When Chen Ming saw that the Zerg’s blood could affect the Mechanical Race.

I subconsciously wondered if the bugs had evolved the ability to restrain the mechanical race?

But Chen Ming immediately denied this idea as being too exaggerated.

Even if the bugs on the space station teleported here the moment Chen Ming left the space station, fought with the mechanical race, began to adapt to the abilities of the mechanical race, and evolved blood to restrain them.

The total time added up was only about half a year.

After more than half a year, it has evolved the ability to target the combat weapons left over from a civilization.

It shouldn't be the case.

But in this case, the problem with this gray-green blood seems to be even bigger.

Just as Chen Ming was thinking.

Fighting continues on the edge of the city.

Although the blood of the Zerg has a considerable restraining effect on the Mechanical Clan, the situation on the battlefield is still one-sided in favor of the Mechanical Clan.

As a large number of cyst worms among the attacking Zerg fell, the Zerg charging in the front lost their fire support and were gradually suppressed by the mechanical race.

Relying on a killing speed that was faster than the Zerg's forward movement speed, they forced the Zerg back to the vicinity of the holes they dug.

But even though these insects saw no chance of winning, they still continued to maintain their madness, struggling desperately with their seemingly endless number of insects.

But just when the Zerg were forced back to a certain distance outside the city by the firepower of the Mechanical Clan.

Chen Ming suddenly heard the sound of booming artillery fire from near the center of the city.

Along with the roar of cannons, dozens of red rays of light instantly rose into the sky.

If Chen Ming remembered correctly, he had just seen a large warehouse near the high tower. The icon of this warehouse on the map of the city he saw was a sharp weapon-like icon.

The sudden burst of red light was most likely emitted by a weapon there, or a special type of mechanical creature.

These streamers fell from the sky again within seconds of being launched.

The flames accurately hit the Zerg and the passages they had dug, causing dozens of miniature mushroom clouds to erupt.

All things related to insects were covered by this artillery fire.

The flames and mushroom cloud had not yet dissipated.

The hot and burning atmosphere has already spread outside the city.

The remaining bugs crawled out from under their companions' completely charred bodies and pounced on the mechanical race with their last bit of strength.

Even if they die, they will at least spray their blood on the enemy.

However, their end is doomed to failure.

The swarm of insects had no room to struggle under this pure firepower coverage, and the number of surviving insects was less than half of the initial number.

It will no longer be a force to be reckoned with and will never be a threat to the mechanical race’s cities.

As the last bug fell to the mechanical clan's gun, the battle that lasted for nearly an hour finally ended.

And at the moment the battle ended.

Many of the mechanical creatures that were active just now fell down in an instant and entered hibernation again like before.

But at the same time, the electrical signals on many of the fallen mechanical people were completely cut off, and they fell into complete death.

The death of some mechanical bodies did not cause any impact.

Soon many mechanical people came out from the city and came here to clean up and sweep the battlefield.

However, although they were cleaning, these mechanical creatures only extinguished the flames and collected the bodies of the dead mechanical creatures.

The mechanical tribe didn't care about the dead bodies of the insects lying outside.

Moreover, when it comes to recycling, many of the mechanical races that came to recycle the bodies of the mechanical races collapsed along the way, and died completely just like these mechanical races to be recycled.

This scene made Chen Ming, who had been observing all this, feel an indescribable feeling of regret and sadness.

It is the regret for the demise of civilization, and the sadness that the remaining remnants of this civilization will soon perish along with the civilization.

Of course, Chen Ming was not swayed by his emotions.

He just felt a little emotional when he saw this scene.

He did not forget that the mechanical race is now almost everywhere in the universe. At least their presence can be seen everywhere on the road of imperial expansion.

Chen Ming now only wants to clarify one thing.

How on earth did these bugs get here?

The only place that can figure this out and get clues is this city of the mechanical race.

But Chen Ming has already taken control of the tower, and he can be sure that there are no relevant records in the database inside the tower.

However, for such a large city, the tower is not the only place with a central database.

There are also many independent small databases distributed in different places in the city.

The data from different areas of the city will first be concentrated in these small databases, and through classification and analysis, the valuable data and information will be integrated into the database of the high tower in the core area.

The information about the Zerg is definitely not worthless.

But there are still some places in the city that are out of the control of the tower.

That's why he needed his robot to help observe the situation on the battlefield.

Those places that are out of the control of the tower may have relevant records.

It’s not that Chen Ming can’t repair and connect the areas, it’s just that a city is much more difficult to handle than a cruiser, and his mental strength is simply not enough.

