Chapter 340 Ambush

The Zerg cruiser fell from space.

The reaction force brought by the violent impact without any deceleration was too much for it to bear, and it died completely at the moment of the impact.

However, while the violent impact shattered the earth and the cruiser itself, the Zerg inside the cruiser survived.

They took advantage of the opportunity when the nearby mechanical race had not yet surrounded them, and with the cover of the remains of the Zerg cruiser corpses, they invaded the underground of this planet belonging to the mechanical race.

The Queen's consciousness immediately replaced these Zerg units deep underground.

Next, it will personally control these insects.

The Queen immediately let the insects carrying energy crystals devour the crystals and differentiate the basic tissues of the insect nest on their bodies.

Another part of the Zerg quickly transformed into all the insect species needed to cultivate a new insect nest by consuming energy.

The Zerg units responsible for digging immediately began to dig underground.

The Zerg responsible for digestion followed and began to devour the excavated rocks, soil and minerals, transforming them into nutrients and providing them to all other insects that provide all the conditions needed to build the insect nest.

In just a few tens of seconds, the framework of the hive had appeared deep underground.

And a larval hatching pool was also built in the center of the framework.

Under normal circumstances, the production efficiency of the larval hatching pool can only be said to be okay, but it cannot meet the needs of explosive troops in a short period of time.

But this time the situation is different.

The Queen's psychic power is added to the hatching pool.

In the process of consuming a lot of energy, the hatching rate of the larval hatching pool is nearly twenty times faster than normal.

Only a sufficient number of Zerg can become the cornerstone of the battlefield.

In addition to the Queen's use of psychic power to enhance the reproductive efficiency of the larval hatching pool.

There is also a slightly glowing vesicle-like structure on the outside of the biological building of the larval hatching pool.

It is filled with a bright green liquid, which is slowly being injected into the interior of the hatching pool.

This liquid was a new thing that Chen Ming made some time ago because the Zerg units hatched too slowly without preparation. When applied to actual combat, the eggs had to be arranged in advance, and the eggs had to hatch and grow for too long. The Queen used its ability to produce special substances.

The injection of this liquid can greatly promote the differentiation of the cultivated larval Zerg cells and accelerate the growth and cultivation of individuals.

Let the larvae grow to the age where they can work or fight at the fastest speed.

Of course, the side effect is to greatly shorten the life of the Zerg units.

However, the life of the Zerg units themselves is not long. Only the queen can survive for a long time. The life cycle of the other workers is longer, but it will not exceed one month.

And in battle, life span is not a problem that needs to be considered at all.

How to produce Zerg at the fastest speed and with the highest efficiency is the most important.

With the operation of the hatching pool, a large number of larvae crawled out of the hatching pool under the stimulation of special substances.

Some larvae went to the area just mined by the nearby insects to differentiate into new larval hatching pools.

Other larvae were further cultivated by the queen into workers with different functions and joined the work of the previous insects.

Further obtain underground resources to expand the nest.

With the expansion of the nest, the larval hatching pools are increasing, and the number of larvae can be said to be growing exponentially.

Even though these larvae, workers and even hatching pools may not survive for more than a day.

But after they grow up, they are enough to create enough opportunities in the next period of time.

The rapid expansion of the nest is impossible for the mechanical race to sit idly by.

It's just that the underground nest is quite troublesome to deal with.

Although many of the mechanical race's buildings are equipped with devices to send shock waves to the underground and kill underground creatures.

But these devices, which seem to be specially used to restrain the Zerg, can't reach the deep underground where the nest is now.

The mechanical race is also trying to use some working mechanical race units to dig the soil under the body of the Zerg cruiser that fell to the ground.

But it took some time to clean up the body, and after cleaning up the body, the mechanical race will find that the channel originally dug by the worm has collapsed.

They are not able to keep up with the speed of the Zerg digging for a while.

They can only temporarily give up the pursuit of the underground Zerg and focus their strength on defending against attacks from space.

