Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 322 Destruction
"No."

Looking at the dense debris area around the planet reported by the sensors.

Chen Ming now understood why there was no spaceship left in the hyperspace area of ​​the galaxy.

It turned out that they had all entered the galaxy to protect their stronghold.

Then he looked at the large area of ​​fire still rising on the planet.

Chen Ming suddenly had a bad feeling.

But it shouldn’t be such a coincidence. Let’s wait and see.

After Chen Ming adjusted the sensor accuracy of the reconnaissance fleet's spacecraft and conducted a second scan.

The specific damage conditions of the wreckage of ships and orbital defense facilities orbiting the planet also appeared in front of Chen Ming.

After further confirmation.

Chen Ming can make a judgment now.

The causes of these wreckages are all due to the spacecraft or defense facilities being shattered by some extremely powerful physical attack, and then caused by circuit damage or various other reasons leading to the explosion.

This situation seemed quite familiar to Chen Ming.

Sure enough, it was a phase behemoth.

What else could have done such damage?

Turning back to look at the situation on the planet, I guessed that the phase monster was also causing trouble.

"Really come."

Chen Ming couldn't hold it together for a moment.

He just had some thoughts in his mind and was talking about them casually a while ago, but when he arrived at the Mechanical Clan's base, he found that the Phase Beast had arrived before him.

This...really...he didn't know what to say.

How did the Mechanicals provoke the Phase Beasts? How could they be targeted like this?
Last time they expanded and found a stronghold, it was destroyed by the phase beasts. As a result, this time it was destroyed by the phase beasts again.

Chen Ming hasn't even started yet.

Chen Ming remembered that the last time the Phase Beasts followed the Mechanical Clan's reinforcement fleet to the base they had established.

So what is the reason this time?
Of course, this is not the point now.

Chen Ming didn't want to care about this phase beast. As long as the beast continued to attack the mechanical race, it would definitely be a good thing for him.

What he needs to do now is to find the mechanical people who stole the goods.

He first needed to confirm whether the fleet that had jumped away earlier had arrived here.

Even if the phase monster's attack might affect his fleet, he couldn't just run away.

But just when Chen Ming was thinking about finding the target.

The images on the sensors transmitted back by his reconnaissance fleet within the galaxy suddenly showed the mechanical fleets that had attacked his fleet before.

Not all of the fleets. Only about half of them were left, consisting of a dozen cruisers and barely a hundred small ships.

They had just taken off from the planet that was being ravaged, escaped the planet's gravity, and fled in panic towards the edge of the galaxy.

The cruiser that robbed Chen Ming's cargo hold was also among them.

It looks like the timing is just right.

But just as Chen Ming was glad that these ships did not run away directly, he also noticed a problem.

It's still a matter of time.

All together, it had been almost an hour since the mechanical race attacked his fleet.

Even if the mechanical fleet's jump destination during evacuation was not here but a nearby galaxy, judging from the jump fluctuations, it was not far away.

It takes no more than twenty minutes to get here from there via the waterway.

The mechanical race would definitely arrive here earlier than him and know earlier that the phase monsters were attacking the stronghold.

At first glance, it seemed normal to Chen Ming when he saw the plundered fleet of the Mechanical Clan emerging from the surface of the planet.

But if you think about it carefully, you will find the problem.

The battle between the mechanical race and the phase beasts must have lasted for more than a while. Looking at the debris in the planet's orbit, it can be seen that at least an hour or two has passed.

At the latest, the battle broke out when the mechanical race that ambushed his cargo fleet was evacuating.

In other words, these mechanical fleets have only two choices after looting and jumping away.

Or come over for support.

Or just run away.

There is no reason to come here just because you have nothing better to do and then run away.

When Chen Ming saw those mechanical fleets, they were running away and were obviously not coming to provide support.

After all, support must be provided with weapons that can support it, otherwise it would be useless.

The supporting fleet wouldn't have to flee in panic like it is now. It should at least maintain a loose formation to engage the phase beasts, right?

Although this phase monster cannot be observed, its impact on the real world is noticeable.

As long as physical distance is maintained, the destructive power of the Phase Beast will be greatly limited.

Except the surface of course.

Buildings on the surface cannot be moved. If they are targeted by the giant beast, they will have to be demolished.

But the fleet really has no such restrictions.

What on earth are these mechanical fleets that robbed Chen Ming coming back for?
We can't just leave the looted cargo hold on this doomed planet, right?
Maybe there is some special reason?

Chen Ming didn't understand.

But it's okay, he will understand soon.

