Chapter 354 Preparation for a New Round of Action

Another three days passed in the blink of an eye.

Chen Ming brought the phase beast back to the empire and temporarily settled it in the legion headquarters.

The Mechanical Race Star Territory has become a battlefield, and it is not a good place after all.

In particular, the phase beast is quite obviously hostile to the mechanical tribe, and will wander towards the mechanical tribe from time to time, which is even more dangerous.

The phase behemoth itself has limited abilities. Basically, it can only rely on physical means to destroy the colonies and ships of the mechanical race, which is very inefficient.

Continuing there doesn't accomplish much and puts itself in danger.

The mechanical race's phase ship technology has been developing rapidly, and it is possible to develop a phase cruiser with sufficient combat effectiveness at any time.

Therefore, it is better for the phase monster to return to the headquarters and cooperate with the research on phase space to speed up the advancement of technology.

This is also good for Chen Ming.

Of course, the Legion extremely welcomes Chen Ming to do this.

The phase beast had no objection either.

After Chen Ming was regarded as the new clan leader, it followed Chen Ming and went wherever Chen Ming went.

It can also roam freely in the headquarters area most of the time. It can show its face to the ship research institute from time to time and cooperate with experiments.

Although many people in the legion wanted to find out how Chen Ming managed to tame the phase beast, it seemed that he even tamed the phase beast that had been recorded before.

But no one dared to ask Chen Ming directly about these things. They focused more on the phase beast.

In addition to those from the Ship Research Institute, these people also come from other departments.

Since Chen Ming didn't want the phase beast to become a research tool, he only agreed to the Ship Research Institute.

People from other departments, such as those from the Institute of Biology, wanted to come over and study what the phase beast actually was, but Chen Ming rejected them.

After learning the specific situation, the regiment commander made a special call and came back to chat with Chen Ming for a while.

In the end, I didn’t say much.

The phase beast is Chen Ming's pet, and others are not qualified to interfere too much.

Later, the Fanchao Research Institute seemed to be quite interested, and sent a more formal email to Chen Ming to apply for Phase Behemoth to participate in their phase technology research.

This Chen Ming did not explicitly refuse.

He just replied.

"Come here yourself if you need anything."

As for whether Fanchao Research Institute will send someone over later, it's hard to say.

After all, according to Chen Ming's understanding, almost all research institutes that cooperate with the Fanchao Research Institute send people from other research institutes there, and it is rare that the Fanchao Research Institute takes the initiative to send people there.

In addition to the previous interactive experiment of dimensional infection that affected the entire empire and deeply affected the Caimo Star Territory.

It's hard to say whether they will come this time.

But if they come, they certainly can’t come empty-handed.

By the way, Chen Ming also gave the phase beast a name after careful consideration.

Little phase.

It seemed that many people were very embarrassed when they learned Chen Ming's name. Bai Quan even asked Chen Ming to say goodbye without knowing the name.

But the impact was not big. Chen Ming thought the name was very good, and finally decided on the name Xiao Xiang.

Sent to headquarters.

Except that Chen Ming needed to provide food for Xiao Xiang, he didn't need to worry too much about other things for the time being.

The legion will have specialized zoologists to observe and study Xiaoxiang to ensure that it does not have any emotional problems.

In the past few days, Chen Ming was mainly paying attention to the progress of the war between the Empire and the Machine Tribe.

With the early trial of the empire over, the main combat force of Beniu's Fourteenth Legion arrived.

Star field armies or independent armies from other star fields that were originally scheduled to participate in the mechanical war gradually began to gather at Gallo's branch.

Basically everyone can foresee what the next war will look like.

Combat effectiveness and morale are absolutely no problem.

The mechanical tribe has also organized several attacks in recent days.

They are all aimed at those galaxies that do not have much protection and are relatively close to the battle areas between the empire and the machine race.

But these attacks were different from the first one.

The mechanical race did not prepare a mothership, but only prepared cruisers and spaceships below the cruiser level, which was basically a waste of money.

It looks weird.

But as long as you change your thinking, you can roughly see that the mechanical race is actually regularly looking for weakly defended galaxies close to their star field.

The number of fleets that attacked was basically large enough to defeat the colonial patrols and cause a devastating blow to the colonies.

He looked like he was ready to break up with the empire at any time.

This tactic looks familiar.

Because this is the same approach as Chen Ming, exchanging battle losses.

However, Chen Ming exchanged the battle losses because he could afford it, and the mechanical clan exchanged the battle losses because they knew that their star field could not win this war.

The mechanical tribe is ready to fight.

Now that they have determined that they cannot defeat the Empire, what else can they do?

