Chapter 322 Destruction
"No."
Look at the dense debris-covered area around the planet returned by the sensor.
Chen Ming now understood why there was not a single spacecraft left in the hyperspace region of the galaxy.
It turns out that they have all entered the galaxy and are protecting their strongholds.
Then look at the large area of fire that is still rising on the planet.
Chen Ming suddenly had a bad premonition.
But it probably isn't that coincidental, let's see.
As Chen Ming adjusted the sensor accuracy of the reconnaissance fleet spacecraft, he conducted a second scan.
The specific damage conditions of the ship wreckage and orbital defense facility wreckage orbiting the planet also appeared in front of Chen Ming.
After further confirmation.
Chen Ming can make a decision.
The causes of these debris are all caused by the spacecraft or defense facilities being shattered by some extremely powerful physical attack, and then exploded due to damaged circuits or various reasons.
This situation seemed quite familiar to Chen Ming.
Sure enough, it was a phase beast.
What else could do such damage?
Turning around to look at the situation on the planet, I guessed that the giant phase beast was also causing trouble.
"It's true."
Chen Ming was a little nervous for a while.
He just had some ideas in his mind and talked about it casually, but when he arrived at the stronghold of the mechanical tribe, he found that the phase beast was one step ahead of him.
This...really...he didn't know what to say.
How did the Machine Tribe provoke the Phase Beast? Can it be targeted like this?
Last time they opened up and found a stronghold that was demolished by the phase beast, but this time it was demolished by the phase beast again.
Chen Ming hasn't even taken action yet.
By the way, the last time Chen Ming remembered, the phase beasts were chasing the machine race's reinforcement fleet to the stronghold they had developed.
So what's the reason this time?
Of course this is not the point now.
Chen Ming didn't want to worry about this phase beast. As long as the beast continued to attack the mechanical tribe, it would be an absolute good thing for him.
What he has to do now is to find the mechanical clan who stole the goods.
He wanted to confirm first whether the fleet that had jumped away had arrived here.
Even if the phase beast's attack might affect his fleet, he couldn't understand why.
But just when Chen Minggang was thinking about finding the target.
The images on the sensors sent back by his reconnaissance fleet in the galaxy suddenly showed the mechanical fleets that had attacked his fleet before.
Not the entire fleet, only about half of the fleet was left at this time, consisting of a dozen cruisers and barely a hundred small ships.
They had just taken off from the planet that was being ravaged, escaped from the planet's gravity, and fled in a hurry towards the edge of the galaxy.
The cruiser that snatched Chen Ming's cargo hold was also among them.
It looks like the timing is just right.
But while Chen Ming was glad that these ships did not run away directly, he also noticed a problem.
It's still a matter of time.
Adding up everything that happened before and after, almost an hour had passed since the mechanical tribe attacked his fleet.
Even if the jump destination of the mechanical fleet's evacuation was not here, but a nearby galaxy, judging from the jump fluctuations, it was not that far away.
It takes no more than twenty minutes to get here from there via the channel.
The Machine Tribe would definitely have arrived here earlier than him, and would have learned earlier that a phase beast was attacking the stronghold.
Chen Ming saw the machine race's plundered fleet emerging from the surface of the planet. At first glance, it looked normal.
But if you think about it carefully, you will find the problem.
The battle between the mechanical tribe and the phase beast here must have been going on for more than a while. Looking at the debris in the orbit of the planet, you can tell that at least an hour or two has passed.
At the latest, a battle broke out when the machines that ambushed his cargo fleet were evacuating.
In other words, these mechanical fleets have only two choices after they robbed and jumped away.
Or come and support.
Or just run away.
There is no reason to eat enough to hold up and then run away.
The several mechanical fleets were running away when Chen Ming saw them, and they were obviously not here to support them.
After all, support must have weapons that can support it, otherwise it will be in vain.
The supporting fleet will not flee as hastily as it is now, but it will have to maintain a loose formation to involve the phase beast, right?
Although this phase beast cannot be observed, its impact on the real world is considerable.
As long as physical distance is maintained, the destructive power of the phase beast will be greatly limited.
Except of course the surface.
Buildings on the surface cannot be moved. If they are targeted by giant beasts, they will have to be demolished.
But the fleet really has no such restrictions.
What on earth are these robot fleets that robbed Chen Ming doing back?
You can't just leave the stolen cargo hold on this ruined planet, right?
Maybe there is some special reason?
Chen Ming doesn't understand.
But it's okay, he will understand soon.
After determining the escape direction of the mechanical plundering fleet inside.
