Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 190 Advancement

The sound that suddenly appeared in the sky was the sharp whistle of a volley of Blazing Cannons.

Blazing Silkworm's long-range artillery is not pure fire damage, but also comes with secondary damage from explosion impact.

If it hits a dense swarm of insects, the effect will be very terrifying.

Chen Ming had witnessed this scene with his own eyes, so he knew that he must not let this scene happen.

At this moment, a new type of insect suddenly appeared behind the insect tide.

The appearance is similar to that of vesicular worms, but they are obviously different from vesicular worms.

What it sprays is not acid, but a liquid that condenses quickly in the air.

And this rapidly condensing liquid has the pitch black of the Zerg carapace and the bright green of the Zerg energy crystals.

This makes the sharp cone formed by the liquid solidifying during flight possessing extremely strong penetrating properties and the property of exploding after being destroyed.

It is a biological-type armor-piercing explosive bomb.

Although the coverage area is smaller than another type of bug that directly sprays a large amount of liquefied unstable energy crystals.

But the ability to blast at fixed points is obviously not comparable to that of another bug.

Moreover, these throat muscles have been developed to the point where the crystal cones ejected by the bloated bugs can fly at a faster speed, distance, and with greater accuracy.

And this means that they can intercept the cannons of the Blazing Silkworms that are falling in the sky.

The planet where the Zerg and Machine races are fighting has no atmosphere.

In the sky, apart from the flaming wreckage of the destroyed orbital defense satellites and the distinctive postures of the five cruisers.

What's left is the continuous firing of Blazing Silkworms. Each shot is hotter and redder than the previous one, and in the end it is even close to pure white artillery shells.

Dozens of bugs that fired crystal cones were scattered throughout the insect wave, and it was easy to locate the impact points and trajectories of these artillery pieces.

I saw countless huge fireballs exploding in the air.

In an instant, the earth that is at night on this planet is as bright as day.

However, bugs are not machines, and their actual actions cannot be 100% accurate.

Moreover, the long-range ability of the Zerg is its weakness after all. It is impossible for these bugs to guarantee that every crystal cone launched can accurately hit the artillery shells falling at high speed in the sky.

There will still be some fish that slip through the net.

Even if there are not many of them, each shell can cause serious damage to the Zerg.

And those Blazing Silkworms located in the center of the mechanical city and behind the battle line did not face any threat from the Zerg.

The moment their weapons finished cooling down, the second batch of artillery fired by the Blazing Silkworms once again appeared above the battlefield, above the heads of the Zerg.

The almost continuous artillery shells were like a sword of Damocles, threatening the Zerg offensive front.

If these blazing silkworms are not dealt with, it will be difficult for the Zerg to continue to gain an advantage on the battlefield. Instead, they will gradually be regained by the Machine Tribe.

and so.

Chen Ming took action directly.

He activated the tachyon spear at the highest point, which had been adjusted in advance, and fired at the path of the cannonball fired from the Blazing Silkworm Cannon.

Without the interference of the atmosphere, this tilted torrent of particles from space swept across the sky, accurately annihilating all the artillery shells fired by the Blazing Silkworm Cluster in the city.

And as the firing of the tachyon spear came to an end, Chen Ming controlled the aftermath of the torrent of particles to bypass the mechanical cruiser in the center of the city, and headed towards the blazing silkworm cluster with fire and explosions. location.

Large weapons are a dimensionality-reducing blow to almost all ground units. Even the last remaining aftermath will instantly destroy these blazing silkworm clusters that can pose a sufficient threat to the Zerg.

When the torrent of particles from the tachyon spear subsided, a blazing red trace that was nearly 10,000 meters wide and tens of meters wide was left on the planet's land due to its angular deflection.

An ugly scar was carved in the city of the mechanical tribe.

This scene shocked Chen Ming, the instigator.

But for the two sides, the Zerg and the Machines, who had just experienced a devastating torrent of particles overhead.

