Chapter 192 Trap
Chen Ming suddenly found that a method he had prepared before, which he didn't pay much attention to, actually played an unexpected effect.
Because according to the technical level of the mechanical race and another civilization, judging from the distance between this mechanical race and the mechanical race cruiser in the city center, the signal sent by the cruiser controlling the mechanical body should not have any delay.
The source of this situation now is that the planet-level communication blocking device with three components in one was activated by him shortly after the battle began, blocking the communication signals inside and outside the entire planet.
Although Chen Ming felt that the effect was not ideal at the time, the external support of the mechanical race still came just as fast.
And those orbital defense satellites that should have been effective, because he fired too quickly, even if the signals on the planet were blocked, there was no follow-up effect.
However, Chen Ming thought at the beginning that it was better to do it than not to do it well, so even if it had no practical use before, he didn't care at all.
But he really didn't expect that a device he casually arranged, which he had already arranged a little too much, would actually play a role at such a critical moment.
Chen Ming did not hesitate after clarifying this point.
Immediately, the three linked devices were remotely controlled to adjust their frequencies and slightly change their positions in orbit.
All the power of the equipment originally used to block the communication signals inside and outside the entire planet was applied to the city of the mechanical race, acting on the location where the Zerg and the mechanical race were fighting.
The signal sent by the mechanical cruiser was completely disrupted, and the communication signals of all frequency bands in the entire city were completely cut off.
In a short period of time, all signals on the entire planet except Chen Ming will be silent.
And the special mechanical body was paralyzed after it executed the last command it received.
Without the support of this special mechanical race, the remaining mechanical races had no ability to resist the Zerg, whose total number has not decreased significantly so far.
They were easily defeated by the Zerg.
The Queen of Zerg once again wantonly splashed fungi and Zerg blood, relying on the effects of these special substances to continuously lower the temperature on the battlefield.
At the same time, she was also trying to lower the temperature of the special mechanical body.
In just a few minutes, the surrounding environment returned from the orange-red color just now to the pure white at the beginning.
The molten metal liquid under the dozen or so almost connected huge pits blasted by the special mechanical body was almost solidified.
At this time, countless Zerg bugs completely surrounded the paralyzed special mechanical body in three circles inside and outside.
And those bugs that had already bypassed began to destroy the few defensive weapons on the cruiser in the center of the city.
When all the external weapons used for security on the mechanical cruiser were destroyed.
The temperature of the special mechanical body outside finally dropped to a level acceptable to the Zerg.
The queen immediately released those parasites to the special mechanical race, allowing the fungi and parasite nerves to completely control this mechanical race.
Although unlike other mechanical races controlled by parasites, the parasites on this special mechanical race could not use its abilities excessively.
But the performance of this mechanical race just now has left a deep impression on Chen Ming.
Chen Ming feels that this mechanical race seems to be an elite individual among the mechanical race ground units, similar to HR.
After all, this is just a machine body with a length of more than 40 meters, which is about the same size as two small frigates stacked together.
The difference between it and other mechanical races is not too big, but its actual combat capability is exaggerated to the extreme.
The weapons installed on its back can almost achieve the effect that can only be achieved by large weapons installed on cruisers of two levels higher.
And not only that, this mechanical race also has the ability to change the environment, which means that it must have special technology.
And the strong individual combat power of this mechanical race also reminds Chen Ming of Yan Xiong before.
Yan Xiong can directly enter space with his physical body, and condense a steel giant with the wreckage of a cruiser, and has the ability to fight against a cruiser fleet alone.
If Chen Ming hadn't taken advantage of him by surprise, a wave of cruiser jumps and concentrated fire to force him to expose himself.
Then he took advantage of Yan Xiong's arrogance to feed him some spaceship wreckage, and counted the materials and logistics of several Yuhui colonies to supplement the explosives.
Otherwise, it would definitely not be so easy to fight.
Even so, Chen Ming only blew Yan Xiong half to death. If Chen Ming had not controlled the spaceship to check, Yan Xiong might have been revived with full health in a few hours.
With Yan Xiong's ability, if he faced such a mechanical city, the whole city would probably be like clay in the hands of a child, at his disposal.
This is the peak of individual combat power.
And this special mechanical race used a mechanical body to influence the entire environment around it when fighting against the Zerg, and it was not at a disadvantage against the entire Zerg nest.
It really made Chen Ming feel a little bit like Yan Xiong back then.
So Chen Ming was not only arranging to transport this mechanical body as soon as possible and figure out what kind of working principle it had.
