Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 357 The Other Side

The arrival of the Destroyer, especially in this way, was not beyond Chen Ming's expectations.

Because hyperspace exists dependent on the normal universe, there is nothing related to the normal universe except the gravitational fields of massive celestial bodies.

The phase space, which corresponds one-to-one to the normal universe and can almost be called a mirror image, naturally "mirrors" the hyperspace as well.

Therefore, things in phase space can also enter hyperspace, and can also use the special characteristics of hyperspace itself to move at high speed in phase space compared to the normal universe.

This is the result that the Empire has already discovered in its research related to phase technology.

For phase beasts, this creature that can use its own power to directly jump is not important, and they do not have the ability to access hyperspace.

However, for the mechanical race, the hyperspace in the phase space still has great significance.

Just like now.

Without a sufficiently in-depth understanding of phase technology, the Destroyer had only one choice when he discovered that the interior of the Stargate system was disturbed by the jump fluctuations and could no longer jump.

Jump to the nearest star gate system and arrive here through the star gate.

And after mastering certain phase techniques.

The Destroyer can then jump to the nearest accessible location to the stargate system that Chen Ming invaded, and then enter hyperspace, doing what it needs to do in the phase space of hyperspace where it is completely impossible to be ambushed.

The Destroyer, which should have taken at least half an hour to arrive, returned to the star gate galaxy that Chen Ming invaded in just over ten minutes.

The power of the mechanical race within the galaxy was once again enhanced.

Chen Ming knew that the Mechanical Clan currently had a total of twelve motherships.

At this time, there were nine ships in the Stargate system.

The combined combat power is enough to completely destroy Chen Ming's fleet.

But it’s not a big problem, his goal has been achieved.

Because just before the Destroyer arrived, a Zerg bio-fighter carried by a cruiser had already touched the stargate.

Although it was killed the moment it came into contact, and although the Mechanicals' counterattack repelled the Zerg again, its flesh and blood had already been sprayed on the Star Gate.

As long as Chen Ming wanted, this raid could end with the main purpose achieved.

But he didn't want to.

He didn't want to expose his true abilities so quickly, nor did he want to retreat before achieving all his goals.

He also wanted to take advantage of the mechanical race's cognitive biases to create a better opportunity to achieve greater results.

Therefore, Chen Ming wanted to continue laying the groundwork.

The way to pave the way is to send his real body here.

The true entity.

Just as the boss had asked before, Chen Ming’s current identity is no longer important.

The only thing that really matters is his consciousness.

He could completely abandon his original body and create a new, more perfect body.

But instead of discarding the entity casually, it is better to use it to do something valuable.

Just as Chen Ming thought when the war with the mechanical race began.

He wanted to use the original body to create a situation that would make the mechanical race try their best, so he had to continue to deepen the idea in the mechanical race that only the original body could control certain things.

The question now is, how can he get the entity over in a reasonable way?
As soon as Chen Ming thought about this question, he realized that he didn't actually need to consider it.

He can just make something fancy.

The mechanical race does not need to know what exactly this process is.

He just needs to let the mechanical race see the result, which is that Chen Ming has arrived at the stargate galaxy whose jump engine is currently blocked.

The method is very simple, which is to use spiritual energy to teleport the body.

Chen Ming's spiritual power will affect the consciousness of the person being teleported during the teleportation.

The consciousness of the person being teleported needs to be sealed in order to be teleported safely.

As for him, closing his consciousness is useless, as the Scarlet Dimension has already set its sights on him.

It wouldn't have much impact if he reached into the rift and seized some of the power, but if he dared to go directly into the scarlet dimension, then something terrifying would definitely be waiting for him.

Therefore, it was impossible for Chen Ming to teleport his body some time ago.

But when Chen Ming's power had grown to the point where his consciousness could be separated from his body, even the spiritual nerves were just a symbol of him being a psychic, not the source of his power.

What he transmits may be the entity that is completely separated from consciousness, or in other words, an ordinary body called the entity.

Only when he actively enters the Scarlet Dimension or is drawn into the Scarlet Dimension by external forces will he be affected by the previous situation.

So all that's left to do is the fancy stuff.

This is easy.

At the same time Chen Ming had an idea.

The Zerg blood and fragments splashed on the star gate suddenly moved, differentiated into some new flesh and blood tissue, and in the blink of an eye, they began to proliferate wildly, producing countless biomass and legions.

It was like the mold growing on the bread, expanding like flowing water after its efficiency was increased hundreds of times.

An ugly stain suddenly appeared on the pure white star gate frame that was originally supported by Baiyun steel.

And the stain continues to expand, seeping into the structure of the stargate frame.

