Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 389 Fear
The red jellyfish Leviathan left the star under the coercion of Chen Ming.

The Zerg fleet, which had been waiting for a long time, surrounded them immediately.

And this time, Chen Ming came here with the intention of killing it directly.

Therefore, all Zerg fleets have now entered the phase space and cannot be observed in the normal universe.

They quietly lurked beside the Leviathan, which was heading towards a small Zerg fleet existing in the normal universe, and aimed all the targeted weapons that Chen Ming had specially prepared for a long time at it.

Chen Ming prepared for nearly ten days, and the Zerg fleet of more than 3,000 people immediately opened fire at Chen Ming's command.

However, only one-third of them, or about a thousand battleships, opened fire.

Moreover, all the rounds fired by these thousand battleships were live ammunition, and all the weapons they used were live ammunition.

At this almost face-to-face distance, all the live ammunition fired by the Zerg battleships easily penetrated Leviathan's skin.

But for some reason, most of the bullets did not pass through the other end of Leviathan's body, but remained inside Leviathan's body.

Although doing so caused countless piercing or tearing wounds on the Leviathan's body, judging from previous situations, doing so was meaningless except for wasting bullets. The body of the Leviathan was not the key to its existence.

But as the bullets continued to hit Leviathan like a metal storm.

The intensity of the electromagnetic pulses that were periodically emitted from Leviathan had begun to decrease visibly.

Unable to release electromagnetic pulses strong enough to burn capital ships on a large scale, Leviathan has lost its greatest threat to large-scale fleets.

The reasons for this are obvious.

The live ammunition fired by the Zerg fleet was not ordinary live ammunition, but special ammunition with clear characteristics.

Ten days ago, when Chen Ming first started to study anti-Leviathan weapons, he did not know much about the Leviathan and could only roughly determine that its properties were related to electromagnetism, radiation and light frequency.

Therefore, when conducting research, Chen Ming deliberately developed weapons in three major directions: electromagnetic weapons, radiation weapons, and optical weapons.

The design of electromagnetic weapons is the most troublesome, because ordinary electromagnetic pulse generators have no chance of being effective.

Chen Ming would not be so stupid as to use this thing to fight against a Leviathan that could emit electromagnetic pulses that could affect the entire galaxy.

So he considered another way, the opposite way.

Electromagnetic signal blocking device, this is a common device.

However, what Chen Ming made was not a signal jammer for use in examination rooms, but an electromagnetic signal blocking device that he specially spent time to work with Fan Chao to research in order to fight Leviathan.

It can powerfully interfere with specific electromagnetic signal frequency bands, which should be very effective against the jellyfish Leviathan that can release ultra-high intensity electromagnetic pulses.

However, in Chen Ming's requirements, it is not done by forcibly interfering through other electromagnetic signals, but by absorbing electromagnetic signals through a device made of special materials.

After all, the reason why Chen Ming thought about weapons to block electromagnetic signals was that Leviathan had stronger electromagnetic pulses, and he couldn't confront it head-on.

This leads to a requirement for such a device to be used at a very close distance in order to be effective.

Under normal circumstances, this kind of thing is more used on oneself to shield electromagnetic attacks.

But this is obviously not a normal situation, and Chen Ming's psychic power also allows him to not abide by many normal situations.

He just had to figure out a way to cram the device into the live ammunition that the capital ship could fire.

It's not a difficult thing here.

At first, he was able to use optimized psychic energy to stuff the jump engine that was originally needed to be stuffed into the battleship into An Wuping's body. Now he can also stuff the originally complex device intactly into the live ammunition.

Structural miniaturization has spiritual power, mass replication has spiritual power, but manufacturing cost cannot be solved by this spiritual power. On the contrary, the cost increases dramatically because of the miniaturization of the device and the need to be installed in live ammunition to bear extremely large forces.

But for Chen Ming, what is cost?

With the support of an entire Zerg race, every live round fired by his battleship has a small electromagnetic jammer inside.

After hitting the target, the barbs inside the warhead will pop out and fix it to the target, and immediately activate the device it carries.

At the same time, Chen Ming's psychic power will have a further effect, using metal liquid to connect a large number of live ammunition together to prevent the device from being discharged, and can also continuously provide energy to all equipment.

Not only does it have functions, its metal liquid can also be transformed into a truly large-scale electromagnetic interference device, further increasing the effect of electromagnetic interference.

Under such a wave of attacks hidden in the phase space, unless Leviathan simply changes its body, it will have to bear such damage.

