Chapter 389 Fear
The red jellyfish Leviathan was forced by Chen Ming to leave the interior of the star.
The Zerg fleet, which had been waiting for a long time, immediately surrounded them.
And this time Chen Ming came to kill it directly.
Therefore, all the Zerg fleets have entered the phase space at this time and cannot be observed at all in the normal universe.
They quietly lurked next to Leviathan, which was heading towards a small number of Zerg fleets that existed in the normal universe, and aimed all the targeted weapons that Chen Ming had prepared for a long time at it.
Chen Ming prepared for nearly ten days, and the Zerg fleet, numbering three thousand, opened fire immediately upon Chen Ming's order.
However, only one-third, or about a thousand capital ships, opened fire.
And all the fire launched by these thousand capital ships are live ammunition, and all the weapons they use are live ammunition.
At this distance, which was almost face-to-face, all the live weapons launched by the Zerg battleship easily penetrated Leviathan's skin.
But for some reason, most of the bullets did not penetrate from the other end of Leviathan's body, but remained in Leviathan's body.
Although doing this has left countless penetrating or tearing scars on Leviathan's body, judging from the previous situation, doing so has no meaning other than wasting bullets. This Leviathan's body does not exist. key.
But as the bullets baptized Leviathan like a metal storm continued to hit.
The intensity of the electromagnetic pulse that Leviathan is periodically emitting has begun to decrease visibly to the naked eye.
Unable to release electromagnetic pulses strong enough to burn capital ships on a large scale, Leviathan loses its biggest threat to a large-scale fleet.
The reason for this is very obvious.
The live ammunition fired by the Zerg fleet is not ordinary live ammunition, but special ammunition with specific characteristics.
Ten days ago, when Chen Ming first started researching weapons against Leviathan, he didn't know much about the Leviathan. He could only roughly determine that its properties were related to electromagnetism, radiation and light frequency.
Therefore, during research, Chen Ming deliberately created three general types of weapons, electromagnetic weapons, radiation weapons and optical weapons.
The design of electromagnetic weapons is the most troublesome, because ordinary electromagnetic pulse generators have no possibility of working.
Chen Ming would not use this kind of thing to attack a Leviathan that can emit electromagnetic pulses that affect the galaxy.
So he considered another way, the reverse way.
Electromagnetic signal blocking device is a common device.
However, what Chen Ming created was not a signal jammer for examination rooms, but an electromagnetic signal blocking device that he specifically spent time working with Fan Chao to develop in order to fight Leviathan.
It can strongly interfere with specific electromagnetic signal frequency bands, and should have a good effect on the jellyfish Leviathan, which can release ultra-high-intensity electromagnetic pulses.
However, according to Chen Ming's needs, it was not forced interference by other electromagnetic signals, but by absorbing electromagnetic signals through devices made of special materials.
After all, the reason that made Chen Ming think about weapons to block electromagnetic signals was that Leviathan had a stronger electromagnetic pulse, and it was impossible for him to confront him head-on.
This leads to a requirement when using such a device, which requires a very close distance to be effective.
Under normal circumstances, this kind of thing is more used on oneself to shield electromagnetic attacks.
But this is obviously not a normal situation, and Chen Ming's psychic ability does not require him to abide by many normal situations.
He just had to find a way to stuff the device into live ammunition that the capital ship could fire.
It's not that difficult here.
Back then, he was able to use optimized spiritual energy to stuff the jump engine that originally needed to be stuffed into the battleship into An Wuping's body. Now he can also stuff the entire complex device into live ammunition.
Structural miniaturization has psionic power, and batch copying has psionic power. The manufacturing cost cannot be solved by psionic power. On the contrary, the miniaturization of the device and the need to install it in live ammunition to carry a very large force have led to a huge increase in costs.
But for Chen Ming, what is cost?
Backed by an entire zerg horde, every live bomb fired by his capital ships has a small electromagnetic interference device inside it.
After hitting the target, barbs will pop out from the warhead to fix the internal barb of the hit target, and the carrying device will be activated immediately.
At the same time, Chen Ming's psychic energy will also work further, using metallic liquid to connect a large number of live ammunition together to prevent the device from being discharged, and to continuously provide energy to all equipment.
Not only is it functional, its metallic liquid will also transform into a real electromagnetic interference device with large-scale effects, further increasing the effect of electromagnetic interference.
Under such an offensive hidden in the phase space, unless Leviathan simply changes its body, it will have to withstand such damage.
Although Leviathan's body is not important, it is still its external manifestation, and it cannot easily get rid of this body.
