Chapter 380 Star Devourer

The words of the Minister of Climate Transformation made Chen Ming stunned for a while.

He really hadn't considered the method the Minister mentioned to determine what happened a few years ago, but it sounded like it was indeed okay.

Isn't this how superluminal technology should be used?

Before, because the wormhole was less than five light years away from this galaxy, Chen Ming could only see the stars that had cooled down, and his mind didn't turn around for a while.

But in the universe five light years away, everything was still the same as it was five years ago, and he could see what the stars looked like before.

Although the accuracy of optical observation at such a distance is definitely not as good as close-range sensor scanning, it is definitely enough for the scale of stars.

After accepting the Minister's advice, Chen Ming continued to let the Climate Transformation Department record planetary data on Gaia to prepare for subsequent climate transformation.

He himself left the planet, boarded his own High Point, and jumped to a position about five light years away from the galaxy where Gaia was located.

Since Chen Ming didn't know much about climate and other knowledge, he could only roughly know that the drastic changes on Gaia occurred about five years ago.

Therefore, the distance he jumped must not be so accurate.

There is no way to jump accurately to the time when the star undergoes major changes.

But this does not affect anything. He only needs to point the ship's sensor to the galaxy of the Gaia planet, and then jump multiple times in a straight line to adjust the precise distance.

Soon, about 5.3 light years away from the Gaia galaxy, something happened on the star that Chen Ming observed with the optical sensor.

At the location where the light 5.3 years ago is now propagating.

Chen Ming saw a huge "flare" with a tail, moving straight from outside the galaxy to the star in the galaxy.

After processing the photos taken, the full picture of the flare appeared in front of him.

It was not a flare.

It was a giant creature with an appearance similar to that of a bacteriophage, a virus that devours bacteria.

It has a head that is as regular as a bacteriophage, a long and thick trunk that is different from the proportion structure of a bacteriophage, and six thick tails separated from the end of the trunk to support itself.

The flare approached the star at a rapid speed.

The seemingly heavy beast did not sink directly into the star, but stood on the surface of the star easily, only piercing its six tails into the star.

It was used to maintain the balance of its thick body and huge head.

At the bottom of its trunk, a cone-shaped organ like a mosquito mouthpart gradually extended out, or it was probably some kind of organizational structure of the organ, and pierced downward into the star.

Then a large amount of stellar matter was sucked out of the star itself by a suction force and entered the body of the monster.

The light on its body became brighter, and on every edge of its head there was a substance that seemed to flow with the vitality of the star.

Even its size seemed to increase a bit.

The temperature of this area on the surface of the star dropped almost visibly.

And this "bacteriophage" or "star eater" was obviously not satisfied, and continued to change its position on the surface of the star, devouring the stellar matter.

It became brighter and brighter, while the star itself became dimmer and dimmer.

By comparing the volume of the "flare" with that of the planet and the star.

It can be roughly calculated that this flare is about half the size of the nightmare of the plane.

And the flare that Chen Ming saw on the star before was at least as big as two nightmares of the plane.

Either the flare that Chen Ming saw was a real flare, and it was not the same thing as this monster that should be called "Star Devourer".

Or in the past five years, the Star Devourer has grown to its current size by devouring the energy of the star.

The answer is self-evident.

Chen Ming let the highest point speed up slightly and move forward.

This can speed up the observation of the Star Devourer, the star and the inside of the galaxy.

Not long after, the Star Devourer almost completely extracted all the high-energy matter on the surface of the star, and the originally bright star that could provide vitality for the planets in the habitable zone no longer existed.

As the temperature of the star dropped, the original blue Gaia planet full of vitality was completely frozen in just a few months.

The blizzard became the climate that could be seen when the planet surface moved.

The planet consciousness did not give up, but forcibly maintained the underground ecosystem until today.

After watching the whole process, Chen Ming couldn't help but sigh and said, "Another one."

If you really want to count, he has encountered three giant beasts of this size.

A scavenger robot, a plane nightmare, and a star-eating body that he has observed now to devour stars.

There is nothing to say.

The plane nightmare has become a half-plane nightmare because it hindered his development.

This star-eating body hindered his actions to restore Gaia planet, and it is bound to follow the footsteps of the plane nightmare.

