Chapter 358 Progress
The galaxy occupied by the Empire in the territory of the Machine Tribe that the two Mechanical Tribe motherships headed to was named Liugang by the Empire.
Liugang is not an important galaxy, it just has two standard industrial colonies of the mechanical race.
And a week ago, the empire destroyed the defense force inside the system, leaving only a fleet company of about 150 ships stationed here.
Cooperate with the army of the empire to control and manage the industrial colonies of the mechanical tribe.
There are many more galaxies like this, and the number of more valuable galaxies occupied by the empire is definitely not a handful.
But the Machine Tribe happened to jump here, making it difficult for Chen Ming not to believe that the Machine Tribe was not testing something.
But there's no time to think about it now.
The impact of the two motherships on the fleet here was absolutely devastating, and he had to take action immediately.
At this time, he was on the company fleet flagship inside the Liugang Galaxy.
Commander and captain Cheng Xinghai was staring nervously at the console in front of him from the main seat in the command room.
Apparently she had discovered the sudden and unabashed transition fluctuations in the galaxy, and also noticed the huge scale of this transition fluctuations.
No matter what is behind such a large-scale jump fluctuation, it is definitely not something they can resist now.
Therefore, after ordering the fleet to stay away from the source of the jump fluctuation, she reported the existence of the jump fluctuation to her superiors.
At this moment, she felt that her wrist suddenly became a little heavy.
Looking down, some metallic liquid was flowing out and dripping from the wristband given by Chen Ming on her wrist.
And these metallic liquids dripping on the floor of the spacecraft are quickly forming a powered armor robot.
The appearance of the robot immediately attracted the attention of everyone in the command room.
Several people picked up their weapons with caution, but immediately put them down under Cheng Xinghai's order.
Chen Ming's voice quickly came from the robot that had not yet fully formed: "Retreat, here are two mechanical race motherships."
"I know."
No asking, no questioning.
Cheng Xinghai, who had roughly guessed the scale of the incoming mechanical force, immediately issued a retreat order, asking the fleet she led to head to the edge of the galaxy as quickly as possible to retreat through hyperspace.
Even if the order from her superiors hadn't come down yet, even if Chen Ming didn't suddenly appear to remind her, she still had to make a decision at this time.
As long as you enter hyperspace, you can quickly leave the galaxy by using the hyperspace channel jump engine developed by Chen Ming, which has been installed on the Legion's battleships.
"Commander..."
Just as someone was about to say something, Cheng Xinghai immediately said in an unquestionable voice: "Follow the order."
"Yes."
She turned to Chen Ming and said: "I just told my superiors that the scale of the jump is very large, and there is suspected to be a battleship. My superiors said that reinforcements are on the way."
The Cheng Xinghai on the battlefield was very different from the Cheng Xinghai Chen Ming had known in school. There was almost no emotion in the communication and he looked extremely cold.
But Chen Ming didn't feel any problem.
Because after Cheng Xinghai finished the training camp, his communication with Cheng Xinghai basically never stopped. He has been guiding Cheng Xinghai to develop her psychic abilities.
This ability to block all one's emotions is an application method developed by Cheng Xinghai when he was developing his own brain-strengthening effect.
Forcibly suppressing some of your emotions, you can make decisions and make judgments without being disturbed by any emotions, and everything only follows logic.
In ordinary life, such spiritual energy is meaningless and useless spiritual energy with greater negative effects.
But on the battlefield, this ability is of full value.
There is no need to think too much about the situation. You only need to consider the reason for Chen Ming's sudden appearance here and the situation Cheng Xinghai himself saw, and you can analyze the most reasonable approach as quickly as possible.
That is to say, they listened to Chen Ming's retreat and did not consider continuing to station the fleet to indicate the target for subsequent reinforcements.
Chen Ming responded to what Cheng Xinghai said at this time: "It doesn't matter whether reinforcements come or not. It might be better if they don't come."
"Why do you say that?"
As soon as Cheng Xinghai asked the question, the flagship's sensors scanned the transition fluctuations again.
The scale of this jump fluctuation is even greater than that of the two motherships, and it has even covered the entire galaxy.
"That's why."
The two motherships of the mechanical race jumped into the galaxy the moment Chen Ming finished speaking.
It immediately locked onto Cheng Xinghai's fleet, the only one still sailing in space in the galaxy.
The light on the spine cannon suddenly lit up.
The metallic liquid controlled by Chen Ming has not stopped spreading since just now, extending directly from Cheng Xinghai's flagship, and in the blink of an eye, the entire Cheng Xinghai fleet was under his control.