In addition to cleaning up the underground nest, they also need to fill the loopholes in the orbital defense system.

The loopholes in the orbital defense system can only be filled by calling facilities in other directions with less pressure.

With the help of the facilities urgently dispatched, the mechanical race barely filled some of the gaps that had been opened.

It was not possible for the Zerg to break through again and create more Zerg nests.

However, the number of Zerg fleets was too exaggerated after all.

Wherever the mechanical race moved the orbital defense facilities, the Zerg fleet would concentrate its firepower to attack there, and even have the spare power to continue to divide the troops and continue to attack the entire planet from different places.

Such a large planet will always have weak defenses.

Only the position where the Queen of Zerg just entered the planet in the first wave did Chen Ming not intend to give up, that is, to fight head-on with the most intense firepower of the mechanical race and attack head-on.

Because this is the core colony of the mechanical race on this planet.

While the Zerg fleet in space continued to attack.

The Queen of Zerg deep underground is still expanding and reproducing.

The Zerg brought by the three cruisers that just crashed have already undergone a large wave of reproduction, and several fully functional Zerg nests have begun to take shape.

At this time, Chen Ming also gave new instructions.

Let the Zerg underground go to the nearby mechanical mineral mining area to seize the mineral veins.

The colony where the three Zerg nests controlled by the Queen of Zerg are located is the core colony of the entire planet and a comprehensive colony.

Near the edge of this colony, there is a large area of ​​mineral veins and mineral mining areas distributed on the mineral veins.

Expanding there to devour minerals is more efficient than devouring soil and rocks to obtain energy.

The Queen of Zerg immediately followed Chen Ming's order.

The three Zerg nests changed their development direction and dug in the direction of the mineral mining area.

Dozens of Zerg excavators with two pairs of huge digging forelimbs and a pair of well-developed broom-like hind limbs dug directly to the mine of the mechanical race in just a few minutes under crazy digging and drilled through the entire passage.

However, just as the tunnel was dug, a high heat poured into the tunnel dug by the Zerg along the dug passage.

The Infernal Lord stopped in the mine.

This was a trap set by the Mechanical Clan after anticipating the Zerg's movements.

When the Lord discovered that the Zerg had dug a tunnel, it immediately activated the Infernal Core, and the terrifying heat that seemed to descend from hell poured back along the passage dug by the Zerg, destroying the Zerg nest that had just connected to the mine.

Only piles of charred fungi and the corpses of the Zerg were left.

A Zerg nest was destroyed, but the Queen continued to execute Chen Ming's orders without hesitation.

Two nearby Zerg nests were still digging towards the mine, opening several passages in different locations.

A large amount of fungal thick liquid sprayed out from the passage.

While cooling the entire environment, some high-energy liquid energy crystals extended into the mine along the biomass conduit in the rock layer below the fungal blanket.

It avoided being directly destroyed by the high heat of the Infernal Lord, and at the same time, the enclosed space could also maximize the power of the explosion.

Amid the roar of high-energy crystal explosions, the mine collapsed.

The demon king trapped deep underground lost his ability to move and was immediately torn apart by the Zerg who moved freely underground.

The charred Zerg corpses in the hive destroyed by the demon king were devoured by the other two hives in an instant, and a new hive was rebuilt on the corpses of the original hive using the larvae.

The new hive was restored to its original state with the help of the previous corpses, and parasitized on an entire vein along the mine.

Devouring ore, transforming nutrients, and shaping new Zerg.

The worms, which were already growing exponentially, had more energy for reproduction after occupying this huge vein.

After that, only a dozen minutes passed.

A dark Titan worm broke out of the mine that was dug up by the Zerg.

Following closely behind was a swarm of Zerg that was already strong enough to compete with the mechanical ground forces.

The target of the swarm on the ground was clear.

That was the nearest ground orbital defense facility.

