Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 193 Source of Danger

After Chen Ming controlled the Zerg biological spaceship, he relied on his mental power to build a hive mind network belonging to the Zerg.

He can use this network to get feedback from the spiritual power of the Zerg in the entire network, provide thinking assistance, and speed up thinking.

With these mental and mental feedbacks, the insect queen swallowed the psychic fungi and spent more than half a month evolving into a psychic creature. Chen Ming also used the ability of deep repair to allow the insect queen to swallow psychic fungi. The spiritual energy evolved from biological violence was completely adapted to the body of the insect queen, and after being linked to the hive mind network, new changes occurred.

In addition to the previous two, the Zerg hive network can provide one more feedback.

That is to say, the spiritual energy of the Zerg can be transformed into spiritual energy fluctuations spread based on the hive mind network, and then act on Chen Ming, who is also in the mind network.

This also means that he can also use the spiritual powers of the Zerg.

As a part of the hive network, as the builder of the Zerg hive network, it is not too much to use the psychic energy in the network.

It would be better to say that Chen Ming, as a psyker who became a psyker very early, would be more proficient in using psionic powers than the current insect queen.

The effect of the Insect Queen's psychic power is the simplest and crudest ability, which strengthens physical fitness through psychic power.

It's just that the physical strength of the Zerg race is already there after all, and it only appears a little weak when facing the main unit of the mechanical race.

Therefore, such a newly awakened spiritual energy is not ideal for the Zerg with extremely high physical strength.

But it's completely different for Chen Ming.

Chen Ming's own spiritual energy is not like Yan Xiong's or the Zerg's spiritual energy that can act on himself and strengthen himself.

Apart from his regular exercise, his physical fitness is that of an ordinary person with slightly better physical fitness.

The spiritual energy that had no effect on the powerful Zerg body could improve Chen Ming's body by more than a little.

Relying on the mental power of the Zerg to transform into spiritual energy fluctuations, you can feel the full sense of power in your body.

Chen Ming clenched his fists subconsciously, feeling a little excited.

But he knew he had no time to waste, so he immediately opened the hatch at the highest point and jumped directly from the hatch.

The biomass ejection port on the back of the biomass armor sprayed out pure gray-green tail flames, and the powerful physical fitness given by the Zerg's spiritual energy.

Chen Ming was like a swift Zerg in an instant, rushing to the top of the mechanical cruiser.

Just as he was finding his feet.

The mechanical cruiser, which had been silent since the external defense weapons were destroyed, suddenly opened several passageways, and several flying mantises and static mantises sprang out.

The backs of several flying mantises instantly erupted with bright tail flames, and they quickly swung the sharp blades on their arms towards Chen Ming.

If Chen Ming had relied on his strong consciousness and thinking speed before, he would have been able to see this scene very clearly, but his physical limitations did not allow him to dodge and fight back.

But now, with the spiritual assistance of the Zerg that purely strengthens the body, Chen Ming, who has no actual fighting experience, actually successfully dodged the attacks of the two flying mantises.

It's just that the remaining three flying mantises can't dodge the attacks, so they can only take them hard.

However, the powerful protective power brought by the biological armor did not leave even a mark after being chopped by six flying mantis sickle blades.

The impact of the blade's chopping actually caused Chen Ming himself after being buffered by layers of buffers. It was not even as big as the impact that Xiao Shi sometimes had when he jumped off the back of the bed and hit him.

For Chen Ming now, it's not even tickling.

He can even react and directly control the flying mantis close to him by relying on the synergistic power brought by himself and the armor on his body.

When Chen Ming instantly tried to use his spiritual power to control the flying mantis, he found that his spiritual power was just like when Yu Hui controlled these mechanical tribes before, and was unable to take effect.

Chen Ming frowned and said nothing more.

He didn't have time to dwell on this now.

He directly relied on brute force to remove the relatively fragile Fei Mantis' arm equipped with a sickle blade from the fragile key point, completely killing the Fei Mantis.