He was also considering whether he should let the Queen of Zerg try to get an elite combat individual.
Just like Yan Xiong, this mechanical body, or the large black Zerg that Chen Ming had seen in the Zerg's genes when he traced back his genes, its combat power looked pretty good.
Although their final endings were similar, and not very good.
Yan Xiong was rolled into a ball by Chen Ming to be used as an alloy furnace, and the special mechanical body was just kidnapped by Chen Ming.
The black Zerg finally entered the stomach of the Thorn Zerg and became part of their genes today.
But their performance was indeed impressive and worth studying.
Chen Ming thought he could give it a try.
But not now, he still had things to do.
The ground battle won the moment Chen Ming discovered the weakness of the special mechanical race.
Only a few scattered mechanical races were left on the ground, carrying out some desperate resistance that was completely unable to organize on a large scale.
However, the third batch of mechanical reinforcements must be on the way. Although it will take time for them to come, it will definitely not take too long.
Chen Ming needs to speed up the cleaning of the mechanical tribe and complete the final finishing work.
At the same time, pack up his spoils and retreat as soon as possible.
Otherwise, he will definitely be killed by the reinforcements of the mechanical tribe that can come continuously.
Chen Ming does not want to experience the situation where the special mechanical body is constantly attacked by the Zerg.
But at this time, another unexpected thing happened to Chen Ming.
Those mechanical tribes who were still resisting suddenly gave up the defense of the city and chose to retreat.
Left the city from the other side opposite to the Zerg attack.
And under the further oppression and attack of the Zerg when facing the retreat of the mechanical tribe, those mechanical tribes who could no longer escape from the city and fought desperately also began to collapse.
The mechanical tribe seemed to have completely abandoned the city.
Chen Ming's vigilance instantly rose to the extreme.
He was thinking whether this was a trap left by the mechanical tribe.
The mechanical tribe has been on the planet for at least half a year, so it is normal to leave some backup in other places.
But even if it was a trap, there were some things he had to do, otherwise there would be no point in coming here.
Chen Ming made up his mind and immediately controlled the Supreme Point, which had already started to descend in altitude, and the Defenders protecting the Supreme Point, which was close to the ground, to gradually approach the city of the mechanical race and prepare to land.
Prepare to take away the mechanical race that had been kidnapped by the Zerg since the Zerg broke through the core area of the city just now.
There are Fiery Silkworms and special mechanical race individuals on the front of the battlefield and in the core area of the city that can increase the ambient temperature and inhibit the parasites of the Zerg.
But the mechanical race outside the city is not so well treated.
It is easy to control the mechanical race in large quantities by relying on the spreading fungi.
Although the Zerg cannot directly connect the mechanical bodies they control to Chen Ming's psychic control like Yuhui, it does save a lot of trouble.
As the Defenders and the Supreme Point separated, they landed in the outer area of the city, ready to assist in the transportation of these controlled mechanical bodies.
There were traces of jumps in space again.
However, this was not Yu Hui's third wave of reinforcements, but the trace of the Colossus-class cargo ship that Chen Ming had snatched from Yu Hui before.
A special cruiser-class cargo ship is the main force for transporting these controlled mechanical tribes.
Although Huihuang was still on alert in space at this time, he was also distracted to help the two ships on the ground manage the transportation of mechanical tribes as before.
Seeing that the periphery of the city no longer needed his attention, Chen Ming also put his attention back to the highest point he was driving.
Prepare to land in the center of the city and snatch the mechanical tribe cruiser.
Without the defense of the mechanical tribe and all its weapons, the cruiser was just a lamb to be slaughtered.
In addition, although the mechanical tribe ran away, Chen Ming still gave the Queen of the Zerg a new goal to continue tracking the escaped mechanical tribes.
First, let the Zerg help him step on the possible traps of the mechanical tribe. Anyway, as long as the Queen of the Zerg does not have an accident, the loss of any other Zerg, or even all Zerg except the Queen of the Zerg, is a drizzle.
The second is to get as many mechanical tribes as possible.
After all, those who escaped were the mechanical race that could hold out to the end, and they were the backbone of the mechanical race's ground combat.
The benefits of capturing these mechanical races would definitely be much greater than those of capturing ordinary logistics mechanical bodies.
It was at this time that Chen Ming discovered that the Zerg actually had the ability to accurately track the mechanical race.
Even though many mechanical races had left the city and were fleeing all over the desolate planet, the Queen Zerg could still accurately mark each mechanical race individual and let the Zerg units capture them.
The reason why the Zerg could do this seemed to point to a deep pit inside the mechanical colony.
