louisehourcade Chapter 278 The loopholes to be filled
Chapter 278 The loopholes to be filled
Psychological problems, especially those involving Zuojia and civilians.
The first person Chen Ming thought of who could help him solve the problem was naturally Bai Quan.
Baiquan quickly answered Chen Ming's call as usual.
Before Bai Quan could ask Chen Ming, he spoke first: "Let me ask you something, if you need to sacrifice a group of people to achieve your own goals, will you sacrifice them?"
Bai Quan's head was full of questions because of Chen Ming's sudden and incomprehensible question, but he still replied seriously: "Of course it will be if it's a battlefield. Why do you ask this?"
"Just asking, what if it's not a battlefield?"
"If it's not a battlefield, it depends on the situation. It depends on whether what I do is in line with my values when sacrificing a group of people."
Chen Ming gave an example: "For example, if a Zuojia space station kidnaps civilians, and you dare to self-destruct if you dare to get close to them, will you sacrifice these civilians to kill these Zuojia?"
"meeting."
Bai Quan replied without hesitation: "As long as the goal I want to achieve is not for myself, I will not hesitate. Did something happen to you? Or did Cai Mo, your president, encounter some problem?"
"It's just that something suddenly occurred to me, so I wanted to ask."
"……real or fake……"
Bai Quan didn't believe that Chen Ming would come up with such a problem for no reason while just staying in the branch.
He could guess with a casual guess that Chen Ming must be secretly using his spiritual power to do something, and then he happened to encounter a similar situation and came over to ask.
Nowadays, bionic technology is so advanced that it is not difficult to put some effort into making a robot that looks exactly like a human.
As far as he knows, there are indeed people in the empire who specialize in manufacturing and producing such bionic robots to accompany themselves.
Especially in the prosperous star field, such robots are not too rare.
Therefore, if Chen Ming's psychic power is controlling such a bionic robot and driving the spaceship by himself, it is generally impossible to tell the difference.
Even if it weren't for the fact that when Chen Ming came to the branch, he secretly had someone perform an exact body scan and obtain hair samples for DNA testing, he would have even suspected that the branch's Chen Ming was fake.
Chen Ming was a little embarrassed for a while when he heard Bai Quan's suspicion.
The psychic effects he displayed have been analyzed by others for a long time. Even before, Bai Quan was the first person to analyze his psychic effects from the clues of his actions.
Therefore, the concept of using psychic energy to create mechanical clones must have been thought of by others for a long time. Even the think tank Baiquan assigned to him had thought of this idea in advance.
But Bai Quan definitely still doesn't know about the Zerg.
But this was enough for Bai Quan to think that Chen Ming was causing trouble outside.
Of course, to Bai Quan, it doesn't matter what Chen Ming is doing now.
Anyway, there is a high probability that he was controlling some kind of robot or some kind of autonomous spaceship running around the empire, and then accidentally encountered something similar to what he just said.
Recently, the empire has been full of incidents related to Zuo Jing. It is impossible to guess where Chen Ming controlled the robot and went.
Although there is a main suspect in Caimo Star Territory, the situation there is also extremely complicated now.
The main direction of the Fourteenth Legion is still on the war between the Machine Tribe and Yuhui. Internal matters are left to other legions to handle, so they don't pay much attention to it, and they really don't understand it very clearly.
But no matter what, as long as Chen Ming doesn't violate that unwritten rule.
In other words, there is no need to use spiritual power to control things that do not belong to Chen Ming.
Even if Chen Ming comes to ask questions in this area, and stays in the branch, controlling robots or spaceships to roam outside, Bai Quan still believes that Chen Ming can stick to the bottom line that makes people feel at ease.
Of course, if he feels at ease, there will always be people who don't think so.
Therefore, Bai Quan has been trying his best to protect Chen Ming, and occasionally hints to Chen Ming during class.
Of course Chen Ming is not stupid. He knows very well how powerful his psychic effects are and how many people they will worry about.
It's also thanks to the fact that his psychic effects can only be expanded through personal contact and indirect contact using afterglow. Otherwise, there must be more people trying their best to restrict him.
So he has always been very cooperative, at least with the prosthetics of the Fourteenth Legion.
All the afterglow cores that the prosthetics brought to the Fourteenth Legion were clearly placed in front of Bai Quan for supervision.
The only other ones with the Afterglow Core are the small fleet that has been wandering around the Gallo Star Territory to earn pocket money.
