Chapter 381 Killing

The Star Devourer has six tails, and the end of each tail has been aimed at Chen Ming's Zerg fleet just now.

The stellar matter flowing on the edges of the icosahedron on its head is sent to each of its tails through the structure in its body.

Chen Ming has already guessed what type of attack the Star Devourer is.

He immediately asked the Zerg fleet to disperse, expand the distance between each other and the space occupied by the whole, maintain irregular movement, at least not stand in the same straight line, so as not to be affected by subsequent attacks.

Chen Ming's order was just issued, and the Zerg fleet just moved.

Six rays of stellar matter emitted from the tail of the Star Devourer swept across the entire Zerg fleet.

As long as the Zerg fleet was touched by the stellar matter, it would only be burned, without any resistance.

Even if the Zerg has the genes of the Aurora Wind Spirit and is resistant to plasma, in the face of the plasma of a real star, this plasma resistance can only delay the destruction time by one second.

Chen Ming now feels more and more that the Zerg fleet needs shields.

If the Zerg fleet has shields, at least each ship can resist for a few more seconds, so that the enemy's attack methods will not directly touch the armor and hull, causing the entire ship to be destroyed.

It is useless to think about this now, Chen Ming can only continue to observe the battlefield.

The six rays of stellar matter that continuously and repeatedly swept across the location of the Zerg fleet seemed to have endless backup resources. After destroying more than 30 of Chen Ming's main battleships in a blink of an eye, there was no intention to stop at all.

If you think about it carefully, it is indeed considered to have endless energy.

After all, the mosquito-like mouthparts under the body of the Star Devourer have pierced into the star and continuously absorbed the energy of the star.

Unless the Star Devourer's own body can't bear it, the energy of this star is endless for Chen Ming's Zerg fleet.

The Zerg fleet tried its best to dodge.

If you simply dodge, it is basically difficult to escape the fate of being hit by stellar matter rays and burned in space.

But the Zerg is not powerless.

While dodging the attack of the Star Devourer, the Zerg fleet was constantly trying to focus its fire on the Star Devourer's tail and cut off its means of attack.

The Star Devourer has only six tails in total, and the Zerg fleet still has hundreds of ships left after a wave of stellar matter rays.

The firepower of this number of battleships is enough to break the limbs of the Star Devourer.

And only two of its tails need to be broken, and the remaining four stellar matter rays it releases will not be able to effectively suppress the Zerg fleet.

The Zerg fleet can in turn suppress the Star Devourer with firepower, breaking off all its tails like a snowball.

The recovery speed of the broken tail cannot keep up with the speed of the Zerg fleet's broken tail.

The Zerg fleet can even draw out firepower to attack the Star Devourer's body.

For a moment, Chen Ming even thought that he could slowly suppress the Star Devourer to death.

But he immediately changed his mind

Because a giant beast like the Star Devourer has its unique abilities like the Nightmare of the Plane.

The edges of its head suddenly began to grow...

To be precise, it was not the edges that were growing, but the blood vessels inside the edges that were responsible for transporting stellar matter in its body that broke through the edges of the Star Devourer's head and grew outside its body.

The head, which was almost a regular icosahedron, suddenly grew a lot of bright yellow tentacles with dazzling orange-red light, and the originally beautiful geometric shape turned into a chaotic and twisted cluster of tentacles.

The ends of these tentacles were slender, and on the high-precision sensor, it could be seen that there were extremely dense holes that seemed to be openable and closed.

The body of the Star Devourer suddenly half sank into the surface of the star, increasing the extraction of stellar matter and temporarily stopping the action of restoring its tail.

This caused the large amount of energy absorbed by the Star Devourer to have nowhere to go, and all of it accumulated inside its body, causing its head surrounded by tentacles to expand to the extreme and reach the extreme brightness.

Each tentacle transformed from the "blood vessels" that transport stellar matter in the Star Devourer's body has become extremely bloated and fat, and the dense holes at the end have become more conspicuous in this drastic change.

The stellar matter is compressed in these narrow and dense holes. Finally, when the body of the Star Devourer is about to collapse.

It releases the closure of these holes, allowing Hengxin Valuation to spray out like a rain of fire.

Just flying a little distance can show the terrifying density and lethality of these rains of fire.

Either jump to a long distance to avoid, or you can only resist it. There is no way to keep the Zerg fleet at a distance that can cause damage to the Star Devourer at any time while avoiding it.

But if you jump to avoid it, it is tantamount to giving the Star Devourer a powerful advantage directly.

