Chapter 176 Neural Connection

The air jellyfish had just entered the atmosphere.

The Zerg spaceship, which was full of biomass, no, it was biomass itself, also broke out from thousands of meters underground.

It looked a bit like a standard combat spaceship parasitized by the Zerg, but it was also a bit like the Mule class as a cargo ship.

It was just narrower and more streamlined, with a more unique texture of biological creatures.

After it broke out of the ground, Chen Ming could see its biomass engine nozzle covered by a pitch-black carapace spraying a unique gray-green tail flame mixed with some black impurities.

Following the air jellyfish, it entered space together.

As the high heat generated by the friction between the biological spaceship and the atmosphere cleaned away the excess impurities on its body.

Chen Ming also saw its full appearance clearly.

Except for the black carapace of the tail nozzle.

The carapace of other parts of the biomass spaceship reflected a brown oily luster under the illumination of starlight, and it looked extremely hard.

The ship-class Zerg carapace, which is obviously different from the appearance of ordinary Zergs that Chen Ming has seen, is enough to support such a huge body to travel in space.

If Chen Ming discards the perception that this biomass spaceship is a spaceship.

Then this should actually be the largest creature Chen Ming has ever seen.

The second largest is the Alturan air eel.

No matter which one it is, it has special value to him.

In the gaps between the shells of the biomass spaceship, Chen Ming also saw something like the acid injection port of the cyst worm.

As long as the shell is slightly opened under the action of the muscles, the acid injection port can leave an opening that can be fired at will.

When Chen Ming was still in the space station, he knew that the acid of the cyst worm could be used in space, so the acid on this biomass spaceship could also be used.

However, the Zerg will definitely not use acid directly to attack the air jellyfish.

After all, if the empty jellyfish is killed by mistake, its psychic energy will be too much, or the body tissue with psychic energy will be destroyed, which is definitely a loss that the Zerg cannot bear.

Instead of using acid weapons, it is better to use other methods.

For example, using the dozens of thick tentacles extending from the sides and rear of the left and right sides of the biomass spacecraft that Chen Ming is seeing now.

Although the size of the Zerg spacecraft is not on the same level as the empty jellyfish, the biomass spacecraft has an advantage in speed.

The five nozzles at the tail can provide it with acceleration that the empty jellyfish cannot achieve.

After a little acceleration in space for a while, it is about to touch the empty jellyfish that flew out in advance.

It is just a little bit away, and its tentacles on the side can capture the empty jellyfish.

The empty jellyfish with a diameter of only three meters has no resistance in front of this giant organism that is more than 100 meters.

It has left the atmosphere for a distance

And this means that it is impossible to turn back to the planet and hide underground immediately.

Therefore, Chen Ming's three cruisers that had hid outside the galaxy in advance activated the jump function at the same time.

They instantly arrived in front of the biomass spaceship, forming a triangle to block all its escape directions.

But Chen Ming now encountered the same problem as the Zerg.

He could not directly attack the biomass spaceship with weapons, which would bring the same consequences as the Zerg directly attacking the empty jellyfish with acid.

He had to find a way to control the Zerg spaceship in other ways.

Chen Ming had obviously thought about what to do before he took action.

A large amount of metallic liquid suddenly appeared out of thin air on the top of the Defender, and gradually condensed into more than a dozen flexible giant mechanical arms connected to the hull.

Reached out to the biomass spaceship that braked suddenly in space because of the sudden appearance of the three cruisers.

Forced to create without means of capture.

In front of the kilometer-class cruiser, the Zerg spaceship was a bit not good enough.

It was this scene that always made Chen Ming feel like a big fish eating a small fish.

But it didn't matter, what mattered was to complete his goal.

Just as the defenders quickly approached the biomass spaceship and stretched out the dozens of mechanical arms.

Chen Ming suddenly found that the biological spaceship in front of him had a wave that he was very familiar with, which would be emitted by the spaceship before entering the hyperspace.

"Turtle."

Chen Ming muttered subconsciously.

Although he had guessed that the biomass spaceship had such an ability before.

But now he was still somewhat shocked when he actually saw this scene.

In addition to the empty jellyfish, he knew a lot of creatures that could enter the universe in the flesh.

But the ability to enter the hyperspace in the flesh and break through the barrier between the normal universe and the hyperspace was really the first time he had seen it.

What kind of creature is the Thorn Zerg?

The doubts in Chen Ming's mind did not affect his actions.

It is better to say that such doubts made him more impatient.

He immediately started the blocking pulse generator.

This is a device that Chen Ming had bought before for hunting pirates.

The effect is also very simple, blocking the process of the spacecraft using the hyperspace engine and preventing the spacecraft from entering the hyperspace.