Precisely because Chen Ming did things clearly, Bai Quan was not worried about what Chen Ming was trying to do now, and replied purely heart-to-heart: "Let me just say this, even myself is an object that can be sacrificed when necessary in my eyes." "
"For example, if I sacrifice now, I can eliminate the Machine Tribe, Zuo Jing or Yuhui. I am willing to sacrifice now."
Bai Quan said it openly, and Chen Ming believed that Bai Quan would really do it. However, he was not Bai Quan, and he would definitely have different ideas when thinking about some things.
He mostly wanted to rely on Bai Quan's ideas as a reference for the predicament he was encountering now.
"What if it's not for this kind of goal, but a more personal goal? For example, you are not the government troops who used to encircle Zuo Jing, but an ordinary person who has a grudge against Zuo Jing."
Bai Quan was more certain of his guess that Chen Ming was controlling some kind of robot to run around the empire and cause trouble for Zuo Jing, and said, "Is this question different from the previous one? Can't you put your personal goals on such a big goal?"
"Your goal is to kill Zuo Jing, and the goal of those who are besieging Zuo Jing is also to kill Zuo Jing."
"Same goal, put the two things together and see if different ideas and processes will lead to the same result."
"If the result is the same, then do it."
"If sacrifice is unavoidable, try to minimize the number of sacrifices."
"In the empire, human life is equal, at least to some extent, and you can't sacrifice your life for the sake of saving others. One person and sacrifice more people. "
Chen Ming asked again: "What if the number of casualties among civilians is different for these two choices?"
"What is the key to this operation? Is it to rescue civilians? Or to eliminate Zuo Jing? There is always a main goal."
"If it is to eliminate Zuo Jing, then I can only say that it is unfortunate to the civilians and express my sincere apologies and compensation to their families. If it is to protect civilians..."
"I only have one sentence. When it is really necessary, sacrifice is just a number."
Chen Ming asked the question he wanted to ask the most at this point: "But who will take this responsibility?"
"Take responsibility? Are you worried about this?"
Bai Quan asked back.
After thinking about it, I found that this seemed to be a problem for Chen Ming.
Chen Ming did work as a manager, but he was an ordinary manager who only managed dozens of people at most and never really involved a large number of lives.
If he really had to take the responsibility for the deaths of so many people, the psychological pressure would be much greater than directly killing the same people.
Chen Ming killed people, but they were all enemies.
If a large number of ordinary people who have no hostile relationship with themselves are really killed because of their own actions, not everyone has this psychological quality.
This situation made Bai Quan wonder what happened in which part of the empire that would require Chen Ming to bear this pressure.
However, as before, the current situation of the empire is that Zuo Jing is being besieged everywhere. It is really hard to say which star field or galaxy has such a thing happened again.
So Bai Quan simply said directly: "You have to think clearly about who killed them, you? Or Zuo Jing?"
"Tracing back to the source, is it you who caused this situation, or Zuo Jing who caused this situation, who killed them?"
"As for the responsibility, I will say it directly. Take the example just now. Unless you directly transformed into Zuo Jing and rushed into the space station to massacre civilians, otherwise it has nothing to do with you if all these people died, and you don't have to bear any responsibility."
"It's that simple."
Chen Ming has roughly understood what Bai Quan meant.
The confusion in his heart gradually dissipated, and he finally got out of the vicious circle of thinking that had been in self-blame.
Chen Ming relaxed a little and complained to Bai Quan: "A bit ruthless."
"A little, but this is my experience of surviving on the battlefield."
"Of course, my mentality has changed since I came down from the front line. When I really encounter multiple-choice questions, I might be confused for a while."
"Oh, by the way, let me ask you something. How is Xinghai's teaching recently?"
Chen Ming suddenly coughed and said, "It's okay... um... I have something else to do, let's talk later."
When it comes to embarrassing topics, Chen Ming doesn't know what to say.
Cheng Xinghai had already started teaching him two days ago. It was okay at the beginning, but Chen Ming always felt weird during the class later.
No matter how he thought about it, he had a headache, so he simply stopped thinking about it.
He still has things to do now.
The communication ended.
Chen Ming's mentality finally returned to normal.
He asked himself a question in his heart, what was the purpose of letting An Wuping go?
It is to cooperate with the president, provide support to the president, help find the psychic who made him discover that Zuo Jing was also infected with the dimension, and then solve the huge troubles in the Caimo star field.
And the purpose of his coming to this space station halfway.
