Chapter 187 Pre-War Preparation

If Chen Ming wants to attack the mechanical race, he must do more than just release the Queen Worm and let her reproduce.

There are many other things to do.

However, the premise of doing other things is that the Queen Worm can break through the mechanical race's defense line and successfully reach the planet.

So Chen Ming did not consider other things for the time being, but directly began to try to let the Queen Worm enter the planet.

It is absolutely impossible to enter the planet directly and openly like the Queen Worm in the past.

The mechanical race here has more complete security measures than the mechanical race controlled by Chen Ming.

If Chen Ming dares to do this, it will definitely lead to martial law of the mechanical race in the entire city until the things related to the Zerg that he threw on the planet are completely cleaned up.

But the mechanical race here is still in the early stages of development, so they also have some shortcomings.

For example, the defense against the space environment is not so detailed that Chen Ming's Yuhui individual can drive the ship close to the middle of the galaxy.

At the same time, the range of influence that the mechanical race can now have on the planet seems to be only in the space orbit, covering about one-fifth of the planet's equatorial orbit.

Corresponding to the surface of the planet, it is far less than one-fifth of the planet's surface area.

There are still large areas outside the control of the mechanical race.

At least it looks like that.

So Chen Ming thought of a way to take advantage of these two shortcomings.

He controlled the highest point to scan the surrounding environment and found an area with many asteroids with a diameter of about 100 meters densely distributed.

Then, he took out a few of them.

He wanted to drop meteorites on the planet of the mechanical race.

As long as the orbit is designed well, the act of dropping meteorites will be seen as a normal meteorite by people who don't know the specific situation, and it is highly likely that they will not be discovered.

It is still easy for the highest point to capture a few asteroids.

With the help of Chaofan to calculate the trajectory, it is also easy to drop asteroids accurately on the planet in a reasonable way.

Chen Ming also thought about the location of the drop, and dropped it on the other side of the mechanical race city on the planet opposite to the center of the earth.

At the same time, it is best not to drop asteroids multiple times.

A bunch of asteroids suddenly hit the same location, and anyone with a brain can see that there is a problem.

So Chen Ming's plan was to create signs of a meteorite shower.

It was normal for a planet without an atmosphere in the universe to be hit by a meteorite shower that came out of nowhere.

As long as we prepare more asteroids of different sizes and throw them out in batches at about the same time, so that one batch follows another, this matter will be logically reasonable.

Then, under the condition that there are no other abnormalities, we can test the reaction of the mechanical race.

See if they can detect the impact of asteroids outside their control area as Chen Ming speculated.

Although the High Point is an exploration ship, it still has the ability to capture asteroids.

The collection work was completed easily.

And according to extraordinary calculations, some of the meteorites were thrown to the planet of the mechanical race.

After waiting for the meteorites to fly a long distance.

The first batch of seven or eight asteroids of different sizes thrown by Chen Ming finally flew smoothly to the vicinity of the target planet, were captured by the gravity of the planet, and finally hit the other side of the planet.

The mechanical race did not take any defensive measures.

It is not known whether they scanned them and ignored them because they thought they were no threat, or whether they did not notice these stones at all.

It does not matter if we do not know, anyway, the next batch will definitely know which one is the problem.

After the first batch of meteorites landed, the second batch of asteroids thrown by Chen Ming arrived at the target planet almost close to the first batch and were also captured by gravity.

And this time, Chen Ming brought some fragments of the Queen Worm's shell and some growths on the Queen Worm's cocoon to two of the asteroids.

Chen Ming even used psychic energy to create some commonly used anti-scanning materials on these two asteroids with Queen Worm's body tissues, which were relatively small in size and about 30 to 40 meters in diameter.

And this time, when Chen Ming observed the situation with a little nervousness in his heart.

He found that the mechanical race was still the same as before, without any special movement.

These mechanical races really did not seem to be aware of the existence of the asteroids. The mechanical races in the entire city were not as active as when the Queen Worm landed on another planet.

The Queen Worm's body tissue landed on the planet so smoothly.

Although Chen Ming has not been able to directly use his psychic power to transform a complete Zerg Queen, his biological technology has not yet reached this level.

But with just this body tissue, he can already mass-produce Zerg energy crystals on the planet of the Mechanical Clan.

As long as the Zerg Queen is in place, the rest is to blast troops and push forward.

The first step of the plan is half completed.

After the second batch of asteroids carrying the body tissue of the Zerg Queen, which is used to test the mechanical race's control over the planet, landed.