They originally had only two choices, either to evacuate the star field and hand over the star field.

Or try to exchange as much war damage with the empire as possible before being terminated.

It's just that when I'm about to die, I'm going to have someone to support me.

It should look like this.

but.

Chen Ming felt that he had to maintain a skeptical attitude.

Because he has a mechanical queen snatched from the mechanical race.

It can help him analyze the situation of the war and the trends of the mechanical race's various actions.

The mechanical race itself is supported by a personality core like the mechanical queen.

Chen Ming can certainly understand the mechanical race's ideas through the mechanical queen.

And as the war progresses, Chen Ming also understands more and more clearly the power he, the mechanical race and the empire have, and has mastered more and more detailed war data.

The more detailed the data, the more content the mechanical queen can analyze, and the closer it is to the reality.

And the mechanical queen judges the war situation based on the current situation.

It is indeed possible that the mechanical race is preparing to kill as many people as possible on the empire before being destroyed.

But, the greater possibility.

is that all the arrangements and arrangements of the mechanical race in the war are all aimed at Chen Ming.

No matter who is placed in that position of the mechanical race.

Between killing part of the empire's living forces before it is destined to be destroyed, and killing Chen Ming, who is a complete threat to the mechanical race, the latter will inevitably be chosen.

No matter how much the mechanical race wants to fight the empire, no matter how much they transfer their forces to the front line of the war with the empire.

Chen Ming can't completely let down his guard.

He believes in the analysis of the mechanical queen, but he also believes that he has the ability to achieve his goal when facing the mechanical race.

The mechanical race knows that Chen Ming has a mechanical queen, and they also know that Chen Ming must have ideas about certain existences in their star field.

So the current situation is that Chen Ming and the mechanical race's ideas are basically open to each other.

It depends on who is one step behind in this open confrontation.

What the empire is doing now is more like a countdown.

It forces Chen Ming and the mechanical race to decide the winner before the countdown is over.

After all, if the empire completely occupies the mechanical race's star field, the mechanical race will have no chance to kill Chen Ming, and Chen Ming will have no chance to steal what he needs.

Stealing things from the mechanical race and stealing things from the empire are obviously not the same concept.

That is, if you look at it from the most basic aspect, Chen Ming is not afraid at all.

He has been invincible from the beginning.

As long as he has no ideas, he can't lose.

But he has ideas.

So he is still a little worried about one thing happening.

That is, the mechanical race will drive the destroyer mothership to the front line with the empire, and then he will lose the possibility of obtaining the destroyer.

However, these things are problems for the future, at least the mechanical race has no plan to do so at present.

They still want to rely on their own strength to counterattack the empire.

And the empire is constantly dispatching and adjusting the deployment of military forces when dealing with the attacks of the mechanical race.

It's just that the war has begun. Almost every galaxy on the border has a device to detect jump fluctuations, and each star field will also deploy fleets.

Although it may not be able to stop the attack of the mechanical race, it can at least delay it for a while.

As long as the mechanical race invades, it can be discovered and blocked in the first time.

It is enough to hold on until the fleet reinforcement jump arrives.

In recent days, the mechanical race's attacks have hardly suffered much loss.

Especially after the combat power of Beniu also joined the war.

As the empire's war machine gradually started to operate, a large number of military forces arrived at the border, and the strength of the border was even stronger.

And because the Empire was determined to win the war at the beginning, it was well prepared in terms of military strength.

As a result, now, judging from the performance of the mechanical race, the problem that the Empire needs to consider is no longer how much military strength is needed to achieve the Empire's goal, but whether the enemy is not enough to allocate.

I thought the battle line would be extended, and the war would develop in the direction of the Empire surrounding the entire mechanical race star field, which would require a large number of troops, and some troops would be stationed at the border of the Yuhui star field. To prevent Yuhui from taking the opportunity to cause trouble.

But the current situation is that the Empire's vanguard has penetrated into the mechanical race star field like a nail.

The mechanical race can only shrink the defense line again and again, completely abandon the border, and shrink itself like a turtle.

At the same time, a little fleet was sent out to test the Empire.

So that the Empire's large number of troops had nowhere to go.

Of course, the scale of the mechanical race star field is there. The Empire's ability to fight does not mean that it can occupy it. This is also a problem that needs to be considered in the war.

And the Empire's goal from beginning to end is not to win, but to seize.

Therefore, the overall advancement speed of the war between the Empire and the Mechanical Race has not changed much compared to before.

It is still advancing slowly to occupy the star field of the mechanical race, and it can even be said that it has slowed down a bit.

