Chapter 291 The Mastermind, the Greed of the Fifth Legion

Chen Ming walked towards the small building.

When he walked past Qianmian and pushed open the door of the small building, he asked, "What do you want to do?"

Qianmian walked around Chen Ming sideways, walked in front of him and said, "I just want to show you my past and tell you what you are facing. I am already dead, so there is no need to be wary of a dead person like me, right?"

"You don't look like a dead person."

"If you feel it carefully, you will know that I am really a dead person."

Chen Ming didn't say much and entered the small building.

And dirty was the first impression the small building gave him.

Stains can be seen everywhere and various furniture with no signs of cleaning are arranged in a mess on the first floor.

Qianmian also had some disgust in his eyes when he saw these things, and took Chen Ming straight to the attic.

When passing the stairwell, Chen Ming could see that there were several different types of card tables on the second and third floors of the small building.

The scattered piles of cards, overturned teapots, cigarette butts and garbage on the ground are the main tones of the second and third floors.

It was not until Chen Ming entered the attic that he could feel that the environment had improved significantly.

However, there were still various debris piled up in the attic, making the entire space station look very narrow.

And there was only a small window in the corner of the attic, making the entire attic very dark.

Chen Ming soon noticed that next to the small window, there was a small bed that a 13 or 14-year-old child could only lie down on by hunching over.

Qianmian came to the small window with ease, opened the small window, and sat on the bed.

"Seeing these, you probably know what I was like before."

Qianmian said, opened the drawer of the small bedside table next to it, which was probably used as a desk, and fumbled inside.

"When I was a child, I experienced a lot of domestic violence and was treated badly by my father. At that time, my only entertainment was to play this with my peers nearby."

Qianmian finally took out a transparent plastic jar from the drawer, which was filled with colorful glass beads.

That is the external manifestation of Qianmian's spiritual power.

"I picked up my first glass bead, and I won all the others myself."

"Winning glass beads from other people made me happy, but my father couldn't stand it, so one day he scattered all the glass beads on the road outside."

Qianmian pointed out the window.

Chen Ming leaned over to take a look.

Opposite this row of small buildings was a road, and next to the road was a fairly large grassland, all covered with dense weeds, and beyond that was a river.

Chen Ming turned his gaze back and continued to listen to Qianmian's story.

"That day, my happiness was gone. I didn't notice it when I got home. It wasn't until I finished my homework, had dinner, and cleaned up the house that I realized my glass beads were missing."

"I didn't dare to ask my father, so I just looked for them myself. Finally, I found a few of my glass beads in the weeds across the street."

"I spent a lot of time picking up the glass beads, but there were still a lot missing, and it was already late at night."

"When I got home, my father was furious and smashed the jar full of glass beads I picked up directly on my head."

"What I heard before I passed out was the sound of glass beads scattered all over the floor."

"When I woke up the next day, I was surprised to find that all the glass beads had been collected. All of them were placed in this jar. "

"I thought my father had figured it out, but I soon found out that I was wrong."

"He meant for me to throw these things into the river with my own hands."

"I didn't want to, so I was only insulted and beaten."

"In the end, he dragged me, who had been beaten to the point of being unable to move, and used my hands to pour the glass beads into the river."

"I kept crying, which annoyed him a little, so in the end, he even forced me to eat a glass bead that didn't fall into the river."

"He threw me by the river like a dead dog, and I only heard the last two words he said before he left, "waste."

Qianmian's tone was flat, as if he was not talking about his own past, but the story of a stranger.

"When I woke up the next day, I was already in the hospital, and the glass bead in my stomach had been taken out."

"This glass bead happened to be the first glass bead I picked up. What a coincidence, right?"

"I took this only remaining glass bead back home."

"I apologized to my father, admitted my fault, and pretended to be a reformer."

"I broke off my friendship with friends who played with glass beads, and pretended not to touch glass beads again."

"I studied hard in school, and tried hard to learn from those good kids in the eyes of others, learn their advantages, make myself a collection of advantages, and pretend to be what everyone wants to see."

"During that time, I tried hard to prove that I was not a waste."

"I did it."

"But it was useless."

"Everything I showed was useless."

"My father still treats me like a beast, and people around me can't interfere with my family."

"But I'm still pretending, at least this way I can suffer less physical pain when I go home."

"Although this didn't affect him from beating me to the point where I couldn't move after drinking."