Because Zuo Jing has ideas about him, and he also wants to take the opportunity to play, try to sneak into Zuo Jing, and try to disintegrate them from the inside of Zuo Jing.
That's enough.
Chen Ming did not take the initiative to massacre civilians, but Zuo Jing pressed the weapon launch button, and he didn't need to blame himself for it.
You must know that once Cai Mo has problems, the worse consequences caused by the dimensional infection may affect the entire empire.
It is equivalent to sacrificing a small group of people in exchange for the survival opportunities of a larger group of people.
It can be said that this is too utilitarian.
But in Chen Ming's view, this is also a solution made in the shortest time without causing the greatest loss.
If he really feels sorry, Chen Ming will go back to build a monument for them and give their families some compensation.
I believe that the empire will definitely not be stingy with these compensations.
Chen Ming put down this pressure in his heart.
In reality, An Wuping, who was drifting in the space environment, finally moved.
He adjusted his posture and faced the position of the third left-hand cruiser that had just appeared and destroyed the space station.
The gorgeous colors instantly condensed into a plasma spear in his hand.
Even faster than before in the underground laboratory, the energy gathered in the plasma spear was accumulated to the intensity close to the plasma light ball that destroyed the entity of the mind.
After solving the trouble in his heart, Chen Ming even controlled the psychic power of the insect queen and An Wuping's body more easily.
At this moment.
His rage reached its peak.
And this time it was not a disguise, but he really vented the anger accumulated in his heart because of his previous thoughts.
The gorgeous color of the plasma spear has gradually turned into pure white with energy condensed to the extreme, and it is gradually covered by the insect keratin that Chen Ming wrapped around the spear, allowing it to be held more firmly in his hand.
At the moment when the spear was thrown in Chen Ming's hand.
The carapace covering the plasma broke because it could not withstand the terrifying acceleration, and the glow of plasma was revealed again.
I saw a flash of lightning in the galaxy.
The third cruiser from the left channel, along with its shield. was pierced from beginning to end by this lightning.
At the moment when the lightning penetrated the tail of the cruiser, the lightning disappeared.
The colorful colors representing death completely enveloped the spacecraft.
In just a few seconds, it was annihilated in the light.
Seeing this scene, Chen Ming's depression was swept away.
He adjusted his posture and leaned against the biomass vent to the vicinity of the destroyed space station with only wreckage left.
The space station had been destroyed and broken into pieces, and Chen Ming fell on the largest piece of space station wreckage.
He was digging around and found the location where the escape pods were concentrated, trying to find people who were still alive.
Of course, he also knew that it was impossible for anyone to survive the power of the entire space station being destroyed.
He was just pretending and waiting for someone.
Soon, the people Chen Ming was waiting for came.
Qianmian, wearing a protective suit, floated out from the shadow of the space station wreckage.
His face under the mask of the protective suit was a little ugly.
Because he had noticed that the high-strength Heart-Gathering Spirit Bead that he had just crushed and spent a lot of effort to make did not seem to have a good effect.
An Wuping in front of him did not look like his mental loophole had been broken, only the rage caused by his berserker syndrome.
Did the berserker syndrome protect the mental loophole from interference to a certain extent?
Qianmian was not sure, but he did not show it.
He just threw a terminal to Chen Ming, on which a program for two-way conversion of voice and text was running.
Chen Ming took it. He was now extremely calm, but he continued to control An Wuping's body and showed a surging killing intent.
The mental power that should have only acted on himself was overflowing crazily, and even the seeds left by Zuo Jing in his brain in the backpack he carried with him were completely dispersed.
Even Chen Ming felt that a trace of psychic fluctuations from the brainwashed psychic on his body were completely killed.
Chen Ming was slightly stunned when he sensed this psychic fluctuation in his consciousness.
He did not notice that his consciousness was still affected by this special psychic fluctuation with the effect of bewitching people.
Although there was no obvious feeling, there was only a very subtle impact.
But it seems that it was this influence that made him confused just now.
This spirit could find the weakest part of his mind and magnify his weakness.
He, who was friendly to civilians, had a mental loophole because of the death of civilians.
Chen Ming thought that what he thought just now was really his own idea...
No, it should be considered as such.
Because under normal circumstances, although Chen Ming would not blame himself too much when facing the death of a large number of civilians, he would indeed feel a little uncomfortable, but he would not have such a big reaction.
His previous reaction was simply magnified by his mental loophole.
