Space Odyssey from Abandoned Mining Space Station

But since he was going to break in directly now anyway, and he was confident he could seize control of the situation and delete any data that was unfavorable to him, there was no need for him to hold back on purpose anymore.

The gate made of Silent Alloy Material inside could block Spiritual Energy Fluctuations, preventing Chen Ming’s Spiritual Energy from affecting it.

But the metal itself wasn’t exactly top-tier in terms of hardness.

It couldn’t stop a physical-level attack.

He just had to time it right, let the metal liquid slip in a little before he hit the ground, and use it to confirm the situation inside.

If the metal liquid really detected dimensional contamination, Chen Ming would just delay his move a bit.

If it didn’t find any sign of dimensional contamination, he’d just charge straight in.

Having made up his mind.

Chen Ming stopped hesitating, released his hand from the hatch handle, and leaped off the ship.

Gravity drew him straight down.

Once he adjusted his posture in midair, the Biomass jet ports on his back spewed out thick gray‑green exhaust flames, once again giving him a massive burst of acceleration.

Under the double boost from gravity and the biological Engine, Chen Ming shot toward the ground like a Meteor.

The Planet’s atmosphere was relatively high, and fairly dense.

At this speed, it would still take around two minutes to go from outside the atmosphere to the surface.

Right at that moment, the metal liquid turned into a strand of metal only a single molecule thick, and slipped directly through the Silent Alloy Membrane at the bottom of the gate.

And the single‑molecule structure Chen Ming had created just happened to go around the sensing circuits embedded in the middle of the Silent Alloy Membrane, avoiding the alarm.

That was an unexpected bonus.

Though it didn’t mean much.

Because the huge commotion he was about to cause wasn’t something that could be covered up just because the alarm hadn’t gone off.

As the metal liquid flooded into the deepest part of the lab, Chen Ming immediately saw a scene of total chaos.

Corpses everywhere, and everywhere fleshy tissue completely fused with the metal walls.

Everything that so much as had anything to do with biology was covered in those heart‑shaped deformities Chen Ming had seen in the corpse pit earlier.

The shape that was originally used to express affection, when forced into twisted human tissue or whatever unknown piles of flesh, even though he’d already seen it once, still gave Chen Ming a wave of nausea.

Not just nausea from sensing the Spirit Beast’s Spiritual Energy Fluctuation, but a real, physical nausea that made his body rebel.

This kind of scene formed a sharp contrast with the apparent peace and order in the other parts of the lab.

Chen Ming forced down any unnecessary feelings.

The metal liquid spread underground without restraint, quickly locating the main control room and the monitoring room, which were also covered in flesh.

Using equipment shaped from the metal liquid, he hacked into them and instantly seized control over the core systems of the lab.

Then, through the surveillance feeds and the dispersed metal liquid, he confirmed that there were indeed no signs of dimensional contamination in the underground lab.

He did see some corpses of the mutated stomach monsters, but they were just corpses. With the source dead, these mutated stomach monsters had naturally died as well.

And the corpses of these mutated stomach monsters weren’t affected by the surrounding heart‑shaped mutant flesh either. It looked like the Spirit Beast and dimensional contamination really were mutually exclusive.

By the time he confirmed this, there were forty seconds left before Chen Ming hit the ground.

He even had time to skim through the database.

The contents of the database were more or less the same as on the Space Station.

When the Spirit Beast Project went wrong, the most central part of the lab had indeed tried to send a warning to the outside.

But all of those warning signals had been deliberately cut off.

If Chen Ming hadn’t intervened, they probably wouldn’t have noticed anything wrong inside until the Spirit Beast had fully matured.

Then the moment the door opened, it would become a perfect experimental process.

This was Zuo Jing.

Chen Ming paused his dig into the database.

There were ten seconds left before he reached the ground.

Feeling the intense heat from friction with the atmosphere, he gradually calmed his mind and readied himself for battle.

Meanwhile, inside the lab.

The management in the outer sections of the lab had already hastily opened a communications channel.

The people responsible for lab security had spotted him while Chen Ming was still flying through the atmosphere, and immediately reported that something was about to crash down right above their heads.

Of course, at that point they still thought it was just a meteorite.

But when their high‑precision scanners picked up that vicious organism charging straight toward the underground, their scalps went numb.

After a quick exchange over the emergency channel they had pulled up, they realized they had no means to stop this creature.

Even the Psychics in charge of the lab’s security couldn’t possibly withstand this impact from the stars.

No one could interfere with Chen Ming’s actions.

When Chen Ming, in his Insectification form wreathed in crimson exhaust flames, slammed into a patch of flat ground on the Planet at terrifying speed—

The visible shockwave and the massive plume of dust that nearly pierced the clouds blasted outward in all directions, and the deafening roar of the impact drowned out all sound within dozens of kilometers.

At the shattered, sunken ground at the core of the impact, there was only a straight, vertical shaft leading directly into the depths underground.

After smashing into the surface, Chen Ming continued boring thousands of meters downward, punching straight through the lab’s structure and into its most central area, which was already covered in the Spirit Beast’s flesh.