Chapter 337 Evolved Zerg

The president also felt strange when he heard Chen Ming's question.

When he was infected for the first time, he really didn't feel anything related to spatial abilities and spatial effects.

Not to mention the rifts closely related to the scarlet dimension.

But after hearing Chen Ming's speculation, the president suddenly had an idea.

"When I experienced my first dimensional infection, the target of the dimensional infection was my eyes."

"The eyes that appear in the crack now are also eyes. Is there a connection between them?"

"Is it possible that the galaxy I threw into other dimensions returned to the scarlet dimension, and learned part of the ability to move between spaces through my exile?"

But Chen Ming immediately recounted what happened when he experienced the nominal second, but actually third, dimensional infection.

That time no cracks opened...

wrong.

As Chen Ming spoke, he suddenly realized something.

Cracks exist.

Right on that deformed heart.

However, the rift was not strong enough at that time, and the dimension-infected entity did not have enough "nourishment" to supply, and lost the ability to connect to the scarlet dimension. In the end, Chen Ming's consciousness could only be forcibly dragged into the consciousness space.

Then……

In the consciousness space, Chen Ming remembered that during his final showdown with the aberrant heart, he sensed that something was coming in the starry sky in his consciousness space.

At that time, he didn't know what it was, but now it seems that it is definitely something closely related to the scarlet dimension.

As early as the first dimension infection, Chen Ming had already begun to come into contact with the scarlet dimension.

The rift is what is really there.

But this rift also did not appear directly in the normal universe. Even the distorted heart could not directly call for that kind of existence in the normal universe. Instead, it attracted things that Chen Ming had never seen before through the consciousness space.

The normal universe has indeed never opened a rift to the scarlet dimension.

There must be some hidden reason behind this.

As for what the president said, it was because the Scarlet Dimension was imitating, so the rift was not opened before. This situation can only be said to be doubtful.

Since the rift has never been opened in the normal universe, the president's conjecture can only be regarded as a conjecture for now.

The president easily accepted and understood Chen Ming's words. He also agreed with Chen Ming's idea: "Then let me go through the previous documents and see if there is anything missing. I will talk to you when there is news. "

The president ended the communication with one sentence.

Chen Ming closed his eyes and held his forehead.

His head hurt slightly.

Let’s put the matter of dimensional infection and phase space aside for a while and let others deal with it.

He still has to wait for his mental strength to recover and deal with the next thing.

His mental strength is still recovering.

Although the total amount of mental power has reached a terrifying level, with the blessing of the hive mind network, ectoplasmic stones, condensed psychic energy sources, ship spirits, and even various drugs, the recovery speed is still quite fast.

It seems that things will be back to normal in a few hours, and it won't have too much impact on Chen Ming's continued work on the three front lines.

However, the third-line work always has its priorities.

Two laboratory projects.

Ontology research tasks.

As well as the development fleet here, the response and counterattack measures against the mechanical race.

Arranged according to the degree of urgency and consequences of failure, the most urgent matter must be that the pioneering fleet is about to encounter an attack from the machine race.

So Chen Ming will definitely focus on dealing with this matter next.

He had already made arrangements before.

But he had prepared well in advance to seize control of the colony from Yuhui. It took several days to prepare the goods for migration. In the end, he had to rely on Chen Ming's psychic power to run continuously for a day before sending them away.

Although there is not much expansion in scale now, not much expansion does not mean there is no expansion.

It's not easy to move your base quickly.

So if he was attacked by the mechanical tribe now, the situation would seem to be a bit bad.

Like... now.

Chen Ming only ended the call with the president a few minutes ago.

He sensed that something unexpected had happened in some of the small strongholds left behind by the pioneering fleet for resource development.

As long as they were near the three-way junction of the Machine Tribe, Yuhui, and the Empire, or even any stronghold within two jumps away, they would almost all encounter a small fleet of the Machine Tribe.

The mechanical fleet, composed of a destroyer and four frigates, launched an attack on Chen Ming's strongholds at almost the same time.

Such a fleet is very weak, and its life is just as cannon fodder on the battlefield.

But in the small strongholds left by Chen Ming, a fleet of this size was enough to completely destroy the strongholds.

"It came so quickly."

Chen Ming frowned.

Although he had learned the news before, he was surprised that his territory was discovered so quickly and he was ready to attack.

Chen Ming's original plan was to...

Forget it, there's no need to think about the original plan any more.

The mechanical tribe arrived so quickly, of course the plan was completely disrupted, there was no need to think about it again.