The power of the scarlet dimension was subsequently activated, sending the entire fleet to the edge of the galaxy.
The mothership's attack fell into the air.
The heart rates of everyone in the command room at least doubled in just a few seconds.
The scene in front of them that suddenly distorted and quickly returned to normal made their heartbeats nearly stop after reaching the limit.
But when they noticed that they were not dead, but seemed to be moved to other places by an unknown force.
They finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Although Cheng Xinghai's face was a little pale, she used her spiritual power to quickly suppress the irrelevant emotions.
She knew clearly that Chen Ming must have done something just now.
But just as he was about to speak, the subsequent jump fluctuations also condensed and took shape.
The pitch-black Zerg warship wrapped in pitch-black mist also arrived in the galaxy.
Cheng Xinghai immediately changed what she wanted to say and asked: "What is that?"
"The Thorn Zerg." Chen Ming said: "Record the next scene, it will be valuable."
"The Thorn Zerg..."
Cheng Xinghai's first reaction was that these bugs were related to Chen Ming.
Although she didn't know An Wuping, nor did she know the relationship between Chen Ming and An Wuping.
But she was very curious about Chen Ming's past some time ago, so she asked Chen Ming a lot about his past.
Naturally, he was also aware of the bug that almost handed Chen Ming over to the mining space station.
But she didn't know why the Thorn Zerg actually had a biological warship, was surrounded by a thick layer of fog that looked extremely dangerous, and finally appeared here.
The black mist bugs completely surrounded the two motherships, and the endless black mist was constantly eating away at the heavily surrounded motherships.
The spacecraft on the edge of the galaxy could only see through the sensors the energy escaping from the surging main weapons in the black fog.
But those swirling energies look no different from the mothership's death struggle.
Then, before the war between the Zergs and the Machines was over, new fluctuations appeared again at the edge of the galaxy.
But this time it is not a jump fluctuation, because the jump in the galaxy has been unable to proceed due to the large-scale jump of the Black Mist Zerg.
What appears now is a hyperspace fluctuation that is comparable in scale to the jump fluctuation.
Countless Thrawn Zerg fleets are entering the edge of the galaxy through hyperspace.
What they did was the same as what the Destroyer Mothership did when Chen Ming attacked the mechanical race and the galaxy's jump fluctuations were blocked.
The emergence of these new Zerg is the back-up prepared by Chen Ming to avoid direct conflict between the Black Mist Zerg and the Imperial Fleet.
The location where they appeared was just in front of the retreat direction of Cheng Xinghai's fleet.
The expressions of those who had just survived the disaster in the flagship command room and on all the ships in the fleet suddenly changed again.
Cheng Xinghai was thinking quickly at this time, but she had no way to escape when faced with absolute power.
"It's okay, just go there."
Chen Ming's voice made Cheng Xinghai find a way out in his thinking.
She immediately ordered: "Keep the formation, silence the weapons, and continue to move forward."
Although the fleet was somewhat panicked and made some operational mistakes, it finally calmed down.
Many people on the spaceship have already realized how they just avoided the attack of the mechanical mothership, so when facing these biological warships this time, nothing will happen to them.
Just after the Cheng Xinghai fleet and the newly arrived Zerg fleet passed each other head-on, they staggered away without interfering with each other.
The Black Mist Zerg tribe inside the galaxy suddenly seemed to have noticed something, and became even more crazy, intensifying their attack on the Machine Tribe mothership.
Soon, there was no sound at all in the thick black fog.
When the Black Mist Zerg rearranged themselves into a battle formation, the black mist gradually loosened up a bit, and the two mechanical motherships were no longer visible in the black mist.
However, the Black Mist Zerg have discovered a new target.
A civil war among the Zerg suddenly broke out.
This is an extremely brutal battle, a battle that is still bloody in the space age.
Everyone in the flagship command room was watching the battle with rapt attention.
But Chen Ming had no interest in watching it at all.
He first called some people, and then directly handed over all the command of the battle to the insect queen. Anyway, as long as the ordinary Zerg won in the end, it would be fine.
If the black mist prosthetic shows its face midway and shows signs of escape, the problem will be solved.
He disappeared on the flagship without saying hello to anyone.
Not long after, reinforcements from the front line also arrived in the Liugang Galaxy.
It is a fleet led by an offensive class.
The captain of the offensive had just received the order to wait and see what happened, so he did not fire directly at the Zerg, but silently observed the Zerg on both sides fighting each other.
Capital ships usually carry portable faster-than-light communication base stations, so the entire battle was transmitted back to the empire.
But everyone who has seen this video has made a judgment on one thing.