This is just pure strength, and the combat capability of biomass armor is not all about brute force.

The biomass armor's gauntlet suddenly condensed a pitch-black blade extending forward like a sharp claw.

Relying on the strength of the black carapace and the fusion of various metals that can easily tear into dolomite steel, Chen Ming instantly killed four other flying mantises by chopping melons and vegetables.

Others also appeared on the top of the cruiser, and they had spread out to shoot at Chen Ming, but they were also unable to break through the defense at all.

After Chen Ming killed the flying mantises, he directly hit their heads with an electromagnetic javelin that could generate projectiles supported by Zerg energy crystals that was instantly condensed in his hands, and they were completely killed in the explosion of unstable energy crystals.

Chen Ming's heartbeat continued to accelerate, and this unprecedented feeling of personally participating in the battle made him excited.

Although this is not his own ability, it is the biological armor on his body and the spiritual power of the Zerg that allows him to do this.

But the face-to-face battle still made it difficult for him to suppress his excitement.

But he also knew exactly what he should do now.

So after excitedly clearing out a few machines that were interfering with him, Chen Ming immediately touched his hand to the cruiser beneath him and actively activated his psychic powers.

Not surprisingly, the control failed.

And when Chen Ming didn't directly invoke his spiritual energy.

Instead, use the panel's [Signal from spacecraft detected, do you want to connect? 】after this option.

He got a [Signal conflict, unable to access] prompt.

This result caused Chen Ming to stop for half a second.

He took a deep breath and suppressed the tumbling emotions in his heart.

He stood up and flew into the air again relying on the biomass armor, returning to the highest point.

A few seconds later, a large amount of metallic liquid flowed out from the highest point, and was once again transformed by Chen Ming into a dozen robotic arms with different functions.

These mechanical arms acted on the nearby mechanical cruiser, dismantling the facilities connecting the mechanical cruiser to the ground, and uprooting the cruiser that had taken root on the ground.

Although it cannot be controlled spiritually, there is still no problem with physical control.

Take the cruiser away and there's always an opportunity to utilize psionic control in the future.

After firmly fixing the mechanical cruiser at the bottom of the highest point, Chen Ming controlled the highest point and flew into space.

At this time, on the other side of the city, the Defenders and Colossus, with the assistance of the Zerg ground units, controlled most of the machines that could be taken away and stuffed them into the spacecraft.

Loaded with machines that were also controlled, they followed the highest point and flew into space.

At this time, the few cruisers left by Chen Ming in space were still safely in orbit, without any attack or other interference.

So Chen Ming started the jump engine directly.

But equally unsurprisingly, the jump engine process was interrupted before it even started.

The mechanical race had already arrived outside the galaxy when Chen Ming's spiritual energy became alert, and began to blockade the interior of the galaxy.

However, because Chen Ming had noticed something was wrong before, he focused on pursuing efficiency when doing things on the planet.

So it happened to be that the mechanical race returned to space at the moment when the mechanical race had not completely completed the blockade of the jump engine of the galaxy, and sensed the gap in the mechanical race that had not yet completed the blockade of the galaxy.

As long as Chen Ming's ship can reach the gap that has not been completely sealed, he can get rid of the situation where he may be blocked by the mechanical race in the galaxy and beaten.

So Chen Ming immediately commanded several cruisers to sail towards the gap in his psychic perception.

And when Chen Ming's fleet was about to arrive at the edge of the galaxy.

Through the scanning array at the highest point, Chen Ming finally discovered that the mechanical race had arrived long ago but had been hiding the cruiser that was deploying a blockade device.

and other convoys that were protecting the cruiser and sealing the gap.

In fact, in order to prevent Chen Ming from jumping, the mechanical race just relied on the ship's own engine to fly out of the blocked area from normal space.