And with the appearance of this biomass and fungal blanket, more and more of the remaining Zerg are giving up on the exchange of fire with the Mechanoids and trying their best to get close to the stargate, even if they are not getting close to a complete spaceship, but only the flesh and blood fragments after the spaceship is shattered.

As long as they can get close enough, the things on the star gate will be able to absorb it and convert it into its own nutrition, further accelerating the efficiency of expansion.

Of course, the Mechanical Race cannot sit idly by and allow the Zerg to further influence the Star Gate.

All motherships carrying mechanical units immediately released almost all of them and approached the star gate.

Since all the mid- and low-level spaceships of the Mechanical Clan had been destroyed, the space around the mothership was almost filled with Zerg warships, resulting in a large number of Mechanical Clan being destroyed by Zerg warships midway.

However, some mechanical creatures still managed to land on the base of the stargate and began to clean up the biomass and fungal carpet on it.

These biomass did not fight back, but simply continued to expand with even more exaggerated efficiency.

The absorption of those Zerg fragments by the biomass was just a pretense by Chen Ming. The real nutrition supply for these biomass was still Chen Ming and the Queen of Zerg, who used spiritual energy to continuously transport energy crystals to the biomass here.

In a blink of an eye, the speed of biomass growth has even exceeded the speed of cleaning by the mechanical race.

And the Destroyer mothership had just even emerged from hyperspace.

Before it could enter the galaxy and reach a distance where it could use the Destroyer, it was unable to affect the biomass.

However, these biomasses did not destroy the star gate itself, nor did they take any aggressive actions against the mechanical race.

They just keep multiplying and expanding, and in a corner of the star gate, they build a biomass ring structure similar to the star gate.

Immediately afterwards, Chen Ming's psychic energy fluctuations imitated the scarlet power and created a scarlet light film within the ring of biomass. He could do this as he had mastered some of the scarlet power.

The ring-shaped structure made up of flesh and blood seemed like a new, smaller version of a star gate, presenting its full appearance to the mechanical clan.

next moment.

Chen Ming, wearing biological armor, stepped out from the scarlet.

This time is different from the last time, it is the real him who comes.

He stood on the star gate frame relying on the slight gravitational influence of the star gate's singularity.

The sky made of liquid metal blocks out all mechanical units and their attacks.

But some motherships were already turning around, and it seemed that they had no intention of staying and wanted to destroy Chen Ming and the star gate together.

Chen Ming still has to respect the main force weapons.

However, he did not act in a hurry. Instead, he took advantage of the time when the mechanical mothership turned around to turn his attention to a more distant place.

Although the Destroyer mothership in the phase space could not be seen by the naked eye, he knew clearly that the Destroyer was desperately approaching the star gate from the edge of the galaxy.

Once within a sufficient distance, destruction will directly affect him.

And this time, Chen Ming will not give the Destroyer such an opportunity.

But he wanted to give the Destroyer the illusion of a chance.

He reached out and lightly touched the stargate frame beside him.

He continued to watch silently as the mechanical race in the galaxy continued to bombard his position, but was completely blocked by the metal sky.

In fact, he could have disappeared into the galaxy along with the Stargate before the Destroyer got close.

Even if the jump engine was disturbed by the chaotic jump traces that filled the entire galaxy, it would not affect Chen Ming's use of the scarlet dimension to send the star gate thousands of light years away.

Moreover, when the Destroyer gets close, it may directly destroy the star gate, and there is no way to save the things destroyed by the Destroyer.

This is the most troublesome situation Chen Ming might encounter when attacking the Stargate System, so his initial arrangements were aimed at eliminating this possibility.

The effect has already been achieved.

There doesn't seem to be any benefit in continuing to delay.

But he wanted to wait a little longer, because this was not only an opportunity for the mechanical race, but also an opportunity for him.

In the phase space of the Stargate system, the Destroyer came almost alone.

There were only about thirty specially modified cruisers that were used to replace radiation energy coils following them, and there was almost no effective defense force.

It has no real escort fleet

The mothership carrying the Destroyer has also undergone a relatively large degree of modification.

It has a huge radiation energy capacity, while the radiation energy dissipation is close to zero.

This means that its sustained combat capability is quite poor.

After exchanging fire with one of Chen Ming's fleets in front, the Destroyer mothership then made a non-stop jump back to the vicinity of the Stargate System, and had to rush all the way back through hyperspace. During the entire process, the Destroyer mothership had almost no time to rest.

This is the opportunity.

And Chen Ming's plan had already been prepared.

At the beginning of this second raid, the number of Zerg fleets he created was more than four million on the Black Mist prosthesis side, and more than four million on the logistics area side.

And this is not the upper limit of his Zerg combat power.

He also has a lot of reserve Zerg forces.