As long as the orbital defense facilities are destroyed, the entire planet will be ravaged by the Zerg fleet.

Although the Mechanic race was unable to completely eliminate the Zerg when the Zerg invaded the underground, they also prepared a large number of ground Mechanic units on the surface to try to stop the Zerg's advance.

There are even a considerable number of mechanical psychic creatures mixed in with the Mechanic units.

But the average combat power of the Zerg is now higher than that of the Mechanic race.

The shells strengthened by the skin of the fairy tree species and the new energy crystals with extremely abundant energy make the Zerg almost without much loss under the firepower coverage of the Mechanic race.

Because of their own strength, those mechanical psychic creatures are far from the strength of the fourth-level psychic, and it is impossible to pose a sufficient threat to the Zerg.

Even if the Mechanic race has transferred several more demon kings, even if the entire environment has become like a real purgatory.

The Zerg still broke through the Mechanic race's defense line with great momentum.

It is about to reach the area where the ground orbital defense facilities are concentrated.

The situation is critical.

Some orbital defense facilities on the orbit could only be forced to turn their guns and aim at the ground to curb the speed of the Zerg's attack on the ground orbital defense facilities.

However, if the mechanical race did this, it would mean the decline of the orbital defense force facing the Zerg fleet.

But if they did not do it, the ground orbital defense facilities would also be destroyed.

This is a dead end.

Soon, the orbital defense system that had been breached once before was breached again.

The breach was opened again, and dozens of Zerg cruisers successfully broke through the defense line and fell on the ground of the mechanical race planet.

Countless Zergs once again drilled underground and hid deep in the ground where the mechanical race's underground defense weapons could not reach.

When they appeared again, they must have been strong enough to compete with the mechanical race.

Such a scene not only happened on the battlefield of the core colony of the mechanical race that Chen Ming was concerned about, but also happened in several colonies on the entire mechanical race planet.

After seeing that the situation was one-sided, Chen Ming handed over all the remaining command tasks to the Queen of the Zerg.

At this time, he was paying attention to the building of the familiar mechanical psychic biotransformation facility near the center of the core colony of the mechanical race.

Chen Ming planned to use psychic energy to rob the equipment directly if the mechanical race had already taken action to destroy the equipment.

However, the mechanical race did not seem to have any signs of directly destroying the equipment.

But this does not mean that Chen Ming can easily obtain the equipment.

On the contrary, he has to pay more attention.

The mechanical race has learned from the colony attacked by the phase behemoth that he has the idea of ​​seizing the equipment.

Before, the mechanical race also decisively destroyed the equipment and did not give Chen Ming the opportunity to seize it.

Chen Ming only got one-third of the equipment in the end.

There is only one possibility for them not to do so this time.

There is an ambush here.

But what if there is an ambush?

Chen Ming is confident that he can take away the things with the mechanical race's ambush.

As the orbital defense facilities of the planet have gaps everywhere, more and more Zerg cruisers have entered the defense line.

Several Zerg troops on the ground have finally arrived near several orbital defense industrial facility clusters of the mechanical race and completely destroyed all the ground orbital defense facilities.

The mechanical front collapsed completely, and the orbital defense facilities that turned their guns in the space orbit and tried to destroy the ground Zerg units were also destroyed.

The entire planet completely lost air superiority.

On the ground, the mineral source of the mine was occupied by the Zerg.

The industrial chain for manufacturing mechanical core units was disconnected, and the mechanical race could only rely on the originally stored materials to desperately produce new mechanical units, making a final struggle.

But soon, more and more Zergs who occupied the mineral veins crawled out from underground.

They cleared the remaining troops of the mechanical race, destroyed the industrial divisions of the mechanical race, and occupied their warehouses.

New biomass proliferation gradually appeared in these warehouses.

This is because the Zerg converted more energy by swallowing the metals smelted in the warehouse.

After the mechanical race lost air superiority, the Zerg nest could already breed in the warehouse on the surface.