So a number of cruisers were evenly arranged around the galaxy, but more were arranged here in the gaps that had not yet been closed.

But the mechanical fleet here only has a dozen cruisers that can be considered a trouble to Chen Ming.

Therefore, Chen Ming chose to completely ignore losses in order to maximize the effectiveness of his psychic powers.

I saw five rounds of meteorite drones flying out of the Stardust-class flight deck, totaling 8,000, with a terrifying red stream of light, rushing towards the fleet blocked by the mechanical race at the gap.

As long as he can break through the defense line composed of these cruisers, Chen Ming can safely start the jump engine and escape unscathed.

But as Chen Ming's fleet broke into the scanning range of the mechanical clan, the mechanical clan responded very quickly.

In just ten seconds, more than twenty cruisers also located at different locations in the galaxy made short-distance emergency jumps, arrived at the gap, and came to stop Chen Ming.

Moreover, the scanning array at the highest point also immediately scanned a new transition wave.

The huge coverage area of ​​this jump fluctuation also made Chen Ming's eyes widen.

Because behind this jump fluctuation is either a cruise fleet of at least fifty ships, or a battleship.

Twenty or thirty cruisers can be defeated as long as Chen Ming works hard and relies on the terrifying output and protection capabilities of his cruisers.

But the number of cruisers exceeding eighty is really beyond what Chen Ming's five cruisers plus one Stardust can handle.

Not to mention the battleship. The only thing that can threaten the battleship is the battleship. Without the battleship on the frontal battlefield, all other spaceships are garbage.

Therefore, as long as the mechanical tribe is delayed for less than thirty seconds, he will have no possibility of escape.

So Chen Ming made a decision instantly.

He must jump immediately.

In fact, when Chen Ming arrived near the gap and saw the mechanical race arranging jump blockade devices on the periphery of the galaxy, he could already start the jump engine.

A cruiser that just starts its jump engine has almost no protection if it is attacked.

Therefore, Chen Ming had previously thought of killing the fleet here first, completely breaking through the galaxy, and then making the jump. This was the safest way.

But things are obviously not going so smoothly now.

Therefore, Chen Ming's current choice is to lose a Defender that does not have an Alpha-level afterglow core installed and takes away the smallest number of mechanical races.

Let it withstand the concentrated fire of the mechanical fleet, while the other cruisers immediately began to jump on the spot, no longer seeking to escape the fire range of the mechanical clan.

It would really be fatal to be late at this time.

As Chen Ming's command order was issued.

The defenders, together with the 8,000 meteor fighters just released by the Stardust class, rushed towards the mechanical fleet.

Several other cruisers in the rear began to slow down and started their jump engines.

Right now.

The jump fluctuations that had just existed gradually subsided, and a fleet of more than fifty cruisers and dozens of destroyers and frigates jumped here.

Chen Ming breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, it was not a battleship, but another cruiser with a larger number that Chen Ming guessed. But Chen Ming suddenly realized that something seemed wrong.

Almost all of this new batch of mechanical cruisers were injured, and among the destroyers and escorts, it was almost impossible to see one that was not injured.

It was as if they had just experienced a brutal battle.

And at this time, the transition process has not yet been completed, and something has suddenly been scanned on the scanning array that has not yet left the highest point of the galaxy.

It was at the position where reinforcements from a group of more than fifty cruisers from the Mechanical Tribe had arrived, and at the position where the jump fluctuations had just subsided.

There have been some strange fluctuations.

Somewhat similar to the fluctuations of a jump engine, but nothing jumps over.

And the fluctuation quickly disappeared, and there didn't seem to be anything abnormal.

But at the moment when the fluctuation disappeared, Chen Ming suddenly felt a sense of extreme danger from the center of the mechanical fleet, where the strange fluctuation disappeared.

The next moment, the side of the injured cruiser of the mechanical race that was closest to the fluctuation suddenly seemed to be hit by something, and a huge dent appeared in the armor of the ship.