He must change his original plan and take countermeasures as soon as possible.

Fortunately, Chen Ming maintained a high degree of connection with all the Afterglow Cores, even the weakest Gamma-class Cores had a direct connection with Chen Ming.

Therefore, when these small bases were attacked, Chen Ming was basically able to take away the Afterglow Cores in time.

Only some unlucky Afterglow Cores that were unlucky at the beginning and found that the attack was slow and were hit in the core themselves were destroyed in this attack.

The number was about twenty or so, not many.

However, although Chen Ming's repair psychic power could repair the Afterglow Core itself, it could not repair the consciousness in it.

So if these Afterglow Cores were lost, it would be a real loss.

Chen Ming now only has tens of thousands of Afterglow Cores in total, and losing a few of them makes him heartbroken.

Not to mention that the base itself, the equipment in the base, and a considerable part of the materials can only be abandoned there, destroyed by the mechanical race or looted by them.

You should know that when Chen Ming's pioneering fleet has made four jumps, there are quite a lot of small bases located relatively close to the empire, and the incoming materials account for about 40% of Chen Ming's material circulation.

This allows Chen Ming to be less dependent on the empire to obtain resources for development.

Once these small bases are lost, in order to maintain the pioneering fleet, he must spend extra money to fill this hole, and he must also bear the impact of closer ties with the empire.

For Chen Ming, who has always wanted to run outside the empire, these losses are real losses.

Chen Ming also thought that the mechanical race would directly come to trouble the large army.

So he did not withdraw the afterglow from these places.

Because the investment cost has long been earned back, as long as one more day of resources is mined later, there will be more income.

He really didn't expect the attack of the mechanical race to be so "deep into the grassroots".

Through the vision of those afterglow cores all over the entire pioneering route.

Chen Ming can see that at least one-third of the mechanical race's spacecraft in the lower-level fleets of their star field have been pulled out and used to clear out Chen Ming's small bases.

As for the remaining two-thirds, in addition to leaving a part for use in the mechanical star field.

The others are probably also responsible for finding the coordinates of Chen Ming's bases before, and are still responsible for finding the location of his real base.

Chen Ming's small temporary bases can be said to be extremely scattered, and they are also distributed in a fairly large area.

If it weren't for the carpet search of a super-large number of fleets, it would be impossible to lock almost all of Chen Ming's small bases.

This scale can be said to be unprecedentedly large.

Of course, Chen Ming said from his perspective and the history of this mechanical star field.

In addition, he can also see that there must be mechanical cruisers with a large number of fleets filling the surrounding star fields to further search for the galaxy where Chen Ming's pioneering fleet is located.

Instead of the middle and lower-level ships of the mechanical family searching in hyperspace.

So if Chen Ming does nothing.

In a few hours at the fastest and three days at the slowest, the two temporary bases he now has, one in front and one behind the third and fourth jump positions, will inevitably be discovered.

As long as the mechanical race finds him, there will be a fleet of mechanical race troops coming to the border immediately.

Chen Ming will not flatter himself, but judging from what the mechanical race has just done, he can only believe that the mechanical race has invested almost all the middle and lower-level spacecraft to search for his existence in the nearby star field.

Since the middle and lower-level fleets of the mechanical race in the entire star field have been dispatched, there will definitely be at least thousands of cruisers mobilized, and there is even the possibility that they will directly dispatch the main battleships.

The last time the mechanical race encircled and suppressed Chen Ming was when Chen Ming attacked the mechanical race base in order to expand the mechanical race hive network and seize the mechanical race colony ships.

At that time, the mechanical race sent two fleets, one batch of 20 to 30 ships, and the second batch of more than 80 ships.

Although the second batch was followed by a phase behemoth.

But it is enough to show that the mechanical race is absolutely prepared according to the strength far beyond the threat when dealing with threats.

And before that, Chen Ming had just shown his destructive ability to the mechanical race.

So this time, the armed forces they prepared may really exceed Chen Ming's imagination.

There may even be an alien mechanical fleet.

According to the news from Baiquan, the front line of Galo has not encountered any decent resistance during this period. It is clear that the Empire has not really invested much war force and has been advancing smoothly.

Not only did this process not encounter any decent resistance, but there was no sign of the arrival of an alien mechanical fleet.

Even some reconnaissance fleets that were deeper in the front line did not find any ambush at all.

The machine controlled by Chen Ming could not provide false information.

Isn't there only one possibility left?

The mechanical race really regards Chen Ming as a greater threat than the empire.

Think about it.

