Chapter 189 Raid

A week later.

Chen Ming arrived near the Mechanical Clan Galaxy with a fleet of five cruisers, including the High Point, Stardust, Brilliance, Glory and Defender.

The appearance of these five cruisers has undergone some subtle or obvious changes from a week ago.

These changes have a common feature, which is to make the spacecraft itself more suitable for playing their own role.

The source of these changes is the improvement of Chen Ming's spiritual power after absorbing the new spiritual nerve.

Just a few days ago, after the spiritual nerve arrived, Chen Ming imitated the situation when he absorbed the spiritual nerve.

At the moment when he stimulated his mental power to the extreme using various equipment taken from the Yuhui Research Institute, he absorbed the spiritual nerve that Baiquan gave him, which had not been specially cultivated.

Unlike the last time, Chen Ming did not fall into a coma this time, but completed the entire process of absorbing the spiritual nerve soberly.

And he clearly sensed the changes in his spiritual power, allowing the spiritual nerve to be completely absorbed and completely become the nutrient for his spiritual power.

As a result, Chen Ming's mental power has increased significantly.

When he absorbed the first spiritual awakening nerve, Chen Ming's psychic power could control destroyers directly to the point where he could control cruisers.

And now, Chen Ming's mental power has also jumped from being able to control nearly five cruisers to being able to control seven at the same time.

Chen Ming feels that his mental power to control ten cruisers is a key point, and by then he may be able to control the next level of spacecraft.

Of course, more may be needed, after all, the difference between a battleship and a cruiser seems to be greater than the difference between a cruiser and a destroyer.

But at least Chen Ming can see the goal, so this goal can be achieved.

In addition to the progress in mental power, Chen Ming's psychic power also has new abilities.

In the most basic [Maintenance] ability that Chen Ming has had since the beginning, there is an additional branch.

An outrageous option called [Deep Repair].

Its effect is not limited to the damage to the various things controlled by Chen Ming, but acts on more essential places.

It can repair some theoretically designed problems of the spacecraft or equipment controlled by Chen Ming, making these things more in line with their own functions and closer to perfection.

The price is that it still consumes a huge amount of mental power for Chen Ming now.

But mental power will be restored after a sleep, so it is almost equivalent to no consumption.

Chen Ming has been in a coma every day for the past week.

Of course, there are some things that this ability cannot do.

It can only perform deep repairs on the objects of Chen Ming's ability.

In other words, when Chen Ming performs deep repairs on the cruiser, the only object it can repair is the cruiser itself.

Any additional equipment parts, such as spacecraft armor, tachyon spears and shield modules that can be disassembled and installed at will will not be affected.

Unless Chen Ming specifically performs deep repairs on these things, the mental power consumed will not change, and it is still quite terrifying.

Only the spacecraft structure that is part of the spacecraft, the basic control equipment, or the plasma system exclusive to the Brilliant Class will be optimized along with the cruiser itself.

But the problem is not big. The optimization of the spacecraft itself also includes various radiation energy transportation routes. These alone can enhance the performance of the spacecraft itself by at least 20%.

Moreover, Chen Ming's psychic power is not limited to this. There are more optimizations in the details of the ship's application in combat.

Many of them are optimizations that Chen Ming can't understand even if he drives a cruiser and draws blueprints with three-dimensional imaging.

The overall combat effectiveness has been improved by at least 50%.

Although the deep maintenance of the exploration ship seems to be more towards exploration and defensive operations, the offensive ability has been slightly reduced.

And the mental power consumed in each deep maintenance in the past has reached a perverted level, but at least Chen Ming is still very happy every time he falls into a coma.

Because it means that there are still many places for his psychic power to be explored.

Before, when Chen Ming condensed the second condensed psychic energy source, the ship spirit showed the ability to [transform] directly from the microscopic level.

And now this essential [maintenance] ability has not been shown, which means that Chen Ming can at least rely on the progress of psychic power to obtain the ability that the ship spirit has mastered in advance.

There is still more potential for psychic energy to be explored, which is definitely worth celebrating for a psychic.

In the past week.

Chen Ming spent six days using his mental power on cruisers.

These six cruisers include the five that Chen Ming is driving now, and the refraction-class heavy unmanned cruiser mothership driven by HR, whose attitude has softened a lot recently, as a guarantee of the combat power of the temporary base.

And on the remaining day, Chen Ming gave his mental power to the Queen.

He carried out the [deep repair] that can also be performed on the biomass spacecraft and the Queen as the core of the biomass spacecraft.

