Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 381 Kill
The StarEater has a total of six tails, and the end of each tail has been aimed at Chen Ming's Zerg fleet from the beginning.

The stellar matter flowing on the edges of the icosahedron on its head is sent to each of its tails through the structures inside its body.

Chen Ming had already guessed what type of attack the Star-Eater was going to use.

He immediately dispersed the Zerg fleet, expanding the distance between them and the overall space they occupied, maintaining irregular movement, or at least not standing in the same straight line to avoid being affected by subsequent attacks.

Chen Ming's order had just been issued and the Zerg fleet had just taken action.

Six rays of stellar matter emitted from the tail of the Star Devourer swept across the entire Zerg fleet.

As long as the Zerg fleet is touched by the stellar matter, it will be burned to death and will not have the ability to resist at all.

Even though the Zerg have the genes of the Aurora Wind Spirit and are resistant to plasma, in the face of real stellar plasma, this plasma resistance can only delay the time of destruction by one second.

Chen Ming now feels more and more that the Zerg fleet needs shields.
If the Zerg fleet had shields, at least each ship could hold out for a few more seconds, so that the enemy's attack methods would not directly touch the armor and hull, causing the entire ship to be destroyed.

There is no point thinking about this now, Chen Ming can only continue to observe the battlefield.

The six stellar matter rays that continuously and repeatedly swept across the location of the Zerg fleet seemed to have endless backup resources. After destroying more than 30 of Chen Ming's battleships in an instant, they showed no intention of stopping at all.

If you think about it carefully, it is indeed an endless source of energy.

After all, the organ at the bottom of the StarEater's body, which is similar to the mouthparts of a mosquito, has penetrated into the star and is constantly absorbing the star's energy.

Unless the body of the Star Devourer can no longer bear it, the energy of this star will be inexhaustible for Chen Ming's Zerg fleet.

The Zerg fleet tried its best to dodge.

If you simply try to dodge, it will be difficult to escape being hit by the rays of stellar matter and being burned in space.

But the Zerg are not powerless.

While avoiding the attacks of the Star Devourer, the Zerg fleet was also constantly trying to focus its fire on the tail of the Star Devourer to cut off its means of attack.

The Star Devourer has only six tails in total, but the Zerg fleet still has hundreds of ships left after being swept by a wave of stellar matter rays.

The firepower of this number of battleships is enough to break the limbs of the Star Devourer.

Moreover, it only needs to break its two tails, and the remaining four stellar matter rays it releases will not be able to effectively suppress the Zerg fleet.

The Zerg fleet can then use firepower to suppress the Star Devourer, and cut off its tail like a snowball.

The recovery speed of the broken tail cannot keep up with the speed of the Zerg fleet's broken tail.

The Zerg fleet can even devote firepower to attack the main body of the Planet Eater.

For a moment, Chen Ming even felt that he could slowly suppress the Star-Eating Body to death.

But he changed his mind immediately

Because a behemoth like the Planet Devourer has its own unique abilities just like the Nightmare of the Planes.

I saw the edges of its head suddenly begin to grow...

To be precise, it was not the edges that were growing, but the blood vessel-like organs inside the edges that were responsible for transporting stellar matter within its body that broke through the edges of the Star-Eating Body's head and grew outside its body.

The head, which was almost a regular icosahedron, was suddenly covered with bright yellow tentacles with dazzling orange-red light, and the originally beautiful geometric shape was transformed into a messy and twisted cluster of tentacles.

The ends of these tentacles are long and thin, and high-precision sensors can show that they have extremely densely packed closed holes that appear to be able to be opened.

The body of the StarEater suddenly half sank into the surface of the star, increasing the force of extracting stellar matter and temporarily stopping the action of restoring its tail.

This resulted in the huge amount of energy absorbed by the StarEater having nowhere to go, and it all accumulated inside its body, causing its head surrounded by tentacles to swell to the extreme and its brightness to reach the extreme.

Each tentacle that was transformed from the "blood vessels" that transported stellar matter in the Star Eater's body became extremely bloated and fat, and the dense holes at the end became more conspicuous in this drastic change.

The stellar matter was compressed in this narrow and dense hole, and finally, when the body of the Star Eater was about to collapse.

It released the closure on these holes, allowing Hengxin's valuation to burst out like a rain of fire.

Just by flying a short distance one can see the terrifying density and lethality of this rain of fire.

Either you jump to a long distance to avoid it, or you can only take it head-on. There is no way to keep the Zerg fleet at a distance where they can cause damage to the Devourer at any time while also being able to avoid it.

But if he jumps to avoid it, it would be tantamount to directly giving the Star-Eater a powerful advantage.

