Chapter 343 New Prosthesis
The Zerg Imperial Guard was an idea that Chen Ming had long ago.
It was only after today that this was a real must-do idea for him.
Because in this raid on the mechanical galaxy, Chen Ming saw many problems.
Especially during ground operations.
The bugs that invaded the mechanical planet and established their nest relied on space battleships when they broke into the planet.
After entering the ground, they could only rely on the corpses of ordinary Zerg units and Zerg cruisers carried by some battleships as cover, lacking the ability to protect themselves.
Basically, they can only rely on themselves, and they may be wiped out at any time before they go deep underground.
If it weren't for the fact that the mechanical race didn't seem to have the experience to deal with this situation this time, opening up a gap for the Zerg to hide deep underground, this attack would definitely not have been so smooth.
And next time, the Machine Tribe will never give the Zerg such a chance. Once the Zerg arrives on the ground, the Machine Tribe will definitely find ways to destroy them regardless of the cost.
Not to mention that even if the Zerg units have formed a Zerg Hive, they may be dealt with by the powerful ground combat units of the Machine Tribe, such as the Demon King.
therefore.
Chen Ming felt that when releasing the Zerg on the mechanical planet, it was necessary to have powerful combat units to provide safety guarantees for the bugs building their nests.
This does not mean that it is enough to provide some Zerg units to participate in the invasion, but to thoroughly prepare an absolute defense.
It just so happened that his previous idea of creating a powerful Zerg Guard appeared in his mind.
This unit, which is supposed to be used to protect the insect queen, can be used to protect those Zerg that perform important tasks.
This does not mean that the guards must protect the insect queen. The sparse insect race with extremely strong combat effectiveness can do more things.
What's more, the insect queen has Chen Ming's spiritual power as a guarantee, so it is impossible to encounter danger.
For the Insect Queen, the Imperial Guard itself is a unit with no existence value.
But to the Zerg as a whole, the Imperial Guard is valuable.
The number of Zerg guards in Chen Ming's imagination would not be too many.
They will not arrive on the ground with the Zerg invasion fleet, but will use their psychic energy to launch the unit that created the Zerg Hive at the same time as it arrives on the enemy's territory.
It is the mission of the Zerg spacecraft to enter the atmosphere, and it is the mission of the Zerg Guards to protect the Zerg from going deep underground after landing and not being destroyed by the mechanical race.
Therefore, Chen Ming has very high requirements for the Imperial Guard Zerg, which should at least be worthy of him using his psychic energy alone.
Ming Ming probably also has the idea of the Imperial Guard Zerg unit.
Of course, it's not a Zerg like An Wuping.
Although the Zerg combat unit created by imitating An Wuping can be said to have the highest individual combat effectiveness among the entire Zerg clan, it also has shortcomings.
The comprehensive abilities brought by the chaos core in An Wuping's body cannot be replicated on ordinary Zerg units.
Moreover, the strength of Zerg individuals like An Wuping is only in their own combat power, and their protective capabilities are basically close to nothing.
He is clearly unqualified as a guard.
The imperial guards in Chen Ming's idea must have strong combat capabilities and protective abilities that are enough to persist in the enemy's base camp until other Zerg hide underground.
Therefore, the Imperial Guard Zerg can give up their comprehensive combat effectiveness and mobility and purely develop towards protection.
However, no Zerg unit meets this condition.
Even the Titan bugs, which currently seem to have the strongest protective capabilities, need to be at the forefront of the ground battlefield.
It also relies on its powerful and heavy charge to crush and destroy enemies, and then relies on its size to passively absorb all damage to protect other Zerg in disguise.
It's okay on some conflicting battlefields, but when it comes to invasion and needs to temporarily stay at a certain location to perform protection tasks, the Titan bug's own capabilities are not enough.
It can only be said that it is really difficult for a species like the Zerg, who are not afraid of death, to protect something even if they are weak in combat ability, just like all other bugs when necessary. They do not feel sorry for any loss. .