The mechanical race's retreat is still useful. The more the empire's fleet enters the mechanical race's star field, the stronger the defense will be.

So the empire's choice is to continue to increase the offensive on the front line.

Don't give the mechanical race a chance to breathe.

And there are always several reserve fleets near the border ready to jump and reinforce those places attacked by the mechanical race.

War is really just a slow death for the mechanical race.

There is just one question that Chen Ming has never figured out.

Where did the mechanical race's reinforcements go?

In addition to the front line of the war, the empire has also been doing things in the rear.

Just after Lu Bai solved the day when the mechanical race mothership was solved.

Chen Ming has obtained information about the military results report published by the Empire from the public.

It is mainly to publicize the achievements created by Lu Bai, plus some contributions made by psychics that were not announced earlier in the early stage of the war between the Empire and the Mechanical Clan.

Of course, the Empire did not directly say that it was psychics. The Empire only announced the names of people who made important contributions and the results they created.

But Chen Ming can see that about half of these announced achievements were made by psychics.

It can only be said that the Empire’s ideas are very clear, and a lot of information is directly released to the public.

After all, the battle with the Mechanical Clan in the rear does not need to be strictly confidential, and the results of the battle can basically be announced at the first time.

This information can relieve some of the pressure within the Empire.

And Chen Ming has also recently noticed that in some ship markets in the Empire, especially the markets in the marginal star fields near the border, the trading volume of various types of ships here, especially the pioneering ships, has increased significantly.

The circulation volume of various material markets and fuel markets has increased significantly, and the prices of various items have also had a certain benign expansion.

Obviously, many people have noticed what happened in Galo and found something in the empire's propaganda.

So they had the idea of ​​taking this opportunity to do business.

And this is what the empire wants to see.

Only a market that is not a stagnant pool of water can provide economic support to the empire.

This is just the changes that Chen Ming has learned about in the field he is familiar with.

The entire empire is gradually getting better with this war.

However, the empire's actions have certainly caused a lot of doubts.

Because many psychics can do things that ordinary people can't do.

Especially a few days ago, Lu Bai participated in the battle with the mechanical mothership.

He destroyed the mothership's signal network alone, and ended a battle that might have required a stalemate for a while in a few minutes.

Even if the news released is slightly modified, it can't cover up the objective fact that a single person made a major contribution to the war situation.

Is this normal in the eyes of normal people?

Of course, some people will doubt it.

Although some of the people who are questioned are indeed ordinary people, they just created the same outrageous record as psychics.

But this is also a recognition of their abilities.

And this is also part of the empire's public opinion arrangement.

When the concept of psychics is announced, all doubts will disappear.

That is, psychics cannot be made public directly, and there must be sufficient preparation.

According to Bai Quan, rumors about psychics have begun to spread from all sides.

Chen Ming also heard some rumors from Lao Wu's channel.

It should be effective soon, and the empire will be able to implement its plan step by step.

Of course, these things have nothing to do with what Chen Ming wants to do for the time being.

What he really cares about is always behind the mechanical race.

There is the most powerful and important existence in the mechanical race star field, which is also Chen Ming's goal.

It's just that in the past few days, there has been no military action behind the mechanical race.

Chen Ming's Zerg is developing.

The only thing the mechanical race is doing is to continuously speed up the development of resources on the planets that Chen Ming's Zerg has contacted, and strive to mine the most resources in the shortest time.

And the destroyer mothership did not move at all.

At least the monitoring device that Chen Ming left outside the information did not find any signs of star gate activity in the galaxy, nor did it find any traces of the destroyer mothership leaving anywhere.

The Destroyer had indeed been keeping an eye on this area.

Or perhaps, it was acting as a bait to lure Chen Ming over.

Regardless of whether this was the case or not, Chen Ming was definitely going to take action against this Destroyer.

He even wanted to suppress the Destroyer in the giant dock of the Mechanical Clan or in a certain starport to directly control it.

But obviously this was impossible.

Because Chen Ming had only left Zerg eggs in other places before,

Even if the Zerg developed from these eggs had a terrifying growth rate based on the large number of biological buildings created by the Queen of Zerg with Chen Ming's new ideas, the construction speed of the Zerg nest was also quite terrifying.

But the warships that were hatched in the end were only at the cruiser level at most. Jumping over there would at most pose some threat to the colony, and it was impossible to crush a mothership to death on the planet.

Not to mention the mothership carrying the Destroyer.

So he could only try to target it in some other ways.

It had been almost a week since the last Zerg invasion of the Mechanical Clan.

The development of all the Zerg nests had hardly been disturbed, and it was almost time to start the next stage of action.