The attack range of this behemoth is farther than that of the main battleship. After the distance is extended, you can only rely on another jump to get closer.

Although the speed of entering the jump is fast, the speed of coming out of the jump is not the same.

As long as the Star Devourer is prepared, it will be very easy to take advantage of the moment when the jump ends to give the Zerg fleet a hard blow.

Just like what the Planar Nightmare did before.

It seems that the Zerg fleet has encountered some trouble.

Under such restrictions, there is only one way to stay here and continue to fight the Star Devourer.

That is, the fleet gathered together, relying on the bodies of some of the Zerg warships at the front to resist the damage, which can minimize the overall damage.

But Chen Ming knew without thinking that if he really ordered to do so, the next thing would be the star matter rays that could destroy everything.

The Zerg warships gathered together are simply the best targets.

He must find a way to survive this wave.

For a moment, Chen Ming really couldn't think of any reasonable defense method.

However, he thought of a way to attack.

The Hercules class ships at the front of the Zerg fleet, closest to the star and the Star Eater, suddenly rushed forward.

All their organs except the biomass jump engine were rapidly converted into the most basic energy crystals, and these energy crystals were constantly activated in the process of approaching.

When all the energy crystals were activated to the extreme, these dozen main battleships directly made a short-distance jump and jumped towards the position closer to the star.

They collided head-on with the star matter that the Star Eater had just ejected like a meteor shower.

The energy of the energy crystal exploded in an all-round way. The fireball of destruction brought the Hercules class into hell and completely blew up all the stellar matter ejected by the Star Devourer, giving other Zerg fleets in the rear room to move.

At the same time, the Star Devourer was also covered behind the fireball.

The sensor's scanning of the Star Devourer behind the fireball was temporarily disturbed, and its specific situation could not be determined.

At this time, the equipment that could observe the star brought by the Climate Transformation Department suddenly came into play.

Many equipment arranged near the star could avoid the fireball of the Hercules self-explosion, helping Chen Ming observe the Star Devourer from other angles.

The act of absorbing a large amount of material ejection just now seemed to have a great consumption for the Star Devourer, and it seemed to realize that the Hercules class's self-explosion was its opportunity.

Therefore, it sank most of its body below the surface of the star in the short time that separated the Zerg fleet from it after the fireball erupted.

It seemed to be trying its best to absorb the most stellar matter to recover.

But it seemed to be more than that.

Chen Ming saw the new movement of the Star Devourer mixed in the star matter through a device installed by the Climate Transformation Department on the star orbit that can observe the shallow material of the star.

Its body that sank into the star suddenly split open.

It split from the middle to the sides, and most of the inside of the body was exposed.

Chen Ming could clearly see its internal structure.

It has many structures similar to ordinary organisms, with a complete digestive system and various muscle tissues used to maintain its body movement, all of which are strong enough to resist the high heat of the material inside the star.

At the end of the needle-shaped organ that can be extended and retracted inside and outside the body to absorb the star matter, there is an organ that is not known whether it is its heart or something else.

This organ is shriveled at this time, with only a little Hengxin material left inside.

The Star Devourer is absorbing the star matter by directly splitting its body and exposing everything inside to the star, restoring the vitality of the organ structure.

When the organ began to be filled with star matter, the star matter flowing in the "blood vessels" in its body began to move again and continued to circulate in its body.

This organ seems to be the most critical organ in its body, and it should also be its weakness.

I didn't expect that bringing all the people from the Climate Transformation Department and so many equipment here would actually bring an unexpected surprise.

Chen Ming originally thought that after testing the weakness, he would temporarily retreat and wait for the next opportunity to launch a surprise attack.

Just like the last time he fought the Nightmare of the Planes.

Testing, retreating, and attacking the phase space, the Nightmare of the Planes died with three tricks.

This time he also had this idea at the beginning.

However, the situation of the Star Devourer is different from that of the Nightmare of the Planes. Its weakness is in the body and will not be easily exposed.

This time, it was also because Chen Ming forced it to use some large-scale attack methods to force it to expose its weakness.

If Chen Ming waited for the next time, the Star Devourer might not expose its weakness, and it might not even come out of the star.

He had better take this opportunity to kill it and not give it a second chance.

Chen Ming called the Queen of Insects.

Then he started a reverse jump device that was farther away from the star, and continued to extract the star's matter in the gap before the Star Devourer's attack came.

The Star Devourer clearly felt this, and its seemingly low IQ fooled it again.

