Chapter 340 Ambush
A Zerg cruiser crashes from space.
The reaction force brought about by the violent impact without any deceleration was too much for it to bear, and it died completely at the moment of the impact.
However, while the violent impact shattered the ground and the cruiser itself, the Zerg inside the cruiser survived.
They took advantage of the opportunity before the nearby mechanical race surrounded them, and used the cover of the corpses of the Zerg cruisers to invade the underground of this planet belonging to the mechanical race.
The Queen's consciousness then replaced these Zerg units that were deep underground.
Next it will control the bugs itself.
The insect queen immediately let the insects carrying the energy crystals devour the crystals and differentiate the basic tissues of the insect nest on her body.
The other part of the insect race quickly converted into all the insect species needed to cultivate a new insect nest by consuming energy.
The Zerg unit responsible for the excavation immediately began to dig underground.
The worms responsible for digestion then began to eat the excavated rocks, soil and minerals, converting them into nutrients, which were provided to all other worms that provided all the conditions needed to build the worm nest.
In just a few dozen seconds, the frame of the insect nest appeared deep underground.
A larval hatching tank was also built in the center of the frame.
Under normal circumstances, the production efficiency of the larvae hatching tank can only be said to be acceptable, but it cannot meet the demand for an explosion of troops in a short period of time.
But this time things are different.
The Insect Queen's psychic energy was blessed on the hatching pool.
In the process of consuming a lot of energy, the hatching rate of the larvae hatching tank is nearly twenty times faster than normal.
Only a sufficient number of Zerg can become the cornerstone of the battlefield.
In addition to the increase in the reproductive efficiency of the larvae hatching pool by using psychic energy.
There is also a slightly luminous vesicle-like structure on the outside of the biological building of the larvae hatching tank.
It is filled with a bright green liquid, which is slowly being poured into the interior of the hatching tank.
This liquid was made by Chen Ming some time ago. Because the Zerg units hatch too slowly without preparation, when applied to actual combat, the eggs must be arranged in advance, and the time for the eggs to hatch and grow is too long, allowing the Zerg units to hatch. Later, a new gadget was created by using its ability to produce special substances.
The injection of this liquid can greatly promote the differentiation of cultured larval Zerg cells and accelerate the growth and cultivation of individuals.
Let the larvae grow to an age that can work or fight as quickly as possible.
Of course, the side effect is to greatly shorten the lifespan of Zerg units.
However, the life span of the Zerg units itself is not long. Only the queen can survive for a long time. The life cycle of the other workers is longer, but it will not exceed a month.
And in battle, lifespan is not an issue that needs to be considered at all.
How to produce Zerg the fastest and most efficiently is the most important thing.
With the operation of the hatching tank, a large number of larvae crawled out of the hatching tank under the stimulation of special substances.
Some of the larvae travel to nearby areas recently mined by insects to differentiate into new larvae hatching pools.
The other part of the larvae is further cultivated by the queen into worker insects with different functions, and joins the work of the previous insects.
Further obtain underground resources to expand the insect nest.
With the expansion of the insect nest, the number of larvae hatching pools is increasing, and the number of larvae can be said to be increasing exponentially.
Even these larvae, workers and even hatching tanks may not survive a day.
But after growing up, they are enough to create enough opportunities in the next period of time.
The machine race cannot sit idly by as the insect nest expands rapidly.
It's just that the underground insect nest is quite troublesome to deal with.
Although many of the buildings of the mechanical race are equipped with devices for sending shock waves underground to kill underground creatures.
But these devices that seemed to be specially used to restrain the Zerg could not reach the deep underground where the Zerg Nest was located at this time.
The Mechanical Tribe is also trying to use some working Mechanical Tribe units to dig out the soil under the corpse of the Zerg Cruiser that landed on the ground.
But just cleaning up the corpses took some time, and after cleaning up the corpses, the mechanical tribe would find that the tunnel originally dug by the insects had collapsed.
They were unable to keep up with the Zerg's digging speed for a while.