If Chen Ming wanted to take action, then it would be time for the Black Mist Prosthesis to appear again.

The last time the Black Mist Prosthesis took action at the border, there was an Imperial fleet investigating nearby, and it was verified by the Empire.

However, the Empire could not determine whether the subsequent Black Mist Prosthesis was killed by the Destroyer or hid.

It could only observe further and then increase the level of attention to the resurgence of the Left Path Force in the territory.

But if the Black Mist Prosthesis does not appear later, the level of attention will be just that.

So it must appear near that border star region.

And Chen Ming also has to take some appropriate actions to cooperate with the Black Mist Prosthesis to prove its danger.

Of course, this is not the point.

The Black Mist Prosthesis is just used to attract the attention of the Empire.

What Chen Ming really cares about is the logistics area of ​​the mechanical clan.

Chen Ming's plan is very simple.

Since the Destroyer Mothership attaches so much importance to the galaxies in the nearby area, he will start from these galaxies and force the mothership to travel to solve the problem.

Fight a war of attrition and use the Zerg fleet to exchange the supplies for the mechanical mothership.

The key is to convince the Machine Race that his first target is the mothership.

But in fact his first target is the Stargate itself.

Given the size of the mechanical race's star field, one jump can basically cover it completely.

But the jump is an operation that cannot be performed multiple times in a short period of time.

Therefore, the star gate plays a very important role in the mechanical race star field.

It allows the large fleets of the mechanical race to move quickly within the star field and go to various places for reinforcements.

Just as the empire is now about to enter the galaxy with the star gate closest to the empire by the mechanical race, it is facing more and more enemies, and it is becoming more and more difficult to continue to occupy the galaxy.

Of course, no matter how high it is, it cannot be higher than the military strength of the empire itself, but the role of the Star Gate is still very obvious.

For Chen Ming, although this thing may not prevent the mechanical tribe from causing trouble to him, it can at least avoid many mechanical tribes that can only come to him for trouble through the Star Gate.

As long as the Machinery Clan loses the Star Gate, Chen Ming will have a lot of room to compete with the Machinery Clan.

It's just that Chen Ming really didn't understand anything about the Star Gate technology.

Although this can be regarded as a research project of the relevant departments of the Naval Research Institute, there are too many prerequisite technologies to learn to learn this technology.

He could only snatch it away and then think about how to use it.

And there are definitely heavy soldiers on the Star Gate side.

Not only the Destroyer Mothership, there must be other motherships squatting there.

Multiple motherships operating together, no matter how many cruisers Chen Ming has, there is no chance of winning.

Therefore, Chen Ming prepared a plan to lure the tiger away from the mountain.

The current strength of the Zerg is enough to seize the star gate itself after a lot of losses.

But this is not enough.

Chen Ming's goal is not only the Star Gate, but also the Destroyer.

After the tiger left the mountain and took out his nest, Chen Ming also wanted to take the tiger home with him.

Therefore, he would also use himself as bait to set a trap that might deceive the machine race.

Plans have been thought out beforehand.

All that's left is execution.

Chen Ming was in no hurry to start.

But after a night's rest and his mental strength returned to its peak, he officially started this operation.

Let’s start with the black mist prosthesis.

Chen Ming's mental power has increased significantly after being exposed to the scarlet dimension many times.

Just like what he told his boss last time.

His mental power can already directly cover the galaxy, but his ability is still limited within a framework.

This affects his ability to control the spaceship, but it does not affect his ability to control things other than the spacecraft.

It also does not affect the derived effects of his psychic powers.

Therefore, at the same time that Chen Ming made his decision, large-scale black fog appeared at the same time on hundreds of planets parasitized by the Zerg within dozens of galaxies in the border area of ​​the mechanical race.

Black mist enveloped the Zerg fleet, and they gathered again.

Chen Ming did not deliberately hide this action.

On the contrary, he even used the intelligence from the front line to deliberately let some of the Black Mist Zerg appear in front of the Imperial fleet that was scouting the edge of the Mechanical Race's star field.

I was afraid that the empire would not notice the movements of the black mist prosthesis.

Naturally, this attracted the attention of the mechanical tribe.

They had known for a long time that this day would come sooner or later.

Therefore, when the Black Mist Zerg began to gather, the Machine Tribe had already sent three motherships to the star field where the Black Mist Zerg gathered.

It's still the same three ships as before, still gathering together to avoid being alone and killed by the cruiser.

Just as the Machine Tribe was preparing to fight the Black Mist Zerg Fleet.

Chen Ming stayed in the mechanical race star field, and the Zerg race in the galaxy near the logistics area also started activities.