Chapter 322 Destruction

"No way."

Looking at the dense debris-covered area around the planet sent back by the sensor.

Chen Ming now knew why there was no spaceship left in the hyperspace area of ​​the galaxy.

It turned out that all of them had entered the galaxy to protect their base.

Looking at the large area of ​​fire still rising on the planet.

Chen Ming suddenly had a bad premonition.

But it shouldn't be so coincidental, let's see.

As Chen Ming adjusted the sensor accuracy of the reconnaissance fleet's spacecraft and conducted a second scan.

The specific damage of the wreckage of the ships and orbital defense facilities orbiting the planet also appeared in front of Chen Ming.

After further confirmation.

Chen Ming can make a judgment.

The cause of these wreckages is that the spacecraft or defense facilities were shattered by some extremely powerful physical attack, and then the explosion caused by line damage or various reasons.

This situation is quite familiar to Chen Ming.

Sure enough, it is a phase behemoth.

What else can cause such damage besides it?

Turning his head to look at the situation on the planet, he guessed that the phase behemoth was causing trouble.

"It's really here."

Chen Ming was a little nervous for a moment.

He just had some ideas in his mind and said them casually, but when he arrived at the base of the mechanical race, he found that the phase behemoth had arrived before him.

This... really... He didn't know what to say.

How did the mechanical race offend the phase behemoth? How could they be targeted like this?

Last time, they opened up a base and were demolished by the phase behemoth. As a result, this time it was demolished by the phase behemoth again.

Chen Ming hasn't even started yet.

Speaking of which, Chen Ming remembered that the phase behemoth chased the mechanical race's reinforcement fleet to the base they opened up.

What's the reason this time?

Of course, this is not the point now.

Chen Ming didn't want to care about this phase behemoth. As long as the behemoth continues to attack the mechanical race, it will definitely be a good thing for him.

What he has to do now is to find the mechanical race that stole the goods.

He has to confirm whether the fleet that jumped away before has arrived here.

Even if the attack of the phase monster might affect his fleet, he couldn't understand running away.

But just when Chen Ming was thinking about finding the target.

The images on the sensors sent back by his reconnaissance fleet in the galaxy suddenly showed the mechanical fleets that had attacked his fleet before.

Not all of the fleets, only about half of these fleets were left at this time, consisting of a dozen cruisers and barely a hundred small ships.

They had just taken off from the planet that was being ravaged, escaped the gravity of the planet, and fled to the edge of the galaxy in a panic.

The cruiser that robbed Chen Ming's cargo hold was also among them.

It seems that the timing is just right.

But while Chen Ming was glad that these ships did not run away directly, he also noticed a problem.

It was still a matter of time.

Adding up what happened before and after, it was almost an hour since the mechanical family attacked his fleet.

Even if the jump destination of the mechanical family fleet when evacuating was not here, but a nearby galaxy, it was not far from the jump wave.

It would take no more than 20 minutes to get here by the route.

The mechanical race would definitely come here earlier than him, and would know earlier that the phase behemoths were attacking the base.

Chen Ming saw that the fleet of the mechanical race appeared on the surface of the planet after looting, which seemed normal at first glance.

But as long as he thought about it carefully, he would find the problem.

The battle between the mechanical race and the phase behemoths here must have lasted for more than a while. Looking at the wreckage in the orbit of the planet, it can be seen that at least one or two hours have passed.

At the latest, the battle broke out when the mechanical race that ambushed his freight fleet evacuated.

In other words, these mechanical fleets had only two choices after the looting and the jump away.

Either come to support.

Or just run away.

There is no reason to come here and then run away.

And those mechanical fleets were running away when they were seen by Chen Ming, and they were obviously not coming to support.

After all, support must have weapons that can support, otherwise it is just giving it away for nothing.

The supporting fleet should not flee in a panic like it is now, at least it should maintain a loose formation to involve the phase behemoths, right?

Although this phase monster cannot be observed, its impact on the real world is considerable.

As long as the physical distance is maintained, the destructive power of the phase monster will be greatly limited.

Except for the surface of the earth, of course.

The buildings on the surface cannot be moved. If they are targeted by the monster, they will be demolished.

But the fleet really has no such restrictions.

What on earth did these mechanical fleets that robbed Chen Ming come back for?

They can't leave the stolen cargo hold on this already doomed planet, right?

Maybe there is a special reason?

Chen Ming doesn't understand.

But it's okay, he will understand soon.

After determining the escape direction of the internal mechanical looting fleet.

