risen from the ground before, they completely surrounded the dome where Chen Ming was in a triangular shape.

Including the previous one...

"Four volcanoes?"

Chen Ming looked at the surveillance in another direction.

It happened that at this moment, the vertical volcano that first appeared in the distance of the dome had already erupted because of the internal magma. The bottom structure was melted by the high heat of the flowing magma, and the bottom structure was damaged and began to collapse.

The huge rocks with sporadic lava that kept falling and hit the ground brought a terrifying shock.

These tremors seemed to have stimulated the underground environment, and the continuous earthquakes became more frequent.

This earthquake seemed to be stimulating the remaining three volcanoes.

The second vertical volcano that appeared after the collapsed volcano has approached the height of the original vertical volcano in a short period of time.

But it has not stopped yet, countless rocks and magma are still pouring out from the ground, constantly raising the height of the vertical volcano.

Magma is constantly overflowing from the side cracks of the volcano, falling from high altitude and hitting the dome.

The obvious tremor really makes it difficult for people not to doubt whether the dome will be damaged.

The other third and fourth bulges that have just emerged also formed two huge volcanoes in just a few tens of seconds.

Chen Ming's Purgatory Core has been constantly trying to disperse the entropy in the volcano throughout the process.

But the effect was not significant, as if the magma under the ground seemed to be endless and feeding these volcanoes.

The Purgatory Core was still too weak in front of the power of the planet.

However, Chen Ming still did not give up trying, and his spiritual energy was circling the entire dome.

Soon, the third volcano that rose from the ground showed signs of rupture, just like the second volcano.

The surging magma sprayed out from the crater and rushed into the sky, and the side of the mountain was completely cracked.

The terrifying magma waterfall poured towards the dome where Chen Ming was.

Observe the location of the cracks on the volcano.

You can find that if nothing unexpected happens, the direction of the collapse of the last three volcanoes will all be the direction of the dome he is in now.

Chen Ming's face was solemn, and he did not dare to hesitate for a moment. He continued to control the spiritual energy to work inside the dome. At the same time, the Purgatory Core in his hand was still transferring the entropy inside the nearby magma.

But large pieces of magma continued to hit the dome from the direction above his head.

The dome was visibly unable to withstand the continuous damage that it should not have endured.

A large number of cracks gradually appeared on the top.

In just a few seconds, at the moment when the third vertical volcano erupted.

A large hole appeared on the top of the dome where Chen Ming was.

Magma and surging hot air currents instantly rolled in from the breach.

The vegetation inside the dome quickly withered and shriveled, and a flame ignited.

At the moment when this scene happened, the metal liquid controlled by Chen Ming seeped out from the ground, instantly extinguished the flames, and instantly covered the entire dome, repairing it as before.

Although the plants here can't come back.

But at least the dome was saved, temporarily.

The reason why Chen Ming reacted a little slower was the Purgatory Core in his hand at the moment.

Chen Ming needed to activate a function of the Purgatory Core that was adapted to psychics.

Since this Purgatory Core left an interface for psychics to use at will.

How could it be possible to only allow psychics to play an effect similar to that of the Purgatory Demon King when using the Purgatory Core?

If ordinary people can do something, but psychics can only do it to the same extent, then this design must be a failure.

And the design of the Purgatory Core is obviously not a failure.

Just yesterday, Chen Ming found another thing on the Purgatory Core while studying the core.

Psychic sensor trigger device.

This is one of the backdoors that the Purgatory Core had when it was designed, which was reserved for psychics.

It can make the psychic fluctuation intensity of the psychic affect the final output effect of the Purgatory Core.

The stronger the mental power and psychic fluctuations that Chen Ming exerts on the Purgatory Core, the greater the range and intensity of the entropy control he can perform.

But there is a limit to the triggering of this function.

That is, the Purgatory Core requires a continuous and large amount of energy supply.

The miniature antimatter reactor that Chen Ming brought was limited by its size, and the output power was not enough.

Therefore, Chen Ming also needed to maintain the dome's power system connected to the Purgatory Core.

It took him a while to transform the internal circuits of the dome that he had never actually touched before and shut down the dome life support system with complicated shutdown procedures, which slowed him down a little.

After all, the life support system is the most important equipment to keep the people inside the dome alive. Shutting it down at will will lead to serious casualties.

Except for the second underground floor, which is not a big deal because of its independent design, all spaces above the second underground floor will become a restricted area for humans after the life support system is shut down.

Those who do not wear special protective clothing will surely die, and those who wear it may not be able to survive in the surging magma outside.

So it cannot be shut down actively without the presence of three administrators at the same time.

This led Chen Ming to use psychic power to find relevant designs, and then prioritize the transformation of the life support system.

Completely shut down this system that accounts for more than 80% of the power system consumption inside the dome.

It is to allow the power used by the power supply equipment in other facilities to be concentrated and applied to the Purgatory Core.

Although it was a little slow because of inexperience, fortunately the result was still fine.

Chen Ming stood up from the sofa.

He walked to the wall and reached out and pressed on the wall.

A modified thick cable protruded from the wall by itself and connected to an adapter.

Then, Chen Ming connected the other end of the adapter to the Purgatory Core.

Almost all the electricity under the dome was concentrated in the Purgatory Core at this moment.

The moment the Purgatory Core was connected to enough electricity, the fourth volcano finally began to erupt.

The magma inside the second volcano that had erupted before had already flowed out.

The high heat at the bottom was about to completely melt the support of this volcano.

The volcano was about to collapse.

The direction of collapse was just as Chen Ming thought, right above his head.