Moreover, after arranging the phase behemoth to the Legion Ship Research Institute, Chen Ming borrowed the same device that was borrowed from the Fanchao Research Institute from the Ship Research Institute.

It is the device used by Fanchao Research Institute to send the space station into phase space during the phase space interaction experiment.

It can help Chen Ming send those excess Zerg forces into the phase space.

Biological ships do not need to dissipate radiation like ordinary ships. They are the most powerful existence in the phase space.

Those Zerg fleets in the phase space are Chen Ming's backup against the Destroyer.

However, since the range of that device is limited to a sphere with a diameter of several kilometers, it takes some time to send enough cruisers into phase space to compete with the mothership.

Therefore, he did not immediately attack the Destroyer, but first lured the Destroyer out and started with another target. The rest was easy, once the Destroyer targeted his true form and released the Destroyer, all the Zerg fleets in the phase space would immediately jump, rush forward, and beat him to death.

Although this metaphor is a bit strange, Chen Ming feels that it is the most vivid metaphor for his methods against the Destroyer.

At this time, the Destroyer Mothership's spine cannon had already lit up with a glow of progressive energy, about to act on the Destroyer.

And the Destroyer will inevitably destroy Chen Ming and the star gate where Chen Ming is standing.

Chen Ming also gradually stimulated his spiritual energy, so that when necessary, he could instantly send himself and the star gate away.

however.

Just as the mothership was about to activate the Destroyer, the jump wave of Chen Ming's Zerg fleet also appeared near the Destroyer.

The Destroyer discovered that something was wrong, and suddenly gave up attacking Chen Ming, covering its body with the aura of destruction.

A large number of Zerg that had made a jump in the phase space were completely wiped out by the Destroyer as soon as they completed the jump.

Chen Ming immediately called a halt to the jump, causing the Zerg cruiser, which had not yet jumped to the point where it could not stop, to temporarily suspend its action.

He didn't quite understand the current situation.

The mechanical race chose to preserve themselves between destroying themselves and killing Chen Ming.

Under normal circumstances, they should try their best to kill him.

But they didn't.

There is only one possibility.

That is, the Mechanical Clan believes that there is a high probability that Chen Ming at the Star Gate at this time is fake.

After all, after Chen Ming controlled the Star Gate, he did not make any moves on the Star Gate, nor did he disconnect the connection between the Mechanical Clan and the Star Gate.

The stargate is not directly connected to the Mechanic's hive network, so they have no idea whether the stargate is being controlled.
Naturally, I will remain skeptical.

Chen Ming knew that he had really come here in person this time, but did the Mechanical Clan have the appropriate means to confirm it?

In the end, between killing the Star Gate and the suspected Chen Ming's existence on the Star Gate, and preserving the Destroyer, they chose to preserve the Destroyer.

After all, if you choose the former, you will not only lose the star gate, but also the Destroyer attacked by the Zerg.

The mechanical race doesn't seem to want to gamble on this probability.

Or in other words, in their opinion, the probability that Chen Ming is fake is higher.

So the situation came to a standstill.

The Destroyer made no further move.

Chen Ming's Zerg fleet did not continue to launch attacks.

Only the battle near the star gate continued, and the mothership continued to turn its bow.

The speed at which a mother ship of tens of thousands of meters turns around is not fast, but it only takes thirty seconds at most, and Chen Ming has to retreat.

He has the ability to kill the Destroyer, but he needs the Destroyer to turn its attack on himself, giving the Zerg the opportunity to create the first wave of close-range attacks and destroy all ships that provide radiation coils to the mothership.

As for the mechanical race, they could not be sure whether Chen Ming was real, and using the Destroyer to kill Chen Ming on the Star Gate would involve great risks.

They could not afford to lose both the Star Gate and the Destroyer, which had the greatest chance of killing Chen Ming, at the same time.

So they would rather drag it out.

See if an ordinary mothership can pose a threat to Chen Ming and not give Chen Ming any chance.

It seems that it is unlikely that the Destroyer will take risks.

He hadn't succeeded in all of his goals, so let that be that.

Chen Ming sighed in his heart with some regret.

He suddenly stretched out his hand and gave a thumbs-down gesture in the direction of the Destroyer, just like last time, and then disappeared into the galaxy with the stargate, which was large enough to accommodate three battleships at the same time.

Only the Mechanoids and the remnants of the Zerg fleet were left to continue the final battle.

At the same time Chen Ming attacked the Star Gate.

The situation with the Black Mist prosthesis is a little more complicated.

The three motherships of the Mechanical Clan found that they were unable to resist the attack of the Black Mist Zerg fleet.

At the same time, the more important Stargate system was attacked by other Zerg fleets.

Even the Destroyer had to turn around and defend. They had no means to defeat the Zerg.

So they chose to escape.