Qianmian said, raising his head and shifting his gaze from the can on his lap to Chen Ming's face.

Then he saw Chen Ming leaning against the window with his head tilted, looking like he was listening to nonsense.

"Hey, I'm dead, can't you listen to a dead person's explanation?"

"You're all dead, can you hurry up? I have things to do outside."

"You can see that time passes very slowly in this consciousness space, right? At least listen to my last words clearly?"

Seeing that Chen Ming still had that attitude, Qianmian's remaining consciousness could only compromise and said, "Okay, I'll hurry up."

"Later, I would disguise myself further. I learned some makeup and disguise methods, disguised as a stranger and started looking for people to play with glass beads again."

"I started with the only glass bead I had left, and I won more again."

"Not only glass beads, but also money."

"I hid all the glass beads in other places, and hid all the money as well."

"So, I was lucky enough to live to adulthood."

"On that day, I took a knife and took home the glass beads I had won over the years and a savings card that contained enough money to raise me from childhood."

"I gave the card to my father."

"He didn't care about the glass bead jar in my other hand at all, but only cared about the money I gave him."

"He praised me for the first time, and then took the money out for an afternoon. When he came back..."

Chen Ming suddenly interrupted, "I guess he lost all the money in one afternoon, and he kept asking you for it. If you didn't give it to him, he would scold you and even want to beat you."

"...Do you have cigarettes?"

Chen Ming used his mental power to create a small box of cigarettes he had seen in reality in this space and handed it to Qianmian.

"Special cigarettes from the Fourteenth Corps, good stuff."

Qianmian took out a cigarette and held it in his mouth.

Chen Ming lit it for him.

Qianmian closed his eyes and took a long puff. As he slowly exhaled smoke rings, he asked, "This is a very old story, right?"

"Yes."

Qianmian took another puff of cigarette and continued to tell the story calmly, "He wanted to beat me and get more money from me."

"And after I bit off one of my own fingers, I took out a knife."

"I am already a strong adult. Even with my hand injured, I easily beat that drunkard, smoker, and gambler."

"I cut his tendons in his hands and legs, cut off his tongue that he used to scream, and put all the things I had suffered over the years into my body." "I paid back all the pain I had suffered for the beatings I had suffered over the years,"

"Finally, I stuffed all the glass beads I had won over the years into his stomach one by one."

"Just like he had stuffed the glass beads into my stomach before."

"I watched the glass beads fill up his stomach and his esophagus until they could no longer be stuffed in."

"I was very happy."

"I was very satisfied."

"Just after he died, I awakened my psychic powers."

"My psychic powers can not only replicate other people's psychic powers, but I can also replicate everything about other people, including their height and appearance."

"Just a psychic Only then will there be a concrete product, that is, those glass beads, the specific name should be called Heart Gathering Spirit Beads. "

"It was quite simple for me to deal with his funeral. I just told the public that he died of drinking, and no one said anything."

"Anyway, he was just that kind of person. No one doubted what a good boy like me said in everyone's eyes."

"Later, some creditors who owed him money came to him. Of course, I could pay back the money he owed, and I did."

"I also killed some people who didn't have eyes to make trouble for me."

"I was originally planning to move to another place and start a new life . "

"But just before I left, someone told me that my father lost too much money in gambling, and for money, he believed in Zuo Jing. "

"I was already a psychic at that time, and I knew I had the ability, so I chose to investigate Zuo Jing. "

"At that time, I found that the surface Zuo Jing was just a cover, and the real Zuo Jing was a powerful force hidden in the empire and funded by many parties. "

"So I had an idea, that is, to join Zuo Jing. "

Qianmian's words just came out

The surrounding environment suddenly blurred for a moment, as if there was a moment of garbled code.

Qianmian did not show any reaction to this situation, but he obviously saw the changes in the surrounding environment, and stopped sitting on the bed, but stood up.

Just after he stood up.

The surrounding environment changed completely.

From the attic of the old building, it became a basement.

The shape and structure are very similar to the basement of Zuo Jing, which Chen Ming had stayed in, located in the basement of the cafe.

Chen Ming and Qian Mian stood at the corner of the basement stairs and could clearly see the situation of the entire basement.

At this time, some other people appeared around except the two of them.

However, Chen Ming did not pay too much attention to these people.

Instead, he looked at the deepest place.