Chen Ming also tested that the progress of the mechanical race in developing the planet was really slow, and the control was completely inadequate.

This seemed to be somewhat inconsistent with the situation of the mechanical race developing a new colony in a new location.

To be honest, if he was a mechanical race, he would definitely increase the investment in the developed planet to the greatest extent at the first time of development.

Not to mention that he would do it all at once, at least the security measures in the developed area must be done well, and all dangers within the galaxy must be dealt with.

And install a large number of fixed-point observation equipment to nip all dangers in the bud.

The mechanical race developed, but did not invest enough in the developed areas.

This seemed a bit wrong.

But the mechanical race had no reason to say that this place was a trap or something.

Who could come to such a place in the rear of the mechanical race's star field to cause trouble?

Moreover, Chen Ming and the mechanical race had never crossed paths, and it was impossible for the mechanical race to have predicted that Chen Ming would come.

Could it be that the mechanical race delayed the development of this place for some reason?

Chen Ming couldn't figure it out, but things had to be done.

He did not drop the third batch of asteroids directly.

Because in this batch of asteroids, Chen Ming stuffed one of them with the body of the Queen Worm that had been left at the highest point, and of course, a layer of anti-scanning material was also made on the outside.

So when it was uncertain whether the second batch of asteroids could pass through the defense of the mechanical race smoothly.

Chen Ming could not risk losing a Queen Worm body that could not be replenished during the Queen Worm's hibernation period by throwing the Queen Worm up.

At least he had to wait until the second batch of asteroids arrived and the test results came out before trying again.

So after confirming that the mechanical race did not find any traces of the Queen Worm on the second batch of asteroids.

Chen Ming also threw the third batch of asteroids with the Queen Worm body.

After a period of time similar to the previous one, it arrived near the planet, was captured by gravity, and successfully hit the ground.

The mechanical race also did not move, and did not notice what was in the meteorite that had just fallen.

When the smoke and dust from the meteorite fell back to the ground under the action of gravity.

In this area that had been smashed into pits and pits, only some meteorite fragments that were scattered and shattered by the impact were left.

Although there was no consciousness in the body of the Queen Worm, it had various basic organs to maintain the survival of the body, and some moving limbs that were inconsistent with the Queen Worm's body.

So Chen Ming personally controlled the body to dig underground, hid deep underground where it would not be discovered, and lay dormant.

At this point, the first step of preparation was completed.

The Queen Worm's consciousness could be transferred to the empty shell at any time with the help of Chen Ming.

And Chen Ming could also deliver some energy crystals produced by the energy crystal insects bred by the Queen Worm to the body during this period before the Queen Worm woke up from the cocoon.

After the Queen Worm was shaped, these energy crystals could be used to breed new Zergs as soon as possible.

Although the preparations went smoothly.

But it was so smooth that Chen Ming had to consider whether the mechanical race had noticed it, but just pretended not to notice it, and had some deeper plan that he could not understand.

Moreover, Chen Ming was thinking during the whole process of throwing asteroids just now, is the mechanical race's defense against space really so weak?

So Chen Ming pushed the remaining few asteroids he had just collected to the vicinity of the mechanical race's city on the planet, instead of deliberately avoiding the city.

Since the mechanical race couldn't even find the Queen of Worms, and the Queen of Worms had successfully landed, Chen Ming didn't mind doing something a little more risky.

And this time, Chen Ming finally saw the actions of the mechanical race.

But it was not on the ground, but the actions of the orbital defense facilities in space.

Those large modular satellites suddenly began to deform, gradually unfolded, and adjusted the various equipment inside to their proper positions.

It can be seen that various large live ammunition weapons, large energy weapons, and large missile weapons are evenly distributed on the satellites.

The density of the layout is even higher than that of a space station of the size of a pirate space station, and the firepower is very terrifying.

Each satellite can be regarded as a small war fortress.

And on the outward-facing side of these unfolded satellites, a flat shield that is completely different from the spherical shield of ordinary spacecraft gradually expands.

It is connected with the flat shields that are also unfolded together with other dangers in orbit.

This orbital defense facility is a wall of sighs that can completely block invaders.

Of course, that is the case after the construction is completed.

Now this wall only blocks one-fifth of the area near the equator of the entire planet, and it is not able to protect the entire planet at all.

So much so that Chen Ming threw the body of the queen insect on the planet, and the mechanical race did not notice it.

