Chapter 345 Answer, New Front
Minister Hou continued to ask a few questions that were insignificant to Chen Ming.
A more critical question was asked: "Is there anything special about that insect queen? Why can it be spiritually linked to you?"
Chen Ming had already prepared for this question and replied: "I don't know."
"When our spaceship crashed, everyone died, and I was the only one who survived."
"As soon as I crawled out of the wreckage, I was dragged to the underground lair by several insects, and saw the insect queen."
"Then my spiritual energy awakened, and I had a spiritual connection with it,"
"To this day I still don't know why."
No one can say for sure about psychic things.
Minister Hou passed this question and continued to ask, and his next question was also more important: "How much Zerg power do you have?"
Chen Ming said truthfully again: "Just that planet."
However, Minister Hou asked with some doubt: "Just one planet?"
Judging from the information obtained by Chen Ming, the scale of power possessed by An Wuping is not something that can be achieved on just one planet.
"It's really just a planet."
Minister Hou obviously still didn't believe it, but he did not continue to ask, but changed the question: "I noticed that almost all of your Zerg fleets are cruisers. Don't you have higher or lower warships? ”
"Yes, there are, but no matter how small a ship is, I feel like it is really just cannon fodder in terms of combat effectiveness."
"The Zerg's biological spaceships have no shields, and small boats cannot rely on the shields of larger ships to work, so small boats are basically integrated into cruisers and used as fighter planes."
"I really don't have a high-end one, which is a battleship."
These can be easily seen through records, so Chen Ming did not hide anything at all at this time and continued to cooperate with him and said whatever he asked.
"Why doesn't the biological spaceship have a shield?"
"What's the reason for this? It's because the insect queen can't convert the shield system into a biological device. If she can't get a shield, she'll just have to use armor to resist."
Minister Hou nodded and continued to ask: "Then why do you want your Zerg to attack the Machine Tribe?"
"That's Chen Ming's need."
An Wuping decisively betrayed Chen Ming at this time and said: "Some of his resource mining strongholds were demolished by the Machine Clan. He didn't want to fight against the Machine Clan too early, so he asked me to take revenge."
"I see, but why would your Zerg fleet be completely wiped out in revenge?"
The expression on An Wuping's face changed slightly when he heard this question, and he responded: "Because Chen Ming needs to wipe out his entire army so that he will not leave too many traces."
"I also have my own thoughts here, that is, if those Zerg fleets survive, they will have to return to their home planet sooner or later. In order to avoid being destroyed by the mechanical tracking group, it is a more appropriate ending there."
Minister Hou heard this and couldn't understand An Wuping's thoughts, so he directly regarded the second half of An Wupo's sentence as a lie told under pressure from Chen Ming.
After all, those were tens of thousands of cruisers, and they were just given away so casually.
Whichever star field these tens of thousands of cruisers are placed in is not a treasure, but they are given away casually by An Wuping just so that the coordinates of the home star are not exposed.
Is this really the case? Or is there really only one planet occupied by the Zerg?
He asked: "Didn't you help Chen Ming clean up the mechanical fleet on a large scale earlier? Didn't they all jump from the home star? Aren't you afraid of being discovered at this time?"
"At that time, almost all the machines that the Zerg fleet raided were wiped out. Even if there were survivors, it would be impossible to track the location of the home planet in such a short period of time."
"I have time to move the remaining Zerg away."
"Move? Where do you plan to go?"
"Not sure yet, because I have to continue to work for Chen Ming, and there are no good places nearby."
Minister Hou did not continue to ask further on this topic.
An Wuping had already decided to migrate after exposing the coordinates of the Zerg home planet, and he should not make the mistake of exposing the coordinates again, no matter to whom.
Asking for such crucial information about abilities was in vain, so he changed the topic again.
"What did Chen Ming give you? To make you sacrifice so much to help him?"
An Wuping did not answer and chose to remain silent.
Minister Hou seemed to have noticed something and asked tentatively: "Aren't you curious about how we discovered your Zerg?"