After determining the escape direction of the mechanical looting fleet inside.

Chen Ming's fleet, which was in the galaxy's hyperspace, immediately began to dispatch and approached the other side of the galaxy in the hyperspace, preparing for an ambush.

The efficiency of movement in hyperspace is much higher than that in the normal universe environment, and it can definitely deal a big blow to the fleeing mechanical race.

Seeing this, Bai Quan next to him told Chen Ming several possible locations where the mechanical fleet might appear when leaving the galaxy.

The mechanical race is now on the run, so they must pursue efficiency.

Then it is necessary to enter hyperspace within an extreme range that will ensure that it will not be affected by the galaxy's gravity well.

So the locations where they appear are actually predictable.

Although now these mechanical races are busy and confused because of the phase monster, they can no longer take care of anything else.

The reconnaissance fleet sent out by Chen Ming was not discovered at all, so even if there was a slight deviation in the deployment position, the impact would not be too great.

But Chen Ming is definitely willing to listen to good suggestions.

He immediately changed the ambush position slightly, and after taking note of Baiquan's battlefield tip, he put all the ships into combat readiness, ready to open fire at any time.

And just as Chen Ming was preparing for an ambush.

His reconnaissance fleet, which had entered the galaxy in advance, chose to approach the attacked planet.

Although looking at the debris around the planet it has been basically confirmed that this was done by the Phase Beast.

But he still wanted to see with his own eyes what those spaceships and buildings looked like when they were destroyed, so as to thoroughly confirm the true situation.

As Chen Ming's reconnaissance fleet approached.

The specific situation on the planet was also returned to Chen Ming through sensors.

Nearly half of the mechanized cities that occupied almost all the land on the planet have now become wasteland.

There are damaged mechanical buildings and shut-down mechanical individuals everywhere.

They all have one thing in common, which is that they were all destroyed by crushing attacks.

Something huge and heavy crushed them.

Even the surrounding land sank into the ground by dozens of meters.

And all these sunken traces are in the shape of manta rays.

After Chen Ming's reconnaissance fleet approached the planet to a certain distance and was able to use sensors to determine the details of what was happening on the planet, it did not move any closer.

Instead, it began to orbit the planet and conduct reconnaissance.

Not long after, he discovered traces of the Phase Beast's activities, fresh traces.

It was found near an ocean on the planet, in a mineral mining area of ​​a mechanical race.

A being that cannot be seen by the naked eye is constantly attacking the area.

The method is very simple, just flutter on the surface like a fish out of water.

Although the Phase Behemoth is only the size of an ordinary cruiser, its powerful physical strength is enough to directly destroy a cruiser of the same level.

And its terrifying weight, even if it just rolls randomly, can leave terrible scars on the ground, creating a bombardment that makes everything tremble.

A large number of mechanical individuals are constantly fleeing the area with mechanical equipment or something else.

In addition, there are some newly produced mechanized psychic creatures of the mechanical race, who are trying to use psychic power to attack the phase beast.

However, all the psychic effects were applied to empty space.

This phased behemoth cannot be seen or touched by the naked eye, and cannot be harmed by psychic energy.

The Phase Beast seemed to have some deep hatred with the Mechanical Race. It kept attacking the Mechanical Race and destroying everything they had.

Chen Ming was not sure whether this phase monster was the same one as before. If it was, that would be interesting.

If you want to confirm it, it should be possible. Judging from the size of the mark left on the ground of the planet, it is roughly different from the previous one.

As long as we can obtain complete imprint details and compare them with the previous imprint, we can most likely figure out whether it is the same one.

However, there are other people studying the Phase Beast, so he doesn't need to pay too much attention to it and just shouldn't provoke it for now.

Chen Ming carefully continued to let the reconnaissance fleet orbit around the star.

Continue to search for some important places on the planet.

For example, the various large warehouses that the mechanical clan should have.

In fact, when the reconnaissance fleet approached just now, they had already found several, and those warehouses had been completely destroyed by the phase beasts.

However, Chen Ming wanted to take a look around to see if there were any other large warehouses, in case the stolen goods really were inside and had not been destroyed by the phase beast.

After all, Chen Ming has not yet come into contact with the fleeing mechanical cruisers, and is not sure whether the stolen energy crystal crabs are still on the cruisers or stored in the warehouse.

We have to investigate.

Go around the planet again and if you can't find the warehouse, retreat temporarily.

After the fight with the Phase Beast is over, he will come and see if there is any debris that can be cleaned up.

Chen Ming controlled the fleet to speed up again.

