Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 192 Trap

Chen Ming suddenly discovered that the method he had prepared before that he didn't pay much attention to had unexpected effects.

Because according to the technical level of the machine race and another civilization, judging from the distance between this machine race and the machine race cruiser in the center of the city, there should not be any delay in the signal sent by the cruiser's control machine.

The source of this situation now is because the three-component planet-level communication blocking device was activated by him shortly after the battle began, blocking communication signals inside and outside the entire planet.

Although Chen Ming felt that the effect was not ideal at the time, support from outside the mechanical clan came just as quickly.

And because those orbital defense satellites that should be effective are fired too fast, even if the signal on the planet is blocked, there will be no subsequent effect.

However, what Chen Ming thought at the beginning was that doing it would be better than not doing it, so he didn't care at all even if it had no practical use before.

But he really didn't expect that a piece of equipment he had arranged casually, which he had already arranged a bit too much, would actually play a role at such a critical moment.

Chen Ming did not hesitate after making this clear.

Immediately, the three connected devices were remotely controlled to adjust their respective frequencies and slightly change their positions on the track.

All the power of the equipment originally used to block communication signals inside and outside the entire planet was applied to the city of the mechanical race, where the Zerg and the mechanical race were fighting.

The signal sent by the mechanical cruiser was completely disrupted, and all communication signals in the entire city were completely cut off.

All signals except Chen Ming will be silent for a short time on the entire planet.

And that special machine became paralyzed after it completed the last command it received.

Without the support of this special machine race, the remaining machine races have no ability to resist in front of the Zerg, whose overall number has not been significantly reduced yet.

It was defeated by the Zerg very easily.

The insect queen once again splashed the fungi and the blood of the zerg unscrupulously, relying on the effects of these special substances to continuously lower the temperature on the battlefield.

At the same time, they are also trying to lower the temperature of that special machine.

In just a few minutes, the surrounding environment returned from the orange-red color to the pure white color at the beginning.

The molten metal liquid under the giant crater blasted out by the special machine body was almost solidified.

At this time, the Zerg race had countless bugs that completely surrounded the special mechanical body that was paralyzed in place, three circles inside and three outside.

The bugs that had gone around began to destroy the few defensive weapons on the cruiser in the center of the city.

The moment when all the external security weapons of the mechanical cruiser were destroyed.

The temperature of the special machine outside finally dropped to a level acceptable to the Zerg.

The Queen of Insects immediately released the parasites against the special machine race, allowing the nerves of the fungi and parasites to completely control the machine race.

Although different from other machines controlled by parasites, the parasites on this special machine cannot use its abilities excessively.

But the performance of this machine just now left a deep impression on Chen Ming.

Chen Ming felt that this machine seemed to be an elite individual in the machine's ground unit, similar to HR.

After all, this is just a machine with a length of more than 40 meters, about the same size as two small frigates stacked up.

The difference from other mechanical races is not too big, but the actual combat ability is exaggerated to the extreme.

The weapons installed on its back can almost achieve the effect that can only be achieved by the large weapons installed on cruisers two levels above.

And that's not all. This machine also has the ability to change the environment, which shows that it must have special technology.

Moreover, the powerful individual combat effectiveness of this machine clan also reminded Chen Ming of Yan Xiong before.

Yan Xiong can physically enter space directly, rely on the wreckage of a cruiser to condense a steel giant, and has the ability to fight against a fleet of cruisers with a single soldier.

If Chen Ming hadn't taken advantage of him, a wave of cruisers would have concentrated fire and forced him to expose himself.

Then he used Yan Xiong's arrogance to feed him some spacecraft wreckage, and then used the material logistics of several Afterglow colonies to replenish the explosives.

Otherwise it will definitely not be that easy to fight.

Chen Ming just blew Yan Xiong half to death. If Chen Ming hadn't controlled the spacecraft and went over to check, Yan Xiong might have been resurrected with full health in a few hours.

If Yan Xiong's ability were to face such a mechanical city, the entire city would probably be like clay in the hands of a child, letting it be manipulated.

This is the peak of individual combat effectiveness.

And when this special machine race was fighting against the Zerg tribe, it affected the entire surrounding environment with one machine body, and it did not fall behind against the entire Zerg nest.

It really made Chen Ming feel a little bit like Yan Xiong back then.

Therefore, besides arranging to transport the mechanical body as soon as possible, Chen Ming was trying to find out what kind of working principle it had.

He is still considering whether it is necessary for him to let the insect queen try to get elite combat individuals.

