Chapter 345 Answer, New Front

Minister Hou continued to ask a few questions that were insignificant to Chen Ming.

A more critical question was asked: "Is there anything special about that insect queen? Why can it be spiritually linked to you?"

Chen Ming had already prepared for this question and replied: "I don't know."

"When our spaceship crashed, everyone died, and I was the only one who survived."

"As soon as I crawled out of the wreckage, I was dragged to the underground lair by several insects and saw the insect queen."

"Then my spiritual energy awakened, and I had a spiritual connection with it,"

"To this day I still don't know why."

No one can say for sure about psychic powers.

Minister Hou passed this question and continued to ask, and his next question was also more important: "How much Zerg power do you have?"

Chen Ming said truthfully again: "Only that planet."

However, Minister Hou asked with some doubt: "Just one planet?"

Judging from the information obtained by Chen Ming, the scale of power possessed by An Wuping is not something that can be achieved on just one planet.

"It's really just a planet."

Minister Hou obviously still didn't believe it, but he did not continue to ask, but changed the question: "I noticed that almost all of your Zerg fleet are cruisers. Don't you have higher or lower warships? "

"Yes, there are, but no matter how small a ship is, I feel like it's really just cannon fodder in terms of combat effectiveness."

"The Zerg's biological spaceships have no shields. Small boats cannot rely on the shields of larger ships to work, so small boats are basically integrated into cruisers and used as fighter planes."

"I really don't have a high-end one, which is a battleship."

These can be easily seen through records, so Chen Ming did not hide anything at all at this time and continued to cooperate with him and said whatever he asked.

"Why doesn't the bioship have a shield?"

"What's the reason for this? It's just that the insect queen can't convert the shield system into a biological device. If she can't get a shield, she'll just have to use armor to resist."

Minister Hou nodded and continued to ask: "Then why did you let your Zerg race attack the mechanical race?"

"That's what Chen Ming needs."

An Wuping decisively betrayed Chen Ming at this time and said: "Some of his resource mining strongholds were demolished by the Machine Clan. He didn't want to fight against the Machine Clan too early, so he asked me to take revenge."

"I see, but in terms of revenge, why would your Zerg fleet be completely annihilated?"

The expression on An Wuping's face changed slightly when he heard this question, and he responded: "Because Chen Ming needs to wipe out his entire army so that he will not leave too many traces."

"I also have my own thoughts here. If those Zerg fleets survive, they will have to return to their home planet sooner or later. In order to avoid being destroyed by the mechanical tracking group, it would be a more appropriate ending."

Minister Hou heard this and couldn't understand An Wuping's thoughts, so he directly regarded the second half of An Wupo's sentence as a lie told under pressure from Chen Ming.

After all, those were tens of thousands of cruisers, and they were just given away so casually.

Which star field these tens of thousands of cruisers are placed in is not a treasure, but they are given away casually by An Wuping just so that the coordinates of the home star are not exposed.

Is it really? Or is there really only one planet occupied by the Zerg?

He asked: "Didn't you help Chen Ming clean up the mechanical fleet on a large scale earlier? Didn't they all jump from the home star? Aren't you afraid of being discovered at this time?"

"At that time, almost all the machines that the Zerg fleet raided were wiped out. Even if there were survivors, it would be impossible to track the location of the home planet in such a short period of time."

"I have time to move the remaining Zerg away."

"Move? Where do you plan to go?"

"Not sure yet, because I have to continue to work for Chen Ming, and there are no good places nearby."

Minister Hou did not continue to ask further on this topic.

An Wuping had already decided to migrate after exposing the coordinates of the Zerg home planet, and he should not make the mistake of exposing the coordinates again, no matter to whom.

Asking for such crucial information about abilities was in vain, so he changed the topic again.

"What did Chen Ming give you? To make you sacrifice so much to help him?"

An Wuping didn't answer and chose to remain silent.

Minister Hou seemed to have noticed something and asked tentatively: "Aren't you curious about how we discovered your Zerg?"

An Wuping said matter-of-factly: "How else can we find out? I'm helping Chen Ming, and he can't cover up an attack of that scale. If any ship in the empire sees it and sends the news back, won't he be discovered?"

Minister Hou showed a smile on his face and said: "But in fact, the empire still has not received any news about the reconnaissance fleet lingering behind the mechanical tribe."

"It was Chen Ming who took the initiative to leak the news. It seems that he wanted to clear up the relationship with you, but he failed to do so."

"And he probably didn't expect you to tell him so decisively."

After Minister Hou finished speaking, he saw that An Wuping was stunned and made small movements with his hands more and more frequently.