There, the young Qian Mian was sitting at a desk.

And behind the desk was a person who was completely hidden in the shadows and could not be seen clearly.

At this time, Qian Mian's voice beside Chen Ming also appeared some strange noises and inexplicable abrupt changes in tone.

"I joined Zuo Jing to satisfy my crazy ideas."

"?"

Isn't this too jumpy? Qian Mian's previous performance sounded like something that a normal person who was somewhat in line with his values ​​could do.

Why did he just say that he would satisfy his crazy ideas when he joined Zuo Jing?

What crazy ideas?

Chen Ming was just about to ask Qianmian beside him.

But suddenly he found that there was a problem with the picture in front of him again.

Looking forward, there was only a piece of complete garbled code.

All the people, including the young Qianmian and the person in the shadow, disappeared, and only Qianmian stayed beside him.

What's going on?

Chen Ming looked at Qianmian.

The face of Qianmian's remaining consciousness beside him showed a lot of negative emotions such as pain, hatred, despair, anger, etc.

And these complex emotions finally boiled down to one kind.

Resentment.

Qianmian's remaining consciousness felt that he was approaching the end.

The space station built by Chen Ming's mental power could no longer protect it.

So he moved.

He walked into the garbled code with a heart full of resentment.

All the places he passed by were restored to their original state, but the people who should have been there were gone.

He walked to the desk, but did not sit in the position where the young him had just sat.

Instead, he sat in the position of the person in the shadow.

He looked at Chen Ming.

Just when everything was about to end and the surrounding environment was completely distorted and blurred.

Qianmian's face changed.

In the chaos, Chen Ming could only barely see a face clearly.

A face that looked 40 or 50 years old and ordinary.

But his eyes were deep and attractive.

It seemed to have everything.

Then, Qianmian's consciousness completely dissipated.

The last trace of existence in the world disappeared.

Only the dark and empty consciousness space where Chen Ming was at the moment was left.

Chen Ming did not rush to leave here, but carefully recalled what happened just now.

Qianmian was talking nonsense before, just a dying... dead person telling people about his past that he couldn't tell people, venting.

The key is the last scene.

Although it was just a glimpse, Chen Ming had completely memorized that face in his mind.

This face must be the face of the brainwashed psychic of Zuojing.

And the last scene was imitated by Qianmian.

Chen Ming probably understood what happened to Qianmian after he joined Zuojing, and he also understood Qianmian's meaning.

The answer is actually very simple.

Qianmian was brainwashed.

He was a psychic who had just awakened his psychic power and was a fledgling psychic.

After investigating the problems of Zuojing, he chose to join Zuojing.

Qianmian's original intention of joining Zuojing was definitely to destroy Zuojing, but after joining Zuojing, he gradually became involved with Zuojing.

It was obviously because Qianmian's luck was not good.

He was purely brainwashed and his mind was gradually changed.

He only wanted to satisfy his bad thoughts that he had suppressed in the deepest part of his heart and should never appear in this life.

Such a person who came out of an extreme environment, after having power, not only did not vent wantonly, but only resisted those who gave him pain, and was even willing to take the initiative to pay off the debts to those who demanded debts.

This shows that he still maintains a stable mentality, a desire for revenge, and tolerance for civilians. He is a normal person.

Such a person became a complete lunatic after joining Zuo Jing.

The culprit for all this can only be Zuo Jing's brainwashed psychic.

The face transformed by Qianmian's residual consciousness left a deep impression on Chen Ming.

He must find this person and solve this person.

Right now, deep underground.

Unfortunately, Chen Ming still has two questions that he didn't have time to ask.

That is, how did the mental runaway entity that Qianmian turned into die, and why Qianmian called him a monster.

When a man is about to die, his words are good.

Chen Ming could feel that none of Qianmian's words were lies. After his remaining consciousness was no longer controlled, he had been passing on news about Zuojing to Chen Ming, and should be able to answer these questions.

But Chen Ming did not expect Qianmian's consciousness to dissipate so quickly.

If he had known, he would not have given him the opportunity to talk nonsense.

Forget it, it's not a big problem.

These two questions are his own problems, and he will figure them out sooner or later.

Chen Ming left this consciousness space that was built by his mental power and Qianmian's remaining consciousness and supported by him.

After finding that he was back in the underground of the power supply tower, he took a deep breath.

Plasma began to condense on his fist again.

