After the Iron Ore No. smoothly entered the channel.
Because Chen Ming had previously chatted with his boss, he planned to try to interact more with the Whispering Stone on a regular basis, as his boss suggested.
Maybe in the future, he could activate the range effect of the Spiritual Stone using spiritual energy fluctuation, just like his boss.
Although the activation effect of the whisper doesn’t seem quite right, it affects the activator themselves as well.
But there must be a solution to this, otherwise, the boss wouldn’t have mentioned the concept of a spiritual weapon.
Like his boss’s "gentle" Spiritual Stone, it’s definitely not as suitable as Chen Ming’s "whisper" to be used as a weapon.
So, Chen Ming took advantage of the ship being midway through, when Old Wu was playing with Xiao Shi, to go to the engine room.
However, when Chen Ming took out the Whispering Spiritual Stone that was sealed in an iron canister.
He suddenly found that the continuously sealed Whispering Stone had undergone some unexpected changes.
The most obvious change was that the originally twisted black patterns on the stone had all turned into dark red patterns resembling coagulated blood.
Moreover, these changed patterns were more twisted than before, and looking at them with the naked eye made one feel visibly uncomfortable.
When he actually got close to the Spiritual Stone, Chen Ming could even feel the annoying whispering sound without having to touch it.
Realizing something was amiss, Chen Ming immediately turned back and put on a heavy protective suit.
Carefully approaching, and feeling that the influence range of the whisper had expanded, he cautiously extended a finger and pressed down.
As soon as Chen Ming touched the Spiritual Stone, a whispering sound stronger and more uncontrollable than ever before echoed in his ears.
If touching the Spiritual Stone before was like a madman whispering in Chen Ming’s ear, now it was as if a group of madmen were crammed into his head, voicing their delusions.
The intense whispering stimulated Chen Ming’s brain, making him release his hand immediately.
The whispering receded, but Chen Ming’s brows remained furrowed.
He hadn’t just heard the maddening whispers earlier; he had seen something amidst the whispering, something visible to the naked eye.
It was like watching a person being shot in the head at gunpoint.
The gun itself and the person holding it were very blurry, but the person being killed was remarkably clear.
A middle-aged man, with a pencil mustache, fair features, relatively slender build, and about one hundred seventy-five centimeters tall.
He wore fairly formal work attire, which looked fleece-lined and appeared to be very warm.
Besides, his pocket seemed slightly bulging.
At the moment he fell dead, a thumb-sized stone rolled out of his pocket.
Even though Chen Ming couldn’t clearly see the stone’s specific appearance or patterns.
He was certain. ʀᴇᴀᴅ ʟᴀᴛᴇsᴛ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀᴛ NoveI[F]ire.net
It was also a Spiritual Stone.
Even though this scene was incredibly realistic.
Chen Ming still couldn’t be certain if it was a hallucination caused by the whispering.
After thinking for a bit, he opened the panel to take a look.
To his surprise, the Spiritual Stone on the panel had indeed changed.
The original [Spiritual Stone (Whisper)] had become [Spiritual Stone (Delusion)], and the mere change in name was more discomforting.
However, the spiritual energy essence obtained by disassembling this Spiritual Stone was still the original 16 grams, without any change.
Chen Ming shook his head to shake off the residual whispers in his mind, pondering a reasonable explanation for the sudden change in the Whispering Stone.
After a little thought, Chen Ming felt that the most likely cause of the current situation was probably the corpses in the coffin.
The appearance of these corpses was the most noticeable and most likely situation related to the change in the Whispering Stone on the Iron Ore No. recently.
But what the actual truth was, as a semi-skilled person in spiritual energy, Chen Ming couldn’t possibly come to a correct conclusion.
Old Wu, an ordinary person, obviously didn’t know about matters of this nature either.
Although Xiao Shi seemed particularly sensitive to spiritual energy, it was just a hamster and could do nothing.
Wanting to know the answer, Chen Ming had no choice but to seek help from his boss.
But now the Iron Ore No. was within the superspace channel, with no large signal transceivers from a space station or colony nearby, hence no way to connect to the star realm network.
There was simply no way to contact his boss.
However, fortunately, after the Whispering Stone turned into the Delusion Stone, aside from the anomaly upon contact, the only other change was the slight expansion of the whisper’s influence range.
As long as the stone was placed in the far corner of the engine room, it still wouldn’t affect other parts of the ship.
Chen Ming specifically took some time to observe, confirming that the influence range of this stone indeed wouldn’t continue to expand.
Reaching out to his boss after arriving in the capital star system of the star realm should not pose much of a problem.
Moreover, Chen Ming would be out for at most two days this time. He could wait and address it later.
Chen Ming was not in a hurry at that moment.
Of course, to be safe, Chen Ming ultimately decided to throw the Whispering Stone onto the Mule Level.
Far from the coffin, far from the Iron Ore No., far from Gamma B, and far from Chen Ming himself.
From the space station to the Dark Graveyard, entering and exiting the superspace channel, including the time accelerated en route, took less than a minute in total.