The attack range of this behemoth is much longer than that of a battleship. Once the distance is extended, the only way to get closer is to rely on another jump.

Although the speed of entering the jump is fast, the speed of coming out of the jump is not the same.

As long as the Star Devourers are prepared, it would be very easy to seize the opportunity at the moment the jump ends to deal a heavy blow to the Zerg fleet.

Just like what the Nightmare of the Planes did before.

It looks like the Zerg fleet is in some trouble.

Under such restrictions, there is only one way to stay here and continue fighting against the Star Eater.

That is, the fleet is concentrated together, relying on the corpses of some Zerg warships in the front to withstand the damage, which can minimize the overall damage.

But Chen Ming knew without even thinking that if he really gave the order to do so, what would follow would inevitably be stellar matter rays that could destroy everything.

The Zerg warships gathered together are simply the best targets.

He must find a way to get through this wave.

For a moment, Chen Ming couldn't think of any reasonable way of defense.

However, he thought of a way to attack.

The dozen or so Hercules-class ships at the front of the Zerg fleet, closest to the stars and the Star Devourers, suddenly rushed forward.

All of their internal organs except the biomass jump engines are rapidly transforming into the most basic energy crystals, and these energy crystals are constantly activating as they approach.

When all the energy crystals were activated to the extreme, these dozen battleships directly performed a short-distance jump and jumped closer to the position of the star.

It collided head-on with the stellar material that had just been ejected by the Star-Eating Body like a meteor shower.

The energy of the energy crystal exploded completely, and the destructive fireball brought the Hercules class into hell, and completely blew up all the stellar matter ejected by the Star Devourer, giving other Zerg fleets in the rear room to move around.

At the same time, the StarEater was also hidden behind the fireball.

The sensor's scan of the StarEater behind the fireball was temporarily disrupted and its specific situation could not be determined.

At this time, the equipment for observing stars brought by the Climate Transformation Department suddenly came in handy.

Many devices placed near the stars can avoid the fireball of Hercules' self-detonation, helping Chen Ming observe the Stareater from other angles.

The act of absorbing the massive amount of material ejected seemed to have been extremely exhausting for the Devourer, and it seemed to realize that the Hercules-class self-destruction was its opportunity.

Therefore, in the short time that separated it from the Zerg fleet after the fireball exploded, most of its body sank below the surface of the star.

It seems to be trying its best to absorb the most stellar matter for recovery.

But it seems there is more to it than that.

Chen Ming used a device installed in the orbit of a star by the Climate Transformation Department to observe the shallow material of a star. He saw that the star-eating body mixed in the stellar material had new movements.

Its body, sinking into the star, suddenly broke apart.

It was split from the middle to the sides, with most of the inside of the body exposed.

So that Chen Ming can clearly see its internal structure.

It has many structures similar to those of ordinary organisms, with a complete digestive system and various muscle tissues to maintain its body movements, all of which are strong enough to withstand the high heat of the matter inside the star.

At the end of the needle-like organ that can extend and retract in and out of the body and absorb stellar matter, there is an organ that is not sure whether it is its heart or something else.

The organ was shriveled at this time, with only a little Hengxin substance left inside.

The Stareater is absorbing stellar matter and restoring the vitality of this organ structure by directly splitting its body open and exposing everything inside to the star.

When this organ begins to fill with stellar matter, the stellar matter flowing in the "blood vessels" within its body begins to move again and continues to circulate within its body.

This organ seems to be the most critical organ in its body and should also be its weakness.

I didn't expect that bringing all the people from the Climate Modification Department along with so many equipment would bring me an unexpected surprise.

Chen Ming originally wanted to find out the weakness and then retreat temporarily, waiting for the next opportunity to launch a surprise attack.

Just like the last time we fought the Nightmare of the Planes.

Test, retreat, and phase space attack, and the Nightmare of the Plane will die with these three tricks.

He had the same idea at the beginning this time.

However, the situation of the Star Devourer is different from that of the Nightmare of the Plane. Its weakness is inside the body and will not be easily exposed.

This time, Chen Ming pushed it into a corner and it used some large-scale attack methods, forcing it to expose its weaknesses.

If Chen Ming waited until the next time, the StarEater might not expose its weaknesses, and might not even come out of the star.

He'd better take this opportunity to kill it and not give it a second chance.

Chen Ming called out to the Queen of Insects.

Then, a reverse jump device that was farther away from the star was activated, and it continued to extract stellar matter in the gap when the attack of the Star-Eating Body did not arrive.

The Star Eater sensed this clearly, and its seemingly low IQ made it fall for it again.