It once again accelerated the extraction of stellar matter, restoring some of its shriveled special organs, allowing it to stick its body out of the star and aim a tail at the place where stellar matter appeared in the distant space.

The remaining Zerg fleet immediately pounced on it, squeezing out the last bit of energy to attack the Star Devourer.

At the same time, several Hercules made short-distance jumps and launched self-destructions at a position extremely close to the surface of the star.

The star matter rays released by the Star Devourer successfully destroyed Chen Ming's spare reverse matter jump device, and the fireball of the Hercules self-destructed once again appeared near the star, once again covering the area on the surface of the star where the Star Devourer was.

The Star Devourer seemed to think that this was the same as the fireball that Chen Ming had been forced to release to self-destruct and cover up its existence in order to prevent the stellar matter from forcing his fleet back.

Taking this opportunity, the Star Devourer sank into the star again, split its body again and immersed its special organs directly in the star material, restoring everything it had lost.

However, in the phase space, the Queen of Zerg had helped Chen Ming gather more than 500 Hercules-class ships in just a few dozen seconds, all of which were uniformly equipped with the new energy-focusing arc launchers optimized by Chen Ming.

The Zerg fleet locked the weakness of the Star Devourer through the equipment left by the Climate Transformation Department in the normal universe to observe the shallow material of the star.

The next moment.

A thunder dragon-like thunder composed of countless arcs pierced through the vacuum, pierced through the shallow material of the star, and bombarded the special organ of the Star Devourer immersed in the star material.

The dense mesh trauma caused by the arc began to spread from the position where the organ was hit to the surrounding area. Although it did not extend further to its body, the damage to this organ alone was enough.

The activity of the Star Devourer was gradually slowing down, and the huge beast quietly fell silent in an instant.

Lost its vitality.

Its body was also gradually sinking into the interior of the star.

But just before it completely sank, Chen Ming's Zerg fleet had already grabbed it from the phase space and fished it out of the star.

More Zerg tentacles grew on the Zerg warships that had grabbed the corpse of the Star Eater, piercing the organs on the corpse that were used to store stellar matter, allowing the stellar matter to return to the star under the pull of gravity.

In this way, the stellar matter in the corpse was returned.

Chen Ming noticed that compared to the stellar matter it absorbed, there was not much left on its body.

However, he also noticed that in the lower abdomen of the columnar body inside the cracked corpse, there was a place where the "blood vessels" that transported stellar matter from all the edges of the head icosahedron were finally connected.

There was a tightly protected thing there that emitted a brighter light than a star.

Judging from its appearance and the matter inside it, this was the egg case of the Star Eater.

It was all highly compressed stellar matter.

The stellar matter taken away by the Star Devourer is basically here. The missing ones are used to maintain the activities of the Star Devourer.

Chen Ming gave the Zerg warship an order to tear open the body and extract the egg sheath.

Although the Zerg cannot directly contact it, the Zerg is not just the Zerg, and Chen Ming provides support.

Chen Ming has tools to capture the egg sheath from a distance, including various means such as force fields and magnetic fields.

However, he had just given the order when the body of the Star Devourer suddenly changed.

As the stellar matter in its body was discharged, its body seemed to begin to melt due to the sudden drop in temperature, melting into a colorless, tasteless, and almost impossible to be directly observed. Some kind of extremely clear colloid with low viscosity.

Chen Ming immediately soaked the body again in the stellar matter, and barely saved the remaining part of the body.

However, in just a dozen seconds, only the upper half of the body of the Star Devourer was left.

The lower half, except for the egg sheath, had all melted into that kind of colloid substance.

Fortunately, the Zerg fleet reacted quickly and took action before these substances fell into the star, preserving most of the substances.

Chen Ming tentatively let the Queen eat a little bit.

Of course, no genes were obtained.

This is normal.

The Star Eater is obviously not a carbon-based organism, but it may be a hydrogen-based organism, and there is no such thing as genes at all.

Just like the Plane Nightmare, which should be the product of some negative matter after being materialized, it is impossible to obtain what Chen Ming wants directly and conveniently through eating.

However, the situation this time is better than that of the Plane Nightmare.

Because the Queen understands the properties and structure of this substance, it means that the Queen can try to replicate this substance.

And this substance can be named Star Eater Body Fluid.

Under high heat or energy supply conditions, an isolation layer structure can be formed.

It is the same as the substance that Chen Ming discovered, which has a similar effect to the Dyson Sphere, but the effect is far weaker than the Dyson Sphere.

It can be used to isolate the temperature of the star and to form the Star Eater itself.