Chen Ming's fleet, which was in the hyperspace of the galaxy, immediately began to dispatch and approached the other side of the galaxy in the hyperspace, ready to ambush.

The efficiency of movement in hyperspace is much higher than that in the normal universe environment, which can definitely give the fleeing mechanical race a big blow.

Bai Quan, who was standing next to him, told Chen Ming several possible locations where the mechanical race's fleet might appear when leaving the galaxy.

The mechanical race is now escaping, so they must pursue efficiency.

Then they must enter the hyperspace in an extreme range that will not be affected by the galaxy's gravity well.

So the location where they come out is actually predictable.

Although now these mechanical races are in a hurry because of the phase behemoth, they can no longer take care of everything.

The reconnaissance fleet sent out by Chen Ming was not discovered at all, and even if the location was slightly deviated, the impact would not be too great.

But Chen Ming is definitely willing to listen to good suggestions.

He immediately changed the ambush position slightly, and after noting Bai Quan's battlefield tips, he put all the ships into combat readiness and prepared to open fire at any time.

While Chen Ming was preparing for the ambush.

His reconnaissance fleet that entered the galaxy in advance chose to approach the attacked planet.

Although looking at the debris around the planet, it can be basically confirmed that this was done by the phase behemoth.

But he still wanted to see with his own eyes what those spaceships and buildings looked like when they were destroyed, so as to thoroughly determine the true situation.

As Chen Ming's reconnaissance fleet approached.

The specific situation on the planet was also returned to Chen Ming's eyes through the sensor.

The mechanized mechanical city that occupied almost all the land on the planet has now become nearly half of the wasteland.

There are broken mechanical buildings and mechanical individuals that have been shut down everywhere.

They all have a common feature, that is, they are all destroyed by crushing attacks.

Something huge and heavy crushed them.

Even the surrounding land sank into the ground by more than ten to dozens of meters.

And these sinking traces are all in the shape of manta rays.

After Chen Ming's reconnaissance fleet approached the planet to a certain distance and could determine the details of what happened on the planet through sensors, it did not continue to approach.

Instead, it began to orbit the planet for reconnaissance.

Not long after, he found traces of the activity of the phase behemoth, fresh traces.

I saw it near an ocean on the planet, in a mineral mining area of ​​the mechanical race.

An existence that cannot be observed by the naked eye is constantly attacking this area.

The method is very simple, just flutter on the surface like a fish out of water.

Although the phase beast is only the size of an ordinary cruiser, its strong physical strength is enough to directly crash a cruiser of the same level.

And its terrifying weight can leave terrible scars on the ground even if it just rolls casually, creating a bombardment that makes everything tremble.

A large number of mechanical individuals are constantly fleeing this area with mechanical equipment or something.

In addition, there are some newly produced mechanized psychic creatures of the mechanical race, trying to attack the phase beast with psychic power.

However, all psychic effects are all in the air.

This phase beast that cannot be observed by the naked eye and cannot be touched cannot be hurt by psychic power.

The phase beast seems to have some deep hatred with the mechanical race, constantly attacking the mechanical race and constantly destroying everything they have.

Chen Ming is not sure whether this phase beast is the same as the previous one. If it is, it will be interesting.

If you want to be sure, it should be possible. The size of the imprint left on the ground on the planet shows that it is not much different from the previous one.

As long as you can get the complete imprint details and compare it with the previous imprint, it is very likely that you can figure out whether it is the same one.

However, there are other people studying the phase monster, so he doesn't need to pay more attention to it. Just don't provoke it now.

Chen Ming carefully continued to let the reconnaissance fleet orbit around the planet.

Continue to look for some important places on the planet.

For example, various large warehouses that the mechanical race should have.

When the reconnaissance fleet approached just now, they had actually found several warehouses, and those warehouses had been completely destroyed by the phase monster.

However, Chen Ming wanted to go around again to see if there were any other large warehouses, in case there were really the batch of goods that were robbed from him, and they were not destroyed by the phase monster.

After all, Chen Ming has not yet contacted the mechanical cruisers that are fleeing, and he is not sure whether the stolen energy crystal crabs are still on the cruisers or stored in the warehouses.

He has to investigate.

Go around the planet again and see if you can't find the warehouse, retreat temporarily.

After the fight with the phase monster is over, he will come back to see if there are any wreckages to clean up.

Chen Ming controlled the fleet to speed up again.

However, just as he was about to leave, he suddenly found that a spaceship that the mechanical race came to support suddenly launched a beam of light that was visible to the naked eye. It seemed straight, but if you look closely, you will find that it has been completely distorted.

