Chapter 427 War resumes
Chen Ming had just returned to the Gaia galaxy from the empire with the minister of psychic energy and a group of people he had just recruited who were going to the urban planet to confirm what technology was left behind.
I received a communication from Yu Tianqiang, saying that something happened to the expatriate personnel, and the situation seemed serious, and I couldn't explain clearly on the phone.
So he changed his original plan and directly drove the spacecraft to land on the Gaia Space Station with people.
Leave the job of arranging accommodation to Yuhui Core
Anyway, it doesn’t matter where you live. The space station in the orbit of the Gaia planet next to the urban planet is more convenient.
Then he ran to Tian Zhang's office with the minister.
As soon as he opened the door, Chen Ming asked Tian Xiang, "What's the specific situation?"
Tian Xuan decisively projected a star map in front of him, marked a point on it and said, "I sent a team to this place to find new plants before."
"Just now, they said they were attacked by a mechanical tribe."
The minister of psychic energy was very concerned about this kind of thing and asked: "Mechanical tribe? Are they being attacked by mechanical tribe on the border colony planet?"
"Yes, he said it was a large-scale mechanical attack. It seems that the patrol fleet and the space station in orbit have been destroyed, but the specific situation cannot be determined."
"Can I still contact you?"
"No, I just kept asking him not to hang up the phone, but the call was still disconnected. Maybe the super-light communication base station was demolished, or..."
Chen Ming and the minister looked at each other and seemed to have guessed a possibility.
That is, the first wave of invasion and attacks by the mechanical tribe after the test has begun.
Things on the front line are not reported through the government and military systems so quickly, so it is indeed possible for people at the bottom to know what is happening earlier than those at the top.
The minister of psychic energy looked a little depressed and said: "Is the early warning system completely ineffective? So much resource investment is wasted."
Chen Ming was not very interested in this thing from the beginning, so he was not surprised that this situation occurred.
"These things are much less effective at critical times, and they are still mechanical. Their technology should not be too difficult to avoid early warnings."
"Let's go over and have a look."
The military forces of Gaia and Shiyuan are both under the direct control of Chen Ming, and the strongest combat power is himself.
If something happens to one of his own, he can't sit in the office and leave the task to others or Yuhui.
The minister of psychic energy said immediately: "I will go too."
It would be okay if Chen Ming's men only encountered some scattered mechanical tribes.
But if it was really the first round of invasion by the mechanical tribe, then he had to figure out the situation thoroughly.
If you follow Chen Ming there, you will definitely learn the truth earlier than when the news is reported layer by layer.
Chen Ming acquiesced to the minister of psychic energy and asked Tian Xian again: "Did they bring special equipment when they went on a mission?"
"Everyone brought it."
"Okay."
Chen Ming reached out and put his hand on the minister's shoulder. Their bodies were wrapped in metallic liquid, and they disappeared into the space station in a blink of an eye.
At the same time, in the only colonial city on a backward colonial planet in a certain edge star field of the empire.
The impact and smoke of the explosion, the roar and fire of weapons almost covered the entire city.
A large number of mechanical units were dropped from orbit to the planet's surface, constantly destroying industrial facilities on the planet's surface, and after the industrial facilities were destroyed, they targeted cities and civilians.
The ruins of buildings and broken limbs have almost become the main tone of the city.
And deep underground in the city.
Cries, sighs and wails of pain filled the air-raid shelter, a small shelter that could accommodate thousands of people.
These people who came here to take refuge at the earliest stage of the mechanical tribe's attack were listening to the movements outside with great concern.
At this time, the planet's communication signal has been completely disconnected. With no idea of what is happening outside, panic is spreading among everyone.
In the face of such a natural disaster, they can do nothing.
Among them was a field team sent by Tian Zhang.
Compared to other locals, their panic was less serious.
But facing the danger above their heads, they couldn't completely rest assured either.
Just when they were at their wits' end.
A device on the leader of the field team suddenly seemed to have received some signal, and a voice came out: "Go to the corner."
Although the equipment still had no signal, the team leader and nearby team members still felt a sense of relief at this moment.