Similar to Yan Xiong, this machine or what Chen Ming once saw in the Zerg genes during genetic retrieval, the large pitch black Zerg being hunted by the Zerg, its combat effectiveness looked very good.

Although their final endings were similar, and not very good.

Yan Xiong was turned into a ball by Chen Ming and used as an alloy furnace. The special mechanical body was kidnapped by Chen Ming just now.

The jet-black Zerg finally entered the belly of the Thorn Zerg and became part of their genes today.

But their performance is indeed impressive and worthy of research.

Chen Ming thought he could give it a try.

But not now, he still has things to do.

The ground battle was won the moment Chen Ming discovered the weakness of the special machine race.

There are only a few scattered mechanical tribes left on the ground, carrying out some stubborn resistance that cannot be organized on a large scale.

However, the third batch of additional members of the mechanical race is definitely on the way. Although it will take time for them to arrive, it will definitely not be too long.

Chen Ming needs to speed up the cleanup of the mechanical clan and complete the final finishing work.

At the same time, he packed up his loot and retreated as quickly as possible.

Otherwise, he will definitely be piled to death by the reinforcements from the mechanical race that can come in a steady stream.

Chen Ming didn't want to experience the situation where the special machine just now was constantly attacked by the Zerg.

But at this time, another thing that surprised Chen Ming happened.

Those mechanical tribes that were still resisting suddenly gave up their defense of the city and chose to retreat.

Leaving the city from the opposite side of the Zerg attack direction.

Under the further oppression and attack of the Zerg in the face of the retreat of the Machines, those Machines who could no longer escape the city and fought desperately began to collapse.

The mechanical race seemed to have completely abandoned the city.

Chen Ming's sense of vigilance instantly rose to the extreme.

He was thinking whether this could be a trap left by the mechanical tribe.

The mechanical race has been on the planet for at least half a year. It is normal to leave some backup in other places.

But even if it was a trap, there were some things he had to do, otherwise there would be no point in coming here.

Chen Ming made up his mind and immediately controlled the highest point that had started to descend before. At this time, it was already close to the highest point on the ground. The defenders protecting the highest point gradually approached the city of the mechanical tribe and prepared to land.

Prepare to take away the mechanical tribe that has been kidnapped by a large wave of Zerg since the Zerg broke through the core area of ​​​​the city just now.

There are blazing silkworms and special mechanical individuals on the front of the battlefield and in the core area of ​​the city, which can increase the ambient temperature and suppress the parasites of the Zerg.

But the mechanical tribe on the outskirts of the city are not treated so well.

By relying on the spreading fungus, it is easy to control a large number of machines.

Although the Zerg cannot directly connect the mechanical bodies they control to Chen Ming's psychic control like Yuhui, it does save a lot of things.

As the defenders separated from the Supreme Point, they landed in the outer areas of the city, preparing to assist in the transportation of these controlled mechanical bodies.

There are traces of jump again in space.

However, this is not Yu Hui's third wave of reinforcements, but the traces of the Colossus-class cargo ship that Chen Ming snatched from Yu Hui before.

A specialized cruise-class cargo ship is the main force for transporting these controlled machines.

Although Huihuang was still on guard in space at this time, he was still distracted as before, helping the two ships on the ground to manage the transportation machinery clan.

Seeing that he no longer needed to care about the city's outskirts, Chen Ming returned his attention to the high point of the ship he was driving.

Prepare to land in the center of the city and snatch the mechanical cruiser.

Without the mechanical defense and all its weapons, the cruiser was just a lamb waiting to be slaughtered.

In addition, although the mechanical tribe ran away, Chen Ming still gave the insect queen a new goal to continue tracking the escaped mechanical tribe.

The first is to let the Zerg help him step on the possible traps of the Mechanical Clan. Anyway, as long as nothing happens to the Queen, the loss of any other Zerg, or even all the Zerg except the Queen, will be nothing more than drizzle.

The second is to obtain as many mechanical races as possible.

After all, those who escaped were the mechanical clan who could last until the end, and they were the backbone of the mechanical clan's ground operations.

The benefits from catching these mechanical clans will definitely be greater than those from ordinary logistics machines.

It was also at this time that Chen Ming discovered that the Zerg tribe actually had the ability to accurately track the mechanical tribe.

Even though many mechanical races have left the city and are fleeing throughout the desolate planet, the Queen of Insects can still accurately mark each individual mechanical race for the Zerg units to capture.

The reason why the Zerg can do this seems to point to a deep pit inside the mechanical colony.

Of course, it's not the deep pit blown up by the special machine just now, but a pit dug by the mechanical race that exists here.

