Chen Ming immediately switched his perspective to the fleet that he once controlled and that Cheng Xinghe brought back to headquarters.

At the moment he switched over, a Mechanic fleet led by a Mechanic mothership was wreaking havoc in the rebel headquarters galaxy.

The mothership even aimed a giant cannon with a tip shaped like a centipede covered with tentacles at the colony of the rebel headquarters.

On this twisted giant cannon that has nothing in common with the mechanical race's regular machinery, the psychic energy fluctuations are almost dense enough to form substance.

No one can stop this main weapon from firing.

The next moment, a terrifying mental pulse that was countless times stronger than the mental pulse emitted by Chen Ming's Mad Words Spirit Stone swept across the entire planet.

All living things on the planet.

From the birds in the sky to the fish in the ocean.

From giant beasts unique to this planet to microorganisms invisible to the naked eye.

Any living creature, any living thing, would lose consciousness and fall into madness under this horrifying mental shock.

The order of human society no longer exists.

It can even be said that the order and ecology of the entire planet were completely wiped out under the attack of this giant cannon.

No one was spared.

Chen Ming did not spend much time on the planet's collapse after all creatures on it went crazy. This scene had a huge impact on him even in the simulation.

He had personally seen animals driven mad by the effects of mental pulses.

But those are just animals. No matter how crazy they are, at least it is not excessive for Chen Ming.

People are completely different.

Those who have fallen into madness will also produce a special substance in their brains that will cause their bodies to rot rapidly after death.

He found it extremely difficult to accept the sight of the entire city and the entire planet becoming a decayed world.

This is probably the real consequence that the mechanical race can cause in reality.

Chen Ming closed his eyes tightly, and when he opened them, he completely suppressed the scenes he had just seen in the deepest part of his heart.

Then he looked at the contents recorded in the rebel spacecraft that had not yet been destroyed.

These earlier records should contain more detailed information.

Not even earlier, just about three minutes ago.

Cheng Xinghe was preparing to take his fleet to track down the new rebel fleet based on the information Song Pu had collected in the past two days.

However, just as he was about to leave the port with his fleet, the mechanical fleet made a large-scale leap and appeared near the headquarters.

There was no time to react, not even enough time to call Chen Ming.

The mothership had already accurately locked onto the location of the rebel headquarters.

Song Pu only had time to send the last sentence on the terminal before the mothership instantly destroyed the colony on the planet and killed Song Pu, Hong Guanghong and Dong Miao who were at the headquarters.

If the invasion of the Afterglow was just to take advantage of the situation, then the invasion of the Mechanical Clan was aimed directly at genocide, without any reason at all.

Cheng Xinghe was stunned at the time, and the first thing he thought of was to retreat and preserve his manpower.

But the new rebel fleet he was tracking also leaped here along with the mechanical clan, appeared in front of Cheng Xinghe's fleet, and launched an attack.

Even though the new rebel fleet did not have the battleship, they did stop Cheng Xinghe for a while.

These ten or so seconds of blocked time are the difference between life and death.

The mechanical clan had already noticed Cheng Xinghe and instantly destroyed Cheng Xinghe and the government army's fleet.

This is what just happened.

And it was just during the short two or three minutes that Chen Ming was looking at the records.

A few spaceships took the risk of entering the hyperspace directly inside the galaxy by using the hyperspace jump engines designed by Chen Ming installed on them. After avoiding the influence of the gravity well, they successfully jumped and retreated.

Most of the remaining rebel fleets had been completely destroyed.

Even the mechanical race's mothership used its main weapons to completely destroy the remaining three planets with colonies in the galaxy.

After doing this, the mechanical race gathered again and arranged themselves into an array suitable for jump, and will soon jump to the next galaxy.

Since the mechanical race can appear in this weird position, the next galaxy to be jumped to can only be the galaxy controlled by the rebels.

It's this moment.

Chen Ming finally understood that this was what his sudden headache two days ago meant.

The fleet that suddenly appeared was just a bait for the new rebels, used to lure Cheng Xinghe back with the fleet, so that the mechanical clan could be caught in one fell swoop.

As Chen Ming looked at the information he had obtained personally, his expression gradually changed.

