Chapter 427 War Breaks Out Again

Chen Ming had just returned to the Gaia galaxy from the empire with the minister of psychic energy and a group of people he had just recruited who were going to the urban planet to confirm what technology was left behind.

I received a communication from Yu Tianqiang, saying that something happened to the expatriate personnel, and the situation seemed serious, and I couldn't explain clearly on the phone.

So he changed his original plan and directly drove the spacecraft to land on the Gaia Space Station with people.

Leave the job of arranging accommodation to Afterglow Core

Anyway, it doesn’t matter where you live. The space station in the orbit of the Gaia planet next to the urban planet is more convenient.

Then he ran to Tian Zhang's office with the minister.

As soon as he opened the door, Chen Ming asked Tian Xiang, "What's the specific situation?"

Tian Xuan decisively projected a star map in front of him, marked a point on it and said, "I sent a team to this place to find new plants before."

"Just now, they said they were attacked by a mechanical tribe."

The minister of psychic energy was very concerned about this kind of thing and asked: "Mechanical tribe? Are they being attacked by the mechanical tribe on the border colonial planet?"

"Yes, he said it was a large-scale mechanical attack. It seems that the patrol fleet and the space station in orbit have been destroyed, but the specific situation cannot be determined."

"Can I still get in touch?"

"No, I just kept asking him not to hang up the phone, but the call was still disconnected. Maybe the super-light communication base station was demolished, or..."

Chen Ming and the minister looked at each other and seemed to have guessed a possibility.

That is, the first wave of invasion and attacks by the mechanical tribe after the test has begun.

Things on the front line are not reported through the government and military systems so quickly, so it is indeed possible for people at the bottom to know what is happening earlier than those at the top.

The Minister of Psychics looked a little depressed and said: "Did the early warning system have no effect at all? It was a waste of so many resources."

Chen Ming was not very interested in this thing from the beginning, so he was not surprised that this situation occurred.

"These things are much less effective at critical times, and they are also of the mechanical type. Their technology should not be too difficult to avoid early warnings."

"It's better to go over and take a look."

The military forces of Gaia and Shiyuan are both under the direct control of Chen Ming, and the strongest combat power is himself.

If something happens to one of his own, he can't sit in the office and leave the task to others or Yuhui.

The minister of psychic energy said immediately: "I'll go too."

It would be okay if Chen Ming's men only encountered some scattered mechanical tribes.

But if it was really the first round of invasion by the mechanical tribe, then he had to figure out the situation thoroughly.

If you follow Chen Ming there, you will definitely learn the truth earlier than when the news is reported layer by layer.

Chen Ming acquiesced to the minister of psychic energy and asked Tian Xian again: "Did they bring special equipment when they went on a mission?"

"Everyone brought it."

"OK."

Chen Ming reached out and put his hand on the minister's shoulder. Their bodies were wrapped in metallic liquid, and they disappeared into the space station in the blink of an eye.

At the same time, in the only colonial city on a backward colonial planet in a certain edge star field of the empire.

The impact and smoke of the explosion, the roar and fire of weapons almost covered the entire city.

A large number of mechanical units were dropped from orbit to the planet's surface, constantly destroying industrial facilities on the planet's surface, and after the industrial facilities were destroyed, they targeted cities and civilians.

The ruins of buildings and broken limbs have almost become the main tone of the city.

And deep underground in the city.

Cries, sighs and wails of pain filled the air-raid shelter, a small shelter that could accommodate thousands of people.

These people who came here to take refuge at the earliest stage of the mechanical tribe's attack were listening to the movements outside with great concern.

At this time, the planet's communication signal has been completely disconnected. With no idea of ​​what is happening outside, panic is spreading among everyone.

In the face of such a natural disaster, they can do nothing.

Among them, there was a field team sent by Tian Zhang.

Compared to other locals, their panic was less severe.

But facing the danger above their heads, they couldn't completely rest assured either.

Just when they were at their wits' end.

A device on the leader of the field team suddenly seemed to have received some signal, and a voice came out: "Go to the corner."

