Chen Ming arrived near the Mechanical Clan galaxy with a fleet of five cruisers, including the Supreme Point, Stardust, Brilliance, Shining and Defender.
The appearance of these five cruisers has undergone some subtle or obvious changes compared to a week ago.
These changes all have one common feature, which is to make the spacecraft themselves more suitable for playing their own roles.
The source of these changes was the improvement of Chen Ming's spiritual power after he absorbed the new spiritual awakening nerve.
Just a few days ago, after the Qi Ling Nerve arrived, Chen Ming imitated the way he absorbed the Qi Ling Nerve in the past.
At the moment when he stimulated his mental power to the extreme using various equipment taken from the Yuhui Research Institute, he absorbed the spiritual awakening nerve given by Baiquan, which had not undergone special training.
The difference from the last time was that Chen Ming did not fall into a coma this time, but instead completed the entire process of absorbing the spiritual nerves consciously.
He also clearly sensed the changes in his own spiritual energy, allowing the spiritual nerves to be completely absorbed and completely become the nourishment for his spiritual energy.
As a result, Chen Ming's mental power has increased significantly.
When Chen Ming absorbed the first spiritual awakening nerve, his spiritual power went from being able to control a destroyer to being able to control a cruiser.
And now, Chen Ming's mental power has jumped from being able to control nearly five cruisers to being able to control seven at the same time.
Chen Ming felt that his mental power to control ten cruisers was a key point. By then he might be able to control the next level of spaceship.
Of course, more may be needed. After all, the difference between a battleship and a cruiser seems to be greater than the difference between a cruiser and a destroyer.
But at least Chen Ming can see the goal, so this goal has the possibility of being achieved.
In addition to the progress in mental power, Chen Ming's psychic powers also gained new abilities.
In addition to the most basic [Maintenance] ability that Chen Ming had from the very beginning, there is now an additional branch.
An outrageous option called [Deep Repair].
Its effect is not limited to the damage to the various things controlled by Chen Ming, but acts on more essential places.
It can repair the theoretical design problems of some of the spacecraft or equipment controlled by Chen Ming, making these things more suitable for their original functions and closer to perfection.
The price is that for Chen Ming now, it is still a huge consumption of mental energy.
But mental strength will be restored after a good sleep, so it is almost equivalent to no consumption.
Chen Ming has been in a coma every day for the past week.
Of course, there are some things this ability cannot do.
That is, it can only perform deep repairs on the object of Chen Ming's ability.
That is to say, when Chen Ming carried out in-depth repairs on the cruiser, the only object he could repair was the cruiser itself.
Any additional equipment components, such as ship armor, tachyon lances and shield modules that can be removed and installed at will will not be affected.
Unless Chen Ming conducts in-depth repairs on these things, the amount of mental energy consumed will not change and will still be quite terrifying.
Only the ship structure that is part of the ship, basic control equipment, or plasma systems like the Brilliant-class exclusive will be optimized along with the cruiser itself.
But it is not a big problem. The optimization of the spacecraft itself also includes various radiation energy transportation routes. These alone can enhance the performance of the spacecraft itself by at least 20%.
What's more, Chen Ming's psychic powers are not limited to this, there are also more detailed optimizations in the application of ships in combat.
Many of them were optimizations that Chen Ming could not understand even when he was driving a cruiser and drawing blueprints with 3D imaging.
The overall combat effectiveness is improved by at least 50%.
Although the deep maintenance of the Supreme Point as an exploration ship seems to be more oriented towards exploration and defensive operations, its offensive capability has been slightly reduced.
And the mental energy consumed in each deep maintenance in the past has reached an abnormal level, but at least Chen Ming was still very happy every time he fell into a coma.
Because this means that there is still a lot that can be explored in his spiritual power.
The ship spirit had previously demonstrated its ability to directly [transform] Chen Ming at the microscopic level when he was condensing the second source of spiritual energy.
However, this essential [maintenance] ability has not been demonstrated yet, which means that Chen Ming can at least rely on the improvement of his psychic powers to obtain the abilities that the ship spirit has mastered in advance.
There is still more potential for psychic power to be explored, which is definitely something worth celebrating for a psychic.
And just in the past week.
For six days, Chen Ming used all his mental energy on the cruiser.
These six cruisers include the five that Chen Ming is currently driving, as well as the Refraction-class heavy unmanned cruiser mothership driven by HR, whose attitude has softened a lot recently, as a guarantee of the combat effectiveness of the temporary stronghold.
For the rest of the day, Chen Ming gave his mental power to the Queen of Insects.