Cheng Xinghai keenly noticed the change in Chen Ming and said, "It looks like there's some bad news from your side."

There was no need for Chen Ming to hide this situation: "Well, except for me, all my teammates are dead."

Cheng Xinghai was stunned for a moment when he heard the news and asked, "What's going on?"

"At this point in time, there is only one force that can directly attack our headquarters and quickly wipe us out."

Cheng Xinghai quickly thought of the answer.

"Mechanical people?"

"Yes, a mothership appeared directly at our headquarters."

Cheng Xinghai showed a look of surprise on his face.

She put down the terminal, stretched her body and said, "Looks like it's almost over."

"Whether we win or it's a draw depends on whether my teammates have the means to deal with the mechanical people."

"It seems that your kidnapping of me is meaningless, but it allows them to find a more suitable method."

Chen Ming disagreed with Cheng Xinghai's statement and said, "The situation is always changing. Who can guarantee that if you were not captured by me, would you have thought of using this method? Fortunately, this is a simulation."

Cheng Xinghai did not mean to excuse his teammates and said, "Yes, otherwise they would at least be charged with crimes against humanity."

"It's time to end it. I didn't expect that I would win without doing anything. It's a bit boring. It's like watching you play a game for a month while I didn't even get a chance to play."

Chen Ming suddenly looked at Cheng Xinghai with some surprise and said, "You are a military academy student, a quasi-graduate, someone who has been to the battlefield and will go to the battlefield again in the future, and you actually still have time to play games?"

“Why do you focus on this?”

"Just out of curiosity, can you tell me?"

"I'm so glad you still have the time to ask this at a time like this."

Cheng Xinghai shook his head, but still answered Chen Ming's question seriously: "As long as it's not a war, isn't it normal to play games when you're free?"

"In the latter case, if your teammates die, you can still see the perspective of the living teammates, but you can only see your teammates, not the opponent's."

Cheng Xinghai pushed the wheelchair behind Chen Ming, patted Chen Ming on the back and said, "Okay, okay, it's time to end it."

"Wait a little longer."

Chen Ming waved to Cheng Xinghai to signal him not to disturb him.

"I'm now wondering how they were able to do this and what we overlooked that led to this."

Why didn't the mechanical people outside come originally? Why are they here again now? What's the difference? Why didn't they suspect the mechanical people at the beginning? Cheng Xinghai tilted his head, half-raised his head and looked at the ceiling, revealing a look of being speechless.

He reached out and took out the terminal that he had just stuffed into his pocket and opened the game interface.

As soon as she arrived, she was kidnapped by Chen Ming and her terminal was confiscated. She couldn't see anything and of course didn't know the plan discussed by her teammates.

But Chen Ming didn't count on her. He still sat in the chair with his head down, thinking.

Chen Ming couldn't think of the answers to the first three questions at the first time, but he knew the answer to the last question.

The reason they did not suspect that the other side might attack the Mechanical Race was because the Mechanical Race did not dare to actively invade the territory of the Empire.

Then why don’t the mechanical race dare to actively invade the empire?

Chen Ming already had the answer in his mind.

"That battleship..."

Cheng Xinghai heard Chen Ming talking to himself, looked up from the game on the terminal and said, "What battleship?"

Chen Ming glanced at her and said, "The battleship in the giant shipyard."

"The reason why the Mechanic race did not invade the Empire is because of the deterrence of the capital ships and the support of the nearby star fields."

"If they want to invade, they will have to use the same battleships. So as long as our battleships can hold back their battleships, once the battleships from the nearby star fields come to support them, they will be killed on the spot."

After figuring this out, Chen Ming finally understood why the missing battleship was here two days ago and disappeared completely.

If this battleship is damaged within the empire, it may even explode on the spot.

It is absolutely impossible for the Mechanical Race to do this, and it is also impossible for them to gamble whether this is a conspiracy of the Empire.

So it is impossible to invade directly.

But what if this battleship exploded in front of the mechanical race, and the mechanical race learned from the wreckage of the battleship that a rebellion was currently taking place in this star field.

Then it is clear what will happen.

"The government army used that capital ship and took the initiative to send it to the Mechanoid's territory."