We can only temporarily give up the pursuit of the Zerg underground and concentrate our efforts on defending against attacks from space.
In addition to cleaning up the underground insect nests, they also need to fill the loopholes in the orbital defense system.
Vulnerabilities in the orbital defense system can only be accessed by calling facilities in areas with less pressure in other directions.
Relying on the emergency dispatched facilities, the mechanical tribe barely filled some of the gaps that were originally opened.
It will not allow the Zerg to break through again and create more insect nests.
However, the number of Zerg fleets was ultimately too exaggerated.
Wherever the mechanical race has moved away the orbital defense facilities, the Zerg fleet will concentrate its firepower to attack there, and even have the remaining power to continue to divide its forces and continue to attack the entire planet from different places.
There will always be weak defenses on such a large planet.
Only Chen Ming, who had just entered the planet in the first wave of insect queens, did not intend to give up. He wanted to engage in a head-on battle with the most intense firepower of the mechanical tribe and attack head-on.
Because this is the core colony of the planet Machine Race.
While the Zerg fleet in space continues to attack.
The queens deep underground also continue to expand and reproduce.
The insects brought by the three cruisers that just crashed have already undergone a large wave of breeding, and several fully functional insect nests have begun to take shape.
Chen Ming also gave new instructions at this time.
Let the underground Zerg go to the nearby mechanical mineral mining area and seize the mineral veins.
The colony where the three insect nests currently controlled by the Queen of Insects is located is the core colony of the entire planet, and it is also a comprehensive colony.
Near the edge of this colony, there is a large area of mineral veins and mineral mining areas distributed on the mineral veins.
Expanding over there to swallow minerals is more efficient than swallowing soil and rocks to obtain energy.
The insect queen immediately followed Chen Ming's order.
The three insect nests changed the direction of development and dug in the direction of the mineral mining area.
Dozens of Zerg digger bugs with two pairs of huge digging forelimbs and a pair of developed broom-like hind limbs dug frantically and dug directly into the mechanical tribe's mine in just a few minutes, drilling through the entire passage. .
However, the tunnel had just been dug when a high heat poured into the tunnel dug by the Zerg along the dug channel.
The Infernal Demon King is parked in the mine.
This is a trap laid by the Machine Tribe in anticipation of the Zerg Tribe’s movements.
When the Demon King discovered that the Zerg had dug a tunnel, it immediately activated the Purgatory Core. The terrifying heat, as if hell were coming, poured in backwards along the tunnel dug by the Zerg, destroying the Zerg Nest that had just connected to the mine.
All that was left was piles of blackened fungi and dead bugs.
An insect nest was destroyed, but the insect queen still continued to execute Chen Ming's orders without any hesitation.
The two nearby insect nests are still digging towards the mine, opening several passages in different locations.
A large amount of fungal liquid sprayed out from the channel.
While cooling the entire environment, some high-energy liquid energy crystals also extended into the mine along the biomass conduits in the rock formations beneath the fungus carpet.
It avoids being directly destroyed by the high heat of the Purgatory Demon King, and the confined space can also maximize the power of the explosion.
Amidst the blast of high-energy crystal explosions, the mine collapsed.
The Demon King, who was trapped deep underground, lost the ability to move and was immediately torn apart by the Zerg that came and went freely underground.
The charred insect corpses in the insect nest destroyed by the devil were also devoured by the other two insect nests in an instant, and the larvae were used to build a new insect nest again on the corpse of the original insect nest.
The new insect nest was restored to its original state based on the previous corpse, and parasitized on an entire mineral vein along the mine shaft.
Swallowing the ores, converting nutrients, and shaping into a new Zerg race.
The bugs, which were already growing exponentially, have more energy for reproduction after occupying this huge mineral vein.
After that, only ten minutes passed.
A pitch-black Titan bug emerged from the mineshaft re-excavated by the Zerg.
Following closely behind was a swarm of insects that was already strong enough to compete with the mechanical race's ground troops.
The insect swarm on the ground has a clear target.