An Wuping said matter-of-factly: "How else could we find out? I'm helping Chen Ming, and it's impossible for him to cover up an attack of that scale. If any ship in the empire saw it and sent the news back, wouldn't it be discovered?"< br>
Minister Hou showed a smile on his face and said: "But in fact, the empire still has not received news about the reconnaissance fleet lingering behind the mechanical tribe."
"It was Chen Ming who took the initiative to leak the news. It seems that he wanted to clear up the relationship with you, but he failed."
"And he probably didn't expect that you would tell him so decisively."
After Minister Hou finished speaking, he saw that An Wuping was dazed and made small movements with his hands more and more frequently.
He suddenly felt that the relationship between Chen Ming and An Wuping might not be a partnership, but a unilateral cooperation relationship in which one party was strong and the other was weak.
Considering that An Wuping's previous situation was indeed controlled by others, it was normal for Chen Ming to take the opportunity to do something.
And he was nodding secretly in his heart at this time.
As a member of the Empire's ruling class, he did not want to have too close a connection between two powerful and troublesome psykers.
If it can slightly affect the cooperative relationship between An Wuping and Chen Ming, whether it is equal or unequal cooperation, it will be valuable to the empire.
At the moment, An Wuping didn't know if he was angry because Chen Ming took the initiative to end the relationship in advance, or if he was worried because he failed to achieve Chen Ming's purpose. It must have planted a thorn between the two.
Minister Hou then brought up the next issue that might affect the relationship between the two.
"Then what happened in the battle that wiped out your Zerg fleet?"
"As far as I know, if it is just for revenge, it will be enough when your fleet destroys all the ships attacking Chen Ming's stronghold."
"There is no benefit in continuing the attack. Instead, you were counterattacked by the Machine Clan's mothership, causing you more losses. Is this revenge against the Machine Clan? Why do I feel like it's against you?",
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An Wuping did not answer this question directly this time, but thought about it carefully.
He acted like he didn't want to say it but suddenly wanted to say it and replied: "It's not just revenge. It's Chen Ming who wants to use my power to grab something from the Machine Tribe."
"But the result... I don't know if you saw it or not, but three motherships suddenly came out and destroyed the planet without giving Chen Ming a chance to grab anything. All my Zerg remained there."
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"What does he want?"
"I don't know."
An Wuping responded, and immediately added in the wrong direction: "But I guess he asked me to use so much force and make such a big noise. Maybe he wanted the Mechanical Tribe planet itself, so the Mechanical Tribe used the mothership to destroy it. Planet.”
"There is no need for the machine race to do this, right?"
"If you include my spiritual power... it should be there. Whether it is for me or Chen Ming to come into contact with the planet, this planet is already finished for the mechanical race."
Minister Hou immediately considered An Wuping's words.
I found this to be true.
As long as Chen Ming's spiritual power allows him to come into contact with the territory of the Machine Tribe, the entire planet may fall directly under his control.
And if An Wuping's spiritual power is calculated according to what he has seen so far.
Such a small amount of resources on a planet can produce a fleet of more than 100,000 cruisers, and it still retains a large amount of effective force.
Such terrifying resource conversion efficiency...
If the Zerg are parasitized deep underground on the planet, then if the mechanical tribe does not have weapons targeting the deep underground, they will indeed have no choice but to destroy the planet to prevent it from becoming a nest for the development of the Zerg.
But it is still uncertain whether An Wuping and his Zerg really have such amazing abilities.
So for the time being, he could only put a question mark on what An Wuping said based on the recorded information.
In addition, Minister Hou also knew that haste leads to waste, so after asking this question, he did not continue to sow discord, nor did he continue to excessively force An Wuping after knowing enough information.
"That's almost it. Last question, do you have any thoughts of leaving the empire?"
"Leave? I put so much effort into returning to the empire. Why should I leave? Is it fun to deal with bugs every day?"
An Wuping's tone was a little harsh when he said this.
But Minister Hou didn't care.
Anyway, he has seen An Wuping's attitude today.
Although both An Wuping and Chen Ming can be considered good people, their ideas and attitudes can be said to be completely different.
He should have a chance to chat with An Wuping again in the future.