Even though the electromagnetic interference device left by Chen Ming in its body almost completely restricted part of its power, it still showed no signs of doing so.
At this moment, the Zerg fleet also changed its formation instantly.
The second fleet has locked onto Leviathan.
A battle of this scale does not require each warship to perform independently, but only needs to obey the commander's absolute orders.
And at the same time Chen Ming ordered to fire for the second time.
The second batch of Zerg fleet also launched a new batch of live ammunition.
The live ammunition this time was different from the previous batch. After hitting, most of the bullets did not penetrate Leviathan's body, but exploded directly on the surface of the body.
A large amount of gray-colored fluid was sprayed around.
These fluids quickly wrapped Leviathan in it, forming a sticky coating.
At first glance, it seems to have no effect, but these dark gray fluids are becoming brighter at a speed visible to the naked eye, and their color has turned into a fluorescent green that looks very dangerous.
But the color of Leviathan's body surface, which originally exuded bright light, turned extremely dark.
This is the second type of weapon that Chen Ming specially prepared, radiation weapons.
When the design of this weapon was first proposed, Chen Ming and Fan Chao still prioritized the idea of hedging and using stronger radiation weapons to cause damage to Leviathan.
The empire just happens to have radiation-type weapons, which are the main weapons of the radiation-class battleships stolen from Yuhui, the microsievert-class optical radiation cannon.
This thing is a pure radiation weapon.
Whether it was before or now, the Empire and Yu Hui are still fighting very lively, and they have a lot of inventory on hand.
Chen Ming also has the same. For him, as long as it is not the battleship itself, he can use the main-level weapons at any time.
But obviously the idea of a head-on confrontation with Leviathan is very irrational.
Therefore, the idea of using microsievert was rejected, and Chen Ming chose a more secure method to create weapons.
That is, in turn, using radiation-absorbing devices to create weapons.
It just so happens that the Empire has something similar, an artificial material called radiation viscous fluid, specially designed to target radiation environments.
It can absorb radiation and use the absorbed radiation energy to emit light as a reminder.
The effect can only be said to be very obvious.
But it wasn't enough to make Leviathan completely lose its ability to fight.
As Chen Ming's two rounds of attacks poured out, the jellyfish Leviathan was not an idiot, it was bound to fight back.
But just like when the two Leviathans encountered an attack from phase space before, it couldn't find the source of the attack at all.
Chen Ming's Zerg fleet also prepared the third round of weapons at this time.
It launched without any hesitation.
The third round of weapons was not an additional live ammunition weapon installed by Chen Ming, but a projector that came with the Zerg biological battleship.
What it projects is not a needle made of Zerg carapace or an activated active energy crystal. But a very special looking crystal.
As long as there is a light source, it will be colorful from any angle.
It was precisely this kind of crystals that were launched in tons, and shattered and exploded the moment they hit Leviathan.
Countless cone-shaped crystals pierced Leviathan's body, forming an area of complex colors under the light of stars and Leviathan itself.
The body, which was originally smooth and had been rapidly repairing after being attacked by Chen Ming for two consecutive rounds, suddenly formed an extremely rough tumor-like object in every place where it was penetrated by crystal fragments.
Each tumor-like object has colors that are messily blended together but not completely integrated.
This is caused by the inability of Leviathan to exit the body from these crystal fragments in phase space.
Leviathan, which originally only looked colorful because of those broken crystals, suddenly became colorful in a real sense.
This is the weapon Chen Ming prepared to disrupt the frequency of light waves.
There are three jellyfish-like Leviathans in total, each with a different color, and changes in the frequency of light waves will inevitably affect them.
This is indeed the case.
As these crystal fragments penetrated, Leviathan's body structure was close to collapse.
Leviathan could ignore all previous injuries, but at this time, it was the simple damage caused by the crystal fragments specially found by Chen Ming that Leviathan had no way to withstand.
And all of this just happened in phase space.
You can't see anything in the normal universe. You can only see that Leviathan, which was originally very normal, suddenly suffered a series of injuries, and in the blink of an eye he looked like he was dying.
But... it's not enough.
Chen Ming could feel that Leviathan was close to the edge of death, but there was still something missing, and he could not kill this giant beast yet.
These methods can only weaken its power to the greatest extent, but they cannot completely end it.
And as Leviathan's aura weakened, Chen Ming's robots left on the Zerg fleet felt a danger coming from all directions.
The power Chen Ming had was telling him that the space around the Zerg fleet was distorting.