He didn't know which area stored this information, and the method of using psychic power to reconnect those disconnected areas back to the tower was too inefficient.

It would be better to determine the location of different small databases and let his robot go there in person.

Chen Ming wasted no time.

While the mechanical race was still dealing with the battlefield, he ordered his robots to carry the core and start running to areas in the city that could not be affected by the high towers.

The entire city was divided into thirty-six areas on the map that Chen Ming found, twenty-three of which were still under control.

There are still thirteen areas, which should be enough to visit them all today.

The impact of the battle between the Mechanoids and the Thorn Zerg completely subsided after three hours.

After controlling the robot to search nine areas, Chen Ming finally found some clues in the tenth area.

Because Chen Ming arranged the route of action based on the position of the robot.

So he had only just arrived at this area, which was relatively close to the center of the city.

Then he discovered that the database in the control center was still running.

Although the database here was also damaged, the undamaged area happened to store all the recordings of the past six months.

And it happened to be in a video recorded one night five months ago.

Chen Ming saw a bright fire suddenly appear in the dark night sky, and something was entering the atmosphere.

Although due to the darkness around and the flames produced by the friction on the objects entering the atmosphere, Chen Ming could not clearly see its specific appearance and could not confirm what it was.

But at the moment this thing enters the atmosphere.

Chen Ming saw in the video that the entire mechanical city became active and they were preparing for battle.

Although no actual battle broke out until the thing landed.

But after seeing the Zerg attack just now and the reaction of the Mechanical Clan.

Chen Ming had sufficient reasons to believe that it was the Zerg that entered the planet's atmosphere from space.

If he wants to figure out what the Zerg are, he must investigate the Zerg's landing point and the trajectory of that thing when it enters the atmosphere.

Everything is easy with video.

Chen Ming first determined the flight trajectory after entering the atmosphere based on the video, and with a simple calculation he was able to confirm the trajectory of the object before entering the atmosphere.

Then use the apex to perform a high-power scan to determine the positions and trajectories of all celestial bodies such as asteroids in orbit around the star.

Finally, based on calculations, the trajectories of these asteroids were pushed back five months to the day when the video was recorded.

In this way, in addition to the trajectory of the object entering the atmosphere, Chen Ming could also accurately know the environment of the stellar body in the orbit around the star at that time.

At most, it is impossible to determine the number of new or disappeared stars in these five months.

But that's enough.

Because on the day that thing landed, the trajectory behind it calculated by Chen Ming happened to overlap with several larger asteroids that were gathered together.

Even if Chen Ming might have some calculation errors, the results he calculated could not completely deviate from the positions of these asteroids.

These bugs must have come from those asteroids.

At this moment, Chen Ming suddenly doubted whether he was wrong.

First of all, he could confirm that the Thorn Zerg was indeed a type of bug that frequently appeared on asteroids.

Does this mean that the Zerg here also grew from asteroids, just like the space station? And did these cystic worms really evolve on their own? Several questions flashed through Chen Ming's mind, but this kind of thing still needs to be seen to be believed.

Chen Ming quickly confirmed the positions of the asteroids he suspected today and quickly locked onto them.

He immediately moved the Zenith closer, intending to scan the asteroid.

But when he went over, he found that it seemed unnecessary.

Because there were very obvious gaps on those asteroids, one entire side was missing, revealing that the interior was completely hollow and filled with all kinds of disgusting growths.

This does not mean that Chen Ming’s previous guess was correct.

Instead, it made him even more certain that the insects must be foreign.

Because Chen Ming asked the highest point to do a simple scan.

It can be determined that the gap on the asteroid was not broken from the inside out, but was shattered from the outside using extremely violent means.

It was the bugs that invaded this asteroid which might be valuable to them and after some time traveled to the planet below.

After confirming that there was no sign of life on the asteroid, Chen Ming sent a shuttle carrying several robots into the asteroid with a diameter of about two to three hundred meters.

However, after searching for a while, the robot found nothing valuable. It could only extract some growths and a little bit of green gel-like residue and return to the spacecraft.

Their names are [Thorne Zerg Coagulated Secretion] and [Thorne Zerg Shellac], and it is not clear what their uses are.

However, at this time, Chen Ming finally found a very detailed research report on the Thorn Zerg on different research websites.

It was written decades ago by several biology bigwigs whose names Chen Ming had heard of.

This paper describes the specific situation of the entire Thorn Zerg in great detail, much more than Chen Ming knew.