Minister Hou turned off the terminal, stretched out his hand to An Wuping and said, "Okay, that's it for today. Thank you for your cooperation."
Although An Wuping looked a little unhappy, he still didn't go too far. He stood up and shook hands with Minister Hou, turned around and left the room made of silent alloy material.
Minister Hou opened the terminal after closing the door, and reported the news he had just obtained to the empire's senior officials.
After telling the "truth" that Chen Ming wanted the empire to know about the Zerg attack on the machine race that Chen Ming took the initiative to reveal.
Minister Hou talked about An Wuping's spiritual power again: "Now it has been confirmed that An Wuping's spiritual power is not just a simple physical strengthening type of spiritual power, but a more special spiritual connection with living things. Let's let A psionic ability that possesses the ability of a connected creature of its own ”
"This type of psionic power is rarer than psykers with both physical mutation and physical enhancement types. There has been one before..."
Minister Hou was suddenly interrupted mid-sentence by the person on the other end of the terminal: "Don't mention this. I know that person's situation better than you. Let's continue talking about An Wuping."
"Yes."
"An Wuping's spiritual power must not only strengthen himself, but his ability to control the Zerg must be stronger than his own ability."
"The preliminary speculation from the Psionics Research Institute is that the group of Zerg he controls are special and have the ability to convert inorganic substances into energy, or An Wuping has the ability to strengthen the Zerg, giving the Zerg this ability."
"I will send you the analysis report soon."
"Except for the fact that he concealed his psychic abilities to a degree that exceeded our imagination, his overall performance was similar to his previous situation."
"There must be some concealment and lies in what An Wuping said today, but he has already said a lot with enough information, which is enough to show that he and Chen Ming have completely different ideas."
"And from the fact that he told the news about Chen Ming without hesitation, it can be seen that his sense of belonging to the empire has always been higher than that of Chen Ming."
"You can try to develop him."
The man at the other end of the terminal said: "Okay, you can continue to follow up later to further confirm the relationship between him and Chen Ming. If necessary, you can also contact Chen Ming side by side."
"Chen Ming encountered too many things after returning to the empire. There is a high probability that he will not be able to change his mind. But An Wuping does not seem to be such a person. Don't push him down the wrong path."
"If someone raises his psyker level, a Zerg fleet of that size would be enough to be considered level 6."
"In addition, do not use any threats of force, and do not regard killing An Wuping as the final resort."
"The Zerg race is a hive mind. I suspect that An Wuping's consciousness will still exist in the hive mind even if his body dies."
"Yes."
Minister Hou agreed immediately. Suddenly he seemed to think of something. Just as he was about to speak, he hesitated, and ultimately did not speak of what he had thought of.
At this moment, the doorbell of his room suddenly rang.
He immediately connected to the surveillance camera outside the room and found that An Wuping had returned to the door.
I saw An Wuping waving to the surveillance camera at the door and saying, "Something happened suddenly. Let's chat again."
A voice immediately sounded from the terminal: "No need to hang up."
Minister Hou put away the terminal and put it in a private place. He stood up and opened the door of the compartment.
"What's wrong?"
"Something happened just now. Some Zerg escaped from the Queen's control and headed towards the territory of the Machine Clan."
They didn't expect that what they had just talked about would actually happen so soon.
Minister Hou was stunned for a while.
An Wuping's previous cooperative attitude made him have almost no doubts at this time, and he immediately asked Chen Ming to go back to the room and sit down, and this time he did not close the door.
"Tell me more specifically."
An Wuping cleared his throat and said, "Just now..."
Just now, An Wuping received news from Liang Fei and Li Wei that they wanted to talk to Minister Hou.
Chen Ming knew that the time had come, so from the beginning, in addition to continuing to use part of his consciousness to control An Wuping and Minister Hou,
He also sent part of his consciousness to the black mist prosthesis that was staying on a Zerg warship.
At this time, the black mist prosthesis has undergone earth-shaking changes compared to its previous normal human appearance, and has turned into a real monster.
Although it still has a human form, some of the features that belong to the Zerg and Machine races have been irregularly distorted and separated from what looks like a human body.