At that time, Chen Ming specially brought back the consciousness of the Queen Worm, which had just developed for a day near the mechanical city he was going to attack, to its body.

Then he activated the ability he had just obtained and had used once on the Supreme Point.

Then, the Queen Worm exploded.

The whole body exploded, leaving only the brain, the carrier of the Queen Worm consciousness, still twitching in place.

But this does not mean failure, but a part of the deep repair process.

The broken Zerg flesh and blood tissue was rewoven under the influence of Chen Ming's psychic energy.

A large number of broken and invalid gene fragments from the Zerg genes that may have been left over from ancient times were all cleared by Chen Ming's psychic energy.

All the gene fragments that had no meaning to the race were also cut off.

The Queen Worm's genes, which were already a bit bloated, were restored to simplicity.

Of course, Chen Ming could not understand everything in the previous part. He could only see that the Queen Worm's exploded body was constantly secreting dark and rotten liquid.

It was the Queen Worm's consciousness that transmitted to Chen Ming in real time what kind of impact his psychic energy had on the Queen Worm.

While the remaining body tissues were draining the liquid, they gradually adhered together under the traction of the hyphae that had become part of the Zerg, and recovered as before.

The last consciousness sent by the Queen Worm before Chen Ming's mental power was exhausted was that the psychic energy obtained by swallowing psychic fungi was further enhanced.

That is to say, Chen Ming understood the effect of the Queen Worm's psychic energy.

It is the simplest and crudest ability to strengthen physical fitness through psychic energy.

And this psychic energy is not entrusted to the Queen Worm alone, but to the hive mind of the entire hive.

The hive mind is the brain of the Zerg, and it is completely reasonable for psychic energy to be hosted in the hive mind network.

And Chen Ming immediately thought of a possibility along this line of thought.

But he was immediately interrupted by his exhausted mental power, and he fell into a coma.

When Chen Ming woke up.

He saw that the size of the hive that the Queen Worm had already developed on the planet he controlled had shrunk by a full quarter.

All the disappeared bugs were absorbed and devoured by the Queen last night to complete the deep maintenance process.

After this process, the Queen did not directly start to update the individual Zerg, but transferred her consciousness to another body again, continuing to complete the goal set by Chen Ming.

Until today, a week later.

At this time, Chen Ming, who was at the highest point of one of the five cruisers in space, was observing the overall picture of the mechanical colony through the scanning array.

And this scene was only seen by him, and he did not open the real-time broadcast to Baiquan in the end.

It can only be said that some things are better not to be exposed before he is ready.

Baiquan certainly understands this truth, knowing that there are many secrets in Chen Ming that cannot be known by others, so he didn't say much.

Just hope that Chen Ming can send him a video later and give him the part that can be shown to him.

Chen Ming can certainly meet this requirement, and he really needs Baiquan's teaching on command.

Anyway, when the time comes, just edit it a little and put what can be shown in the video.

For example, now, when the Zerg have not yet set off, the image recorded by the Supreme Point Scanning Array is showing the appearance of the mechanical city.

The city itself is still almost the same as before, with only some inconspicuous developments, and there is no sense that they are about to face a disaster.

However, having said that, it is still quite troublesome to really fight.

After all, attacking a city with complete defense facilities is itself a risky behavior, but there are enough profit promoters behind it, Chen Ming, who asked him to do so.

And there are three ways to attack such a city.

Air, ground and underground.

The air was ruled out by Chen Ming at the first time.

Because the Zerg, as the main means of siege, are not flying creatures, although some of them can fly, but not all.

Moreover, after Chen Ming completely occupied the space orbital defense facilities and the subsequent possible support, the air is actually not a very safe and suitable place for attack.

And the remaining two methods, ground and underground.

The underground was also ruled out.

Because Chen Ming knows the mechanical city very well, and he has verified what he knows through the Supreme Point scanning.

The underground of the entire mechanical city is a combination of tightly fitted high-strength steel columns and steel plates, bearing the weight of the entire city.

Unless the Zerg has the power to overturn a city directly, attacking from underground is not a wise choice.

Of course, Chen Ming also considered digging out the soil and rock layers under the entire mechanical city and letting the entire city sink underground.

But through Chen Ming's understanding of the mechanical race he controls, the mechanical race obviously has a way to attack underground.

Relying on the mechanical city itself to generate strong vibrations deep underground.

According to the performance of the relevant equipment that Chen Ming found in his city.

Even the current Zerg cannot withstand the attack of the mechanical race using the city as a weapon, and will be shocked to death if they are not careful.

So there is only one way left, attacking from the front.