It is not enough to not be afraid of death on the battlefield.
Invasion can only send a limited number of Zerg to the enemy's territory. If you want to achieve your goal, you are just wasting the opportunity and giving the enemy time to prepare.
There must be enough combat power to protect those weak but extremely important insects, so that the insect nest can be built from the ground and destroy the enemy's planet from the inside.
The Zerg itself has little protective ability. Before, Chen Ming couldn't even imagine what kind of Zerg could meet his needs.
But if combined with the mechanical enlightenment nerve, the Imperial Guard will have suitable manufacturing conditions.
Chen Ming has already begun to plan to further increase the intensity of the attack on the mechanical star field, which also gives the imperial guards a sufficient environment for use.
When the Zerg attacks the mechanical planet and releases the Zerg, there are actually three dangers that need to be faced to protect these Zerg and build their nest.
Encirclement and suppression by ordinary units of the mechanical race, targeting by psychic units of the mechanical race, and attacks by orbital defense facilities.
Ground units can rely on the Zerg's own abilities to block,
It is to protect first and kill the enemy secondly.
The premise is that the body size of the Imperial Guard Zerg must be large enough.
Just use Titania as a template, change the shape of the original Titania's forelimbs, and form shield-like forelimbs by gathering a large amount of horn.
And further thickening the frontal carapace, at the expense of mobility, in exchange for absolute frontal defense power.
In battle, it relies purely on its own mass and brute force to inflict damage on the enemy through shield strikes.
If you want to defend against the ordinary ground units of the Mechanical Tribe, the protective capabilities of these Guard Zerg must be at least strong enough to withstand direct direct fire from the Centipede's charge cannon.
This is relatively easy to solve.
If the defense is not enough, psychic powers come to make up for it.
The psychic power of the Insect Queen is now effective enough to allow many Zerg races to withstand the attacks of many mechanical races while specifically strengthening their own carapace defenses
So on this basis, we only need to slightly improve the Titan bug.
Slightly corrected the size and proportions of the body, turning the originally charging Zerg into a defensive Zerg.
As long as the most basic mobility and mobility are guaranteed, flexible mechanical units will not be able to break through at will.
Then the air defense capability is improved a little, and it is basically enough to protect the Zerg units in front of the ordinary ground units of the mechanical race and send them underground.
Even if Chen Ming insists on making these demands, he can actually do it with a little research.
As long as he puts forward the idea, the insect queen will definitely help him realize it.
The real source of trouble that caused Chen Ming to start recruiting guards now was obviously the mechanical clan's psychic units and orbital defense facilities.
After the Zerg fleet breaks through the space defense line of a planet, the biggest trouble after entering the planet is these two.
Without sufficient support from the outside world.
Whether it is psychic mechanical units or orbital defense facilities, these are problems that most Zerg units cannot solve.
Unless the enemy is completely crushed in terms of numbers.
Just like the battle that just broke out.
The Machine Tribe failed to mobilize the Demon King immediately to clean up the Zerg while the Zerg had not established a firm foothold on the planet, which led to the development of the Zerg, and they just relied on their terrifying numbers to crush the Demon King.
If the Demon King came when the Zerg just landed, the situation would not be so smooth.
Next time, Chen Ming can be 100% sure that the Machine Tribe will definitely place at least three Demon Kings at the location where the Zerg Tribe will land.
Therefore, psychic mechanical individuals like the Demon King are a problem that must be solved when the Zerg invades in the future.
If it were a space war, the Purgatory Demon King would be like that, but on the ground, it would be difficult to break through the spiritual intensity of the Purgatory Core by relying solely on the physical strength of the Zerg units on the ground.
And this requires mechanical enlightenment nerves.
The black mist spiritual energy possessed by the black mist mechanical spiritual awakening nerve that Chen Ming just acquired is a very comprehensive existence that integrates displacement, protection, attack and other abilities.
Whether dealing with other psychic machines or orbital defense facilities, you can rely on it to solve most problems.