Although Chen Ming is not sure whether this thing can work on biological spacecraft, since he has already guessed that the Zerg spacecraft has the ability to enter the hyperspace, it will not be wrong to use it now.

After all, the Zerg is now risking falling into the gravity well of the star and being burned to ashes by the star to forcefully enter the hyperspace inside the galaxy.

Chen Ming can't watch the cooked duck fly away, he must take action.

If the blocking pulse generator fails to work, then he will have to use more radical and dangerous means.

Fortunately, the parts or organizations on the biomass spacecraft that can enable it to enter the hyperspace are indeed affected by the blocking pulse.

Its process of entering the hyperspace was interrupted.

In addition, Chen Ming has prepared several blocking pulse generators. As long as the first blocking is successful, the Zerg will never have any chance to enter the hyperspace again.

The next thing will be easy.

The defender continued to approach the biomass spaceship, and the mechanical arm had blocked all its escape routes.

And the defender also launched many reinforced assault boats at the same time.

This was the manufacturing technology that Chen Ming had learned before, and then he asked Bai Quan about the use of assault boat tactics.

Although now is not a good time to use assault boats as Bai Quan said.

However, this kind of ship does not have a data line connected to the Yuhui core after all.

So Chen Ming needs to contact the biomass spaceship in person, because it is necessary to deal with the risks on the biological spaceship.

Although even if the bugs are cleaned up, Chen Ming’s personal contact with the spaceship is still dangerous, but it is worth it for him.

However, the reinforced assault boats that were not used at the right time immediately encountered problems.

Because of the distance, the assault boats could not continue to accelerate and could not penetrate the hard shell of the Zerg.

Fortunately, the impact was not great.

The defender’s dozen giant mechanical arms have captured the biomass spaceship and locked it firmly above the defender.

Chen Ming transformed one of the dozen giant mechanical arms into a giant industrial drill that would only be used in a mining space station.

He also transformed another one into a super-powerful mining laser.

However, Chen Ming did not dare to use the mining laser.

In order not to cause too much damage to the biomass spacecraft, he only dared to drill an opening in the outer shell near the hollow cavity inside the biomass spacecraft based on the results of the highest point scan.

Then he stuffed the robots in the assault boats parked outside directly into it.

These robots were all under Chen Ming's control and immediately began to attack the Zerg protecting the spacecraft inside the cavity of the biomass spacecraft.

A large number of robots that could not be completely eliminated and were not affected by Zerg blood swept the interior of the biomass spacecraft like a group of mad dogs, leaving a patch of Zerg limbs and arms along the way.

With the face-to-face high-power scan of the highest point, Chen Ming was able to completely kill all threats inside the entire biomass spacecraft.

In the end, there was only one queen insect left in the entire biomass spaceship, which was in the center of the spaceship and was still breeding insects and struggling desperately.

Since it had come to this, Chen Ming asked the defender to drag the biomass spaceship to the planet below.

Keep a considerable distance from the mechanical city to avoid unnecessary attacks.

Then, there was nothing else.

In addition to destroying the carapace and providing conditions for the robots to break into the interior, the defender also destroyed all the offensive organizations on the outside that could attack, including the acid injection ports.

Only the queen insect, which was the core of the biomass spaceship, was still alive.

All other dangers had been eliminated.

Chen Ming left the highest point on the surface of the planet where he landed with the defender.

Relying on the jetpack of the locust power armor, he flew to the top of the defender and reached out to touch the carapace of the biomass spaceship.

A familiar but slightly changed prompt appeared in front of him.

[Biomass spaceship signal detected, do you want to connect? 】

Chen Ming clenched his other fist, his face showing a mixture of surprise and relief.

"Access."

A new panel appeared in front of him.

[Biomass Ship Panel]

[Ship Name: None]

[Type: Thorn Zerg Destroyer-class Breeding Ship]

[Consciousness: Thorn Zerg Queen (alive)]

[Biomass Reserves: 2%]

[Top Biological Weapons: Medium Acid Jet Sac, Small Acid Jet Sac*3]

[Bottom Biological Weapons: Medium Acid Jet Sac, Small Acid Jet Sac*3]

[Egg Cultivation Sac (Port Side): 100/100 (0)]

[Egg cultivation sac (starboard): 100/100 (0)]

[Biological armor: Thorn Zerg·Biological spaceship standard carapace]

[Biological engine: Rigid digestive sac]

[Internal cavity: Queen host cavity, giant storage cavity, egg cultivation cavity, digestive cavity, waste storage cavity]

[Key tissues: aggregated nerve center node, nerve circuit network, beating heart, body fluid circulation tissue network, biomass main stem, hyperspace stable connective tissue, loose muscle bundle, neural pain inhibition tissue, giant Zerg compound eye]

Although the entire panel looks a bit complicated, its overall structure is still similar to that of an ordinary spaceship.

