But just from looking at those discarded corpses, it seemed as if nothing had happened.

Chen Ming remembered that once a dimensional infection erupted to a certain extent, it would affect all nearby living beings, even corpses.

Yet the people who had gone through the Spirit Beast experiments didn’t seem to suffer any secondary effects, still maintaining their original condition.

Maybe this was exactly what Zuo Jing wanted—this kind of ability to remain unaffected even after experiencing a dimensional infection.

At this moment Chen Ming thought again of the possibility that Zuo Jing had already gone through a real dimensional infection once, and it hadn’t left any serious sequelae.

Most likely Zuo Jing’s Spirit Beast experiment had already produced results that were actually usable.

To be honest, Chen Ming was very interested in this research direction, and there would certainly be plenty of people inside the Empire who were interested as well.

But using people directly as test subjects was something Chen Ming considered absolutely unacceptable.

The experiments on this Space Station and in the underground laboratory on the Planet had to be terminated.

Chen Ming saved all this critical data, then continued searching through the database.

Suddenly, in the entire main database, Chen Ming found a separate database dedicated to logging communications data.

And in this database, Chen Ming found a record belonging to a Zuo Jing laboratory, a record that involved the Cai Mo Star Realm.

The content of the exchange was basically two laboratories sharing progress on different types of Spirit Beast experiments they were respectively conducting.

With this clue, Chen Ming could even directly pull the leads available to An Wuping straight over to the Cai Mo Star Realm, heading right for the destination.

Although the laboratory communicating with this ecological observation Space Station was not on Cai Mo-3 in the Cai Mo Star Realm, but in another Star Zone, as long as they could reach the Cai Mo Star Realm, that was already enough.

And judging from the looks of it, the situation in the Cai Mo Star Realm was far from optimistic—if there was really more than one laboratory conducting this kind of dangerous research, then the Cai Mo Star Realm could turn into a ticking time bomb that might blow open another dimension at any moment.

He had to speed things up.

At the same time, Chen Ming also found several relatively important files in the database, concerning a few special materials.

The related information on these materials was recorded in great detail in the database.

Their function was to replace those materials that the Empire had now ordered to be controlled—materials that could be used in clone experiments.

Now Chen Ming understood why, even though the Empire had already placed those key materials under control, Zuo Jing could still carry out large-scale cloning research, and even trigger a dimensional infection.

Obviously, they had found suitable substitutes.

After all, the Empire had already ordered a ban on cloning research; legitimate institutes would naturally find it very hard to keep discovering what materials could substitute for cloning materials.

Only Zuo Jing just happened to be able to gain the upper hand in these areas.

But sometimes an advantage can flip into a disadvantage—like now.

Since Chen Ming already knew the types of these materials, then any company, enterprise, or individual that had purchased large amounts of these substitutes would very likely have some connection to Zuo Jing.

This would definitely be a major blow to Zuo Jing—as long as this information could be leaked.

As for how to leak it, that was the easy part.

Chen Ming picked up the terminal directly.

After masking his voice and location, he dialed the Anti-Cult Bureau in the Star Realm where An Wuping was currently located.

A woman’s voice came from the other end of the line: "Hello, this is the Anti-Cult Bureau. How can we help you?"

"I want to talk to someone with real authority."

"Sir, what do you mean by that?"

"You’re probably trying to trace my location right now, but you won’t find it. Even with Star Realm Level government methods you can’t pinpoint where I am. So you should know I’m someone with capabilities, and I want to talk to someone equally capable."

"Please hold, sir."

Very soon, the deep, resonant voice of a middle-aged man replaced the woman’s voice and said to Chen Ming, "Hello, sir, I’m the deputy director of the Anti-Cult Bureau here."

Chen Ming checked and confirmed that this voice matched the deputy director listed on the local government’s public website, then replied, "Hello, I have something to tell you regarding Zuo Jing."

The deputy director didn’t waste time on useless chatter. Since Chen Ming had the ability to conceal his identity right under their noses, he very likely had something real to say. It cost nothing to listen—if there turned out to be a problem, they could just treat it as a prank call.

"Please go ahead."

"Have you heard of... dimensional infection?"