The entire industrial zone was falling, and it would not take long for the Zerg to completely wipe out the mechanical units here.

Then Chen Ming’s command was completely unnecessary.

Or he didn’t command at all.

After briefly explaining the basic tactics to the Queen, the rest was to rely on the difference in combat power to crush them.

As for what he said before the battle to test his own command skills.

He could only say.

Command? What command? Why command if you can crush them?

His Zerg fleet has terrifying strength and terrifying logistics. As long as it can devour a planet, it can be transformed into a huge combat force.

Just crush them, and that's it. What's the point of command?

Of course, Chen Ming also knew the gap between his Zerg fleet and the top forces of the Mechanical Star Domain.

In addition, he is now in the Mechanical Star Domain. Even if it is just the border, the Mechanical can still send reinforcements from other colonies.

So he is still paying attention to the situation of the entire galaxy at this moment.

But at this time, there is no unexpected situation in the entire galaxy.

There are no spaceships, no support, no help.

It's as if the Mechanical has abandoned this planet and let it fend for itself.

And this situation makes Chen Ming extremely vigilant.

He didn't believe that the mechanical race had given up here, because if they really gave up, the mechanical race would kill each other, destroy each other, and leave him nothing valuable.

Just like they did last time.

The current situation is definitely just the calm before the storm.

The real danger may come at any time.

At this time.

Several colonies of the mechanical race on the ground have almost turned into a scorched earth mixed with black and gray-green.

Only a small area in the core colony of the entire planet is still making the last resistance.

This is because there is the mechanical psychic biological conversion facility that Chen Ming needs here, so Chen Ming deliberately did not let the fleet in space attack this area.

Even at the last moment, the mechanical race still did not destroy the conversion facility.

It can be said that the words "there is a trap here" are clearly written on this thing.

But Chen Ming really has to step into it.

In order to obtain the equipment, he must take the necessary risks.

Then it's time.

Chen Ming's body closed his eyes.

His consciousness appeared on the robot on a Zerg cruiser that had just passed through the gap in the orbital defense system.

It was still the same robot based on power armor as before.

However, this time Chen Ming used the complete form of power armor, a biological power armor that combined technology and biotechnology, with an afterglow core and a miniaturized biomass jump engine inside.

This half-biological, half-mechanical power armor exuded a strong psychic fluctuation belonging to Chen Ming.

It was enough to disguise his presence in person.

The Zerg cruiser crashed near the facility.

At the moment the cruiser crashed, Chen Ming used the jump engine to instantly jump to the side of the building.

He stretched out his hand and pressed on the outer shell of the facility, and at the same time, he extended a data line in a hidden place to bring the building under his control.

This process took only three seconds.

And at the moment when these three seconds ended, the mechanical tribe's counterattack came.

A violent transition wave appeared at three positions outside the planet's orbit at the same time.

This is different from ordinary transition fluctuations.

Ordinary jump fluctuations will appear on both sides of the starting point and end point of the jump engine at the same time when the jump engine is started, and last for a period of time, allowing people or others near the target location to anticipate it in advance and have about ten seconds to react.

The three violent transition fluctuations that appeared now stopped the moment they appeared.

The three motherships of the Machine Tribe appeared on the orbit of the planet within a second and were scattered in three locations.

The three motherships activated the jump blockade device at the same time, blocking the entire planet within it.

Chen Ming must be completely left behind.

Immediately afterwards, another wave of jump fluctuations appeared near the orbit. This wave of jump fluctuations was normal. It should be the follow-up reinforcements from the rest of the mechanical fleet.

Just to prevent Chen Ming from escaping immediately, the mechanical tribe chose to use special means to jump first and sent the mothership over to prevent Chen Ming from escaping.

At this time, Chen Ming raised his head and glanced into space.

Sure enough, there was a trap waiting for him.

The nine spine cannons of the three motherships were all aimed at his current location.