That is, there is no relationship between the Black Mist Zerg and the ordinary Thorn Zerg.
This is not only the judgment made by this battle, but also because of the reasons on the pirate space station.
Since the Black Mist Zerg Fleet was still an egg, Chen Ming deliberately exposed it to the Empire, allowing the Zerg Fleet to be monitored by the Empire.
Therefore, the entire process from the departure of the Black Mist Zerg Fleet to the attack on the Machine Tribe and the driving away of the three Machine Tribe motherships was all observed by the Empire.
Of course, the jump destinations of the three motherships were quickly determined. The situation on the pirate space station was immediately delivered to the hands of all people with sufficient identities in the empire.
After all, there were millions of Zerg cruisers, and they were completely killed by Wu An in a single encounter.
The aftermath of the Zerg biological spaceships and the mighty mental fluctuations all over the galaxy cannot be faked.
No matter how fast the Zerg reproduce, such horrific losses in the blink of an eye make it difficult for anyone to imagine that this was done to conceal their identity.
Therefore, after receiving the news, most people believed that the possibility of An Wuping and Chen Ming directing and acting was further reduced.
After all, with such powerful power, many things can be said directly, or even directly used violence. There is no need to do such an act that seems to break one's own arm.
at this time.
In the capital galaxy of the empire.
Within a building on a certain planet.
Minister Lu of the Psychic Census Department hung up the video call with Minister Hou of the Aodan Star Territory. His face looked very ugly.
He once again called up An Wuping's information and watched it repeatedly.
Sudden.
He threw the information to the ground, lit a cigarette for himself, took a long puff, then put out the almost burned cigarette holder in the ashtray, and lit a new one for himself.
But doing so couldn't relieve the pressure on his mind.
He was asking himself why he hadn't noticed that An Wuping and Chen Ming were so similar before.
They are all good-natured people. They usually do things by themselves without making a sound, which makes people think that they are soft persimmons that can be pinched.
As a result, when someone really gets into trouble, they will find themselves in huge trouble.
The last time Chen Ming was provoked was the Fourteenth Army Corps, and in the end the problem was forcibly solved by the commander of the Fourteenth Army Corps.
And this time it seemed that he was the one who provoked An Wuping.
At the same time, on the pirate space station.
In a hardware store.
The boss hung up the phone and said to Chen Ming's robot that had not disappeared next to him: "The news has basically spread throughout the entire empire. People with the ability and qualifications have basically watched all the videos. Next, An Wuping should Become the focus of the entire empire ”
Chen Ming responded: "This is what I want to see."
"So where are you now?"
"The stargate has been obtained, but there is only one. The mothership carrying the Destroyer has temporarily escaped it, but my next plan is for it, it cannot escape."
The boss didn't ask Chen Ming why he had to bring An Wuping out to attract the attention of the empire, and then secretly went to fight an entire mechanical race in the star field alone.
He respects Chen Ming's decision.
After all, even in his opinion, the power of the Zerg is a bit too exaggerated. In his opinion, it is even more exaggerated than Chen Ming's current ability.
It made the boss a little uncomfortable to imagine what the empire's attitude would be if Chen Ming was revealed to be An Wuping.
After all, he really saw the potential in the Zerg to compete with the Empire now.
And he had seen this potential in Chen Ming a long time ago.
And when two potentials are concentrated in one person, can the empire really accommodate this person?
He was not sure, so he respected all Chen Ming's decisions and would never ask any more questions.
But he still had to say something: "You should deal with those Zerg warships in the galaxy as soon as possible. I can stop some people from using serious means to touch those Zerg warships, but I can't stop some people from privately thinking of ways to obtain Zerg warships. Sample.”
Chen Ming responded: "I have arranged for the Zerg fleet to come over. When the time comes, I will just pretend to implant the Zerg consciousness and drive the ship away."
"Then I think you seem to be thinking about something. You haven't done anything for a long time."
Chen Ming looked down at himself through the perspective of the robot in front of his boss, and at the same time made sure that he did not install any device to simulate expressions on the robot.
"Don't look at it. I just feel that you are thinking about something important. You don't even want to worry about your own Zerg spaceship."
Chen Ming shrugged and said: "Now that the Star Gate is completed, the problem of the Zerg being forced to run into the empire has been solved, and the problem of the Machine Tribe's raid on the Star Sea has also been solved."
"I just want to do two things now. One is to get the Destroyer."
Chen Ming felt that he had better go faster.
Because he doesn't have much time.
To be precise, the machine race's time is running out.
The combat effectiveness of the Machine Tribe is rapidly being wiped out because of him, and the empire will soon discover the emptiness of the Machine Tribe's military strength and continue to advance.
