Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 347 Destroyer

Chen Ming never expected that the Mechanical Race would actually use the strongest main force weapon they currently possessed here, to use it against the Zerg that was targeting him.

Moreover, he had not sensed any obvious psychic fluctuations just now, nor had he seen the existence of any other mothership.

The weapons on the mothership that arrived after repairs had not changed at all, and it was not the Destroyer that was used.

The real destroyer is not on the front battlefield.

That leaves only one possibility.

The mothership carrying the Destroyer is currently in phase space.

The properties of phase space will interfere with psychic fluctuations, interfere with the propagation of light, and interfere with the radiation energy system of the spacecraft.

But it does not interfere with the transition fluctuations.

Under normal circumstances, transitions in phase space can be perceived in the normal universe.

The Mechanicals used a tricky method. They used the jump fluctuations of a large number of spaceships to cover up the jump fluctuations of the Destroyer mothership in the phase space.

The Destroyer was hidden in the phase space and sent here using the visible fleet.

Chen Ming did not expect that the Mechanical Race could already send the mothership into phase space, and even used this ability to attack the Zerg against him.

He did not pay too much special attention to the phase space here.

At least I didn't pay too much attention to the phase space where the Zerg fleet was gathering.

Ultimately, he didn't notice it at all, causing the Zerg fleet to suffer heavy damage instantly.

However, this kind of surprise attack method can basically only be used once.

After this experience, Chen Ming will definitely equip any of his fleets with a phase ship, or some kind of early warning device in the phase space, in the future, and will never give the opportunity for a sneak attack again.

As long as Chen Ming spreads the news that he was ambushed by the Mechanical Clan in this way, the Empire will definitely be on high alert.

The Destroyer could no longer be delivered to anyone's face without being detected.

The only perfect opportunity for a surprise attack was used by the Mechanical Clan on Chen Ming.

So Chen Ming now doesn’t quite understand why the Mechanical Race would use this opportunity to launch a raid against his Zerg.

Would the Machines rather target the Zerg now than ever have a better chance to achieve greater results against the Empire in the future?
There seems to be no problem.

Chen Ming thought about it carefully. After all, his Zerg fleet was now attacking the most important logistical galaxy of the Mechanical Clan.

If the logistics galaxy collapses, there will be no need to fight on the front line. If he were put in the position of the mechanical race, he would definitely crush the logistics troubles with lightning speed and reduce the losses to a minimum.

If they had just sent other motherships over, Chen Ming might still have a chance, but sending the Destroyer over, and even choosing a sneak attack as the way to enter the battle, could almost guarantee that there would be no problems with the logistics of other galaxies.

It is an acceptable result.

In this case, Chen Ming felt that the Zerg fleet here would not be able to retreat, and the Mechanical Clan would definitely not let any Zerg go.

There is nothing much to say. The Zerg fears nothing from death, and Chen Ming fears nothing from suffering losses in battle. Those cruiser fleets that arrive to cover the Destroyer mothership will inevitably suffer a devastating blow from the Zerg.

Chen Ming immediately ordered the Zerg fleet to disperse to avoid being affected by the area attack effects of the destructive psionic energy.

All the Zerg cruisers no longer took any self-preservation actions, and all they had to do next was fight desperately.

Bright green acid plasma cannons and beams of the Zerg's bio-tachyon spears flickered across the battlefield.

However, the effect this time was not obvious.

Not only were the Zerg warships themselves being destroyed and melted, but all of their means of attack were melted away as they approached the Mechanical fleet.

The Destroyer can not only release destructive psychic energy remotely, but can even use destruction to build a line of destructive defense near the fleet.

Moreover, the Zerg fleet is too vulnerable to capital ships, especially motherships carrying Destroyers.

Without main-level protection capabilities, it would be easily destroyed.

The last time, the Zerg fleet was about the same number, and when it engaged the three Mechanic motherships, it took more than an hour to completely wipe them out.

And facing the Destroyer...

The Destroyer's attack had no light, no impact, no signs, only the psychic fluctuations hidden in the phase space quietly infecting the
Cannot be countered.

In the previous encounter, nearly half of the Zerg cruisers disappeared into the universe.

In the final exchange of fire, the remaining Zerg fleet only lasted a few minutes before completely losing its combat effectiveness. In the end, the more than 100,000 cruisers only defeated a little over 1,000 cruisers of the Mechanical Race.

This loss was caused by the fact that the Machines, in order to completely prevent the Destroyer from coming into contact with the Zerg fleet, proactively dispatched some cruisers to intercept those fish that escaped the destructive psychic power.

The Destroyer was not even hurt in this battle, and there was no means of attack that could break through the line of destruction.

The Zerg fleet was completely destroyed in the process of resistance.