Although Leviathan's body is not important, it is still its concrete external manifestation, and it cannot easily get rid of this body.

Even though the electromagnetic interference device that Chen Ming left in its body had an effect that almost completely restricted part of its power, it still showed no signs of doing so.

At this moment, the Zerg fleet's formation changed instantly.

The second fleet has locked onto Leviathan.

A battle of this scale does not require every warship to perform individually, but only to obey the commander's absolute orders.

And just as Chen Ming gave the order to open fire for the second time.

The second Zerg fleet also fired a new batch of live ammunition.

This batch of live ammunition was different from the previous ones. After hitting the target, most of the bullets did not penetrate the body of Leviathan, but exploded directly on the surface of the body.

A large amount of gray fluid was sprayed around.

These fluids quickly enveloped Leviathan, forming a sticky layer.

At first glance, it seemed to have no effect, but the gray fluids were brightening at a speed visible to the naked eye, and their color turned into a fluorescent green that looked dangerous.

However, the color of Leviathan's body, which originally emitted bright light, became extremely dim.

This is the second type of weapon that Chen Ming specially prepared, the radiation weapon.

When the design of this weapon was first proposed, Chen Ming and Fan Chao still prioritized the idea of ​​hedging and used stronger radiation weapons to cause damage to Leviathan.

The Empire just happened to have radiation-type weapons, which were the main weapons of the radiation-class battleships that they had snatched from Yuhui, the microsievert-class light radiation cannon.

This thing is a pure radiation weapon.

Whether in the past or now, the Empire is still fighting fiercely with Yuhui and has a lot of inventory on hand.

Chen Ming has the same one. For him, as long as it is not the battleship itself, he can call upon the main weapons at any time.

But it is obviously irrational to go head-to-head with Leviathan.

Therefore, the idea of ​​using microsievert was rejected, and Chen Ming chose a more secure way to manufacture weapons.

That is to say, using radiation-absorbing devices to make weapons in reverse.

It just so happens that the Empire has something similar, an artificial material called radiation viscous fluid, which is specifically designed for radiation environments.

It can absorb radiation and use the radiation energy absorbed by itself to emit light to give a reminder.

The effect can only be described as very obvious.

But it was not enough to completely deprive Leviathan of its combat capability.

As Chen Ming's two rounds of attacks poured out, the jellyfish Leviathan was no fool and it was bound to fight back.

But just like when the two Leviathans were attacked from the phase space before, it couldn't find the source of the attack at all.

At this time, Chen Ming's Zerg fleet also prepared the third round of weapons.

It was fired without any hesitation.

The third round of weapons were not the live ammunition weapons that Chen Ming had installed, but a type of projectile that came with the Zerg biological warship.

What it projected was not the needles made of the Zerg's carapace or the activated active energy crystals, but a kind of crystal that looked very special.

As long as there is a light source, it will be colorful from any angle.

Tons of such crystals were fired out, shattering and exploding the moment they hit Leviathan.

Countless conical crystals pierced into Leviathan's body, forming a colorful area under the illumination of the stars and Leviathan's own light.

The body, which was originally smooth and was rapidly repairing itself after suffering two consecutive rounds of attacks from Chen Ming, suddenly formed an extremely rough tumor-like object at every place where the crystal fragments pierced.

Each tumorous object has colors that are chaotically mixed together but not completely integrated.

This is caused by the fact that these crystal fragments in the phase space cannot be expelled from Leviathan's body.

Leviathan, which originally only looked colorful because of the broken crystals, suddenly became colorful in the true sense.

This is the weapon Chen Ming prepared to disrupt the frequency of light waves.

There are three of these jellyfish-like Leviathans, each with a different color, and changes in the frequency of light waves will inevitably affect them.

This is indeed the case.

As these crystal fragments penetrated, Leviathan's body structure was close to collapse.

Leviathan could ignore all the previous damage, but it was this simple damage caused by the crystal fragments that Chen Ming specially found that made Leviathan completely unable to withstand it.

And all of this just happened in the phase space.

Nothing could be seen in the normal universe. All one could see was that the originally perfectly normal Leviathan had suddenly suffered damages one after another, and in the blink of an eye it looked like it was dying.

But...it's not enough.

Chen Ming could feel that Leviathan was on the verge of death, but something was still missing and he couldn't kill the behemoth.

These measures can only weaken its power to the greatest extent, but cannot completely end it.

And as the breath of Leviathan weakened, the robots that Chen Ming left on the Zerg fleet felt a danger coming from all directions.