A little deconstruction will make it easier to understand.

This biomass spaceship looks from the inside out.

First of all, the core Queen is the brain of the entire biomass spaceship.

The Queen's appearance... is a bit ugly.

It is just a parasite-like thing connected to the flesh and blood tissue inside the biological spaceship.

The whole body is both thin and bloated.

What is bloated is its brain and the egg-laying organs of the Zerg, and what is thin is all the other body tissues on its body.

This extreme structure makes it impossible for the Queen to look good.

But such an appearance can meet all the needs of the Queen and everything it needs to do.

Outside the Queen is the [Queen's Hosting Cavity], which is protected in the myocardial tissue of the [beating heart] of this biomass spaceship.

It can be said to be the safest place on the entire biological spaceship.

Outside the heart are various tissue structures that maintain the normal survival of this biomass spaceship.

Including the [aggregate nerve center node] with functions similar to the control panel, and the [neural circuit network] similar to the various circuits inside Chen Ming's spaceship.

Provide the [body fluid circulation tissue network] for the entire spaceship to circulate in the body, including blood and other biological body fluids.

In addition, there is the most critical "spinal nerve" that extends from the beating heart and connects the entire biological spaceship, that is, the [biological main stem].

In addition, some other biological cavities, such as the [Giant Storage Cavity] that can store various nutrients, biomass, and captured food, are distributed around the main stem of the biomass with other scattered things.

For example, the tentacles that Chen Ming saw before, extending outside the biomass spacecraft.

These are [loose muscle bundles], which are some tissues differentiated from the end of the main stem of the biomass.

Usually gathered in the carapace, they can be extended when necessary, just like it was going to capture the empty jellyfish just now.

However, the more critical role of loose muscle bundles is not here.

Its muscle surface has a lot of fine pores.

The heat produced by the biomass spacecraft when it uses the [rigid digestive sac] to digest various fuels and convert the fuel into bioenergy can be dissipated through these muscle bundles.

Heat dissipation is its main function.

Although the efficiency of heat dissipation in space is not high, it is better than nothing.

Outside these internal tissues and cavities are the strong and solid Zerg muscle tissue of the biomass spacecraft and the Zerg carapace that protects the muscle tissue.

There are also biological weapons [acid spray capsules] distributed between muscle tissues and hidden under the carapace.

However, there is another special thing that Chen Ming thinks should be included in the biological weapons column.

In addition to being distributed inside the spacecraft, there is also a very special cavity [egg cultivation cavity] distributed on the side of the biological spacecraft.

There are hundreds of neatly arranged egg cultivation capsules inside the cavity, and each capsule contains a semi-mature insect. With a little cultivation, it can have a certain combat power.

These things... seem to belong to the Zerg fighter.

It should be something like this.

Chen Ming thought about it and felt that it was quite reasonable.

After all, the Zerg does not seem to have evolved any powerful biological weapons at present, only pure acid.

Although the effect of acid is very good and enough to corrode sky steel, the nature of acid itself determines that it is not very good. Its bullet speed in space may not even be comparable to many civilian weapons.

Then just combine biological weapons and biological fighters.

As long as the Zerg cultivated by the Queen can get close to the enemy's spacecraft, the problem of the slow speed of acid weapons will be solved.

They can even use acid to corrode the spacecraft armor directly to achieve the effect of boarding.

The Zerg, which has a very fast breeding speed, good melee ability, and no fear of death, feels more powerful than robots in boarding operations.

Chen Ming remembered that there seemed to be no such bugs when the Supreme Point scanned the biomass spacecraft at the beginning.

It seems that after the biological spacecraft was captured and lost its ability to resist, the Queen consumed most of the results of biomass cultivation.

But before it could release these "Zerg fighters", the entire biomass spacecraft was controlled by Chen Ming.

In short, these things from the inside to the outside constitute everything of this biomass spaceship.

While Chen Ming was controlling the bio-spaceship and understanding it through the panel, he also slowly walked around it.

Although this bio-spaceship is inferior to ordinary military combat destroyers, it has potential that is difficult for any other spaceship to achieve.

In addition, Chen Ming also found that under the Zerg carapace on the side and tail of the bio-spaceship, it has a spiral muscle tissue-enclosed door leading to the interior of the spaceship.

If Chen Ming guessed correctly, this should be a door composed of muscle tissue structures similar to sphincters.

So Chen Ming decisively gave up the sphincter door at the tail of the bio-spaceship and chose to enter the bio-spaceship from the side.