The entire ship also crashed into a similar spacecraft next to it uncontrollably.

In a blink of an eye, two fireworks appeared in the space.

Before the fireworks completely dissipated, the scene that just happened happened again on another mechanical cruiser.

The hull of the ship was violently hit by something, and crashed into other spaceships uncontrollably. In an instant, several spaceships were completely reduced to wreckage.

In the process, Chen Ming sensed a huge source of danger wandering inside the machine race's fleet.

Chen Ming didn't know what it was, but Chen Ming knew that it was extremely aggressive and was constantly destroying the mechanical race's spaceships.

What the hell is this?

This question flashed through Chen Ming's mind.

So he quickly asked the defenders to retreat and return to his side.

At the same time, it also immediately forcibly suppressed the startup process of the jump engine.

At the cost of losing the life of the engine, the jump engine is maintained at the highest output power, that is, the jump engine can be started at any time for jump retreat.

Anyway, the damage to the engine's life is nothing in front of Chen Ming, and it can be repaired at any time.

Chen Ming wanted to stay here for a while. He wanted to find out what it was that could be so baffling and kill several mechanical cruisers so easily.

Several of Chen Ming's spaceships turned around and kept a safe distance from the mechanical fleet.

At the same time, all the scanning equipment at the highest point was activated at full power, scanning the situation inside the mechanical fleet.

But the scan results showed that nothing was scanned except the mechanical clan's own ships.

It's like the destroyed spaceships of the mechanical tribe were destroyed by their own people.

But the obvious effects of external forces on those spacecrafts don't lie.

Something must have caused such havoc.

And it was definitely not a small body-enhanced psyker that punched it, but something really close to the size of a cruiser that hit the mechanical cruiser.

There seems to be something in the galaxy that cannot be seen, scanned, or detected at all, destroying everything in the mechanical race.

Even if the mechanical cruiser has its shield turned on, it is of no use.

As long as the ship is not completely protected by an all-round shield like the Supreme Point, there will always be places on the ship that cannot be covered up by the shield, and there will always be exposed positions.

Then there will be an attack from the source of danger.

However, the mechanical race didn't seem to care at all now. They just charged towards Chen Ming as if they didn't see the source of danger that was constantly destroying their warships.

Continuously fired at Chen Ming's fleet, which was still out of range.

Chen Ming is not worried anyway. He has pushed the jump engine to the extreme. If there is any problem, he can jump away as soon as possible.

It's just that Chen Mingming saw many weapon projectiles or energy beams hitting the source of danger he perceived when shooting in his direction, but the source of danger did not react at all.

It can't be seen, touched, or hit, but that thing can do all of this in reverse.

It... doesn't seem to be in the normal cosmic environment, but it can affect this universe.

The mechanical race was targeted by such a terrifying thing.

Half of the machine race's cruiser fleet of more than 80 ships had been destroyed in the blink of an eye.

No ship can escape the attack from the source of danger and get close to Chen Ming.

But Chen Ming feels that it won't be long before that thing is likely to target him.

He knew he couldn't stay here much longer, so the moment the Defenders also entered the final stages of activation of their jump engines.

He released the restraints on the jump engines and the six cruisers entered the jump together.

Chen Ming's spaceship disappeared.

Only the source of danger is left to continue to destroy the mechanical race.

As time passed by, until the source of danger destroyed all the mechanical spacecraft in the galaxy, the galaxy gradually became quiet.

But only a few minutes passed.

The city of the mechanical race on the planet that had been destroyed once by Chen Ming suddenly faced an attack from a dangerous source.

It continued to destroy the city, defeating all the mechanical races that barely survived and were not captured by Chen Ming.

In just ten minutes, hundreds of huge manta-ray-like traces that were tens of meters deep underground and at least a kilometer long were left in the city, which was almost entirely made of dolomite steel.

After the entire city was in flames under this horrific attack, it returned to space again.