Although this is the most difficult way, Chen Ming believes that the Queen of Zerg, who has undergone many evolutions and has been strengthened by his psychic power, will not let him down.

After the cruiser arrived at the predetermined combat position, Chen Ming sent the message to the Queen of Zerg to start the action.

And he himself started this battle initiated by himself from space.

Five cruisers entered the jump state at the same time, and appeared in the orbit of the mechanical race colony planet in just a few seconds, and appeared between the orbital defense systems.

Even if the mechanical race began to react the moment it detected the jump fluctuations in the orbit, the speed of the orbital defense facilities could not keep up with the speed of Chen Ming launching the spacecraft weapons.

The five cruisers had a total of thirteen large weapons, and the particle torrents fired by the thirteen tachyon spears instantly swept through the surrounding orbital defense facilities, destroying them before they could deform.

The orbital defense facilities covering one-fifth of the planet's equatorial orbit were completely destroyed by the terrifying tachyon spears that were fired almost continuously in just thirty seconds.

Losing the ability to defend against external attacks, they also lost the ability to turn these orbital defense facilities around to help ground combat.

At this moment, Chen Ming's apex suddenly detected a wave of fluctuations caused by the jump near the orbit.

The jump interference device that Chen Ming had prepared long ago was instantly activated, completely disrupting these jump fluctuations and directly interrupting this wave of reinforcements of the mechanical race.

Perfect preparations made it impossible for any unexpected situation to happen.

In a blink of an eye, all the living forces of the mechanical race in space were completely destroyed by Chen Ming.

However, he did not stop, but continued to command several cruisers to perform their tasks.

He needed to deploy jamming equipment that could block the entire planet's signals at the two poles of the planet in front of him and in the direction opposite to the star.

He also needed to lock in the number and location of those orbital defense satellites that were not so completely damaged in the previous raid.

Sending afterglow individuals to them and controlling them became part of his combat capability.

At this time, more firepower means more chances of a complete victory.

After completing this step, while waiting for the second wave of reinforcements from the mechanical race.

Chen Ming finally had time to take a look at the situation on the ground.

At this time, on the edge of the mechanical race's colony city.

The dark carapace made the Zerg like a dark tsunami, rushing towards the city that was crumbling in the waves.

Obviously, the Zerg commanded by the Queen also had the advantage.

What attracted Chen Ming's attention the most in the Zerg tide was a huge Zerg unit that appeared at the forefront of the defense line temporarily built by the mechanical race.

The appearance is similar to the dark Zerg that Chen Ming had seen from the Queen's genes, but it is larger in size, and the thickness of its front shell has already pressed into the armor of the cruiser.

It charged ahead of the rest of the Zerg, using its own body to resist the firepower of the Mechanical Clan.

It smashed several lines of defense built by the Mechanical Clan with brute force.

Few of the Mechanical Clan's weapons on the ground could cause enough damage to it.

It had to withstand countless attacks that could tear the rest of the Zerg into pieces, protecting most of the Zerg behind it.

It destroyed the Mechanical Clan's delusion of blocking the Zerg outside the city.

Even though most of these Zergs that suffered huge damage fell on the way to charge.

But as long as the Zerg is allowed to reach a more complex environment inside the city, even if it is only on the edge of the city, they can perform better on the plain.

And some Zerg that the Queen has been hiding can finally play a suitable role in the right position.

Chen Ming saw a group of small flying Zergs with elytra and a relatively bloated abdomen flying out of the cave dug by the Zerg.

Under the cover of the ground Zerg, they dodged countless anti-aircraft firepower and rushed into the city. They took the initiative to self-destruct above the area where the mechanical race was most densely populated.

Countless Zerg blood fell from the sky, almost dyeing the ground of the city the color of Zerg blood.

The blood of the Zerg did not lose its original properties due to the previous two evolutions, and still maintained the ability to attack the mechanical race.

In the blood splashing all over the sky, a large number of mechanical race individuals gradually lost their combat capabilities and could only be crushed by the subsequent Zerg charging.

And unknowingly, a layer of deep purple fungal blanket gradually spread from the cave where the Zerg appeared to the city, accelerating the expansion speed in the process of absorbing the Zerg corpses.

On this fungal blanket that can provide a steady supply of nutrients for the Zerg, the combat effectiveness of the Zerg can also be significantly increased.

The defense line of the mechanical race was broken again and again.

As the environment becomes more complex, some special insects with worm-like appearances have appeared again in the Zerg.

They are extremely fragile, but they can spit out very unstable high-energy liquids made from melted energy crystals.