This pit looks like a water storage warehouse in a sewage purification plant, but all the liquid stored in it has a gray-green color similar to the color of Zerg blood.

these things……

Chen Ming suddenly remembered that these gray-green liquids were all pollutants produced by the nanorobots in the mechanical race when they were working. He remembered that the several research reports on the machine race that he had read before introduced the unique pollution produced by this machine race, which had extremely strong diffusion capabilities and a considerable degree of toxicity.

A little bit is okay, for example, the few machines that Chen Ming encountered on Ruimu Planet produced almost no pollution.

But once the number of machines increases and clusters form, the pollutants produced will cause extreme damage to the normal ecological environment.

And even the machine race itself does not have a good way to deal with these pollutants.

So what they do is to find a place to store it, store it to a certain amount, and then release it into the environment.

To the mechanical race, it doesn't matter whether it is a habitable planet or not. They themselves are not affected by these pollutants. It doesn't matter what planet they are emitting, that's it.

This is why the Zerg are able to track the Mechanical Tribe. Each individual Mechanical Tribe has these nanobots that produce pollutants.

Nanobots are the mark of the Zerg.

Anyway, Chen Ming felt more and more that something must have happened between the Zerg and the Machines in the past, probably before humans had stepped out of their own galaxy.

Then the situation of the mechanical tribe is not right now.

Because as Chen Ming thought deeply about the current situation, he suddenly remembered what Bai Quan had said to him before.

"When the machine race fights with humans, they will definitely fight to the death, and they will definitely beat themselves to the point where they are completely unable to fight."

The fight to the death that Bai Quan talked about is definitely not the current situation. It is definitely a fight to the death, one soldier at a time, until the end.

It's impossible for the mechanical tribe to say that they don't know that someone is behind these Zerg tribes.

Especially after Chen Ming killed the second batch of additional members of the Machine Tribe and swept the ground with his tachyon spear, the Machine Tribe should fight to the death and not retreat.

It is impossible to say that when facing insects, the machine race will lose the same ferocity as when facing humans.

On the contrary, this seems to be a seduction, seducing the Zerg to continue to spend a lot of time tracking these fleeing mechanical races.

At this point, Chen Ming finally realized one thing. The mechanical clan's trap may not be placed on the planet in front of the escaping mechanical clan, but may be in a wider place.

He raised his head and looked at the starry sky outside the window at the highest point.

The third batch of reinforcements from the Mechanical Clan may have arrived. The Mechanical Clan is well aware of Chen Ming's combat effectiveness and the situation of Chen Ming's fleet. They know that if they want to completely retain Chen Ming, they cannot appear directly in Chen Ming's face.

They have to make some preparations and make some arrangements.

Then it makes perfect sense for the machines on the ground to cooperate and do things they wouldn't do under normal circumstances.

After figuring this out, Chen Ming felt a pressure in his heart.

The machines that escaped from the city no longer pose a threat to the Zerg after losing their clusters. They are just walking trophies.

The city was also abandoned by the machine race, and everything in the city was controlled by Chen Ming.

The mechanical tribe is not using those mechanical tribes as bait, but using the entire city as bait to trap Chen Ming on this planet and in the galaxy.

But Chen Ming still had no way of determining what exactly the Machine Tribe would do.

But at this moment, Chen Ming's spiritual power suddenly came into play, and a sense of danger from outside the galaxy was transmitted to Chen Ming's mind.

This sense of danger seemed to be a cover that was gradually closing, and gradually Chen Ming was completely restricted in this galaxy.

Chen Ming took a deep breath and prepared himself mentally.

Then he immediately issued an order to the Insect Queen, directly recalling the Insects, no longer tracking the fleeing Machines, and instead started to capture the Machines on the ground with all his strength.

He wanted to take away as much of the loot he needed before the cover-like sense of danger he felt completely closed.

Anyway, for Chen Ming, there is no essential difference between the escaping machine race and the machine race staying in the city. They are both members of the machine race and can enhance the hive mind network of his machine race.

The only difference is the difference in the abilities of their former mechanical bodies.

But as long as Chen Ming masters the method of creating a mechanical race, the physical difference will no longer be a difference.

So Chen Ming directly changed his thinking on how to capture mechanical individuals with high efficiency.

He didn't have much time left.

He must start the jump engine and take the mechanical tribe he captured to leave here before the final time comes.

As for these Zerg species on the planet, they will have no choice but to stay on the planet.

After all, the number of these Zerg units has reached a terrifying level during the development of the Zerg Queen. Even if a lot of losses have been suffered during the attack on the city, it cannot be taken away by two cruisers in a short time.