The power that Chen Ming possessed told him that the space around the Zerg fleet was distorting.

It's not just the space station in the normal universe that is distorted, but the phase space is also distorted.

At this time, the jump engines of all Zerg warships have lost their function, and any active jump will directly lead to the destruction of the warships.

And if there is no jump, then this distorted space will soon crush everything in this area.

It's this jellyfish Leviathan.

Like the Nightmare of the Plane, it has mastered some of the power of gravity, and when gravity reaches its extreme, it can tear space apart.

This is the talent that comes with being born on a neutron star, and it is also the basis of the ability that allowed Leviathan to make the jump before.

However, its spatial power is obviously weaker. It obviously cannot tear the space apart, but can only cause certain distortion to the space, and this has been noticed by Chen Ming.

Chen Ming acted decisively, and the spiritual energy surged out, easily blocking the force that could distort the space.

But Chen Ming did not feel that the danger had disappeared.

Even the sense of danger reached its peak the moment he blocked the force of space distortion.

The originally bloated and bumpy body of Leviathan suddenly swelled up, and the giant beast, which had originally dimmed, burst out with unprecedented power at this moment as if it were a last gasp.

Thinking of the phase space where the Zerg fleet was located from the normal universe, a violent space shock broke out. Chen Ming had never expected that it still had the energy to do this.

However, he still reacted and once again mobilized his psychic energy to suppress Leviathan's dying attack.

Chen Ming tried his best to suppress the space shock.

But the remaining aftermath of the space shock still crossed the barriers between spaces and directly acted on the Zerg fleet.

Each Zerg warship seemed to have been directly hit by a behemoth of the Leviathan's size, and was completely shattered in the aftermath of the shock.

Gray-green blood and biological tissue fragments of Zerg warships floated in the area.

If Chen Ming had not reacted in time, I'm afraid no Zerg battleship would have survived.

But even if he reacted, this main fleet of more than 3,000 people was still destroyed in an instant and could no longer pose an effective threat to Leviathan.

After this explosion, Leviathan seemed to have completely lost its combat capability and turned back to the star.

As long as it can return to the star, the power of the star will help it clear away the burden on its body, and all traces left by the Zerg fleet will be completely eliminated.

Even if the star is constantly draining its power, as long as it returns to the star, it can in turn replenish itself with the star's power.

And it can also restore its original strength after resting.

It is obviously unlikely that Chen Ming will be able to organize the Zerg fleet again to launch a new round of attacks.

He sighed.

"no solution anymore."

Chen Ming, who was originally observing the war situation in the galaxy from the highest point on the edge of the galaxy, clenched his fist slightly, and the flowing metal liquid wrapped around his body. Instantly, it turned into a biological armor that looked slightly heavier than before.

"You still have to use some external force."

As soon as Chen Ming finished his words, he disappeared from the spaceship and appeared next to Leviathan.

In Chen Ming's hand appeared something he had obtained a long time ago, the Purgatory Core.

This was the prototype of the last weapon he was preparing...

But he didn't put it into service.

After all, the cost of this thing is not on the same level as all the other weapons he has prepared.

Even if the core is the pirated Purgatory Core that Fan Chao reproduced some time ago, it is still difficult to supply the Zerg fleet.

So Chen Ming simply decided to use the one he had to complete his idea.

Chen Ming's psychic power activated the Purgatory Core.

This device, one of the most advanced technologies of the Shining Civilization, carried Chen Ming's will and acted on the body of Leviathan.

Completely remove all heat energy around it.

The entropy-controlling power of the Purgatory Core can transfer entropy to other places, creating an extremely low-temperature environment in the original place.

This is an extremely low temperature on a cosmic scale, a space close to absolute zero.

When the temperature of an area drops to an extreme level, even light will slow down its pace.

Leviathan is no exception.

This Leviathan, which is suspected to have an inseparable connection with light, showed horrible phenomena when it encountered this extremely low temperature environment.

Its body was broken.

The limitation on the speed of light caused physical breaks in its body structure, followed by large-scale tearing throughout its body.

Its body was falling apart and it seemed to have reached its end.

However, Chen Ming's perception told him that this Leviathan was still not dead and it was still breathing its last breath.

Just doing this won't take its life.

In addition, Leviathan is constantly releasing radiation and heat energy from its body into the surrounding space, restoring the surrounding environment so that it can continue to move towards the star.

Chen Ming's mental power is enough to compete with Leviathan. He can rely on the accumulation of mental power to drag Leviathan to death here.

But he didn't intend to do that.