That is the nearest ground orbital defense facility.
As long as the orbital defense facilities are destroyed, the entire planet will be ravaged by the Zerg fleet.
Although the Mechanical Race was unable to completely wipe out the Zerg when they invaded the underground, they also prepared a huge number of ground Mechanical Race units on the surface in an attempt to block the Zerg's advance.
There are even a considerable number of mechanical psychic creatures mixed among the mechanical units.
But the average combat effectiveness of the Zerg race is now higher than that of the Machine race.
The carapace strengthened by the fairy tree seed coat and the extremely powerful new energy crystal allow the Zerg to suffer almost no losses under the firepower of the Machine Tribe.
Because of their own strength issues, those mechanical psionic creatures are far from reaching the strength of fourth-level psykers, and it is impossible to pose a sufficient threat to the insect swarm.
Even if the Machine Tribe has brought in several more Demon Kings, even if the entire environment has become like a real purgatory.
The Zerg race overwhelmingly overwhelmed the mechanical race's defense line.
We are about to arrive at the area where ground orbital defense facilities are concentrated.
The situation is critical.
Some orbital defense facilities located on the orbit were forced to turn their guns and aim them at the ground to curb the speed of the Zerg's attack on the ground orbital defense facilities.
However, doing so would mean the weakening of the orbital defense force against the Zerg fleet.
But if they don't, the orbital defenses on the ground will also be destroyed.
This is a dead end.
Soon, the orbital defense system, which had already been breached once, was breached again.
The gap was opened again, and dozens of Zerg cruisers successfully broke through the defense line and crashed on the mechanical planet.
Countless Zerg burrowed into the ground again, hiding deep beyond the reach of the mechanical tribe's underground defense weapons.
When they appear again, they must be strong enough to compete with the mechanical race.
Such a scene not only happened on the battlefield of the core colony of the mechanical race that Chen Ming was concerned about, but also happened in several colonies on the entire mechanical race planet.
After seeing that the situation was one-sided, Chen Ming handed over all remaining command tasks to the Queen.
He was currently paying attention to the familiar-looking mechanical psychic biological transformation facility near the center of the core colony of the Machine Tribe.
Chen Ming planned to use his psychic powers to rob the equipment if the machine clan had already taken action to destroy it.
It's just that the mechanical tribe doesn't seem to have any signs of directly destroying the equipment.
But this does not mean that Chen Ming can easily obtain the equipment.
On the contrary, he had to pay more attention.
The mechanical tribe had already learned from the colony that the phase beast attacked before that he had the idea of seizing the equipment.
Previously, the mechanical tribe also decisively destroyed the equipment, not giving Chen Ming a chance to seize it.
In the end, Chen Ming only got one-third of the equipment.
There is only one possibility that they didn't do it this time. There is an ambush here.
But what if there is an ambush?
Chen Ming was confident that he could withstand the ambush of the mechanical tribe and snatch the things away.
As gaps appeared everywhere in the planet's orbital defense facilities, more and more Zerg cruisers entered the defense line.
Several Zerg troops on the ground finally arrived near several orbital defense industrial facility clusters of the Machine Tribe, completely destroying all ground orbital defense facilities.
The mechanical race's frontline collapsed completely, and the orbital defense facilities that turned their guns in space orbit to try to destroy the Zerg units on the ground were also destroyed.
The entire planet completely lost air control.
On the ground, the mineral source of the mine is occupied by Zerg.
The industrial chain for manufacturing mechanical heart units has been disconnected, and the mechanical clan can only rely on the originally stored materials to desperately produce new mechanical clan units in a final struggle.
But soon, more and more Zerg that occupied the mineral veins crawled out of the ground.
They clean up the remaining troops of the mechanical tribe, destroy the industrial divisions of the mechanical tribe, and occupy their warehouses.
New biomass is also gradually growing in these warehouses.
This is because the Zerg consume the metal smelted in the warehouse and convert it into more energy.
After the mechanical race lost its control of the air, insect nests were able to breed in warehouses on the surface.