The enemies have been cleared, so the next step should be the end.

But at this time, he was still thinking about Qianmian's affairs.

From Chen Ming's point of view, Qianmian was indeed a good person, at least before he joined Zuojing and was brainwashed, and even in some things, his three views were quite consistent with his.

At that time, Qianmian did not do anything out of line. The only people he killed were his father who abused him domestically and those who wanted to do something to him because he was young and rich.

Unfortunately, everything changed when he investigated Zuojing and joined Zuojing.

It was because of Zuojing's brainwashed psychic that he became like this.

It's a pity.

Originally, a person like Qianmian would most likely be absorbed into the local government department after being noticed.

After all, what he did before was not really evil.

Of course, if the current Qianmian was still alive, Chen Ming would definitely not let him continue to live.

The current Qianmian is indeed a complete villain.

Only after he died, Chen Ming could give him a good evaluation of his past.

In addition, Chen Ming actually has another pity.

That is, after joining Zuojing, Qianmian's consciousness did not show any subsequent performance, and did not continue to reveal more information to him.

What Qianmian remembered seemed to end the moment he joined Zuojing and saw the psychic.

There was nothing afterwards.

There was no information about the brainwashed psychic, the location of Zuo Jing's main base, or their activities over the years.

Chen Ming still had to go down.

The plasma on his fist was charged to the extreme.

But just before he was about to swing his fist down, he suddenly found that a fist-sized stone next to him had twisted and sharply interwoven patterns and psychic fluctuations.

This was a spiritual stone.

The plasma on one of Chen Ming's hands was temporarily moved to the side.

So that he could reach out and pick up the spiritual stone.

The moment he picked it up, Chen Ming felt extremely strong resentment from the spiritual stone.

This was the spiritual stone left by Qianmian.

Qianmian's last strand of psychic fluctuations that had been consciously separated from the control of the brainwashed psychic turned into a resentful spiritual stone.

When Chen Ming held the resentful spiritual stone tightly, an illusion naturally appeared in front of his eyes.

An illusion of a brainwashed psychic who killed Zuo Jing.

This is also a resonant spiritual stone.

"Really, it's hard to say anything."

Chen Ming put away the spiritual stone and continued to go down.

The recipient below should be the brainwashed psychic.

Find him and kill him.

This is what he will do next.

As long as he can kill him, perhaps the Zuo Jing force will gradually die out under the siege of the empire.

Chen Ming continued to collapse the ground of the power tower and continued to move forward to the underground where the psychic fluctuations were still spreading.

At the same time.

The main battleship of the Fifth Legion in the sky finally brought its fleet to the edge of the Luxi galaxy.

This is an ordinary offensive-class heavy battleship with extremely strong armor performance and attack capabilities.

After coordinating the Fifth Legion fleet that had been waiting for a long time, it sailed into the galaxy and headed towards the Prometheus class of Zuo Jing.

The battle between the main fleets is not something that the cruisers and the fleets below can intervene in, but there is no problem watching from a distance.

So at this time, Chen Ming's Yuhui Fleet and some fleets of other forces gathered at the edge of the galaxy to watch everything that was about to happen in the galaxy.

I saw that the Fifth Army's offensive activated the linked shield according to the normal process.

The lower-level spacecraft gradually arranged into a formation for the upcoming battle.

Although for some reason the Fifth Army's fleet had no advantage in terms of the number of spacecraft compared to Zuo Jing's fleet.

But the people of the Fifth Army are better than those brainwashed and mixed fleets by Zuo Jing, right?

And at the moment when the fleets of both sides entered the range of the main battleship.

The exciting thing that should have happened did not happen. The main weapons of the two battleships were not activated, and they did not bombard each other. Instead, they continued to approach, as if they were going to fight with the lower-level spaceships.

This... is normal.

The battle between the main fleets can rely on the battle between the lower-level spaceships to gain the overall advantage on the battlefield and save the battle preparation for the main battleships.

When the lower-level fleets gain the advantage, it is also a reasonable tactic to rely on a large number of lower-level spaceships with linked shields to surround the enemy's battleships from multiple directions.

However, all those who are paying attention to this battlefield will obviously not see that the situation will happen as expected.

Especially Chen Ming, who is going deep underground and continuing to observe the battlefield outside, thinks of the words that the president said to him before.

Things may not go so smoothly.