The Thorn Zerg were not actually rare creatures. Instead, they were very common, so common that they were almost rampant.

It is due to human factors that it has become quite rare now.

During this period, the empire often encountered many creatures that were harmful to humans.

In the face of the almost endless benefits brought by development and the profits that are enough to make anyone and any force jealous, any creature that stands in the way of human development must die.

Then the Thorn Zerg were basically exterminated during the Empire's pioneering period.

Later, someone discovered that something seemed amiss, so they left behind some Thorn Zerg for research.

There should still be individuals being cultivated within the empire.

There must be more out there, maybe hiding in some asteroid.

The spread and harmfulness of the Thorn Zerg are still very obvious, and now it has an additional rare characteristic.

It was previously used by the military in the star zone to build space stations.

However, judging from this paper, these bugs are not a big deal.

perhaps.

After reading this paper, Chen Ming always felt that something was wrong.

Because according to the records in the paper, these insects did show certain evolutionary abilities in the past.

However, they were soon almost wiped out due to the empire's deliberate extermination of these dangerous creatures that affected development, and they were unable to evolve at all.

But the basic unit of speed mentioned in the paper is years, because the pioneering era lasted for hundreds of years and the empire was always affected by insects.

The insects that Chen Ming encountered took only two days to evolve from the most primitive ordinary insects, that is, the broad-strider insects, to the ability to spit acid.

After another two or three months, it disappeared from the space station and appeared here. It didn't look like it had weak evolutionary abilities at all.

In the past, it might be because all the internal conflicts of the entire empire were dispersed by the benefits brought by the development, and the whole empire worked together to deal with the troubles on the road of development, resulting in the inability to bring into play the strong evolutionary ability of the insects.

But the time is different now. Chen Ming is really worried about the problems hidden behind these bugs.

And his problem has not been solved yet.

How did these bugs get here? Why did they attack the city like crazy because of him or the Mechanic race? It couldn't be that they had the same hive mind as the Mechanic race, and if one of them evolved, the others could also evolve, causing the bugs here to evolve into cystic bugs just like the ones on the space station?

No, it's impossible.

Chen Ming denied his thoughts again.

Unless they have psychic powers, this is absolutely impossible.

What kind of hive mind can survive hundreds of light years apart?

If they really had such abnormal abilities, it would have been impossible for the Zerg to be easily killed to the point of near extinction by humans during the pioneering era.

Could it be that... the Zerg on the space station have really evolved the ability to fly in space or even in hyperspace and flew here?

Chen Ming still couldn't be 100% sure as he still lacked evidence.

But one thing he was sure of was that these bugs could be a big threat.

He had to find a way to take some of the insect corpses away and send them to the empire, either to his boss or to Baiquan.

What he said should be enough for them to take it seriously.

In order to avoid the situation of insect plague in the past.

The empire is not so united now.

Chen Ming once again sent out several landing craft, which landed near the mechanical city and found an opportunity to take away the bodies without any obstruction.

There are four kinds of bugs here.

Chen Ming had seen the [Thorne Zerg·Broadstrider] and [Thorne Zerg·Blisterworm] before.

The largest one is the [Thorne Zerg·Giant Spider], and the [Thorne Zerg·Shellworm] which has the appearance of a beetle.

In fact, there is another kind of insect that Chen Ming has seen before, but is not found in the corpses here, the [Thorne Zerg Larva].

It is impossible for the Zerg to be without larvae, which is why Chen Ming is worried.

It is very likely that the Thorn Zerg are still multiplying deep underground on this planet.

After all the insect corpses were sent to the Defender and frozen.

Chen Ming was a little naughty and let his robot try to contact the mechanical race.

In the battle just now, Chen Ming saw quite a few mechanical people who obviously had good individual combat capabilities.

And there are also the mechanical race behind that can fire that special artillery, which clearly gives them a considerable advantage in ground combat.

It would definitely be worthwhile to find a way to take one away and study it by comparing it with the blueprint he has.

Chen Ming's robot's behavior of secretly moving the dead mechanical creatures was not discovered by other mechanical creatures.

He did succeed in obtaining the corpses of several mechanical creatures.

In addition to the [Standard Mechanical Body of the Mechanical Clan·Quiet Mantis] and [Small Mechanical Body of the Mechanical Clan·Worker Bee] that Chen Ming already has.

There are also the [Mechanic Standard Mechanical Body·Flying Mantis] which is a melee unit with high-speed combat capabilities, and the [Mechanic Small Mechanical Body·Drilling Worm] which is a large frontal combat unit.