The entire industrial area is falling, and it won't be long before the Zerg race completely wipes out all the mechanical units here.
Then Chen Ming's command is no longer needed.
In other words, he didn't direct much at all.
After briefly explaining the basic tactics to the Insect Queen, the rest was to rely on the gap in combat power to overwhelm her.
As for what he said before starting the battle to test his own command skills.
That was all he could say.
command? What command? Why take command when you can run him over?
His Zerg fleet has terrifying strength and terrifying logistics. As long as it can swallow a planet, it can be transformed into a huge combat force.
Just run over and that's it. What's the point of commanding?
Of course, Chen Ming also knew the gap between his Zerg fleet and the top power of the Machine Race star field.
In addition, he is currently in the Mechanical Tribe star field. Even if it is just on the border, the Mechanical Tribe can still send reinforcements from other colonies.
So he is still paying attention to the situation of the entire galaxy at this moment.
It's just that at this time, there are absolutely no unexpected events happening in the entire galaxy.
No ship, no support, no help.
It was as if the machine race had abandoned the planet and left it to fend for itself.
This situation made Chen Ming extremely vigilant.
He didn't believe that the Machine Clan had given up here, because if they had really given up, it would be impossible for the Machine Clan not to kill each other, destroy each other, and leave nothing of value to him.
Just like they did last time.
The current situation is definitely just the calm before the storm.
Real danger can come at any time.
at this time.
Several colonies of the mechanical race on the ground have almost turned into a scorched earth mixed with pitch black and gray green.
Only a small core area of the core colony is still making the final resistance on the entire planet.
This is because there are mechanical psychic biological transformation facilities that Chen Ming needs here, so Chen Ming deliberately did not let the fleet in space attack this area.
And even at the last moment, the mechanical clan still did not destroy the transformation facility.
It can be said that the words "There is a trap here" are clearly written on this thing.
But Chen Ming really had to step in.
In order to obtain the equipment, he had to take the necessary risks.
Then it's time.
Chen Ming's body closed his eyes.
His consciousness appeared on the body of a droid on a Zerg cruiser that had just passed through a gap in the orbital defense system.
It's still the same type of robot based on powered armor.
However, this time Chen Ming used a complete form of power armor, a biopower armor that combines technology and biotechnology. It is equipped with an afterglow core and a miniaturized biomass jump engine.
This half-biological, half-mechanical power armor exudes rich spiritual energy fluctuations belonging to Chen Ming.
It was enough to disguise his arrival in person.
A Zerg cruiser crashed near the facility.
At the moment when the cruiser crashed, Chen Ming used the jump engine to instantly jump to the side of the building.
He reached out and pressed on the shell of the facility, and at the same time found a data line in a hidden place, bringing the building under his control.
This process only took three seconds.
And at the moment when these three seconds ended, the mechanical clan's counterattack came.
A violent transition wave appeared at three positions outside the planet's orbit at the same time.
This is different from ordinary transition fluctuations.
Ordinary jump fluctuations will appear on both sides of the starting point and end point of the jump engine at the same time when the jump engine is started, and last for a period of time, allowing people or others near the target location to anticipate it in advance and have about ten seconds to react.
The three violent transition fluctuations that appeared now stopped the moment they appeared.
The three motherships of the Machine Tribe appeared on the orbit of the planet within a second and were scattered in three locations.
The three motherships activated the jump blockade device at the same time, blocking the entire planet within it.
Chen Ming must be completely left behind.
Immediately afterwards, another wave of jump fluctuations appeared near the orbit. This wave of jump fluctuations was normal. It should be the follow-up reinforcements from the rest of the mechanical fleet.
Just to prevent Chen Ming from escaping immediately, the mechanical tribe chose to use special means to jump first and sent the mothership over to prevent Chen Ming from escaping.
At this time, Chen Ming raised his head and glanced into space.
Sure enough, there was a trap waiting for him.
The nine spine cannons of the three motherships were all aimed at his current location.