In the next moment, the entire colony or even the entire planet may collapse under such an attack.

But Chen Ming didn't panic at all.

He even stretched out his hand to give the mechanical race an inverted thumb, and then started the biomass jump engine.

Although the fluctuations of the jump were blocked within the entire planet by three motherships, Chen Ming disappeared from the planet so suddenly and disappeared in front of the mechanical race.

The facilities and an entire building nearby also disappeared the moment he disappeared.

Only the firepower of the spine cannon completely vaporized the Zerg, machine race and buildings in this area.

This is of course not a success of Chen Ming's jump.

The jump system is blocked, and no one can leave using normal jump methods.

He was able to leave purely because he used his psychic powers to teleport the robot disguised as him. Using the teleportation effect of the scarlet dimension could of course break through the blockade of the jump system.

But from the perspective of the scene, Chen Ming used the jump to leave the planet.

The machine race missed this opportunity. The next time Chen Ming appears again, they will never miss it again.

For Chen Ming, his goal has been achieved, so the rest doesn't matter.

After giving the order to the Queen of Insects to destroy the mechanical race and seize resources.

The Queen of Insects immediately caused all the remaining Zerg units to start wreaking havoc crazily.

Destroying the entire planet like a wild horse running wild.

Seize everything on the planet, convert everything into energy crystals, and then use Chen Ming's spiritual energy to send it back to the base camp where the Zerg used to stay.

The fleet in space, like mad dogs, found the three incoming mechanical race motherships.

Among the three motherships, there is no one that escaped before.

It seems that the number of motherships Chen Ming has come into contact with can be increased to four.

Just as the Zerg fleet pounced on the mothership, the ridge cannons on the three motherships that had dimmed suddenly lit up again.

Instead of aiming at the Zerg fleet rushing towards them, they continued to aim at the planet.

Although the original goal Chen Ming has disappeared, they now have a new goal, which is the planet itself.

The Zerg have penetrated deep into the underground of the planet, and it is no longer possible to clean up the Zerg on the planet using ordinary means.

This planet is useless to the mechanical race.

If the planet is ruined, then there is no need to take care of it.

The firepower of the nine spine cannons streaked across the earth, accurately hitting the weak spots in the planet's geological plates discovered by the mechanical clan during their exploration of the planet.

When attacked by violent external forces, these fragile plates will partially collapse, causing horrific earthquakes that sweep across the planet.

Such an earthquake is enough to completely kill all underground creatures.

But the mechanical tribe did not stop.

After the violent plate activity caused volcanic activity to occur frequently, several ridge cannons continued to fire.

Inducing the plates in the center of the planet to undergo violent activities is to directly destroy the entire planet from the source, absolutely not giving the Zerg a chance to survive.

Subsequent reinforcements from the mechanical tribe also arrived as the jump fluctuations subsided, although they were still not as numerous as Chen Ming's fleet.

But three battleships also represent a qualitative leap compared to a single ship.

At least Chen Ming's current fleet is definitely not enough to destroy three battleships, and even escape may not be possible.

However, Chen Ming did not expect that the Zerg coming this time would come back alive.

At this last moment, how many mechanical warships can these Zerg warships destroy, and how much battle damage can be exchanged for.

Anyway, Chen Ming's resources are all grown in the ground, but the mechanical clan's resources have to be mined by themselves, and they have to work hard to build production lines to produce them.

It won’t be a loss if you can replace it.

Not to mention the invisible value brought to Chen Ming by the spacecraft that were contaminated by the Zerg organization during the battle.

The war on the planet on the edge of the mechanical race's star field has come to an end for the time being.

At the cost of the loss of hundreds of thousands of Zerg cruisers, a mechanical colony and the planet were destroyed. Over 200,000 warships of different levels were destroyed, and several capital ships were marked.

And let Chen Ming achieve his goal.

It seems a bit of a loss.

But in fact, Chen Ming's loss from beginning to end was just some rocks, soil and time.