Although Chen Ming didn't know why this several-meter-tall giant was actually a small mechanical body, it didn't matter. The name did not affect its abilities.

In addition, several of the [Mechanical Clan Medium-sized Mechanical Bodies - Fiery Silkworms] that Chen Ming coveted and were able to fire artillery were completely killed in the areas where they were usually stationed. After being controlled by Chen Ming, they were successfully taken out of the city.

Then, Chen Ming couldn't help but reach out to those living, dormant mechanical bodies.

Then he was surprised to find that these dormant mechanical bodies seemed not to be affected by external things, even if his robot had come into contact with the shell of the mechanical family.

These dormant mechanical creatures seem to only be triggered by combat.

Of course, Chen Ming did not do something stupid and expose his robot directly on the streets of the city or in front of the mechanical race that were still active.

He now just wanted to take away a few surviving mechanical creatures and wanted to confirm whether the mechanical creature he controlled before was an isolated case.

Chen Ming took away several dormant mechanical creatures as easily as he took away the corpses of other mechanical creatures, and transported them directly to the highest point.

There are many devices inside the Supreme Point that can interfere with the normal operation of the machinery, so Chen Ming does not need to worry about the mechanical body suddenly exploding or something.

When the mechanical race was transported to the highest point.

The robot that Chen Ming sent to confirm the landing location of the insects in the video is still on the way.

So he simply came directly to the warehouse and came in front of these dormant mechanical creatures.

In order not to damage these dormant robots, Chen Ming chose to directly control these robots himself and keep an eye on their panels at all times.

Just like the previous damaged mechanical body.

The consciousness column on their panels also changed from [Individual consciousness: Sub-individual (dormant)] to [Individual consciousness: Sub-individual (abnormal)].

This is both a good thing and a bad thing for Chen Ming.

Fortunately, he no longer needs to worry about the mechanical race he controls being affected by the “Queen Bee” of the mechanical race.

The downside is that after losing the support of group consciousness, the behaviors of the mechanical bodies he controlled became a little "stupid".

etc.

Chen Ming suddenly felt like something was wrong.

As the number of abnormal sub-individuals of the mechanical race under his control increases.

It seems that these abnormal sub-individuals have built a beehive-like thinking network among themselves.

They are sharing their computing power with each other.

And then Chen Ming discovered another special place.

When he controlled these mechanical species that were abnormal sub-individuals, his mental power did not seem to be consumed.

Chen Ming's psychic power can control many things.

But if he wants to control everything, anything, or any one thing, he must continuously consume his mental energy.

Even if Yu Hui helped to control the spaceship, he had to at least devote a little bit of his mental energy to control it.

Although the continuous consumption is very small, it is necessary.

However, the machines he now controls have transformed from normal machines to abnormal machines.

Apart from the little bit of mental energy consumed in controlling them at the beginning, there is no subsequent continuous consumption of mental energy.

But Chen Ming can still give them orders normally.

This doesn't seem quite right.

Chen Ming temporarily put aside his attention to other things and concentrated his mental energy on himself and several mechanical machines, observing them carefully.

Chen Ming had just focused his consciousness.

The next moment, his eyes suddenly widened.

Because these mechanical creatures not only did not consume Chen Ming's mental energy.

Even, giving back to him.

After these mechanical creatures were transformed into abnormal sub-individuals, their weak and abnormal individual consciousness fed back to Chen Ming to control the consumption of their mental power.

"Is this... the influence of a hive mind?"

Chen Ming understood.

After he controlled these mechanical species, they turned into abnormal sub-individuals.

These mechanical tribes built a new cluster of hive consciousness with him as the core consciousness.

He is the "Queen Bee".

Chen Ming immediately began to check his own consciousness, and found no changes except that his mental power was fed back by these abnormal sub-individuals.

But Chen Ming still had some concerns about whether these mechanical creatures would affect his consciousness in turn.

But he soon realized that he didn't need to worry about that.

His psychic instincts will help him eliminate all dangers.

If there really is a problem, he will definitely be able to understand it in advance and directly disconnect from the mechanical race, or directly kill the consciousness of those weak abnormal sub-individuals.

But if that's okay...

Chen Ming swallowed subconsciously.

The fact that the mechanical race's consciousness can feed back his mental power is self-evident.

Chen Ming had a panoramic view of the entire dilapidated city through the surveillance of the high tower, and once again he couldn't help swallowing his saliva.

He wants this city.

The planet must be cleansed of the Thorn Zerg.

(End of this chapter)