What just happened didn't affect them at all.

They continue to fight desperately.

It's just that the Zerg no longer have the worries of being in the center of the city, and can charge towards their goals more unscrupulously.

The larger long-range combat units that can launch crystal cones created by the Queen of Worms can completely output firepower on the frontal battlefield without the need to continue to intercept artillery.

And as the Zerg continued to advance, another new Zerg appeared on the battlefield.

Chen Ming was stunned for a moment when he saw this new bug, because it was not a bug that he and the Queen had discussed and actively created.

But just now, the insect queen herself poured out a new thing on the battlefield.

This worm also has an appearance similar to that of a cyst worm and has well-developed neck musculature.

What it can spit out are balls of purple fungus flowing with thick fluid, which will explode directly after flying a certain distance in the air.

These exploded fungal sap is extremely viscous and remains connected to each other, forming a huge catching net.

It is used to restrict those flying mechanical units in the sky and prevent them from suppressing the insects on the ground unscrupulously.

Even the fungal net has difficulty catching these units that can notice the movements of the Zerg, react in advance to the crystal cones launched by other Zerg, and flexibly dodge past them.

But as long as these mechanical tribes give up the attack and dodge, it means that the Zerg tribe did not spit out the fungus ball in vain.

And even if the fungus ball misses, it can restrict the actions of other mechanical races after falling on the ground, or it can be directly used to expand the fungus blanket.

Or it may be re-absorbed by the existing fungi carpet on the ground and turned into nutrients to continue supplying the bugs with the next round of fungus balls.

And this bug is only playing a supporting role now.

The real killer move against the air is another new bug that will appear later.

A kind of insect created by Chen Ming after discussing with the insect queen.

It has a similar appearance to a flying zerg like a self-banaling bug, but the difference is that it has four black sickle-shaped limbs and a dexterous sharp tail that also has a blade.

Although it is not necessarily possible to cut off the dolomite armor, it is definitely not difficult to cut off the fragile joints.

The most important thing is that the number of these bugs is far more exaggerated than the number of flying mechanical bodies of the mechanical tribe.

Only three minutes after the first flying Zerg appeared on the battlefield, the sky over the mechanical city was already covered in darkness.

This is the ability of the queen to reproduce, and it is also the result of Chen Ming's cultivation of the queen during this period.

It has to be said that melee combat is the Zerg's strongest ability.

It was the same even after Chen Ming used his spiritual power to deeply repair the insect queen.

As the flying Zerg completely took over the initiative in the sky, the Zerg quickly eliminated all the mechanical flying units that dared to fly in the sky.

However, the shortcomings of the Zerg were immediately exposed.

In other words, the shortcoming of all carbon-based organisms is that they are afraid of fire.

Even though the Zerg have various means to suppress the damage of fire, suppression also requires the assistance of various environments.

For example, the dense swarm of Zerg on the ground can share damage with each other, a large amount of acidic liquid volatilizes into non-combustible gas, and the carpet under the Zerg's feet can also inhibit the spread of fire.

The combination of various factors allowed the Zerg to resist the fire damage of the Blazing Silkworm on the front line, dragging the Machine Race with it despite the fierce output.

But suppressing the flames isn’t about completely ignoring them.

Therefore, in the sky, the blazing silkworm flame can actually exert its due effect.

This resulted in hundreds of torrents of flames with terrifying coverage instantly appearing in the city.

A large area of ​​the Zerg covering the front was instantly cleared, revealing the appearance of space again.

The worm queen was forced to temporarily give up its air superiority, allowing these zerg to retreat temporarily and look for other opportunities.

However, the Mechanical Tribe also did not dare to reoccupy the sky immediately, otherwise the flying Zerg that had just retreated would definitely return to the battlefield in an instant and hunt down the few flying units of the Mechanical Tribe.

It doesn't matter even if he risks being burned extensively by the fiery silkworms on the front line.