No, Chen Ming found that it seemed that it was not the beam that was distorted, but the space around the beam.

It actually seemed to have successfully hit the phase monster in the phase space, and disappeared, leaving half of it in the air.

And the next move of the phase monster also confirmed what Chen Ming had just seen.

The spaceship was immediately counterattacked by the phase monster.

It was smashed directly from the bow to the stern by the monster.

It seems that it completely failed to cause critical damage to the phase beast.

But this beam weapon, which was destroyed within a few seconds of its appearance, caused all the generals in the conference room to stand up in an instant and move together in front of the screen projected by Chen Ming.

"Phase weapon..."

Although Chen Ming had just guessed that it was such a thing, when he heard several generals say this, he still couldn't help but ask: "Can the normal universe see weapons that attack phase space?"

Qiu Bowen knew that Chen Ming had learned about the phase technology, so he did not hide it. He said: "Of course not, but that beam is just a laser pointer. It uses the resonance of the phase weapon in the phase space to display visible light in the normal world. band.”

"The key is that the light is cut off. This can only be the effect of phase weapons."

"The Machine Tribe has also begun to research phase technology since it was attacked by the phase beast last time, and it seems to be very close to our progress."

A lieutenant general next to him said: "Then they are probably more efficient than us. We have started researching it earlier, but we were still caught up by the machine race."

Another lieutenant general also retorted: "They are shining relics. The shining civilization must have phase technology. The mechanical race just picked up the phase technology again, and of course it will be faster than us."

Baiquan did not participate in the discussion among several generals on the research progress of phase technology.

He was more concerned about more practical things: "Chen Ming, if you have the chance, find a way to obtain the wreckage of the spacecraft that used phase weapons. This is very important for our research on phase technology."

However, Chen Ming did not agree directly: "I don't think it's feasible. This giant phase beast is still here. I can't rush in with it. The most I can do is wait for it to finish fighting, and then I will pick up the trash."

"That's okay, let's look for another chance."

"OK."

Chen Ming noted down the coordinates of this location and continued to move the reconnaissance fleet away.

But just when he asked the ships to take such action, his fleet was paralyzed and received a special frequency band communication.

"Communication?"

Chen Ming immediately connected, and a sound that sounded like something submerged in the deep sea suddenly came from the communication channel.

This sound across the deep sea was very vague. Chen Ming could hear that it was sharp but not harsh.

And there was also a vague emotion that appeared in Chen Ming's heart that he couldn't sense clearly.

Chen Ming suddenly felt confused.

The source of the communication signal is also vague, but it is definitely on the planet in front of you.

Is this from the mechanical tribe?

Or rather...

Communication signals from the planet are still being continuously received by Chen Ming's ship.

But Chen Ming still couldn't hear clearly what was contained in this voice.

He thought for a while and connected the communication device of the reconnaissance fleet in the conference room, and played the audio data received by the communication device in the conference room.

After playing the sound he just recorded, Chen Ming asked, "What does this sound mean?"

"Sound? What sound?"

"what are you saying?"

"?"

This time it was Chen Ming's turn to be confused.

"I just played an audio clip, didn't you hear it?"

"No."

Chen Ming didn't understand, so he simply played it again.

His ears could clearly hear the sound, but judging from the expressions on the faces of the people around him, they heard nothing.

Chen Ming obviously used the recorded audio file directly. He could hear the sound, so why couldn't others?

Chen Ming immediately parsed the data of the saved audio file.

He unexpectedly discovered that there was no sound wave in any frequency band in this audio file.

Whether it is sounds that humans can hear, or ultrasonic and infrasound waves that humans cannot hear, there is nothing.

There were no sound waves in any frequency band, but he could hear the sound from this file.

Seeing that the expressions of the people around him were a little strange, Chen Ming could only say: "Maybe I heard wrong."

He stopped the audio and continued to control the ship.

The audio band sound received by his reconnaissance fleet became more and more immersed in the deep sea as the fleet moved away from its previous position, becoming more and more blurred, and gradually became less receivable.

This strengthened his suspicion.

However, Chen Ming pretended to be stupid and avoided the topic of audio.

But the people present were all smart people, and Chen Ming's performance didn't look like he was faking it. He must have heard something.

But they couldn't hear it, and Chen Ming didn't want to say more, so there was no way to ask.

Just keep it in your mind as a secret. Maybe you can use it one day in the future?

