Space Odyssey from Abandoned Mining Space Station-Chapter 400 - 144 Escape_2

The exhaustion and fatigue had already filled his brain.

But he couldn’t sleep yet; he hadn’t yet reached a safe environment.

Chen Ming didn’t dare to use the Stone of Frenzied Language to stimulate himself, fearing that such stimulation might cause him, already somewhat fragile, to faint.

He could only wash his face with ice-cold water and use pinching himself and biting the tip of his tongue to force himself to stay awake.

After doing these things,

the Brilliant had already brought the last batch of ships, loaded with nearly all the cores of the Dusk, to the target Star System.

Only a very small part remained in the original Star System, left there to continue communication with the outside and disguise everything as normal in the Star System.

This was a necessary sacrifice.

It was precisely because of these losses that the Brilliant’s Star Realm had not yet seen a large-scale fleet come in to investigate.

After the Brilliant reached the target Star System, Chen Ming, as usual, began repairing its Teleportation Engine.

Meanwhile, Chen Ming no longer pretended to suffer from insomnia for the past few days.

He honestly chose to manually wear a Protective Suit, instead of using the method of exhausting Spiritual Power to create one.

He brought the small stone with him, confirmed that nothing was missed at the research institute, and shuffled towards the entrance with uneven footsteps.

After G3’s death, although the research institute was temporarily managed by Brilliant concerning Chen Ming’s matters, the authority of the institute now lay in the hands of the high-level Dusk.

Thus, when Chen Ming reached the entrance, the door was completely shut, blocking his way out.

Then a mechanical voice sounded.

It wasn’t the Brilliant, but a new voice of the Dusk.

"Mr. Chen Ming, it’s time to rest now, what do you want to do?"

"Where is the Brilliant?"

The Dusk communicating with Chen Ming surprisingly asked, "How did you figure out I’m not the Brilliant?"

Clearly, the communications between Dusk and Chen Ming were all through mechanical voices, without any particular tone or accent, at most there were differences in language habits between individuals.

But from just saying Chen Ming’s name and one question, he had figured out that it wasn’t the Brilliant, which made it very curious.

"I think it’s quite obvious."

Chen Ming’s response was very idealistic, but he just knew, without knowing why.

"Alright then, why are you dressed like this? Can you answer that?"

"You answer me first, where’s the Brilliant?"

"It’s just a task handover, I’m taking over Brilliant’s work."

"Is it going to be you from now on?"

"Yes."

Chen Ming showed no expression, but he understood the situation roughly in his heart.

This Dusk’s words were clearly problematic.

Because the Brilliant had always kept in touch with him, if such a handover were happening, it would have informed him long ago, rather than waiting for him to find out on his own.

Chen Ming reckoned that the Dusk had already discovered issues with Brilliant’s Star System.

They were plotting to investigate the Brilliant, and naturally couldn’t notify the Brilliant.

Therefore, it was also impossible to let the biggest suspect, Chen Ming, leave the research institute arbitrarily.

It seemed that even if he hadn’t moved in the last two days, the Dusk would soon react to what had happened in the Star System.

Chen Ming was running out of time.

But fortunately, he had already begun the final stage. 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

Chen Ming nodded at the high-level Dusk individual’s response and said, "I understand."

In the next moment, he instantly took control of all the equipment in the research institute.

He left nothing out, inside or outside.

Even the few giant mechanical entities parked underground were all under his control, and for a short time, there was nothing near the research institute that could threaten his life.

Unfortunately, the Spirit Awakening Nerve Extractor was taken to another location on the planet during the Dusk’s previous cleanup of the Cloning Research Institute, and still has not been brought back.

It could be that the cultivation of the second Enlightenment Nerve hasn’t finished, or they simply didn’t want to give Chen Ming another chance to access it.

Chen Ming could only temporarily give up on this thing.

However, the Spirit Awakening Nerve Extractor was not the only one in existence; it was a device the Dusk found in another civilization’s ruins, which he could seek out in the future.

No longer staying, after fully controlling the research institute and severing the other Dusk’s control permissions.

He knew that the Dusk must have started panicking by now.

So he immediately opened the door, quickened his pace, and walked out of the research institute.

Outside, two Frigate-level spaceships were approaching rapidly, ships that the Dusk used to monitor him.

However, right behind Chen Ming, four giant mechanical entities that once opposed him burst out like mad dogs.

Two by two, they lunged at the approaching ships, not giving them a chance to interfere with Chen Ming.

The hydraulic devices of the four giant mechanical entities erupted with terrifying power output, driving their massive bodies to collide with the speeding ships.

Blasting them away, and like nimble creatures, they immediately clung to the ships, releasing fierce arcs of electricity from their bodies.

Instantly paralyzing and destroying both ships.

They tore apart the ships’ armor with huge mechanical claws, violently dismantling the core devices inside and delivering them to Chen Ming.

The entire process only took a matter of seconds.

Chen Ming had just reached beside the Water Buffalo Level ship.

Besides these two ships that had been destroyed, any other Dusk ships would take at least over a minute to arrive.

No one could stop him.

Chen Ming casually dismantled the devices outside the two Gamma Level cores and pocketed the cores.