Although the equipment still had no signal, the team leader and nearby team members still felt a sense of relief at this moment.

Immediately following the instructions, they ran to the corner of the underground air-raid shelter, and the team gathered around them, completely blocking their surroundings.

Immediately afterwards, a large amount of metallic liquid overflowed from the equipment in the team leader's hand, forming two liquid masses the size of one person in the middle of several people.

Chen Ming and the minister of psychic energy walked out of the metal group.

"Director Chen!"

Chen Ming put his index finger in front of his lips to signal the others to be quiet so as not to attract unnecessary attention.

He didn't want others to see him coming out of the metallic liquid and make others think that he was the only life-saving straw.

Although he didn't mind rescuing people in times of crisis, he wasn't happy to do something that put pressure directly on his head.

"How's the situation?"

After Chen Ming asked the same question as he asked Tian Zhan before, the team leader immediately took out his terminal and handed it to Chen Ming, saying: "This is the video we just saved, please take a look."

The content of the video is very simple.

The team leader led the team to conduct an investigation in the wilderness, collecting local plants as alternatives to Gaia plants.

The development level of this kind of border star field planet is not high, and even now, some unrecorded plants can occasionally be found.

Even if no suitable plants are found to replace Gaia plants, finding some new unrecorded plant species can also make some achievements.

The previous content was skipped by Chen Ming at a faster speed.

The time in the video soon came to night.

The team members have been in the wild for several days and are preparing to return to the only colony city on the entire planet to rest, replenish supplies, and prepare for the next outing.

However, at this moment, a team member suddenly pointed his hand to the sky.

Then the team members raised their heads together and saw the fire blooming in the space in the dark night. The blazing flames were extremely obvious in the sky.

The team that Chen Ming came out of must have contact with the local government, so the team leader wanted to confirm the situation with the government as soon as possible.

However, the team leader could not contact the local government, and the government's phone had been blown up.

Just as the team members were considering whether to return to the city, they saw a burning fireball suddenly appear in the orbit of the planet under their feet, falling from space to the ground.

Judging from the internal structure illuminated by the fireball, it was the orbital space station that the team members often went to.

The team leader immediately took the team members to hide in the nearest suburban underground shelter.

Contacted Tian Zhan.

Then, it was what Chen Ming knew.

Chen Ming roughly understood the process and asked: "You should have only seen the patrol fleet and the enemy fighting, and then the space station was destroyed? How do you know it was the mechanical race?"

A team member took the initiative to say at this time: "Director Chen, I just happened to see the light effect of the mechanical race's ridge cannon in space, so I guessed it was the mechanical race."

Chen Ming nodded slightly.

The structure of the mechanical race's ridge cannon is indeed quite special and conspicuous, and the energy light pollution emitted when it is activated is also quite characteristic.

People who have learned about it can infer that it is the mechanical race when they see the traces of the ridge cannon activated in space on the surface.

And he also noticed that many people in the shelter were talking about things outside, and obviously many people also saw the traces of the mechanical race.

Basically, it can be confirmed that it is the mechanical race.

The psychic minister on the side was listening to what Chen Ming and the team members were talking about, and was also observing the situation in the shelter.

He suddenly said: "It seems that there are only three or four thousand people here. I don't know what the situation is in other places. Can the shelter defend against the mechanical race?"

"It can't be defended."

Chen Ming gave a direct answer.

While communicating with the team members, he had already released the metal liquid through the wall of the shelter.

He saw the invasion of the mechanical race and the tragic situation in the city, but he couldn't see the survivors.

There is no living person left on the surface of the entire colony, and the shelters in the city...

Chen Ming used the metal liquid to find the city design drawings in the office of the Urban Planning Center of the government building, and then dispersed the metal liquid to check them one by one.

Several shelters near the edge of the city have not had any problems so far, but the shelters inside the city have all been breached by the mechanical race.

In the shelters, no matter men, women, young or old, or babies in swaddling clothes.

As long as they are human, they are all killed by the mechanical race.

There is not even a complete body in those shelters.

Even just watching, Chen Ming felt a surge of anger.