For the mechanical race in this area, the threat brought by the empire and the threat brought by Chen Ming are similar, and the highest is to cause the destruction of the star field.

For the mechanical race of the entire universe, Chen Ming is more dangerous than the empire.

The expansion of the empire takes time and is limited.

Chen Ming can run around anywhere.

In particular, Chen Ming also developed a fleet outside and established various strongholds. This behavior allowed the machine clan to elevate Chen Ming's threat to a level that exceeded that of the empire.

Even for the mechanical race, if Chen Ming can be killed here by sacrificing a star field, they definitely have the possibility to do such a thing.

Therefore, the number of fleets attacking this time will only be more than Chen Ming guessed, not less.

His guess was even quite conservative.

At such a scale, Chen Ming felt that his pioneering fleet should have little room to struggle.

There were less than twenty cruisers in total. Even if they could exert several times their effectiveness with the blessing of Chen Ming's psychic power, they would not be able to put up any resistance in front of the battleships.

Even when facing a fleet whose number exceeds a certain limit, Chen Ming's psychic powers will not be able to play a sufficient role.

Although he was also preparing, his preparation was not for a head-on battle with such a fleet, let alone that he had not had time to prepare.

And there is a more troublesome place.

That is, the mechanical tribe attacked Chen Ming just when he had just participated in the experiment, experienced the destruction of two dimensions, and was exhausted of his mental power.

Even now, Chen Ming couldn't quickly use his spiritual energy to block or speed up the relocation.

He could only verbally urge a few afterglow cores, and then see if there were any other ways to stop the mechanical fleet from searching for his location.

There are no reinforcements from outside the empire, so everything depends on Chen Ming himself.

The situation has really taken a turn for the worse.

Chen Ming could prepare comfortably before, and even stayed at ease for quite some time without anything happening.

But today there were two sudden incidents in succession.

He can no longer continue with his previous stable mentality.

He had to figure out a way to deal with it as soon as possible.

The first thing he has to do now is to avoid the worst case scenario, and he must not let the mechanical fleet overwhelm the situation.

There are two ways to stop the machine fleet.

Prevent the machine race's fleet from discovering his pioneering stronghold, or move away directly.

Chen Ming had already been preparing for the next migration, but if he did nothing, it was expected that it would take another four or five days to prepare.

This is an impossible time to accept.

If you want to solve it, you must find a way to restore your mental power as soon as possible.

Chen Ming's mental recovery speed is very fast, so the most convenient way is to delay it.

And delaying time coincides with another method of organizing the mechanical fleet, which is to block the mechanical fleet.

As long as the speed of the mechanical tribe's search can be delayed, the rest will be easy to handle.

As for ways to delay...

It's not enough to just use the cruisers to get over.

The mechanical race is not a fool. If they find that Chen Ming's fleet has attracted the most attention in the past, it will definitely continue to search for his existence.

If you want to stop the Machine Tribe, you must release a large number of middle and lower-level ships just like the Machine Tribe, and affect the Machine Tribe's search in the same way.

But this can only cope with the mechanical fleet that has been released.

It would not be so easy to solve if it was a fleet that was following the mechanical cruisers to jump to the outside world.

There is even a certain probability that they will jump directly to Chen Ming's face.

They are definitely a hassle to deal with.

Just when Chen Ming was thinking about how to solve the problem.

His perception was that the insect queen had awakened in its cocoon, and it had completed its evolution.

It seems that luck is still on his side.

Chen Ming immediately turned his attention to the insect queen's nest planet, and happened to see the moment when the insect queen emerged from the cocoon.

Only a few tentacles were seen tearing open the outer cocoon of the biological cruiser that wrapped the insect queen from the inside out, revealing the current appearance of the biological cruiser.

The outer black carapace is covered with fluorescent lines, and some of the blood discharged during evolution has changed from the original gray-green to clear, exuding fluorescence like fairy leaves.

Even some of the muscle tissue in the carapace gaps and the energy crystals sandwiched between the muscle tissue on the body of the queen have become similar.

But soon, under the control of the insect queen, the carapace turned black again, and the flesh turned gray-green again, making it no longer so conspicuous.

Only the clear, transparent and slightly fluorescent appearance of the energy crystal in the queen's body was retained.

This energy crystal contains more powerful energy.

In addition to these easily detectable changes in appearance.

All the deeper changes that occurred in evolution were transmitted to Chen Ming through the consciousness link between the insect queen and Chen Ming.

it is more than words.

After understanding the changes in the insect queen.