The Chen Ming fleet, which was in the hyperspace of the galaxy, immediately began to make arrangements and moved closer to the other side of the galaxy in the hyperspace, preparing for an ambush.
The efficiency of movement in hyperspace is much higher than that in the normal cosmic environment, which can definitely give the escaping machine race a big hit.
Bai Quan, who was standing next to him, saw this and told Chen Ming the possible locations of several mechanical fleets when they left the galaxy.
The mechanical race is running away now and must pursue efficiency.
Then it must enter hyperspace within a limit range that ensures that it will not be affected by the gravity well of the galaxy.
So the location where they come out is actually predictable.
Although these mechanical tribes are now in a hurry because of the giant phase beast, they no longer care about everything.
The reconnaissance fleet sent by Chen Ming was not discovered at all, and even if there was a slight deviation in the layout, the impact would not be too great.
But Chen Ming is definitely willing to listen to good suggestions.
He immediately changed the position of the ambush slightly, and after taking note of Baiquan's battlefield tip, he put all the ships into combat readiness, ready to fire at any time.
And at the same time Chen Ming prepared an ambush.
His reconnaissance fleet that entered the galaxy in advance chose to approach the attacked planet.
Although looking at the debris around the planet, it can basically be confirmed that this thing was done by the phase beast.
But he still wanted to see with his own eyes what those spaceships and buildings looked like when they were destroyed, so as to completely determine the real situation.
As Chen Ming's reconnaissance fleet approaches.
The specific situation on the planet was also returned to Chen Ming's eyes through sensors.
Nearly half of the mechanized mechanical cities that occupy almost all the land on the planet have become wastelands.
There are damaged Mechanical Tribe buildings and Mechanical Tribe individuals that have shut down everywhere.
One thing they all have in common is that they are destroyed by crushing attacks.
Something huge and heavy weighed them down.
Even the surrounding land sank downwards by anywhere from ten to dozens of meters.
And these sunken marks are all in the shape of manta rays.
After Chen Ming's reconnaissance fleet approached the planet at a certain distance and could determine the details of what happened on the planet through sensors, it stopped getting closer.
Then began to orbit the planet to conduct reconnaissance.
Not long after, he discovered traces of the phase beast's activities, fresh traces.
I saw a mechanical tribe's mineral mining area near an ocean on the planet.
An existence that cannot be observed by the naked eye is constantly attacking this area.
The method is very simple, just pounce on the surface like a fish out of water.
Although the phase beast is only the size of an ordinary cruiser, its tyrannical physical strength is enough to directly crash a cruiser of the same level.
And its terrifying weight is just rolling around casually. It can also leave horrific scars on the ground, creating a bombardment that makes everything tremble.
There are a large number of Machine Tribe individuals who are constantly escaping from this area with Machine Tribe equipment or other things.
In addition, there are some new mechanized psychic creatures produced by the mechanical tribe, which are trying to attack the phase beast with their psychic powers.
However, all the psychic effects were applied to the void.
This phase beast cannot be observed or touched by the naked eye, nor can it be traumatized by psychic energy.
The phase beasts seemed to have a deep grudge against the mechanical tribe, constantly attacking the mechanical tribe and destroying everything they had.
Chen Ming wasn't sure if this phase beast was the one before, but it would be interesting if it was.
It should be possible if you want to be sure. From the size of the marks left on the planet, you can roughly tell that they are not much different from the previous one.
As long as the complete print details can be obtained and compared with the last print, there is a high probability that it can be determined whether they are the same one.
However, there are other people studying the phase beast, so he doesn't need to pay more attention. Just don't provoke him now.
Chen Ming carefully continued to let the reconnaissance fleet orbit around the star.
Continue to search for some important places on the planet.
For example, there are various large warehouses that the mechanical clan should have.
When the reconnaissance fleet approached just now, it had actually found several warehouses, and those warehouses had been completely destroyed by the phase monster.
However, Chen Ming wanted to go around again to see if there were any other large warehouses, just in case the batch of goods he had been robbed was really there and had not been destroyed by the phase beast.
After all, Chen Ming has not yet come into contact with the escaping mechanical cruisers, and he is not sure whether the stolen energy crystal crabs are still on the cruisers or stored in the warehouse.
Gotta investigate.
Take another look around the planet. If you can't find the warehouse, retreat for now.
After the phase monster is finished fighting here, he will come back to see if there is any debris or anything that can be cleaned up.
Chen Ming controlled the fleet to accelerate again.