The [Deep Repair] that can also be performed on the biomass spacecraft and the Queen who is the core of the biomass spacecraft was also carried out.
At that time, Chen Ming specifically brought the consciousness of the Queen Insect, which had just developed for a day near the mechanical city he was going to attack, back to its body.
Then he activated the ability he had just acquired, which he had already used once on the highest point.
Then, the Queen of Insects exploded.
The entire body exploded, leaving only the brain, the carrier of the Queen Insect's consciousness, still twitching in place.
But this does not mean failure, but part of a deep maintenance process.
The broken Zerg flesh and blood tissue was rewoven under the influence of Chen Ming's psychic power.
A large number of invalid gene fragments that may have been broken from the Zerg genes left over from ancient times were all cleared out by Chen Ming's psychic power.
All genetic fragments that have no meaning to the race were also cut off.
It restored the Queen Insect's already bloated genes to simplicity.
Of course, Chen Ming couldn’t understand everything that happened before. He could only see the Queen Insect’s exploded body constantly secreting dark, rotten liquid.
It was the Queen Insect's consciousness that was transmitting to Chen Ming in real time the impact of his spiritual power on her.
While the remaining body tissues were expelling the fluid, they were gradually attached together again by the hyphae that had become part of the Zerg, and returned to their original state.
The last message of consciousness that Chen Ming received from the Queen Insect before his mental strength was exhausted was that the psychic power it obtained by devouring psychic fungi was further enhanced.
It was at this point that Chen Ming understood the effect of the Queen Insect's psychic power.
It is the simplest and most brutal ability, which strengthens physical fitness through psychic power.
And this psychic power is not placed on the Queen alone, but on the hive mind of the entire hive.
The hive mind is the brain of the Zerg, so it is completely reasonable for psionic energy to be hosted in the hive mind network.
Following this line of thought, Chen Ming immediately thought of a possibility.
But he was immediately interrupted by his exhausted mental energy and fell into a coma.
When Chen Ming woke up.
He saw that the size of the hive that the Queen had already developed on the planet under his control had shrunk by a full quarter.
All the disappeared insects were absorbed and devoured by the Queen Insect last night to complete the deep repair process.
After this process was completed, the Queen Zerg did not directly start to update the Zerg individuals, but transferred her consciousness to another body again and continued to complete the goals set by Chen Ming.
Until today, a week later.
At this time, Chen Ming, who was at the highest point of one of the five cruisers in space, was observing the overall picture of the mechanical colony through a scanning array.
He was the only one who saw this scene, and in the end he did not allow Baiquan to broadcast the video in real time.
All I can say is that some things are better not to be exposed before he is ready.
Bai Quan certainly understood this logic and knew that Chen Ming had many secrets that could not be known by others, so he didn't say much.
I just hope that Chen Ming can send him a video later and give him the part that can be shown to him.
Of course Chen Ming can meet this requirement, and he really needs Bai Quan's teaching on command.
Anyway, I can just edit it a bit and put what can be shown in the video.
For example, now, when the Zerg have not yet set off, the image recorded by the Supreme Point Scan Array is showing the appearance of the Mechanical City.
The city itself remained much the same as before, with only some less obvious developments, and there was no sense that they were about to face disaster.
But having said that, it is still quite troublesome when a real fight comes.
After all, attacking a city with complete defense facilities is a risky behavior in itself, but there are enough interested parties behind Chen Ming to make him do so.
There are three ways to attack such a city.
In the air, on the ground and underground.
Chen Ming eliminated it from the air at the first moment.
Because the Zerg, which are the main means of siege, are not flying creatures. Although some of them can fly, not all of them can.
Moreover, after Chen Ming completely captured the space orbital defense facilities and received subsequent support, the air was actually not a very safe place for attack.
The remaining two methods are ground and underground.
The underground was also ruled out.
Because Chen Ming was very familiar with the mechanical clan’s city, and what he knew had been verified through the scan at the highest point.
The underground of the entire mechanical city is a combination of tightly fitted high-strength steel columns and steel plates that bear the weight of the entire city.
Unless the Zerg have the power to directly overturn a city, attacking from underground is not a wise choice.
Of course, Chen Ming also considered digging out the soil and rock layers beneath the entire mechanical city and letting the entire city sink underground.
But through Chen Ming's understanding of the mechanical race he controlled, it was clear that the mechanical race had a way to attack the underground.
Rely on the mechanical city itself to generate strong vibrations deep underground.
According to the performance of the related equipment Chen Ming found in his city.
So there is only one way left, which is to attack from the front.