Of course, it was not the deep pit that the special mechanical body had just exploded, but a pit that the mechanical race that existed here had dug by itself.
This pit looked like a water storage warehouse in a sewage purification plant, but the liquid stored in it was all gray-green, similar to the color of Zerg blood.
These things...
Chen Ming suddenly remembered that these gray-green liquids were all pollutants produced by the nanorobots in the mechanical race when they were working.
He remembered that the research reports on the mechanical race that he had read before introduced the unique pollution produced by this mechanical race, which had extremely strong diffusion ability and considerable toxicity.
A little bit was okay, just like the mechanical races that Chen Ming encountered on Raymu before, the amount of pollution produced was almost zero.
But once the number of mechanical races increased and clusters were formed, the pollutants produced would cause extreme damage to the normal ecological environment.
And even the mechanical races themselves did not have a good way to deal with these pollutants.
So their approach was to find a place to store them first, and then discharge them into the environment after storing a certain amount.
It doesn't matter to the mechanical race whether it is a habitable planet or not. They themselves are not affected by these pollutants. They just need to discharge them from any planet.
This is why the Zerg can track the mechanical race. Each mechanical race individual has these nanorobots that produce pollutants.
Nanorobots are the mark of the Zerg.
Anyway, Chen Ming feels more and more that something must have happened between the Zerg and the mechanical race in the past, perhaps when humans had not yet stepped out of their own galaxy.
Then the situation of the mechanical race is not right now.
Because as Chen Ming thinks more deeply about the current situation, he suddenly remembers what Bai Quan said to him before.
"When the mechanical race fights with humans, they will definitely fight to the death and will definitely beat themselves to the point where they can't fight anymore."
Bai Quan's fight to the death is definitely not the current situation. It is definitely a fight to the death with every soldier who fights to the last.
It is impossible for the mechanical race to say that they don't know that someone is behind these Zerg races.
Especially after Chen Ming killed the second batch of reinforcements of the mechanical race and swept the ground with the tachyon spear, the mechanical race should fight to the death.
It is impossible to say that the mechanical race has lost the ruthlessness when facing the bugs as when facing humans.
Instead, it seems to be a temptation, tempting the Zerg to continue to spend a lot of time tracking these fleeing mechanical races.
At this point, Chen Ming finally realized one thing, the mechanical race’s trap may not be set on the planet, in front of the fleeing mechanical race, but may be in a wider place.
He raised his head and looked at the starry sky outside the porthole of the highest point.
The third batch of reinforcements of the mechanical race may have arrived. The mechanical race knows Chen Ming’s combat effectiveness and the situation of Chen Ming’s fleet. They know that if they want to keep Chen Ming completely, they can’t appear directly in front of Chen Ming’s face.
They must make some preparations and arrangements.
Then it is completely reasonable for the mechanical race on the ground to cooperate and do something that they would not do under normal circumstances.
After thinking this through, Chen Ming felt a sense of pressure in his heart.
Those mechanical races that escaped from the city no longer posed a threat to the Zerg after losing their cluster. They were just walking trophies.
The city was also abandoned by the mechanical race, and everything in the city was left to Chen Ming to control.
The mechanical race was not using those mechanical races as bait, but using the entire city as bait to trap Chen Ming on this planet and in the galaxy.
But Chen Ming still had no way of knowing how the mechanical race would do it.
But at this moment, Chen Ming's psychic power suddenly took effect, and a sense of danger from outside the galaxy came into Chen Ming's mind.
This sense of danger was like a cover that was gradually closing, gradually confining Chen Ming completely to this galaxy.
Chen Ming took a deep breath and prepared himself mentally.
Then he immediately gave the Queen an order to directly recall the Zerg, no longer tracking the fleeing mechanical race, and instead focusing on capturing the mechanical race on the ground.
He wanted to take away as many trophies as he needed before the sense of danger that he felt like a cover completely closed.
Anyway, for Chen Ming, whether it is the escaped mechanical race or the mechanical race that stayed in the city, they are all individuals of the mechanical race, and they can enhance the hive mind network of his mechanical race. There is no essential difference.
The only difference is the difference in the ability of their own former mechanical race bodies.
But as long as Chen Ming masters the method of manufacturing mechanical races, the difference in the body will no longer be a difference.
So Chen Ming directly changed his mind and captured the mechanical race individuals in the most efficient way.
He didn't have much time.
He had to start the jump engine and take the mechanical race he captured away from here before the last time point arrived.
As for the Zerg on the planet, they will have to stay on the planet.