Although the mechanical spiritual enlightenment nerve itself is lower in intensity than the spiritual enlightenment nerve itself before being transformed, for the Guard Zerg, they do not need to defeat it, they only need to delay it for time.
Drag the bugs until they burrow into the ground, and their mission is completed.
Moreover, Chen Ming has just obtained the Black Mist Mechanical Awakening Nerve, and it will definitely need to be adjusted in the future.
If it really lacks strength, Chen Ming will have to collect some more spiritual energy from the core of the black mist.
It is impossible to say that it will be unstoppable.
Although it may not be possible to contend with the machine race for a long time.
Mechanical spiritual enlightenment nerves inherently have an upper limit, and at the same time, it is only a means of processing companion creatures such as spiritual energy and energy used by the Shining Civilization.
It's incomparable to the Purgatory Core that the Machine Tribe has on hand.
But it is not too difficult just to make the ability brought by the mechanical enlightenment nerve strong enough to withstand attacks from orbital defense facilities for a period of time.
Then Chen Ming only needs to cultivate the prototype of the Imperial Guard Zerg, and then implant the spiritual nerves into the freshly baked Imperial Guard Zerg units to complete the cultivation of the Imperial Guard Zerg... Probably...
In fact, it probably won't work, because there is still a very critical issue.
How to make the Zerg units learn to use the Black Mist Mechanical Nerve?
The mechanical psychic creatures of the mechanical race are equipped with mechanical spiritual nerves before they become mechanical psychic creatures. Through the process of transformation from biology to machinery, the biological and mechanical spiritual nerves are completely assimilated.
In this way, after the transformation is completed, the mechanical psychic creatures will master the use of those mechanical psychic nerves through the coordination of nanorobots.
But for the Zerg, being completely transformed into machines is no different than being useless.
If ordinary Zerg with a mechanical appearance master the spiritual power of the weak mechanical spiritual nerves and lose the power of the insect queen, and cannot use the mechanical spiritual nerves and the power of the insect queen together, then it will be useless. It's better to go directly to the Zerg.
So this is also an issue that needs to be considered.
And this problem has been solved with the emergence of half-mechanical, half-biological individuals like Sample Zero that combine the advantages of both.
As long as the transformation process is only half done, allowing Zerg individuals to partially mechanize and master the mechanical spiritual awakening neural abilities, and retaining most of the Zerg abilities, then the problem of being unable to use both the Zerg and mechanical spiritual awakening neural abilities at the same time can be solved.
However, the design of this complete device did not take into account Chen Ming's current need to only convert half of it.
It has no such functionality.
And if you take the initiative to take out the Zerg that is being transformed in the middle of the transformation process, or directly force it to shut down, then problems will definitely arise, instead of creating a half-mechanical, half-biological existence that can truly achieve the effect.
As for the damaged transformation facility that was eliminated, it is impossible to directly use it to transform the guards.
It looked like he had to do it himself.
Chen Ming always had a psychic power that he didn't use on the damaged device.
It is the advanced psychic effect of repair, deep repair, which can also be called deep repair.
Its previous function can optimize the target device, turning it into an almost perfect existence under its current function.
But now, after Chen Ming experienced another incident related to the scarlet dimension, it has undergone new changes.
In-depth maintenance will optimize the function goals in a comprehensive direction.
Whatever function the original goal has, it will be optimized in that direction.
But now, as long as Chen Ming has needs and ideas, he can actively use his spiritual energy to intervene in this deep maintenance process. Let the optimization process no longer be comprehensive, but shift in the direction he wants.
For example, with the one-third transformation facility in his hand, Chen Ming can optimize it to only transform semi-mechanical and semi-biological individuals.
Chen Ming did not use this psychic power before because he had not experienced the recent Scarlet Dimension incident, and he only had a solitary copy.
If there was a problem with the previous repairs, for example, if the facility was completely repaired and he was unable to continue transforming half-machine and half-living things, that would be troublesome.
But now he has added knowledge about the Scarlet Dimension, has improved his mastery of psychic powers, and has a second complete device.