But this at least shows that if Chen Ming wants to directly attack the city of the mechanical race, there will definitely be big problems.

The deployed orbital defense facilities quickly completely destroyed those asteroids and gradually recovered.

This scene made Chen Ming frown even more, because the mechanical race did not seem to care about the loss of energy.

Moreover, the time when the orbital defense facilities were deployed was just when the asteroids thrown by Chen Ming were located near the center of the third and fourth planets from the inside to the outside of the galaxy.

The third planet is the planet of the mechanical race.

It shows that they are indeed capable of discovering the first two batches of asteroids, but they did not react after determining that the orbital landing point of the asteroids was not inside the city.

Then Chen Ming did not understand the situation of the mechanical race city even more.

Although he used some anti-scanning materials on several asteroids, the Queen's body was so large that he still felt that the mechanical race here was outrageous if it was not discovered.

It made him very entangled and wanted to find out the reason.

Chen Ming found that every time he encountered something, there would always be a lot of problems that he could not figure out.

So after he couldn't figure it out, he skillfully controlled his emotions, kept these questions in mind, and saw if there was a chance to get answers later.

Anyway, one thing is certain now, when he attacks the mechanical city later, he must destroy all the satellites of these orbital defense facilities as soon as possible.

Otherwise, the shield of his spacecraft will inevitably be severely hit.

The first step of the preliminary work is over here.

At least the goal is achieved.

The body of the queen insect landed on the planet, and Chen Ming also confirmed the range of the mechanical family's scanning of space, which can be used in the next attack.

And the second step that Chen Ming has to do has to start immediately.

He has to arrange more means.

Now the mechanical family is in the light, and Chen Ming is in the dark. If Chen Ming doesn't arrange more means in advance, he will really let himself down.

So Chen Ming wants to prepare some things to block and interfere with the internal signals of the galaxy.

Although the mechanical family is a hive mind, they are mechanical life, and all activities rely on electrical signals. It is not impossible to fix this kind of thing.

Moreover, Chen Ming knew that the hive mind network of the Zerg was mainly built by brain waves and supplemented by pheromones before he used psychic energy to recast it.

And there must be some invisible things connecting the hive minds of the mechanical race.

Although what he did might not be useful, it was better to do it than not to do it.

Even if the blockade had no effect, interference would always be useful.

It's just that the planet-level signal blocking device is a bit difficult to set up.

Regardless of whether there is one or not, Chen Ming thought that only Bai Quan could get this thing.

After all, there are too few scenarios where this kind of thing can be used.

It just so happened that Chen Ming was now splitting his mind and taking classes with Bai Quan.

So Chen Ming interrupted the class and said, "Wait a minute, Bai Quan, I have a question."

Bai Quan didn't feel anything about Chen Ming interrupting him, he just asked, "What's the problem? What's the problem about the wolf pack tactics that I just mentioned that are more suitable for you?"

"No, I understand the wolf pack tactics, I want to ask something else. Do you have any technology that can block the communication signal of a planet?"

Bai Quan immediately replied, "Yes, there is something that can create high-energy particle disturbances."

"With the help of the magnetic fields of stars and planets, the particle radiation of stars can be enhanced to a very high level, and the communication equipment of a specific planet in the galaxy can be interfered with on a large scale."

Chen Ming was a little surprised. He didn't expect that there was really something ready.

"Can you get one?"

"What are you going to do?"

Chen Ming knew that it was impossible for him to take away such a large-scale device without any reason, so he explained truthfully: "I came across a planet that the mechanical race has just started to colonize, and I want to steal some things."

"Oh? Where?"

"Behind the mechanical race's star field."

Chen Ming didn't say the specific location. Bai Quan knew the approximate location and didn't ask any more questions. He just said: "I can help you get a set, but you have to arrange it yourself."

"You need to find the magnetic pole of the planet. , place one at each of the two poles, and then place another one where the starlight is directly shining. "

As soon as he finished speaking, Bai Quan immediately asked a question that Chen Ming had thought of the first time before: "But is it really easy to attack a planet that the mechanical race has just started to colonize?"

"It's not easy to attack, but you have to try it. It's worth it. I also need something to block the jump engine. Is there any way to get it?"

So determined...

Bai Quan pushed his glasses and modified his impression of Chen Ming's ability in his mind, adding the ability to directly control the mechanical race.

Then he asked Chen Ming's question again: "Do you want to block the incoming spacecraft, or do you want to block the spacecraft on your side to prevent them from flying away?"