This is not only a distortion of the space station in the normal universe, but also a distortion of the phase space as well.
At this time, the jump engines of all Zerg warships have lost their function, and any active jump will directly lead to the destruction of the warships.
And if we don't jump, then this twisted space will soon completely crush everything in this area.
It's this jellyfish Leviathan.
Like the Nightmare of the Planes, it has mastered part of the power of gravity, and when the gravity reaches the extreme, it can tear apart space.
This is the talent brought by being born on a neutron star, and it is also the basis of the ability that allowed Leviathan to jump before.
However, its space power is obviously weaker. It is obviously unable to tear apart space and can only cause a certain distortion of space, which has been noticed by Chen Ming.
Chen Ming took action decisively, and his spiritual energy surged out, easily blocking the force that could distort the space.
But Chen Ming did not feel that the danger was gone.
Even the sense of danger reached its peak the moment he blocked the space distortion force.
The originally bloated and pitted Leviathan's body suddenly swelled, and the giant beast that had dimmed suddenly burst out with unprecedented power at this moment like a flashback.
Thinking about the phase space where the Zerg fleet is located in the normal universe, a violent space shock burst out. Chen Ming didn't expect that it would still have the energy to do this.
However, he still reacted and once again activated his spiritual energy to suppress Leviathan's dying blow.
Chen Ming tried his best to suppress the spatial oscillation.
But the remaining aftermath of the space shock still crossed the barrier between spaces and acted directly on the Zerg fleet.
Every Zerg warship seemed to have been directly impacted by a behemoth the size of Leviathan, and was completely shattered in the aftermath of the shock.
Gray-green blood and fragments of biological tissue from the Zerg warships floated in this area.
If Chen Ming had not had time to react, I am afraid that not a single Zerg warship would have survived.
But even if he reacted, most of the main fleet, which numbered more than 3,000, was still destroyed in an instant, and was no longer able to pose an effective threat to Leviathan.
After this explosion, Leviathan seemed to have completely lost its fighting ability and turned around to return to the star.
As long as it can return to the star, the power of the star will help it clear away its burden, and all traces left by the Zerg fleet will be completely eliminated.
Even if the star has been extracting its power, as long as it returns to the star, it can in turn fill itself with the power of the star.
And it can also regain its original strength after resting.
It is obviously impossible for Chen Ming to organize the Zerg fleet again to launch a new round of attacks.
He sighed.
"There is nothing we can do."
Chen Ming, who was still observing the civil war in the galaxy from the highest point on the edge of the galaxy, clenched his fist slightly, and the flowing metallic liquid wrapped around his body. Instantly transformed into a biological armor that looked slightly heavier than before.
"You still have to use some external force."
After Chen Ming finished speaking, he disappeared from the spaceship and appeared next to Leviathan.
Something appeared in Chen Ming's hand that he had obtained for a long time, the core of purgatory.
This is the prototype of the last weapon he prepared...
It's just that he didn't install it.
After all, the cost of this thing is not on the same level as all the other weapons he prepared.
Even with the pirated Purgatory Core that Fanchao had reprinted some time ago, it was still difficult to supply the Zerg fleet.
So Chen Ming just decided to use the one he had in hand to complete his idea.
Chen Ming's psychic energy inspired the Purgatory Core.
This device, one of the top technological crystallizations of Shining Civilization, carries Chen Ming's will and acts on Leviathan's body.
Completely extract all heat energy around it.
The entropy control power in the core of purgatory can transfer entropy to other places, creating an extremely low-temperature environment in the original place.
This is an extremely low temperature on a cosmic scale, a space close to absolute zero.
When the temperature of an area drops to an extreme, even light will slow down.
Leviathan is no exception.
And this Leviathan, which is suspected to be inextricably linked to light, experienced even more terrifying phenomena when it encountered this extremely low temperature environment.
Its body is broken.
The restriction on the speed of light caused physical ruptures in its body composition, and then its entire body suffered large-scale tears.
Its body is falling apart, and it seems to have reached a dead end.
However, Chen Ming's perception told him that this Leviathan was still not dead, and it was still breathing its last breath.
Just doing this won't take away its life.
Moreover, Leviathan is constantly thinking about the surrounding space releasing radiation and heat energy from its own body, restoring the surrounding environment so that it can continue to move into the star.
Chen Ming's mental power is enough to compete with Leviathan. He can rely on the accumulation of mental power to drag Leviathan to death here.
But he wasn't going to do that.
He still had two Leviathans to deal with, and there was no way he was going to waste his time doing something like this.