Immediately following the instructions, they ran to the corner of the underground air-raid shelter, and the team gathered around them, completely blocking their surroundings.
Immediately afterwards, a large amount of metallic liquid overflowed from the equipment in the team leader's hand, forming two liquid masses the size of one person in the middle of several people.
Chen Ming and the minister of psychic energy walked out of the metal group.
"Director Chen!"
Chen Ming put his index finger in front of his lips to signal the others to be quiet so as not to attract unnecessary attention.
He didn't want others to see him coming out of the metallic liquid and make others think that he was the only life-saving straw.
Although he didn't mind rescuing people in times of crisis, he wasn't happy to do something that directly put pressure on his head.
"How's it going?"
After Chen Ming asked the same question as before to Tian Xuan, the team leader immediately took out his terminal and handed it to Chen Ming and said: "This is the video we just saved. Take a look."
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The content of the video is very simple.
The team leader led the team to conduct inspections in the wilderness and collect local plants as candidates for Gaia plants.
Planets in this kind of border star field are not highly developed, and even now you can occasionally find some unrecorded plants.
Even if you fail to find a suitable plant replacement for the Gaia plant, you can still achieve some success by finding some new plant species that have not been recorded.
The previous content was skipped by Chen Ming as he speeded up.
The time in the video soon came to night.
The team members have been in the wild for several days and are preparing to return to the only colonial city on the entire planet to rest, replenish supplies, and prepare for the next outing.
However, at this moment, one of the team members suddenly pointed to the sky.
Then the team members who raised their heads together saw the fire blooming in space in the dark night. The blazing flames were extremely obvious in the sky.
Chen Ming's team must be connected with the local government, so the team leader wanted to confirm the situation with the government immediately.
However, the team leader was unable to contact the local government, and the government's phone lines were overwhelmed.
Just as the team members were considering whether to return to the city, they saw a burning fireball suddenly appear in the orbit of the planet below them, falling from space towards the ground.
Judging from the internal structure illuminated by the fireball, it was the orbiting space station that the team members often visited.
The team leader made a prompt decision and took the team members to the nearest underground shelter on the outskirts of the city.
Contacted Tian Xuan.
Then, it was what Chen Ming knew.
Chen Ming roughly understood the process and asked: "You should only see the battle between the patrol fleet and the enemy, and then the space station was destroyed, right? How do you know it is from the mechanical tribe?" A team member took the initiative at this time and said: "Chen Ming "Hey, I happened to see the light effect of the Mechanical Tribe's spine cannon in space, so I guessed it was the Mechanical Tribe."
Chen Ming nodded slightly.
The structure of the spine cannon of the mechanical family is indeed quite special and conspicuous, and the energy and light pollution emitted when activated will also be quite distinctive.
People who know it can see traces of the activation of the spine cannon in space on the surface and deduce that it is a machine race. There is no problem.
And he also noticed that many people in the shelter were talking about things outside. Apparently many people also saw traces of the mechanical tribe.
Basically, it can be confirmed that it is a machine race.
The psychic minister on the side was not only listening to what Chen Ming was talking to the team members, but also observing the situation in the shelter.
He suddenly said: "It looks like there are only three to four thousand people here. I don't know what the situation is like in other places. Can the shelter be able to guard against the mechanical tribe?"
"It's impossible to guard against."
Chen Ming gave a direct answer.
While communicating with the team members, he had already released the metallic liquid through the walls of the shelter.
He saw the invasion of the machine clan and the tragic situation in the city, but he couldn't see anyone who survived.
There is not a single living person left on the surface of the entire colony, and the shelters in the city...
Chen Ming used the metal liquid to find the urban design drawings in the office of the Urban Planning Center of the Government Building, and then dispersed the metal liquid and looked at them one by one.
Several shelters near the edge of the city have not had any problems yet, but the shelters inside the city have all been breached by the mechanical tribe.
There are men, women, children, and babies in the shelter.
As long as they were human beings, they were all killed by the machine race.
Not even a single body in those shelters was intact.