The Zerg can use the creep to quickly recover corpses, but the Machine Race cannot do this.

So at this time, the battlefield returned to pure ground combat.

Although the insect queen has solved the troubles in the sky, the troubles on the ground have not necessarily diminished.

The invisible units of the mechanical tribe are still constantly breaking into the insect tide to assassinate.

Even if some of them are completely left behind due to the fast reaction of the Zerg, there is no way to prevent more invisible units from continuing to appear and assassinate the fragile remote output Zerg, causing the explosion after their death to spread to other bugs.

Even if there is a carpet of bacteria that absorbs the dead bugs immediately, it cannot completely prevent the unstable liquid energy crystal from exploding.

And there's another problem.

Even these fiery silkworms on the front line are gradually starting to get into trouble.

Although the flames they spray are indeed not effective against the Zerg who have various means.

But as Blazing Silkworm continues to use flame weapons, the heat emitted from Blazing Silkworm's body is constantly increasing.

This high heat contained in the steel can cause irresistible damage to the Zerg's body in close contact.

The size of the Blazing Silkworm itself means that it is not only capable of long-range attacks, but its melee capabilities are also very good.

With the cooperation of these two points, it is almost difficult for the frontline soldiers of the Zerg to gain an advantage over the Blazing Silkworms.

However, the insect queen quickly came up with solutions to these two problems.

Spores once again appeared on fungal carpets that originally did not need to be spread and reproduced due to the situation of the Zerg itself.

And it was controlled by the Queen of Insects to actively raise it, covering the entire battlefield. It was also carried by more Insects and continued to spread to the surroundings.

Countless purple spots are extremely conspicuous in an environment filled with twisted flames and constantly disturbed acidic gases.

Of course, conspicuousness is not the main purpose. It is useless to be conspicuous on this chaotic battlefield.

What the insect queen wants to do is to make these fungi become the sensory organs extended by the surrounding zerg.

Any machine race that wants to fight the Zerg will inevitably come into contact with these fungi. Once touched, these fungi will immediately stick to the target and emit positioning pheromones to the surrounding Zerg in real time.

The invisible units of the mechanical family are no exception.

In the past, they were able to move freely in the insect swarm by relying on their mobility to roam around the battlefield and their concealment that could not be accurately targeted.

The moment they find the opportunity to step on the creep, the interception is impossible. So the insect queen simply covered the entire battlefield under the fungus.

Without the invisibility effect of the optical camouflage, such a machine clan is just an enhanced model of the flying mantis.

As for the burning silkworm that has entered a state of high fever, there is only one solution.

Using the huge bugs added later by the insect queen, they relied on their astonishingly thick carapace to crush the blazing silkworms.

When there is no good way to deal with it, directly suppressing people with force is obviously the most efficient way.

The high heat on these fiery silkworms cannot directly harm the flesh protected by the carapace through the extremely thick carapace.

After all the means of the machine race that could pose a threat to the Zerg race were eliminated.

Once again the Zerg had the upper hand.

Once again, they advanced quite a distance into the mechanical city.

But just when the Zerg were about to advance into the core area of ​​the mechanical city.

Suddenly the Zerg were met with resistance again.

Some stubby figures larger than Blazing Silkworms appeared in the mechanical city.

Some of them are equipped with two huge cannons with a diameter of nearly 40 centimeters.

And the cannon body has already flashed with electric light similar to the electromagnetic javelin's electromagnetic weapon energy storage.

After a familiar sound like a sledgehammer hitting each other, the shells flashing with bright electric arcs directly penetrated the bodies of almost all the giant Zerg at the front of the battle line, and landed among the Zerg at the rear.

The shell exploded violently immediately, with violent impact and flashing arcs hitting the surrounding Zerg.

Broken carapace and severed limbs flew together, and the extremely solid black carapace could hardly protect against these shells.

The insect swarm instantly suffered heavy casualties.