Using that unique wave, following its jump trajectory, it returned to the star domain of the mechanical race again.

If Chen Ming were still here, he should be able to guess what the situation of the mechanical race was during this period and why the development of this galaxy was so slow.

But if he really stayed here, he would probably end up like the mechanical tribe.

Fortunately, he had started the jump engine in advance, left the gap that the mechanical clan had not completely closed, and successfully escaped.

Went to the empire.

After all, the trajectory of the jump can be tracked, and Chen Ming would not be so foolish as to run directly to the temporary stronghold.

If you run into the empire, you don't have to worry about the Machine Tribe tracking you.

At the same time, he is not afraid of the source of danger chasing him.

At least Chen Ming still believed in his boss's ability.

But when Chen Ming made two more jumps and reappeared in the city where the pirate space station was located, it was basically completely safe.

Chen Ming's heartbeat still accelerated a lot, and some belated cold sweat appeared on his forehead.

In the mechanical city before, if he had been a little more greedy and let the insect queen track down the escaped high-level mechanical individuals and wasted some time in the process, then he might have ended up here today.

Not only because of the subsequent increase in the number of members of the mechanical clan, but also because of the source of danger that left the cruisers defenseless.

So Chen Ming kept thinking after he calmed down.

What is that thing?

Chen Ming has not learned about any similar existence from any research report he has read or from the information he has.

So Chen Ming thought for a while and dialed Bai Quan's phone number.

Bai Quan quickly picked up Chen Ming's call and asked, "Is it over?"

"It's over. It went smoothly, with basically no losses. But I have a problem."

"You ask."

"Hmm... I can't tell. I'll send you the video and you can watch it yourself."

"Row."

Bai Quan opened the video of Chen Mingfa's past and started playing it.

Chen Ming explained smoothly: "This is what happened when I was preparing to evacuate after I had achieved my previous goal. You also saw it. There were five versus a dozen on my side."

Bai Quan watched five waves of meteor fighter jets totaling 8,000 flying out of the Stardust class he had previously handed over to Chen Ming, and subconsciously pushed up his glasses.

He had imagined how powerful Chen Ming's spiritual energy was before, but now that he actually saw it, he couldn't help but feel that it was a bit too exaggerated.

This is just a cruiser, but what if it is a main-class aircraft carrier?

How many fighters can Chen Ming release in a short period of time?

Although the empire currently does not have a main-level aircraft carrier equipped with unmanned combat aircraft.

But to be honest, if Chen Ming really decides to join the imperial military or government one day, as long as it has been verified for a period of time, the empire's senior officials will immediately start arranging for Chen Ming to design a capital ship and let Chen Ming participate.

Bai Quan now wants to send out solicitations habitually.

However, he still held it back. Since Chen Ming had questions to ask, he should wait until Chen Ming finished asking them.

"This looks okay. You should be able to fight. Is there any problem?"

What Chen Ming saw was even more shocking than what he heard, so he just said: "You will know after watching."

"About thirty cruisers from the Mechanical Tribe jumped over right away. Even if I have psychic powers, there is no way a Stardust can defeat them."

"So I decided at that time to directly lose one cruiser to the rear, and the other spaceships would jump on the spot and run away."

Bai Quan nodded slightly and said: "There is nothing wrong with this decision. You must pay losses when necessary before you can survive."

"And for you, the only loss is the cruiser itself, and there is no loss of other manpower at all."

Chen Ming didn't care at all about the losses on any ship when he had the power to dismantle the psychic energy and could transport materials at will. He agreed: "Indeed, but the problem is not the loss, but other things."

The moment when the strange fluctuation appeared was played on Baiquan's terminal screen.

Just a few seconds later, Bai Quan also saw the scene where the mechanical fleet was hit by something.

"this!"

Bai Quan subconsciously stood up from the desk in his current room with a serious expression.

"I have to ask."

(End of this chapter)