Space Odyssey from Abandoned Mining Space Station

Chapter 901 - 262: Stomach_3

Even the Enlightenment Nerve in his brain was completely shattered by the punch just now.

At this moment, Chen Ming could only sense some weakening Spiritual Energy Fluctuations from the rotten flesh on his corpse and the burst of blood splatters on the surrounding walls.

Wait a minute.

Chen Ming suddenly thought of a possibility. He raised his hand, allowing the Insect Queen’s tendrils to spread out again, covering the entire empty passage.

As the Insect Queen devoured the corpse and all the bodily tissues shattered by Chen Ming’s punch.

Satisfaction indeed emanated from the Insect Queen.

It consumed the Enlightenment Nerve, whose Spiritual Energy Fluctuations hadn’t completely dissipated, causing a slight increase in its own Spiritual Energy Fluctuations.

Although not obvious, this was the same as with Chen Ming before; it’s purely due to incomplete digestion, and once fully digested, the benefits of absorbing the Enlightenment Nerve would naturally appear.

It seems that Enlightenment Nerve now has another destination.

The tendrils growing from his wrist gradually receded.

Just as Chen Ming was about to continue deeper into the Space Station, suddenly something fell from the Insect Queen’s tendrils onto the ground.

It was a stone, the size of a pinky fingertip, covered with dark and twisted patterns resembling the rigid limbs of a dying person, filled with Spiritual Energy Fluctuations.

Spiritual Stone.

Chen Ming immediately picked up the stone, enduring the slight sting and the subtle emotional fluctuation it caused.

Based on the tactile sensation when Chen Ming touched it just now, this Spiritual Stone’s attribute should be fear, matching the patterns on the stone.

But something seemed off.

Chen Ming was sure that he hadn’t found this object when he was examining the corpse.

With his current level of Spiritual Strength, there’s no way he could have not sensed this object when dealing with a Psychic’s corpse.

Even if this Spiritual Stone was hidden inside the corpse, he would still have had some sense of it; there’s no way he needed the Insect Queen to eat the corpse thoroughly and spit it out to find it.

So the question arises: where did this Spiritual Stone come from?

Chen Ming furrowed his brows, carefully recalling just now.

He suddenly realized that the size and shape of this stone seemed identical to the yellow gem on the necklace the Psychic was wearing.

It seems that this Spiritual Stone had transformed from that gem; its material just changed to the most ordinary stone, with these patterns drawn.

Upon discovering this, Chen Ming recalled something from earlier times.

It was about when he once talked about Spiritual Stones with his boss, and his boss mentioned a few things.

The boss said that any intense emotional fluctuation could potentially lead to the birth of a Spiritual Stone.

Because everyone, like Psychics, possesses a certain amount of spiritual essence; it varies from person to person.

This part of a person’s spiritual essence would undergo intense fluctuations with extreme emotions, and if someone dies during these intense emotional fluctuations, these emotions reaching an extreme point would infect surrounding objects.

Normally, the most likely object to be infected would be a stone, which is why Spiritual Stones are called that.

At the time, Chen Ming asked a question about whether Psychics could manually manufacture Spiritual Stones.

The boss didn’t say much initially, but once Chen Ming’s Spiritual Energy had become significantly stronger than before, the boss clarified it for him.

Psychics’ spiritual essence is controlled by themselves, lacking the naturally amplified spiritual essence from extreme emotions and conditions, so they can’t manufacture Spiritual Stones.

Some things the boss hadn’t previously clarified, but now he understood.

That is, when a Psychic dies in extreme emotions, they find it easier to infect surrounding stones into becoming Spiritual Stones than ordinary people.

The source of this Spiritual Stone was naturally the fear before death.

It’s no wonder that when Chen Ming picked up this Fear Spiritual Stone just now, compared to when he first encountered a Whispering Spiritual Stone, he felt a bit more resistance from the Spiritual Stone.

This is what was left inside the Spiritual Stone from the moment the Psychic died.

If Chen Ming’s guess is right, if this Spiritual Stone was touched by someone else, they would see a vision from it, a vision of killing An Wuping.

Just like when Chen Ming saw the vision of killing Shen Yi from the Whispering Spiritual Stone in the past.

Once this goal is completed, the emotions causing resonance embedded in this Spiritual Stone will fully dissipate, and it will become a Resonating Spiritual Stone.

Chen Ming suddenly had a wondrous idea in his mind, but he couldn’t carry it out just yet.

He directly pocketed the Fear Spiritual Stone, ready to venture further into the depths of the Space Station.

He had just taken down a Psychic at the door separating two areas, albeit outside the quarantine area, but surveillance was not a concern since the entirety of the Space Station was isolated from inside to outside.

However, the sonic boom from his punch just now might attract some people over.

As long as he left here, there shouldn’t be much of a problem.

Chen Ming transformed himself into the likeness of the Psychic again, inserted some unknown device into the control panel of the door, and then used Spiritual Energy to open the locked door.

Behind the door was a small room, with nothing except a surveillance device running in each of the four corners of the room.