Immediately afterwards, all areas where the Zerg fleet had just been were swept by the Destroyer's destructive psionic power. Everything from the wreckage of Zerg spacecraft to tiny invisible cells were completely wiped out by the Destroyer.

In the end, not even a trace of the entire Zerg fleet was left.

The mechanical race may have guessed something, or they may have simply been conducting a sweep to prevent any Zerg cells from being left behind and eventually falling onto a planet due to gravity, causing the Zerg plague to occur again.

Fortunately, Chen Ming separated some Zerg cells when the Destroyer arrived and dispersed them into the vast space.

At the same time, he also planned to arrange some iron atoms in the phase space that were almost impossible to be discovered by the mechanical family, so as to provide him with a vision of the phase space.

Unless the mechanical race really swept the entire galaxy and even the phase space thoroughly, it would be impossible to discover those scattered existences that continued to provide Chen Ming with a view of the interior of the galaxy.

But in the normal universe, only a very small number of cells spread by Chen Ming and far away from the center of the galaxy where the Zerg fleet assembled escaped the disaster.

Such a wide-range scan made Chen Ming wonder how much radiation energy capacity the mechanical mothership had.

As Chen Ming expanded his vision to the phase space, he finally saw the appearance of the mechanical destroyer mothership.

At first glance, it looks no different from an ordinary mothership, except that the Destroyer Spine Gun Bow in the center looks a bit distorted and eye-catching, and there seems to be nothing special about it.

However, if you look closely, you will find that this mothership seems to have undergone the same major modifications as the temporary phase cruisers that Chen Ming saw.

Significantly increased radiation capacity, drastically reduced radiation dissipation, specially modified for phase space.

Not a problem.

Whether it is the spacecraft or the individual machines of the mechanical family, they are all modular and mass-produced, and it is very simple to replace parts. At worst, the Destroyer can just dismantle them and install them on other motherships.

At this time in the phase space, in addition to the mothership, there were dozens of cruisers following the mothership.

And, at this moment, when Chen Ming sent those things that could provide him with vision into the phase space, several cruisers suddenly docked with the mothership, as if they were exchanging some equipment.

Immediately after the exchange was completed, the cruiser that had exchanged equipment immediately jumped again and disappeared here.

Chen Ming understood the situation at a glance.

The docking and equipment exchange just now was the mothership exchanging its coils that were already full of radiation energy with the cruiser's coils that had not yet been filled with radiation energy, and then letting the cruiser send the radiation energy coils away and out of the normal universe.

Radiation energy is normally present in all electronic circuits of a spacecraft.

The length of the electronic circuit and the current it can handle determine the radiant energy capacity.

The ship may choose to increase its total radiant energy capacity by carrying additional radiant energy coils.

Radiation energy coils have become an additional equipment that most spacecraft must carry.

Such equipment cannot be uninstalled at will.

Under normal circumstances, if there is radiation energy exceeding 10% of the total capacity in the spacecraft's electronic system and radiation energy coils, then if the coils are directly unloaded before the radiation energy is dissipated, it may cause radiation energy to explode at the location where the line is disconnected, causing the disconnected part to melt and explode.

However, phase space has a special property that prevents the radiation energy from being dissipated and developing towards normal conditions, thus eliminating the problems that would be caused by unloading equipment that stores large amounts of radiation energy under normal circumstances.

This gave the Mechanical Clan a special opportunity, so they prepared additional cruisers to be used as additional coils for the mothership.

These coils are the radiation capacity batteries, which can be replaced at any time when they are full.

The more cruisers you bring, the longer the mothership can stay active in the phase space.

This is the technology that the mechanical family has further extended based on the temporary phase ship.

It is not quite appropriate to call it a technology. It should be considered a skill that is achieved by utilizing existing objective laws.

It is an excellent special temporary replacement design.

That is why this Destroyer mothership was able to still have enough radiation energy capacity to further sweep the entire galaxy after destroying all of Chen Ming's Zerg fleets.

The probability of coming into contact with the Zerg cells and iron atoms left by Chen Ming was reduced to a minimum.

The Destroyer mothership exchanged coils with the other cruisers, bringing its radiation energy levels back to an acceptable level.

The Destroyer mothership then began to patrol the galaxy in phase space.

Chen Ming also thought that the Destroyer mothership might be able to be infected with those cells or atoms while patrolling.

But in the end, the Destroyer mothership did not approach the rare places where Zerg cells or iron atoms remained.

It was impossible for Chen Ming to actively move these cells and atoms and get closer.

The atoms in his cells are not moving, so there is no problem leaving them there.

But if it moves, this mothership equipped with psychic main weapons can definitely be discovered.

It would be better to stay there and wait for the opportunity.

Wait for the unlucky guy behind to come up.