He even learned a lot about half-mechanical and half-biological things through Sample Zero.
It's enough to do this.
With the activation of Chen Ming's psychic energy, the directional deep repair effect was applied to the one-third of the transformation facilities of the mechanical clan.
When he actively stimulated his spiritual energy for further influence, this facility gradually lost most of its functions, and eventually it only had the ability to mechanize some tissues and organs of living creatures.
Although this device lost a lot of extra value, its optimized results perfectly met Chen Ming's needs.
A guard Zerg that had just been cultivated by the Queen of Insects and implanted with the Black Mist Machine's Spiritual Enlightenment Nerve was also stuffed into this newly optimized facility.
After Chen Ming set the target of transformation to be the flesh and blood near the mechanical spiritual nerve implanted under the back carapace of the guard Zerg.
The transformation begins.
The nanobot crawled out of the facility and acted on the back of the guard zerg.
The way nanobots work is slightly different from before.
It no longer completely transforms flesh and blood into machinery.
Instead, it is transforming part of the flesh and blood tissue into a structure that can be interconnected with machinery.
And transform some machinery into a structure that can maintain close contact with flesh and blood without being mutually exclusive.
What Chen Ming wants is integration, not transformation or replacement.
That's what he thinks.
He relied on his psychic powers to apply his ideas to the facilities without understanding the working principles of these devices.
And he wanted to go one step further.
In the process of transforming the facility into operation, he still used the directional deep maintenance psychic energy to act on the facility.
He wanted to optimize the facility to what he most wanted to see.
Although he couldn't understand the working principle of the transformation facility at all, his psychic ability could understand it.
His hands can help him do things that he can calculate clearly and figure out.
And his psychic powers can help him do what he wants to do.
Time flies.
The conversion process ends.
The Imperial Guard Zerg emerged from the facility.
Its appearance hasn't changed much, except for the addition of mechanical spines on its back that run through the entire body.
In the body of the Guard Zerg, which cannot be seen from the outside, there are countless nerves derived from the mechanical spine that spread throughout the body of the Guard Zerg.
These nerves are extensions of the mechanical spine, allowing the power of the black mist to penetrate the entire body of the Zerg.
A faint black mist was slowly emanating from the body of the Imperial Guard Zerg.
As an exoskeleton creature, the Zerg may look strange if it has an extra spine, but this does not affect its effect.
Chen Ming directly used spiritual energy to bring this guard Zerg to him.
A huge body suddenly appeared in front of him.
Feeling the spiritual intensity brought to it by the Black Mist Mechanical Spirit-Awakening Nerve, he released his mental power to test the modified Guard Zerg.
No actual combat is required, only mental stimulation and simple simulation using mental power.
Chen Ming was able to determine that three or so Guard Zerg were enough to protect the Zerg invading the planet for a period of time from the attacks of the Purgatory Demon King and the orbital defense facilities.
Presumably soon, there will be the first battle belonging to this guard Zerg.
At that time, the existence value of such a guard can be verified.
After Chen Ming recorded the guard's data in detail, he sent it back to Chien enough to let the queen continue to create new guard individuals. He would then start the equipment again for transformation.
So there is not much to do in this task of the Imperial Guard.
And the next project to do.
It is the transformation of the black mist psyker's prosthetic body.
The parasite has been implanted into the body of the black mist psychic before, and the transformation of the human body into the insect body is almost complete.
However, Chen Ming has not yet attacked the brain of the Black Mist Psyker, because he has one last thing to do.
The black mist psyker was brought over from Chaofan, who had been raising the black mist conveniently, and a black mist mechanical spiritual nerve that was about the same size as a human spine was prepared.
The Queen of Insects performed a spinal replacement surgery on the black mist psyker, and implanted the black mist mechanical spiritual nerve into it.
The black mist psychic energy is originally the spiritual energy of the black mist psychic, so there is no need to master the use of the mechanical spiritual awakening nerve. The body of the black mist psychic can instinctively dispatch the black mist psychic energy.