It once again accelerated the extraction of stellar matter, restoring some of its shriveled special organs, allowing it to stick its body out of the star and point its tail towards the place where stellar matter appeared in the distant space.

The remaining Zerg fleet immediately pounced, squeezing out the last bit of energy to attack the Devourer.

At the same time, several Hercules made short-distance jumps and self-destructed at a position extremely close to the surface of the star.

The stellar matter rays released by the Star Devourer successfully destroyed Chen Ming's spare reverse matter transition device. The fireball of Hercules' self-destruction once again appeared near the star, once again covering the area on the star's surface where the Star Devourer was located.

The Stareater seemed to think that this was the same fireball that Chen Ming had been forced to release to self-destruct and conceal its existence in order to prevent stellar matter from forcing his fleet back.

Taking this opportunity, the Star Devourer sank into the star again, split its body again, and immersed its special organs directly in the star matter, recovering everything it had lost. However, in the phase space, the Queen of Insects had helped Chen Ming gather more than 500 Hercules-class ships in just a few dozen seconds. They were all uniformly equipped with the new energy-focusing arc launcher optimized by Chen Ming.

The Zerg fleet locked onto the weakness of the Star Devourer through the equipment left by the Climate Transformation Department in the normal universe to observe the shallow matter of stars.

next moment.

A thunder dragon-like bolt composed of countless electric arcs pierced through the vacuum, penetrated the shallow layer of the star, and bombarded the special organ of the Star-Eating Body that was immersed in the stellar matter.

The dense web of wounds caused by the electric arc began to spread from the location where the organ was hit to the surrounding area. Although it did not extend further toward its body, the damage caused to this organ alone was enough.

The activities of the Star-Eating Body were gradually slowing down, and the huge beast fell silent in an instant.

Lost the vitality of life.

Its corpse is also gradually sinking into the interior of the star.

But before it sank completely, Chen Ming's Zerg fleet had grabbed it from phase space and pulled it out of the star.

More Zerg tentacles grew on the Zerg warships that grabbed the corpse of the Stareater, piercing the organs on the corpse that were used to store stellar matter, allowing the stellar matter to return to the star under the pull of gravity.

This is to return the stellar matter to the corpse.

Chen Ming noticed that compared to the stellar matter it absorbed, there was not much left on its body.

However, he also noticed that in the lower abdomen of the columnar body inside the split corpse, there was a place where the "blood vessels" that transported stellar matter from all the edges of the head icosahedron finally connected.

There is something that is carefully guarded and emits a light brighter than a star.

Judging from its appearance and the material inside it, this is the egg case of the Star Eater.

It's all filled with highly compressed stellar matter.

The stellar matter taken away by the Star Eater is basically all here, and the part that is not here is used to maintain the Star Eater's activities.

Chen Ming ordered the Zerg battleship to tear open the corpse and extract the egg sheath.

Although there is no way to directly contact the Zerg, the Zerg are not just the Zerg, there is also Chen Ming to provide support.

Chen Ming has tools that use various means including force fields and magnetic fields to capture egg sheaths from a long distance.

However, he had just given the order when the body of the Stareater suddenly changed.

As the stellar matter in its body was expelled, its corpse seemed to begin to melt due to the sudden drop in temperature, melting into a colorless, odorless, and almost impossible to directly observe extremely clear and not very viscous colloid.

Chen Ming immediately soaked the body again in the star water and barely managed to save the remaining part of the body.

However, in just a dozen seconds, only the upper half of the Star Eater's body remained.

Except for the egg sheath, the lower half had completely melted into a gelatinous substance.

Fortunately, the Zerg fleet reacted quickly and took action before these materials fell into the star, thus preserving most of the materials.

Chen Ming tentatively let the Queen Insect eat a little.

Of course, no genes were obtained.

This is normal.

StarEater is obviously not a carbon-based organism, but rather it is likely to be some kind of hydrogen-based organism, which does not have genes at all.

Just like the Nightmare of the Plane, which should be the product of some negative matter after being materialized, Chen Ming cannot get what he wants directly and conveniently by eating.

However, the situation this time is better than the time of Nightmare of the Plane.

Because the Queen understands the properties of this substance and its structure, it means that she can try to replicate this substance.

And this substance can be named, astrophage fluid.

An insulating layer structure can be formed under high heat or energy supply conditions.

It is the same substance discovered by Chen Ming, which has a similar effect to the Dyson sphere, but the effect is far weaker than the Dyson sphere.

It can be used to isolate the temperature of the star and to form the planet-eating body itself.