When these liquids are impacted by any violent external force, they will produce some reactions that Chen Ming likes very much.

Explosion.

The power is enough to compare with the explosion of left-diameter explosives.

Although it may not be able to completely blow up the armor of the mechanical family, it is easy to shatter the internal structure of the mechanical family by impact.

These special new species of insects.

All of them are the result of the communication between Chen Ming and the Queen of the Worm in the past week.

The result of Chen Ming's ideas and the Queen of the Worm's specific implementation.

After Chen Ming used deep repair on the Queen of the Worm last time, the Queen of the Worm had completely cleaned up the useless parts of the genes and mastered the valuable ones in the genes.

So it has the ability to rub all kinds of Zerg with its hands, and can even do some things that Chen Ming didn't think of at the beginning.

For example, the worm-like insect that half-drilled into the ground.

Chen Ming's initial idea was to let the Queen of Zerg evolve into Zergs that could directly spit out offensive liquids or directly spit out Zerg blood to interfere with the Mechanical Clan as long-range units for Zerg combat.

But the Queen of Zerg relied on the knowledge in Chen Ming's mind and the various natural biological materials it knew to liquefy the energy crystals and construct this dangerous liquid that was similar to the effect of left-diameter explosives.

Even though these insects were fragile and indeed very dangerous, there were not many of them.

In actual combat, they could also continuously supply nutrients to produce liquid energy crystals, and the auxiliary Zerg swarms broke through the defense circle inside the Mechanical Clan city with great momentum.

However, the Mechanical Clan was not a lazy person.

It took some time to continuously break through several defense circles in the periphery and the city, allowing the Mechanical Clan to finally organize a decent resistance.

As various combat units of the Mechanical Clan arrived at the direction of the Zerg attack from all over the city, the momentum of the Zerg attack was finally frustrated, and the losses increased instantly.

Especially a flying mechanical unit of the Mechanical Clan.

It has a similar appearance to the flying mantis and the quiet mantis that Chen Ming had seen before, but it is lighter and can fly in the sky for a long time.

After it occupied the commanding heights of the battlefield, it was difficult for the Zerg's flying units to break through its sniping.

It was also difficult to resist it.

And with the appearance of these flying mechanical bodies, Chen Ming also noticed that some optical invisible combat mechanical units appeared on the battlefield.

They wandered on the edge of the battlefield, and once they had the chance, they would pierce into the heart of the hive like ghosts, assassinating the jet worms that posed the greatest threat to the mechanical race in the swarm.

Kill one, and they will directly burst out with more terrifying mobility than the flying mantis, and evacuate the battlefield in an instant.

Only a corpse that was about to explode was left.

And as these two mechanical bodies gradually began to affect the battlefield situation.

The fiery silkworms that Chen Ming had seen before also appeared on the front line of the battlefield.

However, when he saw them, Chen Ming was relieved.

These fiery silkworms are about ten meters in size, and when they activate their weapons, they will emit surging heat waves and scorching red light.

It was like a huge red-hot iron hitting the Zerg, and at the same time, they activated the flamethrower mode for close combat.

But it was just as Chen Ming had predicted before.

When these flames that stretched for nearly a hundred meters covered the Zerg, a large amount of blood would actively overflow from the gaps between the Zerg's shells, and a large amount of acid fog would be released while extinguishing the flames.

It did not affect the Zerg's vision, but it would affect the oxygen content in the air and slow down the efficiency of combustion.

Zerg can live in space and in a vacuum, and the lack of breathable air is nothing to them.

And the fungi under the feet of the Zerg will also undergo some changes when burned by flames.

The fungi will become the viscous fluid like when the queen just woke up from the cocoon, which can greatly reduce the damage caused by the flames.

And when the flames sprayed by the fire-assisting silkworms are mixed with the ignition agent and sprinkled on the fungal carpet.

The fungal carpet can even directly eat and digest these ignition agents.

Just like the Queen's rigid digestive sac digests all kinds of strange foods.

The fungal carpet on the ground inherited this ability of the Queen.

These factors combined have led to the fact that the damage that the flame can cause to the current Zerg is not even one-third of the damage the Queen received when she attacked another mechanical city.

However, in addition to this close-range flamethrower mode, the Fiery Silkworm also has another ability to cover with clustered high-powered artillery that Chen Ming has also seen.

Although this mechanical city is still in the development stage, there are still a number of Fiery Silkworms divided into two waves.

As the Fiery Silkworms on the front line lost the battle.

Suddenly, sharp, intertwined hissing sounds appeared in the sky.