Chen Ming breathed a big sigh of relief. It seemed that the trouble would be solved soon, unless the machine clan really used the capital ship.

Chen Ming did not dare to waste any more time, and immediately said to the insect queen: "Quickly gather the insect nest and prepare to migrate and fight."

The insect queen also started taking action without a moment's hesitation.

The entire planet's insect nest seemed to come alive in an instant and became extremely active.

A considerable number of Zerg individuals inside the insect nest were immediately decomposed by the insect nest and transformed into new highly concentrated energy crystals.

Provide nutrients to the insect nest structure, allowing the originally fixed insect nest to gradually transform into the same structure as the insect queen.

A core control node, or Zerg neural tumor, is wrapped in the shell of a biological cruiser.

Almost all the insect hive structures have begun to undergo such changes, constructing one heavy black insect cruiser after another.

Limited by Chen Ming's own spiritual power that imposes restrictions on the number of spacecraft that can be directly controlled, he has always been considering solutions to his lack of large-scale combat power in space.

One of the solutions is the insect queen.

Until today, he finally has a large-scale space combat force that can be used at any time.

But to be honest, Chen Ming's total amount of mental power has already exceeded that of the Worm Queen by an unknown amount. The Worm Queen can control so many biological cruisers.

But Chen Ming could only control a few cruisers, which made it difficult for him.

Fortunately, after Chen Ming's psychic power reaches the upper limit of the number of cruisers he can control, the number of lower-level ships he can control is almost unlimited.

As long as you get more armor-piercing ones, the effect will be similar to that of cruisers.

There is nothing else that can be done, spiritual energy is too metaphysical.

Perhaps when Chen Ming can control the battleship, the cruiser will not have so many restrictions.

After Chen Ming gave more detailed orders.

The insect queen also gradually adjusted the process of insect nest transformation.

Mainly give priority to the insect nests located in the shallow layers of the insect nest planet to start recycling and transforming the insect race.

The deep insect nests continue to breed a large number of worker insects at a crazy speed, continue to mine the planet's own resources with crazy efficiency, and devour everything on the planet.

The new concentrated use effect of the Insect Queen's psychic powers after evolution was demonstrated by it.

Physical enhancements can focus on strengthening certain parts of an individual's body.

The workers responsible for digging have strengthened their digging limbs, and the workers responsible for digestion have strengthened their digestive organs. Even the nest tissues responsible for converting energy into energy crystals have been strengthened with corresponding organizational structures.

The insect nests are frantically devouring the planet they host, converting the planet into energy crystals and into resources for the insect race.

Just a few dozen minutes passed.

All the insect nests in the shallow layers of the planet have been transformed into insect cruisers.

There are already some places where the rock layer has been exposed due to the transformation of the insect nest, but it was immediately covered by the carpet that has now evolved again, and its expansion speed and strength have reached a new level.

It can be seen that the deep insect nests continue to breed the insect race and continue to devour everything.

The number of Zerg cruisers transformed by the shallow Zerg Hive alone has exceeded 100,000 Zerg cruisers.

When Chen Ming got this number, he found that he was wrong, and it was very wrong.

He had always misjudged the power of the Insect Queen, and he had misjudged it quite a lot.

He originally thought that it would take time for the Insect Queen to form a large-scale combat power after evolving.

At most, it can produce some temporary combat power in a short period of time, and at most, it can help him solve the problems in front of him.

But now it seems.

The Queen of Insects even has the ability to fight head-on with an entire mechanical race star field.

Chen Ming has always liked to observe many things from a pessimistic perspective, and has always made predictions based on the worst-case scenario.

Therefore, he felt that after the insect queen had evolved, it would at most give him a certain ability to compete with the incoming mechanical fleet.

But in fact, the situation was much better than he thought.

After all, the Zerg are not humans, afterglows, or machines. They do not need to consider the planning and construction of industrial colonies, or the production of ships.

What the Zerg have to do is to devour everything, convert everything into nutrients, and then convert the nutrients into battleships.

This is the terrifying efficiency of the Zerg.

Under normal circumstances, the average length of a cruiser is one thousand meters. After the Zerg cruiser evolved from the Zerg Queen and was optimized with Chen Ming's limited mental power, the average length was about 1,200 meters.

The circumference of the earth is 40,000 kilometers.

Nowadays, the Zerg warships can circle the earth more than three times together, not to mention the height and width of the warships.

These numbers may seem exaggerated at first glance, but if you think about them carefully, you will find that they are not exaggerated at all.

Because there is something more exaggerated.