After all, the number of these Zerg units has reached a terrifying level during the development of the Queen of Zerg during this period. Even if there have been many losses in the process of attacking the city, it is not something that two cruisers can take away in a short time.
At that time, these Zerg will be directly absorbed by the Queen of Zerg and transformed into the most basic energy crystals.
Chen Ming's psychic energy can just directly recycle these energy crystals to minimize the losses.
One minute later.
Chen Ming's highest point landed near the cruiser in the core of the city.
During the landing process, Chen Ming had already released a batch of robots equipped with the afterglow core from the highest point, and landed in advance with the landing craft.
Following another defender that had been separated from the highest point, it landed in the middle of the city and began to clean up the battlefield with the Zerg.
What Chen Ming wanted was to let these afterglows find the mechanical tribe with damaged lines, and then immediately connect to the lines for control.
As long as the mechanical race is controlled by Chen Ming, it will be transformed into abnormal sub-individuals, and Chen Ming can directly transfer the consciousness of these abnormal sub-individuals to the honeycomb network of the mechanical race he built.
Relying purely on his consciousness and mental power to temporarily support the consciousness of these mechanical races.
Save storage space on two of his cruisers.
Anyway, Chen Ming's goal is indeed the consciousness of these mechanical races, not the bodies of the mechanical races.
As long as the consciousness of the mechanical race exists, and these consciousnesses strengthen the honeycomb network to the point where new mechanical race consciousness individuals can be constructed, the problem of the body is actually very easy to solve.
Then there is only one thing left for him to do next, to control that cruiser.
However, he didn't have time to get off the ship.
A piece of news that made him stunned on the spot reached his ears.
The afterglow individuals installed on the robots he sent out failed when they controlled the mechanical races with damaged appearances.
His mental power could not affect the consciousness contained in the core chips of the mechanical race.
He could not control the individuals of the mechanical race.
But when the Yuhui tried to access the bodies of the mechanical race whose consciousness had died, there was no obstruction.
This strange situation made Chen Ming stunned for a while, and countless chaotic thoughts and ideas flashed through his mind.
But he didn't have time to think about it. The means deployed by the mechanical race in the galaxy would not give him time to think.
Chen Ming could only temporarily let those ideas be thrown into his mind like a mess, and solve them later.
Now let's take these mechanical races away from the physical level.
As for the cruiser in front of him, he must try it himself.
See why his psychic power can't control the mechanical race.
Is there a problem with the transit Yuhui, or his psychic power?
Or, there is something wrong with these mechanical races themselves.
Chen Ming came to the exit of the highest point.
Pure white metal liquid gradually flowed out of his body, and at the same time, it was mixed with some bright green of Zerg energy crystals.
The white cloud steel liquid gradually condensed into the skeleton of the power armor, and the color of the energy crystals gradually solidified on the skeleton and gradually turned black.
In a blink of an eye, what appeared on Chen Ming was not the locust power armor given by Baiquan, but a unique biomass armor.
The covering of the black Zerg carapace gave the armor a biological beauty.
It made Chen Ming look like he was not wearing a modern single-soldier combat equipment, but evolved into a ferocious insect.
The original mechanical auxiliary wings behind the power armor were replaced by the Zerg elytra, and the collision of the jet backpack was also covered with Zerg carapace, full of the texture of the Zerg biological spacecraft.
This is a complete set of biological armor made by Chen Ming using his current biological technology and power armor technology as well as the deep maintenance ability he had just obtained.
Combining the advantages of the Zerg carapace and locust armor, it crushed the locust power armor as the prototype in almost all capabilities.
It can be regarded as an attempt by Chen Ming.
Chen Ming knew that biology and machinery are not two ends of the spectrum. They can be combined to do things that were originally difficult to do, and reach a height that is more difficult to achieve than a single technology.
In this attempt, Chen Ming found that the Zerg still had various shortcomings even after his psychic deep repair after communicating with the Queen.
These shortcomings are the innate shortcomings of the species, and they cannot be made up by themselves.
So Chen Ming had such an idea at the time and tried it.
The result was obviously successful.
The unique evolutionary ability of the Zerg and the crystallization of human technology are fully reflected in the biomass power armor that Chen Ming is wearing now.
It proves that the way Chen Ming chose to make up for the shortcomings of the Zerg species is correct.
He will make more attempts later.
This biomass power armor is also the basis for him to have the confidence to leave the spaceship in the city of the mechanical race.
Of course, there is another thing that gives him confidence, the psychic power of the queen of insects.
To be precise, it is the psychic power of the insect race.