Immediately afterwards, the consciousness in his brain was stimulated. After the body had the support of mechanical spiritual nerves, it was enough to support the much weakened consciousness of a psyker.
The Black Mist Psyker awoke.
He could feel something squirming inside him, and he wanted to say something, but his mouth didn't obey his orders at all.
He wanted to harness his psychic powers, but his psychic powers seemed to have abandoned him, treating him as nothing.
His consciousness was struggling wildly, but his body was lying calmly on the operating table.
There is nothing he can do.
This feeling of powerlessness and the unfamiliar environment around them gradually gave rise to fear in the hearts of the black mist psychics.
And when a set of footsteps slowly approached from a blind spot that was beyond his sight, this fear continued to increase.
"Okay, see you in the next life."
This familiar voice appeared in the ears of the Black Mist Psyker, and his pupils instantly shrank to the extreme. That was because he was extremely frightened.
But at the next moment, his pupils slowly expanded.
Chen Ming asked him to wake up just for a test to see what would happen if a psyker implanted a mechanical spiritual nerve with his own psionic effect.
Then the test has been tested, the data has been recorded, and it has also allowed the black mist psyker to take a last look at the world, at least he will not die in confusion.
As a leftist, he must die in fear, right?
Otherwise, it would be a great injustice to his status.
The black mist psyker's brain was directly swallowed by the Queen of Worms, and the memory in it was extracted by the Queen of Worms and handed over to Chen Ming.
There was nothing valuable about these memories, and Chen Ming did not pay too much attention to them.
He still had to complete the transformation process of the Black Mist Psyker first.
He wants to make the Black Mist Psyker into a prosthesis that combines biological, mechanical, and spiritual abilities.
Chen Ming also thought about its background story.
It is an experimental subject of a fusion experiment between humans and Zerg, mixed with the psychic effects of some black mist psykers.
The meaning of his existence is to be a psyker who induces the Zerg to attack the Machine Tribe.
A psyker suspected of being a remnant of the Left Path used black mist psychic energy to guide the Zerg to do things.
Of course this will happen later.
He had to wait until An Wuping's script in his imagination was completed before appearing.
If Chen Ming guessed correctly, the Black Mist Prosthesis should soon find a suitable opportunity.
With the previous and recent experiences, Chen Ming quickly completed the transformation of the black mist psyker.
And sent the black mist prosthesis to a suitable place.
After sending away the black mist prosthesis, Chen Ming has almost everything to do now.
The next step is to target the mechanical race.
But before taking the next step.
He also did something else.
It was he who took Yan Xiong back from Chaofan, extracted his spirit iron spiritual nerve that can convert ordinary metals into spiritual metal, and turned it into spirit iron core and spiritual iron mechanical enlightenment through facilities. Spiritual nerve.
It has also been implanted into Zerg individuals of the Imperial Guard level and continues to be used to provide research samples to Chaofan and to provide psychic metal materials to Chen Ming.
Make it a thorough tool.
It can be regarded as helping Yan Xiong to be liberated from torture and reincarnate as soon as possible.
Of course, because Yan Xiong himself is a level 6 psyker. It was just because Chen Ming had used trickery to defeat him.
Chen Ming didn't give him the chance to wake up and take a last look at the world and know how he died.
He directly extracted the spiritual nerve and killed the person decisively.
The same goes for the other psyker.
His spiritual nerve was also extracted by Chen Ming, and the person was also transformed into a prosthetic body by Chen Ming. However, his spiritual nerve was not transformed into a core, but was retained.
This kind of pure spiritual power is condensed to the extreme to achieve pure spiritual energy of various effects.
Quite special.
Keep it for a while and it might have other value.
After extracting the spiritual enlightenment nerves of these two people, and doing the corresponding processing.
Chen Ming can be regarded as completing something that he has been thinking about for a long time.
Next, after a simple rest.
He wants to extend his claws against the machine race again.
(End of chapter)