However, just as he was about to leave, he suddenly discovered that a certain spacecraft that the mechanical tribe came to support suddenly launched a beam that was visible to the naked eye. It seemed straight, but if you look closely, you will find that it is almost completely distorted. No, Chen Ming discovered that it was not the beam that was distorted, but the space around the beam.
It actually seemed to have successfully hit the phase beast in the phase space, disappearing and leaving half of it in the air.
The next move of the phase beast also confirmed what Chen Ming just saw.
The spacecraft immediately encountered a counterattack from the phase beast.
It was smashed directly from the bow to the stern by the giant beast.
It seems that it completely failed to cause critical damage to the phase beast.
But this beam weapon, which was destroyed within a few seconds of its appearance, caused all the generals in the conference room to stand up in an instant and move together in front of the screen projected by Chen Ming.
"Phase weapons..."
Although Chen Ming had just guessed that it was such a thing, when he heard several generals say this, he still couldn't help but ask: "Can the normal universe see weapons that attack phase space?"
Qiu Bowen knew that Chen Ming had learned about the phase technology, so he did not hide it. He said: "Of course not, but that beam is just a laser pointer. It uses the resonance of the phase weapon in the phase space to display visible light in the normal world. band.”
"The key is that the light is cut off. This can only be the effect of phase weapons."
"It seems that the Machine Tribe has also begun to research phase technology since it was attacked by the phase monster last time, and it seems to be very close to our progress."
A lieutenant general next to him said: "Then they are probably more efficient than us. We have started researching it earlier, but we were still caught up by the machine race."
Another lieutenant general also retorted: "They are shining relics. The shining civilization must have phase technology. The mechanical race just picked up the phase technology again, and of course it will be faster than us."
Baiquan did not participate in the discussion among several generals on the research progress of phase technology.
He was more concerned about more practical things: "Chen Ming, if you have the chance, find a way to obtain the wreckage of the spacecraft that used phase weapons. This is very important for our research on phase technology."
However, Chen Ming did not agree directly: "I don't think it's feasible. This phase beast is still here. I can't rush in with it. The most I can do is wait for it to finish fighting, and then I will pick up the trash."
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"That's okay, let's look for another opportunity."
"Okay."
Chen Ming noted down the coordinates of this location and continued to move the reconnaissance fleet away.
But just when he asked the ships to take such action, his fleet was paralyzed and received a special frequency band communication.
"Communication?"
Chen Ming immediately connected, and a sound that sounded like something submerged in the deep sea suddenly came from the communication channel.
This sound across the deep sea was very vague. Chen Ming could hear that it was sharp but not harsh.
And there was also a vague emotion that appeared in Chen Ming's heart that he couldn't sense clearly.
Chen Ming suddenly felt confused.
The source of the communication signal is also vague, but it is definitely on the planet in front of you.
Is this from the mechanical tribe?
Or...
Communication signals from the planet are still being continuously received by Chen Ming's ship.
But Chen Ming still couldn't hear clearly what was contained in this voice.
He thought for a while and connected the communication device of the reconnaissance fleet in the conference room, and played the audio data received by the communication device in the conference room.
After playing the sound he just recorded, Chen Ming asked; "What does this sound mean?"
"Sound? What sound?"
"What are you talking about?"
"?"
This time it was Chen Ming's turn to be confused.
"I just played an audio clip, didn't you hear it?"
"No."
Chen Ming didn't understand, so he simply played it again.
His ears could clearly hear the sound, but judging from the expressions on the faces of the people around him, they heard nothing.
Chen Ming obviously used the recorded audio file directly. He could hear the sound, so why couldn't others?
Chen Ming immediately parsed the data of the saved audio file.
He unexpectedly discovered that there was no sound wave in any frequency band in this audio file.
Whether it is sounds that humans can hear, or ultrasonic and infrasound waves that humans cannot hear, there is nothing.
There were no sound waves in any frequency band, but he could hear the sound from this file.
Seeing that the expressions of the people around him were a little strange, Chen Ming could only say: "Maybe I heard wrong."
He stopped the audio and continued to control the ship.
The audio band sound received by his reconnaissance fleet became more and more immersed in the deep sea as the fleet moved away from its previous position, becoming more and more blurred, and gradually became less receivable.
This strengthened his suspicion.
However, Chen Ming pretended to be stupid and avoided the topic of audio.
But everyone present was a smart person, and Chen Ming's performance didn't look like he was faking it. He must have heard something.
But they couldn't hear them, and Chen Ming didn't want to say more, so there was no way to ask
Just keep it in your mind as a secret. Maybe you can use it one day in the future?