However, just as he was about to leave, he suddenly discovered that a spaceship sent by the mechanical clan to support him suddenly launched a beam of light that seemed to be straight, but if you look closely, you will find that it is almost completely distorted. No, Chen Ming found that it was not the beam that was distorted, but the space around the beam.

It seemed as if it had successfully hit the phase monster in the phase space, and it disappeared with half of it remaining in the air.

The Phase Beast's next move also confirmed what Chen Ming had just seen.

The ship was immediately counterattacked by the phase beast.

The giant beast smashed the ship from the bow to the stern.

It seemed that it failed to cause any significant damage to the phase beast.

But this beam weapon, which appeared for just a few seconds before being destroyed, caused all the generals in the conference room to stand up in an instant and gather in front of the screen projected by Chen Ming.

"Phase weapons..."

Although Chen Ming had just guessed that it was something like this, he couldn't help but ask after hearing several generals say this: "Can the normal universe see weapons that attack phase space?"

Qiu Bowen knew that Chen Ming had learned about the phase technology, so he did not hide it. He said, "Of course not, but that beam is just a laser indicator. It uses the resonance of the phase weapon in the phase space to display the visible light band in the normal world."

"The key is that the light is cut off. This can only be the effect of a phase weapon."

"It seems that the Mechanical Clan has also started researching phase technology since they were attacked by the Phase Beast last time, and their progress seems to be very close to ours."

A lieutenant general next to him said, "Then their efficiency may be higher than ours. We have already started researching it a long time ago, but we were still caught up by the mechanical tribe."

Another lieutenant general also said in rebuttal: "They are Shining relics. The Shining civilization must have phase technology. The mechanical race just picked up the phase technology again. Of course, they are faster than us."

Bai Quan did not participate in the discussion among several generals on the research progress of phase technology.

He was more concerned about more practical things: "Chen Ming, if you have the chance, find a way to obtain the wreckage of the spacecraft that used the phase weapon. This is very important for our research on phase technology."

However, Chen Ming did not agree directly: "I don't think it's possible. This phase monster is still here. I can't rush in against it. The best I can do is wait for it to finish fighting, and then I'll pick up the garbage."

"That's fine too, let's find another opportunity."

"Row."

Chen Ming wrote down the coordinates of this location and continued to move the reconnaissance fleet away.

But just as he ordered the ships to take such action, his fleet was paralyzed and received a special frequency band communication.

"Communication?"

Chen Ming answered the call immediately, and a sound as if coming from something drowning in the deep sea was heard in the communication channel.

The sound from the deep sea was very vague. Chen Ming could hear that it was sharp but not harsh.

And there was also a vague emotion in Chen Ming's heart that he couldn't sense clearly.

Chen Ming suddenly felt confused.

The source of the communication signal was also unclear, but it was definitely on the planet in front of us.

Was this sent by the Mechanical Clan?
Or in other words...

The communication signals from the planet are still being received continuously by Chen Ming's ships.

But Chen Ming could never hear clearly what was contained in this voice.

He thought about it and connected the communication device of the reconnaissance fleet in the conference room, and played the audio data received by the communication device in the conference room.

After the recorded sound was played, Chen Ming asked, "What does this sound mean?"

"Sound? What sound?"

"what are you saying?"

"?"

Now it was Chen Ming's turn to be confused.

"I just played an audio clip, didn't you hear it?"

"No."

Chen Ming didn't understand, so he just played it again.

His ears could hear the sound clearly, but judging by the expressions on the faces of the people around him, they heard nothing.

It was obvious that Chen Ming was using the recorded audio file directly, and he could hear the sound, so why couldn't others?

Chen Ming immediately analyzed the data of the saved audio file.

He unexpectedly discovered that there was no sound wave in any frequency band in this audio file.

There is nothing, whether it is sound that humans can hear or ultrasound and infrasound that humans cannot hear.

There were no sound waves in any frequency band, but he could hear the sound from this file.

Seeing that the people around him looked at him with strange expressions, Chen Ming could only say, "Maybe I heard it wrong."

He stopped the audio and resumed control of the ship.

The audio band sounds received by his reconnaissance fleet became increasingly blurred as the fleet moved away from its previous location, and gradually could no longer be received, as if it was sinking deeper into the sea.

This made him more certain of his guess.

However, Chen Ming pretended to be stupid and avoided the topic of audio.

But everyone present was a smart guy, and Chen Ming's behavior didn't seem fake. He must have heard something.

But they couldn't hear it, and Chen Ming didn't want to say more, so there was no way to ask

Just keep it as a secret in your heart, maybe it will come in handy someday in the future.