In the next moment, the entire colony or even the entire planet may collapse under such an attack.
But Chen Ming didn't panic at all.
He even extended his hand to give the mechanical tribe an inverted thumb sign, and then started the biomass jump engine.
Although the fluctuations of the jump were blocked within the entire planet by three motherships, Chen Ming disappeared from the planet so abruptly and disappeared in front of the mechanical race.
The facilities and an entire building nearby also disappeared the moment he disappeared.
Only the firepower of the spine cannon completely vaporized the Zerg, machine race and buildings in this area.
This is of course not a success of Chen Ming's jump.
The jump system is blocked, and no one can leave using normal jump methods.
He was able to leave purely because he used his spiritual power to teleport the robot disguised as him. Using the teleportation effect of the scarlet dimension could of course break through the blockade of the jump system.
But from the perspective of the scene, Chen Ming used the jump to leave the planet.
The machine race missed this opportunity. The next time Chen Ming appears again, they will never miss it again.
For Chen Ming, his goal has been achieved, so the rest doesn't matter.
After giving the order to the Queen of Insects to destroy the mechanical race and seize resources.
The Queen of Insects immediately caused all the remaining Zerg units to start wreaking havoc crazily.
Destroying the entire planet like a wild horse running wild.
Seize everything on the planet, convert everything into energy crystals, and then use Chen Ming's spiritual energy to send it back to the base camp where the Zerg used to stay.
The fleet in space, like mad dogs, found the three incoming mechanical race motherships.
Among the three motherships, there is no one that escaped before.
It seems that the number of motherships Chen Ming has come into contact with can be increased to four.
Just as the Zerg fleet pounced on the mothership, the ridge cannons on the three motherships that had dimmed suddenly lit up again.
Instead of aiming at the Zerg fleet rushing towards them, they continued to aim at the planet.
Although the original goal Chen Ming has disappeared, they now have a new goal, which is the planet itself.
The Zerg have penetrated deep into the underground of the planet, and it is no longer possible to clean up the Zerg on the planet using ordinary means.
This planet is useless to the mechanical race.
If the planet is ruined, then there is no need to take care of it.
The firepower of the nine spine cannons streaked across the earth, accurately hitting the weak spots in the planet's geological plates discovered by the mechanical clan during their exploration of the planet.
When attacked by violent external forces, these fragile plates will partially collapse, causing horrific earthquakes that sweep across the planet.
Such an earthquake is enough to completely kill all underground creatures.
But the mechanical tribe did not stop.
After the violent plate activity caused volcanic activity to occur frequently, several ridge cannons continued to fire.
Inducing the plates in the center of the planet to undergo violent activities is to directly destroy the entire planet from the source, absolutely not giving the Zerg a chance to survive.
Subsequent reinforcements from the mechanical tribe also arrived as the jump fluctuations subsided, although they were still not as numerous as Chen Ming's fleet.
But three battleships also represent a qualitative leap compared to a single ship.
At least Chen Ming's current fleet is definitely not enough to destroy the three battleships, and he may not even be able to escape.
However, Chen Ming did not expect that the Zerg coming this time would come back alive.
At this last moment, how many mechanical warships can these Zerg warships destroy, and how much battle damage can be exchanged for.
Anyway, Chen Ming's resources are all grown in the ground, but the mechanical clan's resources have to be mined by themselves, and they have to work hard to build production lines to produce them.
It won’t be a loss if you can replace it.
Not to mention the invisible value brought to Chen Ming by the spacecraft that were contaminated by the Zerg organization during the battle.
The war on the planet on the edge of the mechanical race's star field has come to an end for the time being.
At the cost of the loss of hundreds of thousands of Zerg cruisers, a mechanical colony and the planet were destroyed. Over 200,000 battleships of different levels were destroyed, and several capital ships were marked.
And let Chen Ming achieve his goal.
Looks like a bit of a loss.
But in fact, Chen Ming's losses from beginning to end were only some rocks, soil and time.
(End of chapter)