Any normal person would not be able to have no fluctuations in his heart when seeing such a miserable state of his fellow human beings.

The entire planet originally had a population of at least 8 million people, according to Chen Ming's rough statistics now.

There are still 60,000 left in total, all scattered in those shelters on the edge of the city.

The Minister of Psychic Energy frowned and confirmed: "Only 60,000 left?"

"Yes, there may be some in the wilderness, but it will definitely not exceed 65,000."

"If we don't care, this number will continue to decrease."

"Well..."

Chen Ming suddenly paused: "Speaking of which, another mechanical tribe found a shelter."

"There are almost 9,000 people in that shelter."

"Can they be rescued?"

"They have been rescued, but saving these few people will not cure the root cause."

The Minister of Psychic Energy proposed an idea and said: "We have to confirm how many mechanical tribes there are and what the scale of this attack is."

"It will definitely not be small." Chen Ming said: "I just got a spaceship to repair the broken communication base station, and then contacted other nearby star systems."

"What's the result?"

"In the entire star field, no place replied to my message."

"..."

"Maybe their respective communication systems have exploded..."

"Well... Alas..."

"..."

Chen Ming's words made the Minister of Psychic Energy and the team members silent. Although some wanted to find excuses to fill in, everyone knew what the most likely scenario was.

The Minister of Psychic Power sighed, "The real mechanical war is about to begin. It's coming so fast that we haven't even had time to completely digest and absorb the resources in the mechanical star field."

"We haven't even had time to systematize the shining civilization technology we just got."

Chen Ming didn't hesitate for a moment. He simply said to the Minister of Psychic Power, "Go recruit people."

"Who to recruit?"

"Everyone is welcome. I'll give you a rough list of the technologies kept by the survivors. We'll recruit people in every profession and divide these technologies as quickly as possible."

"Technology that can be used All the techniques are used to produce the finished product as quickly as possible, and I will verify the effect and optimize the finished product. "

"Hasn't the Empire been preparing? It's time to make it move."

"Also, what about the nearby legions?"

The Minister of Psionics thought for a while and replied: "The 19th Legion and the 20th Legion, the two newest legions of the Empire, their military strength may not be able to withstand the mechanical race."

Chen Ming frowned slightly and said: "I remember that it was a long time ago that I shared the technology of the earliest shining civilization spaceship."

Chen Ming remembered that although the type of ships in the Empire has not changed much so far, there has been progress in ship design.

After all, the update and iteration of stable ship technology that has been confirmed in kind is different from the expansion and application of new technologies, and the difficulty is not that great.

In theory, the gap between the Empire's ship technology and the mechanical race warships is not that big, at least not as big as the gap of super body.

The Minister of Psychic Power explained: "They were just formed not long ago, so they were assigned to this place. They have never fought a high-intensity war."

"This is all bullshit."

Chen Ming cursed, and then said: "Even if they can't win, they have to fight. Even if they can't bear it, they have to bear it. They are soldiers. I don't think I should say this, right?"

"Yes, I think too much. I have been with you for a long time and always want to make people as safe as possible. I don't have the ability to protect people like you."

"I don't have the ability to protect the entire empire."

Chen Ming's words made the Minister of Psychic Power sigh again.

He asked: "What about us? Should we run away with people, or should we find a way to kill the mechanical tribe here?"

"You can't run away."

Chen Ming immediately gave his judgment: "It seems that the mechanical tribe has smashed the entire star field, and all military forces have been completely destroyed."

"Although there are more than 100 star systems in this marginal star field with people, the total population is only about 1 billion."

"Most of them are on various types of mineral planets. It is too difficult to take them all away. They are too scattered."

"We must kill all the mechanical tribes before we can protect people."

Chen Ming clenched his fist and tapped his chest lightly and said: "I will deal with them."

"But the mechanical tribe will be on guard against your abilities, and the top psychics should be used as trump cards. You can't just do it casually..."

Chen Ming interrupted the minister directly and said: "I have my own ideas."

"And... they should have been on guard when I killed that prototype super body."