Several people watched Chen Ming continue his operation in silence.

At the same time, he was observing the reconnaissance fleet investigating the surface of the planet, as well as the main fleet lying in ambush in hyperspace.

The moment the reconnaissance fleet saw the mechanical fleet that had barely escaped the clutches of the phase beast in the galaxy and arrived at the edge of the galaxy, it activated the hyperspace channel engine.

"ended."

I don't know who said this.

The mechanical fleet entered Chen Ming's encirclement without any preparation.

When a ship enters hyperspace, its speed relative to the coordinate point at the moment of entering hyperspace will be reset to zero, and it will not be able to accelerate to a speed that allows it to dodge in an instant.

The large weapons of two hundred armor-piercing ships and four afterglow cruisers were already aimed at them.

Chen Ming doesn't even need the Stardust level to release the Meteorite fighter.

The particle torrents from more than two hundred tachyon spears had already swept across the entire battlefield.

Almost all the mechanical fleets were destroyed in an instant and turned into fireworks.

However, Chen Ming deliberately left a gap in the firepower network for the cruiser carrying the cargo.

He had to confirm whether the cargo was still on the ship.

It was this gap that gave the mechanical fleet a little bit of hope.

After a round of attacks, in addition to the cruiser that Chen Ming deliberately let go, there was actually another cruiser that Chen Ming had never seen before that escaped by hiding behind the cruiser that Chen Ming let go.

Moreover, Chen Ming had never seen this cruiser starting up the jump engine, which the cruisers Chen Ming had seen before could not use again in a short period of time.

The ship that Chen Ming had let go stood between Chen Ming's fleet and it, blocking it tightly.

In order to avoid accidental damage to ships, Chen Ming only deployed single-sided firepower when preparing for the ambush.

Therefore, Chen Ming really couldn't open fire directly for a while.

However, he also discovered the reason why the mechanical fleet did not retreat directly or provide support.

Apparently it was because of this ship.

These ships probably wanted to pick it up, so they returned to the planet attacked by the phase beast.

This ship is important.

Then Chen Ming definitely couldn't let it go.

It just so happened that he also had the device to block the jump engine, which was given to him by Baiquan.

Although he was using an obsolete model, it is not unusable.

Chen Ming used his spiritual power to transfer and activate the equipment.

The spacecraft that activated the jump engine immediately broke down and the engine suffered a brief malfunction.

It was during this brief period of downtime that Chen Ming's fleet had already bypassed the enemy.
The crossfire directly blew up the engine of the ship protected by the Mechanical Clan.

Want to run?

Can't run away at all.

From the images sent back, other people in the conference room could see that the purpose of the mechanical race was to protect the ship.

This ship must be very special and must have its unique value.

It would be meaningful if the Legion could get it.

But they all remained silent.

Since the boat is with Chen Ming, it is impossible to make Chen Ming spit it out.

If Chen Ming himself was summoned to carry out a mission, they would have reason to ask Chen Ming to take out the things.

But the current situation is that Chen Ming discovered the mechanical clan’s stronghold, encountered this ship when attacking the stronghold and captured them.

It is impossible to force Chen Ming to hand over the seized goods.

Anyway, if Chen Ming finds that there is something that he cannot finish alone, he will hand it over to the legion sooner or later.

For example, the energy crystal crab was also something Chen Ming got himself.

He had done business with the Legion before, but found that he could not eat the entire empire's cake, so in the end, didn't he hand it over to the Legion to handle?

Therefore, as long as it is something that will be more beneficial to the legion, Chen Ming will definitely hand it over to the legion. He is not stupid.

Of course, it would be better if we could get more information about the mechanical race from this spaceship.

After all, Chen Ming is about to participate in the war with the mechanical race, and it is impossible for him to hide any information about the mechanical race.

Baiquan doesn’t matter at all.

His relationship with Chen Ming is different from that with others. If there is anything, he can just ask him when the time comes. If he can't know, the Legion will have no need to know.

So now, everyone just tacitly pretends they didn’t see it.

He just watched silently as Chen Ming dismantled all the weapons of the two cruisers in front of him and forcibly took control of the two spacecraft.

Planning to jump away.

Qiu Bowen suddenly said at this time, "Stop for a moment, Chen Ming, can you do something for me?"

Chen Ming, who was excitedly using the data cable pulled out from the afterglow core on the cruiser to control the two cruisers of the mechanical clan, was distracted and asked, "What's the matter?"

"The fleet you sent to conduct reconnaissance should not leave for the time being. Wait a moment."

(End of this chapter)