The moment he realized that the Zerg had a biomass spaceship, he had expected this scene to happen.

So he had already adjusted his mentality, and was not affected at all when he walked through the sphincter door and entered the interior of the bio-spaceship.

Anyway, he had already experienced the sky steel smelted from the empty fish feces before, and another sphincter door was nothing.

After entering the Zerg cavity, Chen Ming could see that there were a large number of egg cultivation capsules everywhere, which the Queen had just cultivated urgently.

There were many adult insects wrapped in capsules suspended in them, and they had different uses, such as fighting, transportation, cultivation, maintenance, etc.

But now, they only had one function, which was to be reabsorbed by the Queen and converted into biomass to maintain the survival of the biological spacecraft.

After all, the Queen had been controlled by Chen Ming and calmed down.

So after losing the enemy, survival became its first priority.

In addition to these reabsorbed cultivation capsules, there were also many corpses of Zerg killed by the mechanical race that Chen Ming had just sent in, which were being dragged to the tail of the biological spacecraft by some worker insects that the Queen had just cultivated.

There were giant storage chambers and rigid digestive capsules there, which would be reabsorbed later.

But Chen Ming's target was not there. He confirmed it based on the three-dimensional imaging on the panel of the biomass spacecraft, and then stepped to the location of the beating heart of the biological spacecraft, which was where the Queen was.

The beating heart does not beat very fast, it beats once every five minutes or so, bringing a roar that spreads throughout the biomass spaceship.

The overall roar is not too loud, but rather low, so once you get used to it, it will hardly have any effect unless you pay special attention to it.

Chen Ming soon came to the vicinity of the beating heart, and could see that the inside and outside of the heart and the queen inside it were protected by extremely thick Zerg carapaces that were almost the same as the outside of the biological spaceship.

The ugly queen inside the heart was emitting a feeling of closeness to him, the core of the hive mind.

The queen controlled by Chen Ming was the same as the mechanical race he controlled. With him as the core, she created a new hive mind network to provide him with mental power feedback.

And the two hive mind networks were independent and did not affect each other at all.

But Chen Ming found a problem.

It was true that the Zerg was a hive mind, and it was also true that a hive mind network was established with him as the core, and it was also true that it could provide him with the mental power bonus of the hive network mind.

But after he took control of the biological spaceship, the only bugs that connected to the Zerg hive mind network with him as the core were the Queen and the bugs bred after the Queen was controlled.

Those bugs that had been bred before the Queen was controlled were not connected to Chen Ming's mind network.

It also included those bugs that were still on the planet and underground.

This problem made Chen Ming have to pay attention.

He immediately observed the bugs that were not in the hive consciousness.

It seemed that there was no big problem.

The connection between the Zerg depends not only on the hive network, but also on the exchange of pheromones.

The pheromones of the Queen have not changed, so these bugs will not be out of the Queen's control, but will not provide Chen Ming with the bonus of the hive network.

Then Chen Ming is not worried, he has already thought of a solution, and he can implement it when he has time later.

Chen Ming suddenly reached out and touched the ugly big head of the Queen for some reason.

The shell of the Queen felt as smooth as it looked.

Once you get used to its appearance, it is quite comfortable to touch.

Suddenly, the carapace on the queen's head slightly opened a gap, and a thick white nerve stretched out and stopped in front of Chen Ming.

Chen Ming immediately understood what the queen meant with the help of the hive mind network.

This is a special way for the Zerg to connect nerves, which can quickly exchange information.

And Chen Ming does not need to find a way to get his nerve out, as long as he and the nerve exchange bioelectric signals, the neural connection can be carried out.

Chen Ming hesitated a little, but this hesitation dissipated immediately.

This biological spaceship is already under his control, and his psychic power will definitely ensure that he is safe.

The moment Chen Ming held the thick nerve, he seemed to have turned into the consciousness of the biological spacecraft.

Then, the message that the consciousness of the biological spacecraft wanted to express came to his mind: "Eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat..."

"?"

Chen Ming subconsciously loosened his hand holding the thick nerve.

Just now, he seemed to have felt a strange idea in his mind.

Chen Ming held it again with some uncertainty, and the consciousness of the biological spacecraft spread again: "Evolve evolve evolve evolve evolve evolve evolve..."

"?"

Chen Ming loosened his hand again, communicated with the Queen of the Worm through the honeycomb network, and held his hand again.

This time it was normal.

Chen Ming successfully read the memory inside the memory body in the Queen of the Worm's brain that stored memories.

At this moment, Chen Ming seemed to have returned to the moment when he was still on the abandoned mining space station more than half a year ago.

No, it was even earlier.

It was the moment when the Thorn Zerg was dropped on the mining space station.