The egg sheath in the lower part of the StarEater's body, which is still well preserved, seems to be able to actively secrete this substance.

Chen Ming roughly understood the purpose of the Star Eater coming to this planet.

It's for reproduction.

It first parasitizes a star, secretes fluids on the surface of a star, traps the heat of the entire star within the star, and then builds a nest inside the star for the development of the asterism's eggs.

This egg sheath is the evidence and also the most directly valuable thing on the corpse of the Star-Eating Orion.

The one with the most indirect value must be the asteroid fluid, which seems to be the substance that allows the Dyson sphere to be successfully created.

Chen Ming wanted to take the egg sheath away for research.

However, he did not make a decision directly, but instead glanced at the star that was soaked in half of the corpse of the Star Devourer.

After Chen Ming's fleet's attack tore open the fluid membrane covering the surface of the star-eating organism, this area of ​​the star has temporarily returned to normal.

You can see the appearance of a star of normal intensity beneath the star-eating barrier.

However, the intensity of the star today is at least one magnitude lower than what was observed five years ago.

The reason is that this is the ootheca that gathers countless high-density stellar matter.

This egg sheath robs the star of its power.

Now there is a choice before Chen Ming.

By studying this egg sheath, he might be able to master the power of Star Devourers and try to breed new Star Devourers.

Returning the material in the egg sheath would allow the galaxy and the planet Gaia to regain vitality and completely rejuvenate, rather than using climate recovery technology to barely restore a little of their former appearance.

To be honest, it's a bit difficult to decide.

The power of the Star Eater is really enviable, and the possibility of cultivating new Star Eaters also makes Chen Ming very interested.

But something suddenly flashed through Chen Ming's mind.

He once asked for seeds from the legion, planted and cultivated them himself, and now there is a fairy tree half a man's height.

If the fairy tree was planted on the planet Gaia, then perhaps... he would also be able to harvest a fairy tree that covered the sky like the one at the headquarters of the Psychic Energy Research Institute.

The value of doing this far exceeds cultivating a new Star Devourer that may be used at any time.

And consider it from another perspective.

Chen Ming has currently mastered a power more powerful than the Star Devourer, but he does not have a way to completely restore the planet Gaia to its former glory and revive it.

After considering it, Chen Ming felt that he could make a decision.

The only pity is the new StarEater.

But since Chen Ming has confirmed that the star-eater can reproduce itself, it means that there may be more than one star-eater in the universe, and he will have the opportunity to encounter it in the future.

Chen Ming made up his mind and didn't hesitate any more.

Let the Zerg warships soak the egg sheaths in the stars first to prevent it from becoming the half-eater corpse.

He couldn't just tear the egg sheath apart and throw it directly into the star.

If extremely concentrated stellar matter is released into a star, it may cause problems for the star.

He needed to do some research on how to slowly and safely and steadily release the concentrated matter back into the stars.

This period of time is also a good opportunity for the Climate Transformation Department to calculate how to carry out climate transformation after the return of stellar matter.

Once the star returns to its former state, climate modification can begin in earnest.

"ended."

Chen Ming breathed a sigh of relief. Dealing with the Star-Eating Body was much easier than dealing with the Nightmare of the Plane.

At least the power of the Star Devourer itself is not as outrageous as the Nightmare of the Planes that tears apart space.

Then, next, Chen Ming should continue with a series of tasks that he had not completed before.

Whether it is the research project on the limbs of the Plane Nightmare at the headquarters, or the third review of the personnel in the complete Plane Nightmare corpse investigation project in Chen Ming's Origin Galaxy.

Or there are projects that are currently studying the possibility of extending from this planet-eating body and its corpse into something like a Dyson sphere.

There is also the construction of colonies and the advancement of climate transformation plans.

And the idea he just had, to transplant the fairy tree to the planet Gaia.

Everything has to be done slowly.

It will take some time.

Chen Ming quickly went over the next tasks in his mind.

Then I heard the voice of the Minister of Climate Change: "Um...Mr. Chen Ming..."

The minister, who had tried to remain quiet throughout Chen Ming's work, suddenly said cautiously, "Look over there, is there any movement over the wormhole?"

Chen Ming turned his head and looked at the control console. After the death of the Star-Eating Body, the wormhole that was originally orbiting quietly in the same orbit as Gaia suddenly seemed to begin to tremble.

It seems to be slowly escaping from the star's gravitational pull and trying to leave the galaxy.

Chen Ming roughly calculated its possible route, and then disappeared directly to the highest point observing the battlefield that had just exploded near the star.

A set of biological armor instantly appeared on his body, and he also appeared near the wormhole.

(End of this chapter)