Chen Ming recognized them the first time he saw them. These were centipedes, the main combat units of the mechanical tribe.

Chen Ming didn't know why this thing that looked like a shortened version of a caterpillar but had many small limbs supporting it was called a centipede, but it was indeed recorded in the paper about the mechanical family.

These mechanical centipedes are usually equipped with three weapons, namely Hellfire Cannon, Charge Cannon and Charge Machine Gun.

And the one that can penetrate the Zerg armor with the strongest protective capabilities with just one shot, and cause an arc explosion at the impact point of the shell, is probably the charge cannon.

The main force of the mechanical race successfully stopped Chen Ming's Zerg in front of the core area of ​​the city.

Just when Chen Ming was wondering if the ground needed his support.

He suddenly discovered that the second batch of support from the mechanical tribe had arrived in space.

But this time, Chen Ming failed to use the equipment to stop them.

It's not because Chen Ming doesn't have a second device.

It's because the machine race didn't jump from any position that he judged could best affect the situation.

They chose to jump to the other side of the planet, where Chen Ming's equipment could not affect them, and then flew around the planet.

Chen Ming immediately realized that he still had too little experience in space combat.

Otherwise, such a place should not be ignored.

Although in order to avoid being blocked by Chen Ming's anti-jump device, the mechanical race can randomly select a landing point in the entire galaxy that they don't know to jump to, and then fly over.

It can indeed be said that there is no way to stop it at all, and it is also the jump method chosen when knowing that the enemy has an anti-jump device under normal circumstances.

Although it will cause a delay in joining the battlefield, it is better than being unable to even jump.

But since the jump location chosen by the mechanical tribe is on the other side of the planet, such a place is very close and full of risks.

Then it is indeed Chen Ming's problem to live unprepared.

But it was just like what Bai Quan had suggested to remind him before.

He would not put all his treasure on the successful function of the anti-jump device.

It was an unexpected surprise to succeed for the first time.

The second time, just think that he made a mistake.

In short, Chen Ming doesn't have much time to take care of the ground now. The main mechanical body of the mechanical clan on the ground can only be left to the Insect Queen to deal with.

Chen Ming believed that the insect queen would not let him down.

The reinforcements from the Machinery Clan that he now faces are the beginning of his assault on the Machinery Clan in the true sense.

The fleet of the mechanical race is now advancing towards Chen Ming along the orbit of the orbital satellite defense facility.

Their fleet consisted of a total of eight cruisers, two hundred destroyers, and two hundred frigates.

It seems that they knew the situation on Chen Ming's side and knew that he only brought out five cruisers and no escort fleet, so he configured such a fleet.

He just wanted to rely on the suppression of the cruiser and the interference of the larger number of small ships to completely crush Chen Ming in all aspects.

But to Chen Ming, boats and other things didn't matter at all.

Because as long as the enemy can't directly blow up his cruiser, he can rely on his spiritual energy to maintain the shield and forcefully blow up all the small boats first.

Drag the battle to a fair situation of big ship versus big ship, and then deal with the enemy cruisers.

This time, it is no exception.

As soon as the mechanical fleet entered the range of his spaceship, Chen Ming took the lead.

A dozen beams of tachyon spears hit the mechanical fleet.

As for Chen Ming's side, the mechanical race's boat was fully equipped with tachyon spears and had no room for resistance. As long as the spear was swept by, a series of flames exploded from the mechanical race's battle line.

Generally speaking, in a normal evenly matched cruiser class battle.

As the main force of the fleet, the firepower of the cruiser needs to be output on the opponent's cruiser to prevent the entire battlefield situation from collapsing if the duel fails.

This is especially true for the weaker side. Only by destroying one of the opponent's cruisers first can there be a chance of victory.

But Chen Ming didn't need to think about this issue at all.

He could just withstand the fire bombardment of the opponent's cruiser and kill all the boats on the opposite side.