"Break the original deterrent situation, give the mechanical tribe an opportunity to invade, kill with a borrowed knife, and eliminate the rebels."

"As long as the rebels lose their heads, the new rebels can temporarily unite with the remnants of the government army because of the invasion of the mechanical tribe, and give priority to solving the external enemies."

"That's a perfect excuse."

"By uniting together, the new rebels and the old government will be able to form a new government."

"Then the reorganized new government will seek external assistance. The neighboring star field and the Galo star field belong to the same war zone, and they will help."

"As for the old rebels who are already dead, they are dead and no one will speak for the dead."

"As long as the new government does not oppress civilians like the old government, the people who have received favors from the old rebels will gradually forget about them."

"In this way, future problems have basically been solved. The new rebels can rely on their resources and the legacy of the old rebels after their death to trade space for time and wait for reinforcements to arrive."

"Once the mechanical race is cleared out, the only thing left is the problem of logistics."

"And no one is alive in the star systems destroyed by the Machines. The stability is too stable."

After listening to Chen Ming's story, Cheng Xinghai roughly understood what her teammates had done.

At the same time, she also understood that in this situation, the most important thing his teammates needed to do next was to deal with the stability of the colony.

After all, these star regions have been tormented by government forces, rebels, new rebels and mechanical races one after another, so it is still difficult to achieve stability.

She immediately thought of a way to deal with the stability: "If it were me, I would take advantage of the opportunity when the reinforcements from other star regions on the front line were fighting with the mechanical race to use my fleet to penetrate the rear of the mechanical race, sweep through their galaxy, and plunder everything they have."

"The mechanical race is best at returning to defense."

"As long as the mechanical tribe returns to defend, our support will arrive, and the mechanical tribe will not have a chance to invade a second time."

"We can then rely on our own logistics and the resources of the colonies in the systems destroyed in the battle to rebuild the remaining colonies that still exist."

"The mechanical race is very efficient in killing people and the destruction of the original planet has no impact other than the ecology."

“Material can be transferred almost completely, which is very beneficial for post-war reconstruction.”

Cheng Xinghai continued to talk about another possibility: "If the mechanical race does not return to defend, then we can simply use the fleet to plunder the mechanical race's resources."

"Once reinforcements from other star regions have arrived to kill the mechanical race, we can use the looted resources to stabilize the local population. The mechanical race's territory is still relatively rich."

“That’s how my teammates came back.”

"The only question is whether they can keep up with their development speed and whether they can temporarily stop the mechanical tribe until reinforcements arrive."

“This should be the place that tests your basics the most.”

Cheng Xinghai recalled the two teammates she called over who were in charge of logistics, and felt that it seemed a little unlikely.

However, what Chen Ming said was somewhat beyond her expectations: "The new rebels are developing very quickly. According to previous estimates, their current military strength can slightly stop the mechanical tribe if they are prepared."

"Plus, we were used as scapegoats, making the government forces' task even easier."

Although Cheng Xinghai felt it was a bit strange, he didn't say anything.

Maybe her teammates suddenly performed exceptionally well because she was caught at the beginning.

Cheng Xinghai looked at Chen Ming and asked, "It seems useless for you to know all this, right? Do you have any other means to turn the tables?"

Chen Ming turned his chair, leaned his back against the workbench, and also looked at Cheng Xinghai and said, "The rebels' headquarters was only destroyed, they haven't been completely wiped out yet. The game is not over yet."

He reached out and tapped a few times on the workbench behind him, and a three-dimensional projection of an object appeared on the workbench. However, the projection was blocked by himself, so Cheng Xinghai could not see the specific appearance of the projected object. He subconsciously tilted his head.

He was both confused and wanted to bypass Chen Ming to see what he had projected.

Chen Ming moved aside a little to allow her to see clearly.

When Cheng Xinghai saw the three-dimensional image, his eyes widened slightly, as if he had thought of some possibility, and he said to her: "More than half a month ago, when I first arrived in Songpu, I went to several local laboratories, and you were by my side at the time."

"I didn't tell you what the laboratory was. When you asked me what the thing I handed over to someone in the laboratory was, I didn't tell you."

"That's an Alpha Core."

(End of this chapter)