Chen Ming has to find a way to lure out the star-eating body that has now infiltrated the star and kill it.

Even if Gaia planet is not necessarily restored to its original state after getting rid of it, at least its environment will not continue to deteriorate, and the weakening of the star will no longer continue to expand the impact on the planets inside the galaxy.

Chen Ming has already thought of a way to lure out the Star Devourer.

That is to use stellar matter.

Star Devourers devour stars, so they must be well aware of the changes in stars.

If stellar matter disappears on a star for unknown reasons, as long as the Star Devourer has simple intelligence, it will definitely come to find out the reason.

Chen Ming just happens to know how to transfer stellar matter inside a star.

And it was taught to him by the mechanical race in the past.

The mechanical race once used the reverse matter jump device to transfer stellar matter from the star to their planet in an attempt to kill him.

Chen Ming lost an arm directly to the stellar matter at that time, but he also successfully controlled the device in his hands and mastered its manufacturing method.

It just happens to be used now.

Although this reverse matter jump device has some shortcomings.

For example, when jumping matter, it can only jump to a tiny place, and it can only jump to dead objects, and the energy consumption is also extremely huge.

For example, the mechanical race didn’t know how long it took to set it up before, and the device equipped with the antimatter engine probably sent less than half a cubic meter of stellar matter.

The effect can only be said to be average.

But Chen Ming is different. He also mastered antimatter technology, and he also has an energy supply that seems to be almost unlimited at present.

As long as the device is activated for a long enough time, a large amount of stellar matter can always be extracted to a degree that is enough for the monster to discover.

In addition, Chen Ming actually has another way to attract the appearance of the star-eating body.

That is to wait first.

At this moment, there is a wormhole that has just left the black hole and is running here.

Chen Ming wants to see if the star-eating body in the star will move after the wormhole arrives.

It would be best if it came out because of the wormhole, but if it doesn't come out, Chen Ming really needs to prepare a device to transfer stellar matter.

Chen Ming also considered the survivors.

They may also know the news of this monster that devours stars.

After all, the black hole where the wormhole was located at the beginning is not even five light years away from this galaxy.

Even if the star-eating body just arrived in this galaxy five years ago, Chen Ming also believes that the survivors who have been paying attention to the wormhole and the black hole next to the wormhole will definitely notice this star-eating body in the nearby galaxy.

But Chen Ming did not go to find them.

If there is a way, he thinks he should try not to get involved with the survivors.

In his opinion, the purpose of the survivors is obvious, that is, to revive the shining civilization.

They also know that the empire absolutely does not want to trade with them, and only wants to take away all the relics of the shining civilization in the hands of the survivors at once, whether they are technology or physical objects.

It’s just that the empire and the survivors have their own needs at present, so they maintain a hypocritical peace.

Once they find an opportunity, both sides will try their best to send each other on their way.

So Chen Ming will not get too involved with them.

His butt is always sitting on the human chair.

If he really needs it, the worst thing is to send the survivors away in the future and take it from their corpses.

Chen Ming did not continue to prepare more plans. The current plans are enough.

He immediately began to arrange a plan for the star-eating body in the star.

Half a day passed quickly.

Chen Ming appeared on the highest point that he handed over to the Climate Transformation Department.

In order to avoid the unknown dangers for the researchers who were responsible for climate modification, he contacted the minister in advance and asked people to call all the people who were out back to the spacecraft.

At least after the wormhole arrived, before his first operation was over, the researchers should stay in a safe place.

The past half day was enough for them to obtain data for analyzing the situation of Gaia.

The minister and Chen Ming stayed in the captain's room waiting.

He was an ordinary person, but he wanted to see it, so he told Chen Ming specifically.

Chen Ming didn't mind being more friendly to people who cooperated with him, so he stayed here and chatted with the minister.

Anyway, he had already made full preparations.

Not only the facilities for extracting stellar matter, but also the fleet for dealing with the star-eating body.

The star-eating body is twice the size of the nightmare of the plane, and the fleet to deal with it naturally needs to be expanded.

It's just a matter of Chen Ming's words, and the queen of worms will prepare what needs to be prepared.

The same means of attack should not be ineffective.

Let him see what is special about this Star Devourer compared to the Nightmare of the Planes.

The image of the sensor suddenly changed, and the wormhole had entered the observable range of the sensor.