At that time, these insects will be directly absorbed by the Queen of Insects and transformed into the most basic energy crystals.

Chen Ming's spiritual energy can just recycle these energy crystals directly, minimizing losses.

One minute later.

Chen Ming's highest point landed near the cruiser in the core of the city.

During the landing process, Chen Ming had already released a batch of robots equipped with afterglow cores from the highest point, and landed on the landing craft in advance.

Following another defender that had separated from the Supreme Point, it landed in the middle of the city, and cooperated with the Zerg to start cleaning the battlefield.

What Chen Ming wants is to let these afterglows find the mechanical clan with damaged circuits, and then immediately connect to the circuits for control.

As long as the machine race is controlled by Chen Ming, it will transform into anomaly sub-individuals, and Chen Ming can directly transfer the consciousness of these anomalous sub-individuals into the hive network of the machine race he built.

He relies purely on his consciousness and mental power to temporarily support the consciousness of these mechanical tribes to survive.

Save storage space on both of his cruisers.

Anyway, Chen Ming's goal is indeed the consciousness of these mechanical tribes, not the bodies of the mechanical tribes.

As long as the consciousness of the mechanical race exists, and these consciousnesses strengthen the hive network to the point where a new conscious individual of the mechanical race can be constructed, the physical problem is actually very easy to solve.

Then there is only one thing left for him to do, control that cruiser.

However, he didn't have time to get off the boat.

A piece of news reached his ears that made him freeze on the spot.

The afterglow individuals he sent out and installed on the robots failed when they controlled the mechanical races with damaged appearances.

His mental power cannot affect the consciousness contained in the core chips of the mechanical race.

He couldn't control the individuals of the mechanical race.

But when the Afterglows tried to access the bodies of those mechanical races whose consciousness had died, there was no obstruction.

This strange situation stunned Chen Ming for a while, causing countless chaotic thoughts and ideas to flash through his mind.

But he didn't have time to think too much. The methods arranged by the mechanical clan in the galaxy would not give him time to think.

Chen Ming could only let those thoughts seem like a mess in his mind for the time being, and solve them later.

Now let’s take away these mechanical races from the physical level first.

As for the cruiser in front of him, he had to try it himself.

See why his psychic powers can't control the machines.

Is there something wrong with the afterglow of the transfer, or is there something wrong with his psychic abilities.

Or perhaps, there is something wrong with these mechanical tribes themselves.

Chen Ming arrived at the exit of the highest point.

Pure white metallic liquid gradually flowed out of the body, and at the same time, there was also some bright green mixed with Zerg energy crystals.

The dolomite liquid gradually condensed into the skeleton of the power armor, and the color of the energy crystals gradually solidified on the skeleton, gradually turning dark.

In the blink of an eye, what appeared on Chen Ming was not the locust powered armor given by Bai Quan, but a unique biomass armor.

The coverage of the jet-black Zerg carapace gives the armor a biological aesthetic.

At this time, Chen Ming did not look like he was wearing modern individual combat equipment, but instead evolved into a ferocious insect.

The original mechanical auxiliary wings on the back of the power armor were replaced by Zerg elytra, and the jetpack's bump was also covered with Zerg carapace, giving it the texture of a Zerg biological spacecraft.

This is a complete set of biological armor that Chen Ming created by simultaneously using the biotechnology and power armor technology he currently mastered, as well as the in-depth repair capabilities he had just acquired.

Combining the various advantages of the Zerg carapace and the Locust armor, it crushes the prototype Locust powered armor in almost all abilities.

It can be regarded as an attempt by Chen Ming.

Let Chen Ming know that biology and machinery are not two ends of the spectrum. They can be combined with each other to do things that are originally difficult to do, and reach heights that are more difficult to achieve than individual technologies.

In this attempt, after Chen Ming had communicated with the Insect Queen before, he found that the Insects still had various shortcomings even after his deep spiritual repair.

These shortcomings are inherent shortcomings of the species and cannot be compensated for by itself.

So Chen Ming had such an idea at that time and tried it.

The result was clearly a success.

The unique evolutionary ability of the Zerg and the crystallization of human technology are most vividly reflected in the biomass-powered armor that Chen Ming is currently wearing.

It proved that the method chosen by Chen Ming to make up for the shortcomings of the Zerg species was correct.

He would make more attempts later.

And this biomass-powered armor is also the basis for his confidence to leave the spacecraft in the city of the mechanical race.

Of course, there was another thing that gave him confidence, the psychic power of the Insect Queen.

To be precise, it is the spiritual power of the Zerg.

(End of this chapter)