Although this is the most difficult path, Chen Ming believes that the Queen Insect, who has undergone many evolutions and has been strengthened by his psychic power, will not let him down.
After the cruiser arrived at the designated combat position, Chen Ming sent a message to the Queen Insect to start the action.
And he himself started this battle from space, which he initiated personally.
The five cruisers entered the jump state at the same time, and appeared in the orbit of the mechanical colony planet in just a few seconds, appearing between the orbital defense systems.
Even though the mechanical race had begun to react the moment they detected the jump fluctuations appearing in orbit, the speed at which the orbital defense facilities were deployed could not keep up with the speed at which Chen Ming activated the spacecraft's weapons.
The five cruisers had a total of thirteen large weapons, and the particle torrents fired by the thirteen tachyon spears instantly swept through the surrounding orbital defense facilities, destroying them before they could transform.
The orbital defense facilities covering one-fifth of the planet's equatorial orbit were completely destroyed in just thirty seconds by the almost continuous firing of terrifying tachyon spears.
Not only did they lose the ability to defend themselves externally, they also lost the ability to turn these orbital defense facilities around and assist in ground combat.
At this moment, Chen Ming's highest point suddenly detected a wave of transition appearing near the orbit.
The jump interference device that Chen Ming had prepared long ago was activated instantly, completely disrupting the fluctuations of these jumps and directly interrupting this wave of reinforcements of the mechanical clan.
Perfect preparation makes it impossible for any unexpected situation to happen.
In the blink of an eye, all the living forces of the mechanical clan in space were completely wiped out by Chen Ming.
However, he did not stop, but continued to command several cruisers to carry out their tasks.
He needed to place jamming devices at the poles of the planet in front of him and in the direction opposite to the star that could block the signals of the entire planet.
It is also necessary to lock on the number and location of those orbital defense satellites that were not so completely destroyed in the previous raid.
Release afterglow entities into them, control them, and make them part of his combat capabilities.
At a time like this, more firepower means a greater chance of victory.
After completing this step, wait for the second wave of mechanical tribe reinforcements.
Chen Ming finally found time to take a look at the situation on the ground.
At this time, on the edge of the mechanical colony city.
The pitch-black shells made the Zerg look like a dark tsunami, rushing towards the city that was crumbling in the waves.
Obviously, the Zerg commanded by the Queen also had the advantage.
What attracted Chen Ming's attention most in the Zerg tide was an extremely huge Zerg unit that appeared at the forefront of the temporary defense line built by the mechanical race.
Its appearance was similar to the dark Zerg that Chen Ming had seen from the Queen's genes, but it was much larger, and the thickness of its front shell had already penetrated into the cruiser's armor.
It charged ahead of the rest of the Zerg, using its own body to block the firepower of the Mechanicals.
Relying on brute force, he shattered several lines of defense built by the Mechanical Clan.
Few of the weapons of the mechanical race on the ground can cause enough damage to it.
It forced it to withstand countless attacks that could tear the rest of the Zerg into pieces, and protected most of the Zerg behind it.
Destroyed the Mechanical Clan's delusion of keeping the Zerg outside the city.
Even though most of these Zergs suffered huge amounts of damage, they fell on the way to the charge.
But as long as the Zerg are allowed to reach a more complex urban environment, even just on the edge of the city, they can perform better on the plains.
And some Zerg that have been hiding in the Queen can finally play the right role in the right position.
Chen Ming saw a group of small flying Zerg with elytra and a relatively bloated abdomen flying out of a cave dug by the Zerg.
Under the cover of the ground Zerg, it dodged countless anti-aircraft fire, rushed into the city, and chose to self-destruct above the area where the mechanical race was most densely populated.
Countless Zerg blood fell from the sky, almost dyeing the city’s ground the color of Zerg blood.
The Zerg's blood did not lose its original properties due to the first two evolutions, and still retained the ability to launch special attacks against the mechanical race.
Amid the splattering blood, a large number of mechanical individuals gradually lost their combat capabilities and could only be crushed by the subsequent Zerg charges.
And before anyone knew it, a layer of deep purple fungal mat gradually spread from the cave where the Zerg appeared into the city, accelerating its expansion as it absorbed the Zerg corpses.
On this fungal mat that can provide the Zerg with a steady supply of nutrients, the Zerg's combat effectiveness can also be significantly increased.
The mechanical clan's defenses were broken again and again.
As the environment becomes more complex, some special Zerg creatures with worm-like appearance appear again, half-lurking in the ground.