A thousand-mile dam is destroyed by an ant hole, and any small problem may lead to a disaster at a critical moment.
But it doesn't matter now.
After Baiquan's enlightenment, Chen Ming will no longer be restricted by any universal ethics and morals in such major events involving the entire empire, and everything will only serve to achieve the goal.
His mind has become more resolute after this attack on his mental loophole.
At this time, Qianmian is in front of Chen Ming, and he can certainly feel that Chen Ming relies on the surging spiritual energy fluctuations to disperse the seeds in his mind.
But at this moment, it doesn't matter whether there is a seed mark or not.
Qianmian stretched out his left hand with a missing little finger, pointed at the collapsed space station under his feet and said: "We accept your pledge of allegiance."
"Soon the news of what happened on the space station will be placed on the meeting table of the local government."
"But no one will know that there are our people on the space station, and no one will know that what you are doing is actually helping them."
"We will help you build momentum, and you will be a madman who kills indiscriminately because of rage."
"It's useless for you to be angry now. It doesn't matter how psychics conflict with each other."
"But once it involves civilians, or massacres civilians, it's hard to say whether you are still a psychic in the eyes of the empire."
"You will definitely be on the empire's blacklist, and it will be impossible for you to act casually in the prosperous star field with your identity."
"For you, even if your mental state barely returns to normal, what happens next? What if the rage becomes more severe? What else can you do? You don't still think that you can find our territory casually within the empire, do you? "
"The best outcome for a pyromaniac in the Empire is to end up as a harmless guinea pig in a mental hospital."
What Qian Mian said obviously contained a lot of exaggeration.
But what he said about the left path is indeed fine.
Zuo Jing will definitely put the blame on Chen Ming for the small number of civilian casualties on the space station, and may even use their hidden people in certain departments to put the blame on Chen Ming.
Chen Ming had a targeted approach.
Because he has a complete video of everything that happened here.
He also saved all the data in the space station's database. The destruction of the space station did not affect his ability to save data at all.
If you really want to throw the blame away, all you need to do is hand over the video.
But Chen Ming doesn't intend to do this.
He has more ideas.
Chen Ming continued his performance.
Pretending to be extremely arrogant, he stepped forward and grabbed the collar of Qianmian's protective suit. He relied on himself as the medium for sound transmission and said, "I have another choice, which is to kill you here."
Qian Mian did not make any act of excitement and resistance.
After all, if An Wuping wants to take action, he can just do it directly. There is no need to drag him to talk.
Moreover, An Wuping's mania has obviously been stimulated to the extreme. If he continues to push him too hard, it will be counterproductive.
So Qian Mian actually relaxed his tone at this time and said: "In fact, there is another option. We can cooperate temporarily, only for the next period of time."
"I know that your understanding of us is negative and you are unwilling to contact us, but you must understand that frenzy is the sword of Damocles on your head,"
"Others in the empire will have to consider what will happen if you get sick and be wary of you."
"But we are different. We have the means to completely cure rage disorder."
"This is a fair deal. You contribute and we treat you."
"After it's cured, you can definitely find a way to have plastic surgery, change your appearance, and return to the empire."
"In this day and age, psychics like us really don't want to work anymore. Who can find a place to get plastic surgery and hide away without causing trouble?"
Chen Ming did not act more irritable, but let go of his hand, took a step back, lowered his head slightly, and looked thoughtful.
But he suddenly raised his head again and asked: "Your psychic power gives you the ability to change your face, so why don't you mend your little finger?"
Chen Ming pretended that he still needed time to think, so he temporarily changed the topic and brought up this issue.
Of course, this is indeed what Chen Ming is more curious about.
Because when he saw the glass bead psyker at the place where the black mist psyker was captured, his little finger was missing and had not been repaired.
It is obvious that modern medical technology can easily regenerate a finger, but it is not possible, and the same is true for mechanical fingers.
So why doesn't this guy fix it?
Qian Mian raised his left hand, looked at it, and said, "This goes back to the past, and is not what we want to talk about now."
"Think about it carefully. We still have time. You have to think about how many roads you can take now."
Chen Ming stopped looking ahead completely and leaned back against the wreckage of the space station.
Qian Mian picked up the terminal that Chen Ming had just thrown away and stuffed it into An Wuping's hand again.
He looked up at the pair of scarlet eyes on top of the tall body and said: "Our Zuojiao is actually not as crazy as you seem."
"At least we have always had friendly exchanges with you before, and it's the same now, right?"