Although there is a difference between conquering a galaxy and occupying a planet, as long as the empire still wants to occupy the planet of the mechanical race, it will have to fight a ground war.
Even if every galaxy is occupied, as long as the planet is not completely occupied, the war cannot be considered over.
Unless Chen Ming intervenes in the ground war between the Empire and the Machine Tribe, it will still take time.
But this does not affect advancement on the actual front.
As long as the battle line is pushed to the rear of the Mechanical Tribe, it means that the Mechanical Tribe's Destroyer Mothership may fight against the Empire's fleet at any time.
If the Destroyer is killed while fighting the Empire's level 6 psykers, Chen Ming will lose the opportunity to obtain the Destroyer.
So we need to take action as soon as possible to get what he needs as soon as possible.
He did not want any conflict of interest with the empire.
Because he knew very well that he was not strong enough when looking at the entire empire.
Just that his ability has exceeded the line that the empire must respect, does not mean that he can directly override the empire.
So he was planning his next course of action, first determining where the Destroyer would go.
"What's the other thing, grab another star gate?"
"No..." There was a hint of gloom in Chen Ming's tone: "It's to find out who revealed the information about me to the machine clan."
Before Chen Ming established his relationship with Cheng Xinghai, he had already expected that someone would make a fuss about the people around him.
Therefore, he has always maintained care for all those who are close to him and provided them with protection.
Whether it was the factory director, Lao Wu, or even the bald Chen Ming, they all gave him some things made with his psychic energy, so that he could come to the rescue when necessary.
Of course Cheng Xinghai is no exception.
He had already guessed that there would definitely be such a day in the future, and he was willing to bear the trouble involved.
When a strong person is dragged down by family and friends, or even forced to give up relationships with other people, this person is not considered a strong person at all.
The attack on Cheng Xinghai was just a small matter that Chen Ming handled casually.
After all, if he really wanted to solve the problem, Chen Ming didn't even have to go to the scene, he could just use his psychic energy on Cheng Xinghai and send her somewhere else.
He appeared there just to show his attitude, and at the same time to thoroughly handle the matters he had arranged regarding the Black Mist Zerg and ordinary Zerg to avoid leaving some additional problems.
And Chen Ming has understood some truth after experiencing what happened last time.
Pure humility and pure friendliness are meaningless,
Humility and friendliness have their value only after showing strength.
Some people like to seek death, so Chen Ming will send them to death.
The boss understood what Chen Ming meant and said: "The location of the mechanical clan's jump is indeed a bit strange, but are you so sure that someone must have leaked your information?"
"I don't believe in coincidences, and my intuition is telling me that someone must have revealed the information about me."
"It's normal for the machine clan to want to attack Baiquan. That's where the current frontline headquarters is."
"But they have no reason to attack here..."
Chen Ming pointed to the pirate space station at his feet and said: "There is also the galaxy where Cheng Xinghai's fleet is."
"Boss, would you believe this kind of thing would happen to you?"
"I don't believe it."
"So I'm going to do something."
"Got it."
It seems that Chen Ming is going to do something in the empire again.
The boss leaned back in his chair, looked at Chen Ming's robot and said, "You rarely seem to get angry because of your own things."
"In my impression, the only time you are really angry is when your friends are affected."
"Maybe."
Chen Ming responded and temporarily separated his consciousness from the boss's robot.
Back to the prosthesis located in the branch.
Just when Chen Ming was about to use the authority of this prosthesis to do something.
Bai Quan's phone call suddenly came in: "Xiao Ming, someone wants to talk to you."
"Who?"
"Mainly the Minister of the Imperial Psychic Department, Luo Yi. And the Minister of the Imperial Psychic Census Department, Lu Han."
"There may be some other people, all representatives of people from different levels of the empire. You should know why these people are here."
"Oh, by the way, there's An Wuping."
Just when Chen Ming heard Bai Quan say An Wuping's name, An Wuping also received a call.
While controlling An Wuping to answer the phone, Chen Ming replied to Bai Quan: "What are you talking about?"
"Talk about the Zerg and the Machine Tribe."
"When? How?"
"Now, online meeting, holographic projection, can you come to my place?"
"I know, I'll be there right away."
After Chen Ming finished speaking.
Bai Quan did not hang up the phone.
And suddenly he asked a little strangely: "Speaking of which, we have been fighting with the mechanical tribe for a while, and there was so much noise, but Yuhui next door didn't seem to have any reaction."
Chen Ming responded with a very vague statement: "Who knows."
(End of chapter)