Even just looking at it, Chen Ming felt a surge of anger rising over him.
But it is impossible for a normal person to not feel the slightest fluctuation in his heart when he sees his kind in such miserable condition.
The entire planet originally had a population of at least eight million people, judging from Chen Ming's current rough statistics.
There are still a total of 60,000 left, all scattered in the shelters on the edge of the city.
The psychic minister frowned and confirmed: "Only 60,000 left?"
"Yes, there may be some in the wilderness, but it will definitely not exceed 65,000."
"If nothing is done, this number will continue to decrease."
"Well..."
Chen Ming suddenly paused: "Speaking of which, another mechanical tribe found a refuge."
"There were almost nine thousand people in that shelter."
"Can it be saved?"
"It has been saved, but saving this person cannot cure the root cause."
The minister of psychic energy put forward an idea and said: "We have to confirm how many machines there are and what the scale of this attack is."
"It's definitely not that small." Chen Ming said: "I just got a spaceship to repair the broken communication base station, and then contacted other nearby galaxies."
"What's the result?"
"Nowhere in the entire star field has responded to my message."
"..."
"Maybe their respective communication systems have exploded..."
"Well...sigh..."
"..."
Chen Ming's words silenced the Minister of Psychics and the team members. Although some wanted to find excuses, everyone knew what the most likely situation was.
The minister of psychic energy sighed: "The real war of the mechanical tribe is about to begin, and it is coming so fast as expected. We haven't even had time to fully digest and absorb the resources in the mechanical tribe's star field."
"Even the shining civilization technology we just obtained has not even had time to be systematically organized."
Chen Ming did not hesitate for a moment. He simply said to the minister of psychic energy: "Go and recruit people."
"Who are you recruiting?"
"Anyone is wanted. I will give you a rough catalog of the skills kept by the survivors later. We are recruiting people in each major and sorting out these technologies as quickly as possible."
"All the available technologies are used to produce the finished product as quickly as possible. I will verify the effect and optimize the finished product."
"Hasn't the empire been preparing? It's time to make it move."
"Also, where are the approaching legions?"
The Minister of Psychic Power thought for a while and replied: "The Nineteenth Legion and the Twentieth Legion, the two newest legions of the empire, their military strength may not be able to withstand the mechanical race."
Chen Ming frowned slightly and said: "I remember that it was a long time ago that I shared the technology of the earliest shining civilization spaceship."
Chen Ming remembered that although the empire's ship types have not changed much, there has been progress in ship design.
After all, the update and iteration of stable ship technology that has been physically determined is different from the broadening and application of new technologies, so it is not that difficult.
Logically speaking, the gap between the empire's ship technology and the mechanical warships is not that big, at least not as big as that of a super body.
The Minister of Psychics explained: "They were just formed not long ago, so they were arranged to come to a place like this. They have never fought a high-intensity war."
"This is all bullshit."
Chen Ming cursed and then said: "You have to fight if you can't fight, and you have to bear if you can't bear it. They are soldiers. I don't think I should have to say this kind of thing?"
"Yes, I think too much too. After staying with you for a long time, I always want to make as many people as safe as possible. I am not capable of protecting people like you."
"I don't have the ability to protect the entire empire."
Chen Ming's words made the psychic minister sigh again.
He asked: "What about us? Should we run away with people, or should we find a way to kill the mechanical tribe here?"
"Can't run away."
Chen Ming immediately gave his judgment: "At present, it seems that the mechanical clan has smashed the entire star field to pieces, and all military power has been completely destroyed."
"Although there are more than a hundred and dozen galaxies settled in this edge star field, the total population is only about one billion."
"Most of them are on various types of mineral planets. It's too difficult to take them all away and they are too scattered."
"We must kill all the machines before we can protect people."
Chen Ming clenched his fist and lightly knocked on his chest and said, "I'll deal with them."
"But this way the machine race will be on guard against your abilities, and the top psykers should be used as trump cards. You can't just do it casually..."
Chen Ming directly interrupted the minister and said: "I have my own ideas."
"And... they should have been on guard when I killed that experimental super body."
(End of chapter)