Anyway, wherever the Zerg fleet passes, there will be cells and atoms left behind.

As long as they were contaminated a little bit, they would be marked by Chen Ming. Even if Chen Ming's attacks were fruitless, sooner or later he would be able to rely on the corpses of the Zerg to find a way to completely control the Mechanical Clan.

The Destroyer mothership did not stay in the galaxy where the Zerg fleet gathered for too long, and it started its jump engine again.

The battleship's jump engine is more effective than that of a cruiser, and can perform several jumps in a short period of time. Of course, it still has limitations and is still not as good as Chen Ming's maintenance psychic ability.

And the location where the mothership jumped this time was, of course, another place where Chen Ming attacked the mechanical clan.

That border star region.

As the Destroyer arrived at the phase space of the Mechanical Race's border galaxy.

The Zerg fleet led by the Black Mist prosthesis still chose to charge forward, but the Black Mist prosthesis on one of the Zerg warships immediately chose to retreat.

The black mist prosthesis is used to attract attention. Once the attention is attracted, the mission is accomplished. There is no need to stay here and fight head-on with the mechanical destroyer.

That's impossible to touch.

The mothership carrying the Destroyer activated the Destroyer again without any hesitation upon arrival.

Even the Zerg fleet wrapped in thick black fog for protection could not hold out for even half a second under the influence of the Destroyer.

The Black Mist prosthesis cannot possibly compete with the main weapons of a battleship.

Even with Chen Ming's support, it wouldn't work.

If we hesitate even a little, the fate of the Black Mist prosthesis will be exactly the same as those disappearing Zerg warships.

If Chen Ming was in excellent condition and tried to fight back with his own spiritual power, he might be able to hold on for a while.

But Chen Ming's mental state was not very good to begin with. He was slowly recovering from a state of exhaustion, and was still using the black mist transformed from his mental power to do things.

It's impossible to bear it, and there's no need to resist.

So when the Destroyer started up again to clean out the Zerg here.

In addition to ordering the black fog prosthesis to retreat, Chen Ming also immediately divided the Zerg fleet shrouded in black fog into several groups.

Except for a group that stayed behind to continue destroying the local mechanical colonies and various facilities, all other Zerg fleets immediately jumped.

Some of them further jumped closer to the Empire, relying on the last chance to attack more mechanical planets.

The other part jumped to some uninhabited planets bordering the mechanical race's universe, leaving insect eggs in areas not under the jurisdiction of the mechanical race, so as to facilitate their comeback in the future.

This was Chen Ming's purpose, and he also wanted the Mechanical Clan and the Imperial Reconnaissance Fleet that was still observing the battlefield to see this scene clearly.

In addition to asking the Zerg fleet to do so, he did not let the fleet led by the Black Mist prosthesis jump to the nebula area to take advantage of the Destroyer mothership here to eliminate the cruisers led by another mechanical mothership that Chen Ming had encountered before.

Although this is a good opportunity to destroy the backbone of the Mechanical Clan, there are still Imperial reconnaissance ships watching the movements of the Black Mist Zerg fleet.

But there are no imperial ships in the nebula area.

If Chen Ming chooses to jump the Zerg fleet on the border to the nebula area, it is very likely that the Empire will discover what Chen Ming is doing in a short period of time.

If the matter in the nebula area were to be exposed, the relationship between Chen Ming and An Wuping would become difficult to explain, which would be quite troublesome.

Of course, it's not impossible to explain if you insist.

But it's best not to do it if you can avoid unnecessary trouble.

The mission of the Zerg fleet is to fight to death. Dying under the attack of the Destroyer at least consumes the service life of the Destroyer. There is no need to do anything more that will lead to some negative effects.

The Black Mist Zerg fleet scattered and its overall combat effectiveness immediately weakened.

There's no need for the Destroyer to even do anything further.

The three motherships that had previously come into contact with the Zerg fleet and had completed replenishment suddenly appeared with a fleet near the largest number of scattered Zerg fleets and began to encircle and suppress them.

The Destroyer mothership continued to repeat what it had just done, clearing away all the wreckage of the Zerg fleet.

Not long after, the Black Mist Zerg fleet was almost completely destroyed, and this border area was once again completely controlled by the Mechanical Clan.

But both the Mechanical Clan and the Imperial Reconnaissance Fleet knew that these Zerg fleets shrouded in black fog still had many seeds left in nearby galaxies.

The Empire's reconnaissance fleet quietly disappeared after the war.

However, the Mechanical Destroyer Mothership did not stop. After replacing the radiation coil again, it started the jump engine again and returned to the galaxies in the nebula area that had been invaded by the Zerg.

This time, the Destroyer aimed its guns at the planets invaded by the Zerg.

"This……"

Chen Ming immediately realized what the Destroyer mothership wanted to do.