The location of escape can be said to be extremely particular.

A pirate space station galaxy, a branch where Baiquan is located.

The last one is a galaxy occupied by the Empire in a certain mechanical star field.

They all have one thing in common.

This feature is not common to all Imperial fleets.

But these three locations are all related to Chen Ming.

The first two locations are easy to understand, but the third location...

If Chen Ming remembered correctly, the fleet led by Cheng Xinghai, which was responsible for suppressing the mechanical resistance, was there.

Once was an accident, twice was a coincidence, what were the three times?
Can the mechanical race still go to the empire to check the family tree? Can anyone else tell the mechanical race that Chen Ming is engaged?
Chen Ming didn't believe this was a coincidence, but he didn't have time to investigate the deeper reasons behind this incident.

All he could do was deal with the problem of the Zerg who might be forced to enter the Empire.

He absolutely could not let the Imperial fleet take action.

Because that means he will actively hurt innocent people.

He definitely can't watch
Just when Chen Ming asked the Queen to prepare new Zergs again and prepare to fight a civil war on the territory of the empire.

Suddenly it was discovered that there seemed to be some problems with the jump process of one of the motherships.

The mothership's jump process to the galaxy where Baiquan was located was interrupted by the landing point.

Come to think of it, the branch is now the headquarters of the front line after all, so they must have the means to prevent jump attacks.

But unfortunately, this mothership reacted quite quickly. It immediately caught up with the jump wave of the other mothership and followed the other mothership to another place.

If it didn't react, it would have to face the siege of more than three million Zerg fleets alone.

Although it's a bit regrettable, the result is not too bad.

At least this way, Chen Ming would have to deal with one third less trouble.

The pirate space station at this time.

In front of the hardware store.

Suddenly, a robot walked into the hardware store.

The boss looked up and then casually lowered his head to look at the terminal and asked, "What's wrong?"

"The Mechanicals are sending a mothership over here."

"It's okay, I can fight."

“There will be some bugs following behind.”

"?"

The boss raised his head, his eyes filled with confusion.

Chen Ming explained: "For some reasons, I have to let the Zerg come with me, so..."

The boss straightened up and asked, "What should we do?"

"Hmm... Boss, what method did you use the last time Yuhui attacked me? Can it still be used? Will it work on the mechanical race?"

"That ability is what I call Psychic Tremor. It is specifically designed to target conscious beings. It won't be very effective against the Machines, but it should be usable."

"Mind shocks have no effect, but they will take psychic shocks. However, this is a shock that directly wipes out consciousness. Your Zerg also have a hive mind, right? The damage will be huge."

"It's okay." Chen Ming said, "Boss, tell me when you take action. I can extract the consciousness of the Zerg. It will be fine."

As soon as Chen Ming finished his words, an alarm suddenly sounded in the space station.

Traces of the mothership have appeared in the pirate galaxy.

There were also transition fluctuations that were almost as severe as those in the Mechanical Clan's Star Gate Galaxy, which completely disrupted the spatial fluctuations of the galaxy.

"So soon? And this number..."

The boss said this and didn't ask any more questions. He simply said to Chen Ming, "Then let's do it now."

He stood up as he spoke, a gentle wave of psychic energy surrounding him and spreading outwards.

As this psychic energy wave spreads outward, its nature is becoming more and more chaotic.

Gradually it began to possess the power to destroy all minds and swept across the entire galaxy.

The mothership that had just arrived via the jump, and the millions of Zerg cruisers following behind the mothership, were all swept by this mighty force.

If these were not Chen Ming's Zerg, but real Zerg, they would probably die completely in front of this force without any room for struggle.

This is the power of a top level 6 psychic.

The Zerg fleet now needs to rely on numbers to kill even its battleships, not to mention the truly powerful level 6 psykers.

But fortunately, such psychics are our own people.

And with the boss's advance reminder, Chen Ming has sent the consciousness of all Zerg units back to the Zerg network.

Only the Mechanical Clan's mothership was truly attacked by the Psychic Shock. Before it could make any moves or launch any attacks, it was destroyed in the galaxy.

Along with the intact husks of the remaining Zerg warships, they lay quietly in space.

The boss looked very relaxed as he sat back in his chair. “I’ll have someone collect those bugs later. You decide where to send them.”

"wrong……"

The boss suddenly realized something.

That is, this is not just a few hundred or a few thousand warships, but millions.

This was simply not a number his men could handle.

"It looks like you'll have to figure out how to deal with these bugs yourself. I can help hold off the others for a while. You should get it done as soon as possible."

"I see."

Chen Ming responded.

But his mind was not on dealing with these Zerg.

Instead, it appeared in a galaxy of the Mechanical Clan that was occupied by the Empire.

(End of this chapter)