Chapter 1291 - 360: Destruction (Part 3)

The Mechanical Race really had guessed that Chen Ming’s main body might not be his true body, which was why they set up such an arrangement.

Even if Chen Ming might have other fragments of consciousness elsewhere, at least the part that has come here must be destroyed here.

Of course, Chen Ming wasn’t surprised.

From beginning to end he was fully aware this would definitely be a troublesome trap laid by the Mechanical Race.

But for the sake of the Destruction Core, he still chose to step in.

Because he had truly witnessed the power of destruction.

The other mechanical arm was still laboriously pushing forward toward the Destruction Core, about to touch it.

But at this moment Chen Ming understood that his mechanical arm would absolutely not make it to the core before his consciousness body was severed.

Let alone the fact that he would only be touching the Destruction Core, not controlling it.

He had to make a decision.

Chen Ming stopped hesitating; a flash of blue and red swept across his Consciousness Space.

Immediately after, he suddenly pulled back all his dispersed consciousness, converging it entirely into his main body.

At that very instant.

The boss, who was handling recent files, suddenly stopped moving, glanced at the robot beside him, then at the terminal Chen Ming had given him in the drawer, and frowned.

The robot controlled by Chen Ming at headquarters suddenly halted its actions; the director of the Ship Research Institute and the director of the Spiritual Ability Research Institute, who were in a meeting discussing Phase ships and further development of Spiritual Energy ships, both turned toward it in confusion.

The Chen Ming avatar in the frontline command room also suddenly drooped his head as if he’d fallen asleep, saying not a word.

Qiu Bowen seemed to sense something; he turned his head toward Chen Ming, confusion and a flicker of shock in his gaze.

He immediately went to Chen Ming’s side, shook his shoulder, and then released his Spiritual Power to probe.

And reached a conclusion that stunned him to the core.

An Wuping and Chen Ming—could they be half‑brothers with neither the same father nor mother?

This peculiar situation made him immediately think of a special kind of structure: a Hive Mind.

Chen Ming, on his side, of course knew exactly what problems would arise from suddenly pulling all his consciousness back into his main body.

But the groundwork he’d laid earlier using An Wuping’s identity was already sufficient.

People would only know that he possessed a Mechanical Race Hive Mind Network similar to An Wuping’s Insect Race hive network.

And in fact, the way this Mechanical Race Hive Mind Network was set up would, to the outside world, still look like something others had designed for him, rather than something he’d built himself.

He had already thought through the consequences; now he should go ahead and do the thing he was willing to bear those consequences for.

Time to try.

See what exactly the Mechanical Race has prepared for him in this trap.

Chen Ming fully pulled in his consciousness, and at the very instant the consciousness‑lock region formed, he smashed his fist through the outer shell of the underground device and reached in, intending to take control of the more central structures.

But the moment he shattered the shell, a suddenly erupting sense of danger slammed into him.

His arm directly sublimated, just like that disappearing into the air.

A cluster of dazzling matter forced Chen Ming to instantly retreat tens of meters.

And in front of him he constructed a steel wall that completely sealed off the lab’s structure, with a thickness likewise reaching tens of meters.

He clutched the charred stump where his arm had been, wiping away the Armor Material that had melted into molten iron under the terrifying high temperature.

He continued to observe the laboratory through his senses.

The other end of the lab had already lost all basic structural form; all that remained was intense heat and destruction.

The material that had just suddenly appeared was the core matter of the Star System’s star.

The device the Mechanical Race had placed on the surface was not just camouflage; it really did have a function, really did connect to the interior of the star.

The Mechanical Race’s plan wasn’t merely to send destruction into the star; their idea was to send the star’s internal matter here.

They were using the star’s power to crush the Destruction Core, forcing it to unleash all the power contained within at the moment of its destruction.

Destruction would destroy everything.

The Destruction Core had already been damaged by the power of the star.

An uncontrollable, unrestrainable destructive ripple had begun to leak out from inside.

And the star’s power, while activating destruction, was itself being destroyed by that destruction.

Chen Ming didn’t hesitate further; he rebuilt his body and his Armor.

Then, on the outer layer of his Biological Armor, he constructed an even larger layer of Silent Alloy Armor; like a solid block of iron, he pushed through the copper walls and iron barriers he himself had made, closing in on the Destruction Core’s location.

Silent Alloy could temporarily resist the influence of destruction, but its structure was continuously being torn apart as Chen Ming moved closer to the Destruction Core.

He had already pulled in all his Silent Alloy inventory, spending it all right now, using it to completely wrap the Destruction Core.

The Destruction Core was like a source constantly radiating energy, and Chen Ming was trying to use massive lead shielding to contain it, so he could handle it afterward.

Yet at the very instant his Silent Alloy wrapped around the Destruction Core.

The Destruction Core erupted once again with terrifying power, ripping apart the surrounding Silent Alloy and obliterating everything nearby.

Chen Ming reacted with extreme speed, retreating once more and again forming a fortress strong enough to make destruction itself sigh.

After this wave of Destructive Power finished leaking out, he once more rapidly approached, using the remaining Silent Alloy Material to wrap the Destruction Core yet again.