Although he had seen this strange celestial body before, the minister next to Chen Ming was still shocked to see a wormhole running around with his own eyes.

He wanted to say something, but after noticing Chen Ming's serious expression, he chose to remain silent.

After approaching the Gaia galaxy, the wormhole began to slow down, gradually entering the interior of the galaxy and entering an orbit around a star.

The orbit it entered just corresponds to the orbit of the real Gaia planet around the star.

And it just happens to be on the other side opposite to the Gaia planet.

It is exactly the same as the other end of the wormhole.

The orbit of the wormhole at the other end is opposite to an ordinary habitable sphere, which is called Gaia by Chen Ming.

And the orbit at this end is opposite to a real Gaia planet.

The wormhole just entered the orbit, like a celestial body that has been here all the time, without any further movement or signs of leaving again.

Chen Ming breathed a sigh of relief. At least it seems that he does not need to continue tracking the wormhole or find a way to lock the wormhole in place in the short term.

But he cannot relax now, his goal is the Star Devourer.

However.

Even if the wormhole just entered the galaxy and entered the orbit just like the Star Devourer entered the galaxy.

From the data returned by the sensor equipment that Chen Ming arranged near the star to cover the star in all aspects.

There is no sign of any flare on the surface of the star, nor any trace of the Star Devourer.

The star is still very stable, with a stable low temperature,

and the arrival of the wormhole does not seem to stimulate it.

It seems that Chen Ming still has to use the means he prepared personally.

However, just before Chen Ming really took action.

The communicator on his body suddenly rang.

It was the survivor who took the initiative to initiate the communication.

Chen Ming picked up the communicator and saw only one sentence on it: "We want to ask one thing, have you seen the Star Devourer?"

Chen Ming frowned and chose to respond with silence.

Sure enough, the survivors themselves explained why they knew about this matter: "We are keeping an eye on many things, especially the wormhole leading to our original world."

"So?"

"We can provide you with some information about the Star Devourer, such as its weaknesses."

Before the survivors continued to talk about their trading conditions, Chen Ming directly refused: "No need."

Chen Ming's plan was halfway prepared, and he couldn't follow the rhythm of the survivors.

And last time he fought with the Nightmare of the Plane, he didn't take out his trump card, and this time with the Star Devourer, it was even more impossible.

This time the communication ended at the speed of light.

In the extremely dark space station of the survivors.

The arm that flashed with two metallic colors of light and rust put down the communicator that had just been closed.

Another voice came from the darkness: "Your performance last time and this time was too much, which made Chen Ming more vigilant."

The survivor with the code name "Nano" responded: "It is this vigilance that will make humans think in the wrong direction."

"There are still many guardians wandering in different locations in this star field. Sooner or later, he will need us."

The survivor space station fell into silence again.

At this time, Chen Ming couldn't help but frowned, holding the communicator and staring at the two sentences on it, thinking constantly.

He refused the deal with the survivors for other reasons besides that he did have means prepared but had not used them yet.

Because he felt trouble and danger from the survivors.

It was not the danger of danger perception, but a simple sense of danger.

Why could they contact him just when he was about to do something?

How did they see what was happening here?

What means were they using to monitor this galaxy, or in other words, monitor him?

Optical sensing cannot be that fast

It takes five years to detect what happened five light years away.

The survivors could only know that he had encountered the Star Devourer if some kind of monitoring system was installed somewhere nearby.

But Chen Ming couldn't find the monitoring equipment, nor did he feel like he was being spied on.

His intuition could help him perceive many situations that were sometimes impossible to observe with the naked eye, such as people watching him from behind, who would be easily discovered by his perception.

But he had no perception of the survivors' monitoring methods.

Just like Chen Ming couldn't track the signal sent out by the communicator before.

Or he wasn't strong enough.

Otherwise, there would be no need to consider this problem at all.

But anyway, no matter what happened in the outside world, no matter what the impact was.

He had to do what he had to do.

Chen Ming's psychic energy fluctuations swept across the entire galaxy, and after not finding any problems, he activated the reverse matter transition device.

He began to transition the stellar matter out of the star.

Compared to what the phagocytoma swallowed, what Chen Ming took out at this time could only be regarded as a drizzle.