Several people watched in silence as Chen Ming continued to operate.
At the same time, he observed the reconnaissance fleet investigating the planet's surface and the main fleet ambushing in hyperspace.
The moment the machine race fleet barely escaped the clutches of the phase monster and arrived at the edge of the galaxy through the reconnaissance fleet activated the hyperspace channel engine.
"It's over."
I don’t know who said that.
The machine race's fleet entered Chen Ming's encirclement without any preparation.
When the ship enters hyperspace, its speed relative to the coordinate point at the moment it enters hyperspace will return to zero, and it will not be able to accelerate to a speed that allows it to dodge.
The large weapons of two hundred armor-piercing ships and four afterglow cruisers were already aimed at them.
Chen Ming didn't even use the Stardust level to release the Meteor fighter plane.
The torrent of particles from more than two hundred tachyon spears had already swept across the entire battlefield.
Almost the entire mechanical fleet was instantly destroyed and exploded into fireworks.
However, Chen Ming also deliberately left a gap in the fire network for the cruiser with cargo.
He had to make sure the cargo was still on the ship.
And it was this gap that gave the mechanical fleet a little vitality.
After a round of attacks, in addition to the cruiser that Chen Ming spared on purpose, there was actually another cruiser that Chen Ming had never seen and escaped by hiding behind the cruiser that Chen Ming spared.
And Chen Ming has never seen this cruiser starting the jump engine that cannot be used again in a short period of time by those cruisers that Chen Ming has seen.
The ship that Chen Ming let go stood between Chen Ming's fleet and it, blocking it tightly.
In order to avoid accidental damage to the ship, Chen Ming only deployed firepower on one side when preparing for the ambush.
Therefore, Chen Ming really couldn't fire directly for a while.
However, he could be regarded as discovering the reason why the machine race's fleet did not retreat directly or go to support.
Apparently it was because of this ship.
These ships probably wanted to pick it up, so they returned to the planet attacked by the phase beast.
This ship is important.
Then Chen Ming definitely can't let it go.
It just so happened that he also had the equipment to block the jump engine, which was given to him by Bai Quan.
Although he is using an obsolete model, it is not that the obsolete model cannot be used.
As Chen Ming directly used spiritual energy to transfer and activate the equipment.
The spacecraft that started the jump engine immediately lay down, and the engine suffered a brief malfunction.
It was during this short breakdown time that Chen Ming's fleet had already bypassed,
The crossfire directly blew up the engine of the ship protected by the mechanical clan.
Want to run?
Can't run even a little bit.
Everyone else in the conference room could tell from the images transmitted back that the purpose of the mechanical clan was to protect the ship.
This ship must be special and have its own unique value.
It would make a lot of sense if it could be picked up by the Legion.
But none of them spoke.
Because the boat was at Chen Ming's place, it was impossible for Chen Ming to spit it out.
If Chen Ming himself had been recruited to perform a task, they would still have reason to ask Chen Ming to take out his things.
But the current situation is that Chen Ming discovered the stronghold of the Machine Clan. When attacking the stronghold, he encountered the ship and captured it.
It was impossible for Chen Ming to hand over the seizure.
Anyway, if Chen Ming finds something that one person cannot eat, sooner or later he will hand it over to the legion for processing.
For example, the crystal crab was something Chen Ming got himself.
He did business with the Legion before, but found that he couldn't take the cake of the entire empire, so didn't he leave it to the Legion to handle it in the end?
Therefore, as long as it is something that would be more beneficial to the legion, Chen Ming would definitely give it to the legion. He is not stupid.
Of course, it would be better if more information about the mechanical clan could be obtained from this spaceship.
After all, Chen Ming is about to participate in the war between the Machine Clan and it is impossible to conceal any information about the Machine Clan.
Baiquan doesn't matter anymore.
His relationship with Chen Ming is different from other people. If there is anything he needs to know, he can just ask. If he doesn't know, then the Legion doesn't need to know.
So now, everyone has a tacit understanding and just pretends not to have seen it.
He watched silently as Chen Ming dismantled all the weapons of the two cruisers in front of him and forcibly took control of the two spaceships.
Planning to jump away.
Qiu Bowen suddenly said at this time, "Stop for a moment, Chen Ming, can you do something?"
Chen Ming, who was excitedly taking the data cable pulled out of the afterglow core on the cruiser to control the two cruisers of the mechanical family, got distracted and asked: "What's going on?"
"The fleet you sent over for reconnaissance should not leave for the time being. Wait a moment."
(End of chapter)