But before he could react, the Destroyer was activated, and the destructive psychic energy acted on the planet from the precise point where the hive had invaded underground.

The planet's earth is melting, and the collapsed hive passage is also being revealed.

The Mechanical Race's Destroyer Mothership has no mercy or compassion. It constantly expands the range of the Destroyer's influence and continuously sends the Destroyer's psychic energy deeper into the ground.

The planetary structure in this area is collapsing under the force of destruction. From outside the planet, one can directly see a cone-shaped gap on the surface that is still expanding.

The underground hive gradually appeared within the sensor scanning range of the Destroyer mothership.

The Destroyer immediately increased the output power once again.

An entire hive was completely wiped out in an instant. Of course, along with the hive, the planetary structure in the area was also wiped out, as well as a large number of mechanical buildings that were not destroyed by the hive but were now destroyed by the Destroyer.

Even after destroying the insect nest, it did not stop, and continued to annihilate everything deep underground in a spherical area with the insect nest as the core.

Some Zerg that had just escaped were also completely killed by the subsequent Destroyer attacks.

The Destroyer chose to simply wipe out a portion of a planet infested by the Zerg.

In exchange for terrible consumption and loss, the rest of the planet can continue to be used.

After destroying the Zerg nest on this planet, the Destroyer did not immediately move on to the next Zerg-infested planet.

It seemed that its jump engine could not hold up anymore, so it did not jump again, but stayed where it was, as if it was preparing to leave the phase space and move through hyperspace.

This will give Chen Ming time to get the Zerg to move.

But things obviously would not go so smoothly, as a fleet consisting of hundreds of pure cruisers suddenly jumped here.

After a brief maintenance, hundreds of cruisers restarted their jump engines at the same time.

The jump engine's linkage effect can take away objects whose mass is not greater than its own or other spacecraft.

Although the mass of a battleship far exceeds that of a cruiser, the battleship can still be carried away by the joint efforts of hundreds of cruisers.

Hundreds of cruisers' jump engines brought the Destroyer mothership to the next galaxy invaded by the Zerg.

Activating the jump engine multiple times in a short period of time will cause serious damage to the engine, but the mechanical race obviously no longer cares about these losses.

If the Zerg are not dealt with quickly, their losses will only get worse.

And by the time this galaxy is destroyed, I'm afraid that the next batch of mechanical cruisers will arrive soon and continue to send the Destroyer to the next galaxy.

Even if the Mechanical Race does not have enough cruisers, as long as the Destroyers are replaced on a new mothership, the new Destroyer mothership will completely destroy all the Zerg nests on the planets invaded by the Zerg.

Chen Ming has fully realized the seriousness of the problem, and immediately ordered all Zerg that have invaded the mechanical planet to migrate to other parts of the planet.

Whether going deeper underground, hiding underground in other mechanical colonies, or even further away, it doesn't matter where you go as long as you can avoid the Destroyer's attacks.

But the mechanical mothership showed no mercy at all, and the word mercy did not exist in their dictionary.

As long as it is a planet that has been parasitized by the Zerg, regardless of whether the parasitism is successful or not, as long as it is the location where a Zerg warship crashes, regardless of whether there is a mechanical colony here or not, no matter how precious the resources here are, they will be destroyed by this destructive aura.

Chen Ming could only let most of the Zerg go to a location close to the core of the planet, and develop under terrifying pressure and gravity, and even in the extremely high temperature environment of the core of some planets.

Efficiency progress is slower than in shallow areas, but it is better than being killed by the Destroyer.

However, Chen Ming still underestimated the determination of the mechanical clan.

The Destroyer did temporarily ignore those planets where no hives had been found, that is, where the hives had hidden in places where they could not be discovered.

But after the Destroyer visited all the other planets where the Zerg nests were discovered.

It returned again to the planets where no hives were found.

The mechanical races on these planets have been packing up since a while ago.

The moment the Destroyer arrived, all the mechanical races took off with all the buildings and supplies that could be evacuated in a short period of time.

The Destroyer, on the other hand, acted directly on the core of the planet.

Destroy the Earth's core.

It is tantamount to directly destroying everything on this planet.

When Chen Ming's Zerg fleet set out, it selected fifty valuable galaxies, which contained a total of seventy-three valuable planets.

Each of these seventy-three planets was injected with insect eggs.

In the end, a total of eight planets where the Zerg were not found were completely destroyed by the Destroyers, a number that was almost one-tenth of the total.

All the remaining planets that had been invaded by the Zerg and still survived the baptism of the Destroyer began extremely strict internal monitoring.

As long as insect eggs are found, the Destroyer will be summoned for cleansing again.

This is how the Mechanoids fight the Zerg.

(End of this chapter)