And he had another thing in his hand that could be used.
Destroy the core.
Ever since Chen Ming snatched the Destruction Core from the Machine Tribe, he has never used this thing.
Although the destruction core helped Chen Ming take the initiative to build the natural disaster core that was the key to his power, the strength was slightly lower than before.
But that is taken out and looked at at a separate level.
When it is held in Chen Ming's hand, it will not affect the effect it can bring at all.
As Chen Ming's spiritual energy was activated, the aura of destruction covered Leviathan's broken body.
For a moment.
Chen Ming actually felt fear from it.
He felt fear from Leviathan.
Chen Ming's current strength is partly mixed with the power derived from the fear ectoplasm stone, and he can definitely sense this fear.
Is it Leviathan that fears the Destroyer?
No.
It is simply fearing destruction.
Any sentient creature, whether carbon-based or hydrogen-based, as long as it has self-awareness, will inevitably have a fear of destruction.
And this fear was transmitted to Chen Ming's perception through Leviathan's powerful consciousness.
But this did not make Chen Ming hesitate in the slightest.
Destruction still befell Leviathan.
Its embodied body was completely destroyed.
And its life itself, which was born from the fusion of electromagnetism and radiation, also began to dissipate after the death of the body.
Chen Ming raised his eyebrows slightly, and immediately activated his psychic energy on a large scale once again, constructing a psychic stance restraint circle in the surrounding space, fusing Leviathan's corpse with electromagnetic radiation that could not be directly observed by the naked eye. Saved.
Although a lot of it was still dissipated, at least half of the corpses were still preserved by Chen Ming.
Leviathan, the first red M-type star, is confirmed to be destroyed.
Chen Ming breathed a sigh of relief after confirming this, and at the same time glanced at the destruction core with some confusion.
He didn't think much about it and just put it away.
By the way, the Purgatory Core was also collected.
When he just saw the core of Purgatory, he immediately thought of a person, Hu Yi.
More than half a year ago, under the introduction of his boss, Chen Ming went to meet him.
At that time, Hu Yi paid some compensation, and then Chen Ming never saw him again.
It is estimated that Hu Yi has gone to sleep, and he should not be seen in the next few decades or more than a hundred years.
Chen Ming was a little emotional, but he still didn't relax completely.
He has to continue hunting the next Leviathan.
That yellow jellyfish.
At this time, Chen Ming did not consider using battleships.
The enemies encountered after leaving the empire's territory are all very terrifying, and it may be useless no matter how many situations the battleships are unable to play their role.
Just like the wave just now, the capital ship can only play a supporting role, and it is the Destroyer who can really solve Leviathan.
So Chen Ming decided to take matters into his own hands.
And this time he didn't need to use the previous methods to force Leviathan out of the star.
Because Chen Ming had just arrived in the galaxy through spiritual energy, a frantic electromagnetic pulse swept directly from the star.
Along with this electromagnetic pulse, there is a subtle fear.
Chen Ming just appeared here, and fear seemed to have wrapped around this Leviathan.
This seems to mean that there is some way of communication between the three Leviathans.
It also means that Chen Ming may need to speed up his actions further.
He wanted to avoid the possibility of the remaining Leviathan escaping or coming with direct support.
Kill by force.
Chen Ming made up his mind and disappeared without any warning. He appeared on the surface of the stars in the galaxy and smashed in like a meteorite.
Ordinary meteorites would only end up dissolving if they hit a star, but Chen Ming rushed into it with a destructive momentum and locked onto the yellow jellyfish Leviathan without any hesitation.
And when Chen Ming directly used spiritual energy to apply several weapons he developed on Leviathan, he dragged the Leviathan into the abyss of weakness at the fastest speed and with the highest efficiency, and caused waves of destruction. The moment it hit Leviathan's body.
The indescribable fear that people with sensitive perceptions can sympathize with once again clearly appeared in Leviathan.
Exactly the same as before.
Chen Ming couldn't help but think about the reason for Leviathan's fear again.
And he seemed to find that things were not that simple.
The consciousnesses of these three Leviathans may be linked, but the death of one Leviathan does not mean death in the true sense.
And this fear does not seem to be directed at death itself, but only at destruction.
The source of the core of destruction... is that the machine race used cloning technology to forcibly create dimensional infection, and transformed the source of the dimensional infection, and finally condensed the ability of the dimensional infection entity into such a core of destruction.
Leviathan may not be afraid of destruction.
What it fears is the source of destruction, Scarlet.
(End of chapter)