They are extremely fragile in themselves, but they are able to spit out very unstable high-energy liquids that are melted from energy crystals.
When these liquids are subjected to any severe external force impact, they will produce some reactions that Chen Ming likes very much.
explode.
The power is comparable to the explosion of left-diameter dynamite.
Although it may not be possible to completely blow up the armor of the mechanical race, it is easy to shatter the internal structure of the mechanical race by impact.
These are special new species of bugs.
All of these are the results of communication between Chen Ming and the Queen of Insects in the past week.
The idea was proposed by Chen Ming, and later implemented by Chong.
After Chen Ming performed deep repairs on the Queen Worm last time, the Queen Worm had completely cleaned up the useless parts of its genes and mastered the valuable ones.
Therefore, it has the ability to rub all kinds of Zerg with its hands, and can even do some things that Chen Ming did not expect at the beginning.
For example, the worm-like creature that is half-burrowed into the ground.
Chen Ming's initial idea was just to let the Queen evolve into a Zerg that could directly spray out offensive liquids, or directly spray out Zerg blood to interfere with the mechanical Zerg as a long-range unit for the Zerg to fight.
But the Queen Insect relied on the knowledge in Chen Ming's mind and the various natural biological materials it knew to liquefy the energy crystals and create this dangerous liquid with an effect similar to that of left-diameter explosives.
Even though these insects are few in number, they are still very fragile and dangerous.
In actual combat, with the continuous supply of nutrients and the production of liquid energy crystals, the auxiliary insect swarms were able to break through the defense circle within the mechanical city with great force.
But the mechanical people are not just there to eat and do nothing.
It took some time to break through several defense circles in the periphery and within the city, allowing the mechanical race to finally organize a decent resistance.
As various combat units of the Mechanical Clan arrived in the direction of the Zerg's attack from all over the city, the momentum of the Zerg's attack was finally frustrated, and the losses suddenly increased.
In particular, a flying mechanical unit of the mechanical family.
It has a similar appearance to the flying mantis and quiet mantis that Chen Ming had seen before, but it is lighter and can fly in the sky for a long time.
After it occupied the commanding heights of the battlefield, it was difficult for the Zerg's flying units to break through its sniping.
It is also difficult to resist.
And with the appearance of these flying mechanical bodies, Chen Ming also noticed the appearance of some optically stealth combat mechanical units on the battlefield.
They roam around the edge of the battlefield, and once they get a chance, they will sneak into the heart of the hive like ghosts and kill the jet worms that pose the greatest threat to the mechanical race among the swarms.
If you kill one, they will burst out with mobility even more terrifying than that of a mantis and instantly leave the battlefield.
All that was left was a corpse that was about to explode.
And as these two types of machines gradually began to affect the situation on the battlefield.
The Fiery Silkworm that Chen Ming had seen before also appeared on the front line of the battlefield.
However, when he saw them, Chen Ming felt relieved.
These incandescent silkworms are about ten meters in size, and when they activate their weapons, they emit surging heat waves and a scorching red light.
It was like a huge red-hot iron crashing into the Zerg, activating their flamethrower mode for close-range combat.
But it was just as Chen Ming had foreseen.
When these flames that stretch for nearly a hundred meters cover the Zerg, a large amount of blood will actively overflow from the gaps in the Zerg's shells, releasing a large amount of acid mist while extinguishing the flames.
It does not affect the Zerg's vision, but it will affect the oxygen content in the air and slow down the efficiency of combustion.
The Zerg can survive in space, in the vacuum of space, and the absence of breathable air is nothing to them.
And the fungi under the Zerg's feet will also undergo some changes when burned by flames.
The fungus will turn into a viscous fluid like the queen insect when it just wakes up from the cocoon, which can greatly reduce the damage caused by the fire.
And when the flames sprayed by the incendiary silkworms mixed with fuel fell on the fungal blanket.
The fungal mat can even directly eat and digest these combustion aids.
Just like the rigid digestive sac of the queen worm digests all kinds of strange foods.
The fungal carpet on the ground has inherited this ability from the Queen.
All these factors combined result in the fact that the damage that fire can cause to the Zerg today is not even one-third of the damage the Queen received when she attacked another mechanical city.
However, in addition to this close-range flamethrower mode, the Fiery Silkworm also has another capability of clustered high-power artillery coverage, which Chen Ming has also seen.
Although this city of the mechanical clan is still in the development stage, there are still a large number of Fiery Silkworms divided into two waves.
As the Chicanthus on the front line lost the battle.
Suddenly, sharp, intertwined hissing sounds appeared in the sky.
(End of this chapter)