After thinking about the possible situations, Chen Ming said, "All of them."

"Not very good, you need to blockade at least cruiser-level spacecraft, if it is really that high, at least a dozen cruisers will be needed to cooperate."

"Only the entire galaxy can be blocked, otherwise the spacecraft inside will fly out of the blockade range at random."

At first, Chen Ming only knew that there was such a technology, and asked Bai Quan if there was one. He didn't know how this technology achieved the final effect.

So Bai Quan's words didn't surprise him too much. If there is no way, then there is no way.

In addition to using technical means to block, there are other ways to stop the mechanical cruiser from escaping.

For example, the simplest way is to directly destroy the engine. Without the jump system on the engine, the mechanical cruiser can't escape at all.

So Bai Quan's words only made Chen Ming ask: "That means we can only block the mechanical tribe coming from other places, right?"

Bai Quan immediately replied: "Yes, but there are limitations."

"This device called the jump beacon disruptor has a short effect time and a small range."

"It must be able to lock the location where the enemy spacecraft may jump to in order to be effective."

"You know that the target location of the spacecraft jump will also have jump fluctuations, right? You have to use the device at the location where the jump fluctuation appears to block the jump process of the spacecraft that jumps over."

Seeing Chen Ming's thoughtful expression, Bai Quan said again: "In class two days ago I should have told you that the battlefield situation often changes due to external interference. "

"A good commander must be able to make sure that the enemy has support and know where the enemy is coming from, which will cause the situation on the entire battlefield to change."

Chen Ming nodded and said, "I remember, but you just mentioned it casually."

"Indeed, it's mainly because the class didn't teach this knowledge point before."

"You are a little ahead of time in the situation where you need to use this thing, but you are out there, so it's normal to encounter some accidents."

"In short, this kind of equipment needs to be installed and installed in the right place in advance. Start, disrupt the jump fluctuations, and don't give the spacecraft a chance to jump over. "

"Although there are shortcomings, it is usually enough to use it once."

"Block a jump, and the jump engine of the spacecraft over there will directly enter cooling, and no subsequent spacecraft will jump over in a short time."

"You have to judge the location where the mechanical race will appear at that time, and then use it."

"And you must also be mentally prepared for failure in advance, and don't use this thing as a trump card."

"I remember it."

"Yeah."

Bai Quan said, thinking for a while, and then said: "I remember that this thing seems to have been circulated, because the effect The restrictions are too big, so the supervision is not very strict. "

"I can help you privately transfer up to two units, and the price will be based on the black market price."

"I remember that the fleet you left in the country has been active, right? The whole Galo star field knows the name of your fleet."

"And it seems that your fleet killed a left-way stronghold some time ago. And it was your fleet that killed a left-way occupying the space station recently, right? You should not be short of money."

"It's okay, it's still a little short, but I should be able to afford it."

It seems that the money Chen Ming just earned has to be used to buy such large equipment just a few days after it was received.

But Chen Ming believes that compared to the final harvest, he will definitely not lose.

"I want both, but what about the signal jammer? Does it cost money too? And is it really okay for you to sell military supplies like this?"

Bai Quan directly sent two bills to Chen Ming and said, "Of course you need money, otherwise I can't balance my account."

"And our 14th Corps is not very conservative, but rather very humane. It doesn't matter if we sell some things outside the deadline when we are short of money."

"And selling outdated military supplies when we are short of money is also an old tradition of the imperial army."

Chen Ming swiped his card that was still in the empire with a little heartache, and transferred the 1.7 billion account to the account designated by Bai Quan.

Even if he added some of the money he earned from fighting pirates before, he would only have less than 2 billion left.

Although it was a bit uncomfortable, after all, the money was spent really quickly.

But he also knew that money was just waste paper if it was not used, and it would have practical significance only if it was spent.

So after a little discomfort, Chen Ming returned to normal and asked Bai Quan: "Are the things I want already outdated military supplies?"

Bai Quan thought for a while and said: "Indeed, they are almost outdated, but the army still uses them occasionally."

Bai Quan's words made Chen Ming immediately curious and asked: "Then what is not outdated and still within the deadline?"

"The main force-level things are all within the deadline."

Bai Quan saw Chen Ming's slightly speechless expression and obviously knew that he was talking nonsense.

So he added: "Actually, the deadline is quite loose. As long as it's not experimental weapons and equipment that haven't been deployed yet, there's basically no problem selling it."

"Does the antimatter reactor count?"