If the machine race dared to exchange the loss of his spiritual power for the loss of actual ships, then Chen Ming would be in trouble.

The mechanical tribe obviously doesn't know this.

In other words, anyone who fights against Chen Ming without knowing his abilities will think that Chen Ming is a fool when he sees Chen Ming using the radiation of the cruiser in exchange for damage to the boat.

So the current mechanical race is in the same situation.

They just let the small ships suffer losses, while the big ships continued to desperately deal with Chen Ming's ships.

The weapons of the mechanical family are all equipped with live ammunition, energy and missiles distributed very evenly.

Although he may not necessarily specialize in any aspect, he can adapt to a variety of complex environments.

But it's obviously not that good when it comes to outbreaks.

So Chen Ming just kept silent and relied on his mental strength to endure the beatings from the Machinery Clan's weapons, and cleaned all the Machinery Clan's boats.

No ship can withstand the ravages of the almost unlimited tachyon spears.

As time went by, the mechanical tribe finally discovered that something was wrong.

Chen Ming's tachyon spears can be fired more frequently and intensively than normal.

Moreover, the radiation energy that activates the tachyon spear to increase and the shield to withstand damage should have exceeded the upper limit of Chen Ming's ships long ago.

These cruisers should have collapsed long ago, and it is impossible to say that they are still standing there.

The mechanical cruisers' radiation capacity has reached nearly half under the continuous firepower output, and they have been outputting at a higher frequency. At the same time, there are no signs of overload on the shields of these ships that are still suffering damage.

This strange situation caused the mechanical tribe to immediately slow down its fire offensive, and at the same time, the remaining ten small boats were ordered to retreat immediately.

The mechanical tribe has slowed down their offensive, so Chen Ming has to take the initiative to put some pressure on them.

The Stardust class, which had been fishing with its only tachyon spear in the rear position, opened all the flight deck doors on the left and right sides.

Meteor drones similar to Heavy Rain's Terminator drones came out in droves.

The tail flames of the Meteor fighter jets drew arcs in space, sweeping towards the Machine Race fleet like stardust all over the sky.

As soon as the first batch of fighter jets left the hangar, Chen Ming used his repair power on the meteorite. Countless materials instantly condensed into a new batch of meteor fighter jets and flew out of the hangar again.

Then came the third batch.

Another 1,600 fighter planes in total swarmed towards the mechanical fleet, and the entire battlefield was like a grand fireworks show.

These meteor fighters continued to accelerate and overload during the flight, and their fuselage gradually began to turn red, exuding a red aura that seemed to be filled with the smell of blood.

Under the influence of Chen Ming's repair power, it crashed into the mechanical cruiser with an overload efficiency several times higher than normal.

At the same time, with the support of Chen Ming's unreserved mental power, he maintained the hull that had been overloaded countless times, just for their last moment.

Anyway, when the second and third batches of fighters left the warehouse, Chen Ming no longer expected these fighters to come back.

He just wants to see Bo Da now.

Thousands of red meteors were seen bombarding the remaining cruiser of the mechanical race one after another.

This number of meteor drones, which was ten times more than the total fleet of the mechanical race, all self-destructed in just ten seconds.

The sensors could no longer see anything about the mechanical fleet. Chen Ming could only pass through the scanning array at the highest point and the footage from the Meteor fighter plane at the last moment before it self-destructed.

It can be roughly seen that all the mechanical cruisers are finished.

Five of the eight cruisers have exploded under the attack of meteorites, turning into several large pieces of space junk.

The overloaded arcs, completely shattered armor and crumbling hull structures of the remaining three cruisers have confirmed their failure.

With Chen Ming winning the battle easily in space.

He immediately began to control the highest point and began to arrange various Afterglow individuals to prepare to recover those cruisers as trophies.

At the same time, just like before, he continued to pay attention to the situation of the Zerg on the ground.

(End of this chapter)