Several people watched in silence as Chen Ming continued to operate.

At the same time, he observed the reconnaissance fleet investigating the planet's surface and the main fleet ambushing in hyperspace.

The moment the machine race fleet barely escaped the clutches of the phase monster and arrived at the edge of the galaxy through the reconnaissance fleet activated the hyperspace channel engine.

"it's over."

I don’t know who said that.

The mechanical fleet stepped into Chen Ming's encirclement without any preparation.

When the ship enters hyperspace, its speed relative to the coordinate point at the moment it enters hyperspace will return to zero, and it will not be able to accelerate to a speed that allows it to dodge.

The large weapons of two hundred armor-piercing ships and four afterglow cruisers were already aimed at them.

Chen Ming didn't even use the Stardust level to release the Meteor fighter plane.

The torrent of particles from more than two hundred tachyon spears had already swept across the entire battlefield.

Almost the entire mechanical fleet was instantly destroyed and exploded into fireworks.

However, Chen Ming also deliberately left a gap in the fire network for the cruiser with cargo.

He had to make sure the cargo was still on the ship.

And it was this gap that gave the mechanical fleet a little vitality.

After a round of attacks, in addition to the cruiser that Chen Ming spared on purpose, there was actually another cruiser that Chen Ming had never seen and escaped by hiding behind the cruiser that Chen Ming spared.

And Chen Ming has never seen this cruiser starting the jump engine that cannot be used again in a short period of time by those cruisers that Chen Ming has seen.

The ship that Chen Ming let go stood between Chen Ming's fleet and it, blocking it tightly.

In order to avoid accidental damage to the ship, Chen Ming only deployed firepower on one side when preparing for the ambush.

Therefore, Chen Ming really couldn't fire directly for a while.

However, he could be regarded as discovering the reason why the machine race's fleet did not retreat directly or go to support.

Apparently it was because of this ship.

These ships probably wanted to pick it up, so they returned to the planet attacked by the phase beast.

This ship is important.

Then Chen Ming definitely can't let it go.

It just so happened that he also had the equipment to block the jump engine, which was given to him by Bai Quan.

Although he is using an obsolete model, it is not that the obsolete model cannot be used anymore.

As Chen Ming directly used spiritual energy to transfer and activate the equipment.

The spacecraft that started the jump engine immediately lay down, and the engine suffered a brief malfunction.

It was during this short breakdown time that Chen Ming's fleet had already detoured.

The crossfire directly blew up the engine of the ship protected by the mechanical clan.

Want to run?

Can't run even a little bit.

Everyone else in the conference room could tell from the images transmitted back that the purpose of the mechanical clan was to protect the ship.

This ship must be special and have its own unique value.

It would make a lot of sense if it could be picked up by the Legion.

But none of them spoke.

Because the boat was at Chen Ming's place, it was impossible for Chen Ming to spit it out.

If Chen Ming himself had been recruited to perform a task, they would still have reason to ask Chen Ming to take out the things.

But the current situation is that Chen Ming discovered the stronghold of the Machine Clan. When attacking the stronghold, he encountered the ship and captured it.

It was impossible for Chen Ming to hand over the seizure.

Anyway, if Chen Ming finds something that one person cannot eat, sooner or later he will hand it over to the legion for processing.

For example, the crystal crab was something Chen Ming got himself.

He did business with the Legion before, but found that he couldn't take the cake of the entire empire, so didn't he leave it to the Legion to handle it in the end?

Therefore, as long as it is something that would be more beneficial to the legion, Chen Ming will definitely give it to the legion. He is not stupid.

Of course, it would be better if more information about the mechanical clan could be obtained from this spaceship.

After all, Chen Ming was about to participate in the war between the Machine Clan and it was impossible for him to conceal any information about the Machine Clan.

Baiquan doesn't matter anymore.

His relationship with Chen Ming is different from other people. If there is anything he needs to know, he can just ask. If he doesn't know, then the Legion doesn't need to know.

So now, everyone has a tacit understanding and just pretends not to have seen it.

He watched silently as Chen Ming dismantled all the weapons of the two cruisers in front of him and forcibly took control of the two spaceships.

Planning to jump away.

Qiu Bowen suddenly said at this time, "Stop for a moment, Chen Ming, can I ask you to do something?"

Chen Ming, who was excitedly controlling the two cruisers of the mechanical family with the data cable pulled out of the afterglow core on the cruiser, was distracted and asked: "What's going on?"

"The fleet you sent over for reconnaissance should not leave for the time being. Wait a moment."