Of course, this is not a real distortion, but Chen Ming deliberately made it look like a failed experiment when designing it.
In fact, the function is absolutely fine, it's just a bit ugly.
And just after Chen Ming transferred his consciousness to the black mist prosthetic body.
The black mist prosthetic immediately released a large amount of black mist, starting from the cruiser he was on and covering more Zerg cruisers around him.
Almost one-third of the total number of Zerg warships staying in orbit were completely enveloped.
Although the Zerg fleet in orbit has been reduced by about half after the Zerg Queen has just formed a slight formation, the number is still terrifying.
It can only be said that the black mist prosthesis does not have this ability under normal circumstances.
But because the Black Mist Core had no place to use for the time being, Chen Ming first stuffed the Black Mist Core into the Black Mist Prosthesis, and then used his own mental power to dispatch the Black Mist psychic energy. The effect was immediately obvious.
And just after the black mist covered one-third of the Zerg, a special pheromone suddenly appeared in the black mist, which acted on all the Zerg units.
There was some confusion in the Zerg fleet, and then they left the main force and headed towards the edge of the galaxy.
It was as if pheromones were guiding them in a certain direction.
Of course, Chen Ming is actually in control.
It's just that what he needs to show the Zerg fleet now is that the black mist prosthesis used special means to control these Zerg and did the next thing.
The Insect Queen had already divided the teams just now, leaving a Zerg fleet for the Black Mist Prosthesis.
What Black Mist wants to do is also very simple.
Just to make some noise.
It is best to make a big movement, something that can be seen by everyone and all the machine races.
The Zerg fleet shrouded in black mist soon arrived at the edge of the galaxy, entered hyperspace and began to move straight in the direction of the Empire.
If it doesn't circle around a little, this fleet shrouded in black mist will soon encounter a star area of the mechanical race.
Of course, it was not the material-rich nebula area that Chen Ming targeted.
It is another star area that belongs to the border, where a large number of defense facilities are deployed in basically all galaxies.
As a hard nut to crack, Chen Ming would not go to this place when he was full and would not get enough benefits from defeating or destroying it.
But if it is used to attract the attention of both the Empire and the Machine Tribe for the Black Mist Prosthesis, then this is a perfect place.
The Zerg warships, shrouded in large black fog, suddenly started their biological jump engines after sailing for a certain distance.
They were divided into several fleets and rushed directly into the Mechanical Race's star domain. In several star systems on the border of the Mechanical Race's star domain, they simultaneously launched what was almost a suicide attack.
And at the same time that the black mist prosthesis was trying to die.
Chen Ming's subjective consciousness is paying attention to the area that is his main target.
The strength of the back of the hand in this area is much looser than when the Black Mist Prosthesis is attacking at this time.
After all, this is not a border, but an area wrapped and protected by the border.
It occupies approximately one-third of one of the seven star regions divided by the Star Gate.
There are a total of more than ninety valuable galaxies and about four hundred planets with high development value.
Just looking at the proportion of valuable galaxies and planets can tell how rich this area is.
If it weren't for the fact that the Mechanical Tribe's star field is relatively small and the area of this nebula is not too large, the Mechanical Tribe would probably have more resources.
But soon, these rich resources no longer belonged to the mechanical race, but to the Zerg race.
This entire logistics star field of the mechanical clan is his target.
Although Chen Ming had roughly estimated it just now.
At present, the scale of his Zerg fleet can only affect about forty mechanical planets in more than a dozen galaxies at the same time.
It's barely bearable.
Anyway, all the galaxies here are important to the mechanical race, and all planets play an important role in the mechanical race's logistical support.
If the logistics base here is destroyed, the power of the mechanical clan will inevitably weaken to a considerable extent.
Even if it is not destroyed, as long as the Machine Tribe is willing to dispatch the mothership to clean up the Zerg Tribe, it will be a sure profit for Chen Ming.
Not to mention that there are also some planets in the galaxy where no mechanical race exists, and Zerg can also be released.
The mechanical tribe feels that there are no resources to develop, but from the perspective of the Zerg tribe, the planet itself is a resource.