Moreover, Chen Ming had only activated the device for a few seconds, and only a little bit of stellar matter was transitioned out.

The dim surface of the star in the galaxy showed signs of intense activity.

It was unknown whether Chen Ming had drawn some important materials with more energy or the energy of the Star Devourer.

In short, the Star Devourer was indeed anxious.

As the violent activity on the surface of the star became more and more obvious, a dazzling light spot appeared on the sensor.

After a slight modification of the sensor data, the appearance of the Star Devourer appeared in front of Chen Ming.

It stretched out half of its body and a tentacle-like tail from the inside of the star,

and the tip of its tail pointed to the area in space where star matter was escaping.

A ray that seemed to eject star matter penetrated Chen Ming's device for extracting star matter in space, and directly destroyed it.

The next moment, the Star Devourer, having achieved its goal, wanted to turn around and return to the star.

But Chen Ming's fleet, which had been prepared long ago, jumped to the vicinity of the star at the moment the ray was emitted.

Even though the heat of the star is extremely terrifying, the armor of the biological fleet has the ability to isolate plasma.

The star itself is a huge plasma.

As long as it does not directly enter the interior of the star, the temperature outside the star alone cannot threaten the Zerg fleet.

The Zerg fleet is still the same as before, consisting of pure Hercules class, numbering two hundred.

It's not too much, because the first wave of attacks is still just a test.

Since the last time Chen Ming launched an attack on the Nightmare of the Plane, and the Nightmare of the Plane released some kind of super-wide attack, Chen Ming had already made up his mind.

Any time he fights against this type of enemy, he must test it out first to avoid unnecessary losses.

Although the loss was meaningless to Chen Ming, Chen Ming still chose to maintain this habit.

And just like last time, the Zerg fleet prepared a large number of different types of weapons to test the damage caused by the astral phagocytosis itself to different types of weapons.

When Star Eater had just finished his rays and turned around to return to the star

The Zerg fleet's various weapons attacks fell on the body and tail that had not completely sunk into the star.

The tail was broken directly, and the icosahedron on the head was directly penetrated, leaving countless wounds on the body.

A large amount of stellar material is ejected from the wound of the astral phagocytosis, spilling into space and towards the star.

The results of all weapon tests were immediately returned to Chen Ming.

It can be seen that neither live ammunition weapons nor energy weapons perform very well when facing this kind of creature that can live in stars.

Live ammunition weapons will be melted by the terrifying high temperature, and energy weapons will also be offset by the high energy of the star.

But the effect of arc weapons is still powerful. This kind of direct damage derived from the concept of radiation has a good effect when facing any enemy.

Whether it was the penetrated head or the broken tail, they were all the results of arc weapons.

At this time, the injured Astrophage did not hide directly in the star, but climbed out of the star.

The light on its body is flashing at an extremely high frequency, as if it is roaring angrily with this strong light.

The wounds on its icosahedral head recovered quickly, and the broken tail also grew back at a speed visible to the naked eye, and all the tail tips were aimed at Chen Ming's Zerg fleet at the same moment.

Chen Ming's eyes just glanced at the weapon's actual combat data and the angry astral eater.

His attention was drawn to the condition of the star itself.

Because he suddenly discovered that some of the attacks by the Zerg fleet just now did not fall directly on the astral phagocytos, but on the stars.

This is a normal situation, but what is abnormal is that the attack methods that fall into the star seem to have penetrated a barrier.

The energy inside the star was dissipated through the penetrated barrier.

Chen Ming could see that the material inside the star still maintained high energy.

Although it is definitely weaker than before, compared to the almost "cold" star surface, the energy inside the star is still barely enough to maintain a normal cosmic environment.

Chen Ming understood.

Astrophages don't actually drain stars of energy.

It does draw away a lot of star energy, but it also secretes or produces some kind of substance, covering the surface of the star.

These materials restrict the star's energy from escaping outward and concentrate the energy inside, where the astral phagocytosis can be used for its own use.

It's like a Dyson sphere.

This was once a purely theoretical idea of ​​a means of collecting all the energy of a star.

Part of it is now being realized by such a giant beast deep in the starry sky.

There was no time for Chen Ming to think too much.

Because at this time, the Astral Eater's counterattack had already arrived in front of the Zerg fleet.