He still had two Leviathans to deal with, and he couldn't waste his time doing something like this.

And he had something else in his hand that he could use.

Destroy the core.

Ever since Chen Ming snatched the destruction core from the mechanical clan, he has never used this thing.

Although the Destruction Core has become slightly weaker than before because it helped Chen Ming actively build the Calamity Core, which is the key to his power.

But that is taken out on a separate level.

When it is held in Chen Ming's hand, it will not affect the effect it can bring at all.

As Chen Ming's psychic power was activated, the aura of destruction covered Leviathan's broken body.

For a moment.

Chen Ming actually felt fear from it.

He felt fear from Leviathan.

Chen Ming's current strength is mixed with a part of the power from the Fear Spirit Stone, and he can clearly sense this fear.

Is it Leviathan that is afraid of the Destroyer?
No.

It is simply afraid of destruction.

Any sentient creature, whether carbon-based or hydrogen-based, as long as it has self-awareness, will inevitably have a fear of destruction.

And this fear was transmitted to Chen Ming's perception through Leviathan's powerful consciousness.

But this did not make Chen Ming hesitate at all.

Destruction still befell Leviathan.

Its embodied body was completely destroyed.

And its life itself, born from the fusion of electromagnetism and radiation, began to dissipate after the death of the body.

Chen Ming raised his eyebrows slightly, and immediately activated his psychic power on a large scale again, constructing a psychic field constraint circle in the surrounding space, preserving the corpse of the Leviathan in an electromagnetic radiation fusion state that could not be directly observed by the naked eye.

Although a lot of them dissipated, at least half of the bodies were still preserved by Chen Ming.

The first red M-type Leviathan is confirmed to be destroyed.

Chen Ming breathed a sigh of relief after confirming this, and at the same time looked at the Destruction Core with some confusion.

He didn't think much about it and just put it away.

By the way, I also collected the Purgatory Core.

When he saw the core of Purgatory just now, he immediately thought of a person, Hu Yi.

More than half a year ago, Chen Ming went to meet him on purpose under the introduction of his boss.

At that time, Hu Yi gave some compensation, and then Chen Ming never saw him again.

It is estimated that Hu Yi has gone into hibernation and we may not see him in the last few decades or even a hundred years.

Chen Ming felt a little emotional, but he still didn't completely relax.

He still has to continue hunting the next Leviathan.

That yellow jellyfish.

At this time, Chen Ming no longer considered using warships.

Once you leave the empire, the enemies you encounter are all very terrifying. In a situation where the battleships cannot function, it may be useless no matter how many of them there are.

Just like the previous wave, the battleships could only play a supporting role, and it was the Destroyer that really eliminated the Leviathan.

So Chen Ming decided to do it himself.

And this time he didn't need to use the previous methods to force Leviathan out of the star.

Because Chen Ming had just arrived in the galaxy through psychic power, a violent electromagnetic pulse swept directly over from the star.

Along with this electromagnetic pulse, there was a subtle sense of fear.

Chen Ming just appeared here, and fear seemed to have already entangled this Leviathan.

This seems to imply that there is some form of communication between the three Leviathans.

It also means that Chen Ming may need to speed up his actions further.

He had to avoid the possibility of the remaining Leviathan escaping or coming to support him directly.

Kill by force.

Chen Ming made up his mind and disappeared without any sign. He then appeared on the surface of the stars in the galaxy and smashed in like a meteorite.

If an ordinary meteorite hits a star, the only outcome is melting. However, Chen Ming rushed into it with a destructive momentum and locked onto the yellow jellyfish Leviathan without any hesitation.

And when Chen Ming directly used his psychic power to successively use several weapons he developed on Leviathan, he dragged Leviathan into the abyss of weakness at the fastest speed and highest efficiency, and let the destructive wave hit Leviathan's body directly.

The indescribable feeling of fear that could make people with sensitive perceptions empathize with it once again clearly appeared on Leviathan.

Exactly the same as before.

Chen Ming couldn't help but think again about the reason for Leviathan's fear.

And he seemed to find that things were not that simple.

The consciousness of these three Leviathans may be linked, but the death of one Leviathan does not mean true death.

And this fear does not seem to be directed at death itself, but only at destruction.

The source of the destruction core... is that the mechanical race used cloning technology to forcibly create dimensional infection, and transformed the source of the dimensional infection, and finally condensed the ability of the dimensional infected entity into such a destruction core.

It is possible that what Leviathan fears is not destruction.

What it fears is the source of destruction, Scarlet.

(End of this chapter)