The egg sheath in the lower part of the Star Eater's body, which was still well preserved, seemed to be able to actively secrete this substance.

Chen Ming probably understood the purpose of the Star Eater coming to this planet.

It was to reproduce.

It first parasitized a star, secreted body fluids on the surface of a star, confined the heat of the entire star within the star, and then built a nest for the Star Eater's eggs to develop inside the star.

This egg sheath is evidence and the most directly valuable thing on the Star Eater's body.

And the most indirect value must be the Star Eater's body fluid, which seems to be able to successfully create a Dyson sphere.

Chen Ming wanted to take this egg sheath away for research.

However, he did not make a direct decision, but took a look at the star soaked in the half-body of the Star Eater.

After the attack of Chen Ming's fleet tore open the body fluid membrane covering the surface of the Star Eater, this area of ​​the star has temporarily returned to normal.

You can see the appearance of a star of normal strength under the Star Eater isolation membrane.

However, the intensity of the star today is still at least one level lower than that observed five years ago.

The reason is that this egg sheath has gathered countless high-density stellar materials.

This egg sheath robs the star of its power.

Now there is a choice before Chen Ming.

By studying this egg sheath, he might be able to master the power of Star Eaters and try to breed new Star Eaters.

Returning the material in this egg sheath can rejuvenate this galaxy and the planet Gaia, completely rejuvenating it, rather than using climate recovery technology to barely restore a little bit of its former appearance.

To be honest, it's a bit hard to decide.

The power of the Star Eater is really eye-catching, and Chen Ming is also very interested in the possibility of cultivating new Star Eaters.

But something suddenly flashed in Chen Ming's mind.

He once obtained seeds from the legion, planted and cultivated them himself, and now there is a fairy tree half as tall as a man.

If the fairy tree is planted on the planet Gaia, then maybe... he can also harvest a fairy tree that can cover the sky and the sun like the headquarters of the Psychic Research Institute.

The value of doing this far exceeds cultivating a new Astrophag who doesn't know when it will be needed.

And think about it from another angle.

Chen Ming has now mastered a power more powerful than the Devouring Star, but he has not mastered a way to completely restore the Gaia planet to its former glory and regain its vitality.

After thinking about it, Chen Ming felt that he could make a decision.

The only pity is the new Astral Eater.

But since Chen Ming has determined that the astral phagocytosis can reproduce itself, it means that there may be more than one astral phagocytosis in the universe, and he will have the opportunity to encounter it in the future.

Chen Ming decided not to hesitate anymore.

Let the Zerg warship soak the egg sheath in the star first, so as to avoid it from following in the footsteps of half of the Star Eater's corpse.

He couldn't just tear the egg sheath apart and throw it directly into the star.

If the extremely concentrated stellar material is released into the star, it may cause problems for the star.

He needs to do a little research on how to slowly release the concentrated material safely and stably and return it to the star.

This period of time also allows the Department of Climate Change to calculate how the climate change will proceed after the star's material is returned.

When the star returns to its former appearance, climate modification can begin.

"it's over."

Chen Ming breathed a sigh of relief. It was much easier to deal with the Astral Devourer than the Plane Nightmare.

At least the power of Astral Eater itself is not as outrageous as the Nightmare of Planes tearing apart space.

Then, it is time for Chen Ming to continue the series of tasks that he has not completed before.

Whether it is the research project on the body of the Nightmare of the Plane at the headquarters, or the third review of the complete investigation project of the body of the Nightmare of the Plane in Chen Ming's origin galaxy.

Or the current project to study the possibility that this astral phagocytosis and its corpse can be extended to include things like Dyson spheres.

There are also the construction of colonies and the advancement of climate transformation plans.

And the idea he just thought of transplanting the fairy tree to the planet Gaia.

Everything has to be done slowly.

It all takes a while.

Chen Ming quickly went through the upcoming tasks in his mind.

I heard the voice of the Minister of Climate Change coming to my ears: "That...Mr. Chen Ming..."

The minister, who had tried his best to remain quiet while Chen Ming was doing his work, suddenly said cautiously: "Look over there. Is there anything moving over there at the wormhole?"

Chen Ming turned to look at the console. After the death of Astrophage, the wormhole that was still quietly orbiting the same planet as Gaia suddenly seemed to start to tremble.

It seems to be slowly breaking away from the star's gravity and wants to leave the galaxy.

Chen Ming roughly calculated its possible route, and then disappeared directly from the highest point observing the battlefield that had just erupted near the star.

A set of biological armor instantly appeared on his body, and he also appeared near the wormhole.