These planets may not necessarily have the defense methods of the mechanical race.
As long as you drill a bug into the Zerg, you won't know what it crawls out after a while.
After confirming that the Black Mist side began to engage with the defense forces of the mechanical tribe.
Chen Ming deliberately waited for a while to give the machine clan time to respond and send additional troops to the border where the black mist prosthetics were fighting.
After receiving the news from the Black Mist Prosthesis that the second wave of reinforcements from the mechanical tribe had arrived.
Chen Ming gave instructions to the insect queen.
The fleets that had just disappeared from the orbit of the worm nest planet and near the worm nest planet immediately started their jump engines.
Within the entire area that was Chen Ming's target, there were countless transition fluctuations.
The Zerg fleet, which once again numbered more than 200,000 cruisers, directly crossed the border and penetrated deep into the Mechanical Race's star domain.
It even dispersed into dozens of smaller fleets and attacked different galaxies.
Doing so is likely to cause Chen Ming to lose more than 200,000 cruisers again.
But anyway, his goal is not to win, but to break through the defense line of the mechanical tribe and send the Zerg to the planet of the mechanical tribe. As long as he can deliver it, the amount of loss is no longer a problem.
Of course, this combat method can only be used when attacking border planets.
If Chen Ming dares to jump into an area that is really too deep in the mechanical race's star field, and go directly to find trouble in the most important star systems of the mechanical race.
Even if his Zergs die, they may not be able to touch the planet itself, let alone cause enough damage to the mothership.
But at least this tactic, which is almost equal to death, is still very useful near the border area.
Even after the combat power was dispersed, many Zerg fleets were wiped out in space.
But it was precisely this dispersed attack method that made the defense forces in the logistics sector of the Machine Tribe a little late in responding.
The orbital defense lines of several planets have been breached.
And the moment the Zerg landed on the planets that had broken through the orbital defense facilities.
In a sudden burst of black mist, several Zerg Guards wrapped in thick black mist appeared.
The mechanical race could only see the Imperial Guard Zerg for a moment, and then the surging black mist completely enveloped the surrounding environment, covering the Zerg units digging underground.
Even the mechanical race had urgently used the jump ability of the cruiser to deploy units such as Demon Kings on many planets within a few hours after Chen Ming's trouble.
The working logic of some orbital defense facilities has also been modified, allowing some facilities to be dedicated to internal defense.
Just to avoid the trouble caused by the Zerg going deep underground after landing.
But the firepower of these beings cannot directly break through the defense formed by the multiple layers of black mist.
The turbulent black mist is like a huge dark parasite, injecting its eggs into the mechanical race's planet.
Although the mechanical tribe was already trying their best, they still failed to completely protect themselves from Chen Ming's rapid attack just a few hours later.
As long as there are bugs under the cover of the black mist that penetrate into a depth that the mechanical race cannot handle for the time being, those few guard bugs will immediately disappear and appear on the new battlefield.
Continue to cover the next batch of Zerg, break through the defense line of the mechanical planet, and go deep underground.
Although due to the limitation of the amount of black mist spiritual energy, the number of black mist mechanical spiritual awakening nerves is limited, there are only seven in total, and there are only seven black mist guards Zerg.
Including the Psychic Guard Zerg that Chen Ming made with the leftover materials of the Psychic Enlightenment Nerve, there are only twelve in total.
Responsible for the protection of up to three Zerg landing sites at the same time.
However, after Chen Ming and the Insect Queen specially adjusted the rhythm of their attacks on different galaxies, these guard Zerg were enough.
Their combat effectiveness is enough to protect the Zerg units to achieve their goals.
As long as the insect eggs can be placed deep underground on the mechanical planet, the rest of the work can be left to the insect queen, and there is no need for Chen Ming to worry about anything.
But accidents often come sooner than tomorrow.
Not to mention it’s not even tomorrow yet.
On the battlefield where the Zerg Guards were the first to arrive, where the battle was about to end, a sound that seemed to be drowning in the deep sea suddenly sounded.
"Phase Beast?"
(End of chapter)