He suddenly felt that the relationship between Chen Ming and An Wuping might not be a partnership, but a unilateral cooperation relationship in which one party was strong and the other was weak.

Considering that An Wuping's previous situation was indeed controlled by others, it was normal for Chen Ming to take the opportunity to do something.

And he nodded secretly in his heart at this time.

As a member of the ruling class of the empire, he did not want the two powerful and troublesome psychics to have too close a connection.

If the cooperation between An Wuping and Chen Ming could be slightly affected, whether it was equal or unequal cooperation, it would be valuable to the empire.

At the moment, An Wuping was not sure whether he was angry because Chen Ming took the initiative to sever the relationship in advance, or because he was worried about not being able to achieve Chen Ming's goal. I believe that this could also plant a thorn between the two.

Minister Hou then brought up the next issue that might affect the relationship between the two.

"What about the battle that wiped out your Zerg fleet later?"

"As far as I know, if it was just for revenge, it would be almost done when your fleet destroyed all the ships that attacked Chen Ming's base."

"There is no benefit in continuing the attack. Instead, you were counterattacked by the mechanical mothership, causing you more losses. Is this revenge on the mechanical race? Why do I feel like it's against you?"

An Wuping did not answer the question directly this time, but thought about it carefully.

He pretended to not want to say something but suddenly wanted to say it, and replied: "It's not just revenge. Chen Ming wanted to use my power to steal something from the mechanical race."

"But the result... I don't know if you saw it, three motherships suddenly appeared and destroyed the planet without giving Chen Ming a chance to steal things, and all my Zerg were left there."

"What did he want?"

"I don't know."

An Wuping responded, and immediately added in the wrong direction: "But I guess he asked me to make such a big effort and make such a big noise, maybe he wanted the mechanical race planet itself, so the mechanical race used the mothership to destroy the planet."

"The mechanical race doesn't need to do this, right?"

"If my psychic power is counted... there should be some, whether it's for me or Chen Ming to contact the planet, this planet is already finished for the mechanical race."

Minister Hou immediately thought about what An Wuping said.

And found that it was true.

As long as Chen Ming's psychic power allows him to contact the mechanical race's territory, the entire planet may fall directly under his control.

And if An Wuping's psychic power is calculated according to what we have seen so far,

Such a small amount of resources on a planet can produce a fleet of more than 100,000 cruisers, and still retain a large number of manpower.

Such a terrifying resource conversion efficiency...

If the Zerg parasitizes deep underground on the planet, then if the mechanical race does not have weapons targeting the deep underground, it can only destroy the planet to avoid the planet becoming a nest for the Zerg to grow.

But it is not yet certain whether An Wuping and his Zerg really have such amazing capabilities.

So for the time being, he can only put a question mark on what An Wuping said on the recorded intelligence.

In addition, Minister Hou also knows that haste makes waste, so after asking this question, he did not continue to stir up trouble, nor did he continue to over-force An Wuping after knowing enough information.

"That's about it, the last question, do you have the idea of ​​leaving the empire?"

"Leave? Why should I leave after I went to so much trouble to return to the empire? Is it fun to deal with bugs every day?"

When An Wuping said this, his tone was a bit aggressive.

But Minister Hou did not care.

Anyway, he had seen An Wuping's attitude today.

Although An Wuping and Chen Ming can both be considered good people, their ideas and attitudes are completely different.

He should have a chance to talk to An Wuping again in the future.

Minister Hou turned off the terminal, stretched out his hand to An Wuping and said, "Okay, let's stop here today, thank you for your cooperation."

Although An Wuping looked a little unhappy, he didn't go too far. He stood up and shook hands with Minister Hou, turned around and left the room made of silent alloy material.

Minister Hou opened the terminal again after closing the door and reported the news he had just obtained to the top leaders of the empire.

After talking about the "truth" that Chen Ming wanted the empire to know about the Zerg attack on the Mechanical Clan, which Chen Ming took the initiative to reveal.

Minister Hou talked about An Wuping's psychic power again: "It has been confirmed that An Wuping's psychic power is not just a simple physical enhancement type of psychic power, but a more special psychic power that can establish spiritual connections with living things and then allow oneself to possess the biological abilities of the connection."

"This type of psychic power is rarer than psychics who have both physical mutations and physical enhancements. There was one before..." Minister Hou was suddenly interrupted by the person on the other end of the terminal: "Don't mention this, I know that person's situation better than you, let's continue talking about An Wuping."

"Yes."

"An Wuping's psychic power is definitely more than just strengthening himself, his ability to control the Zerg is definitely stronger than his own ability."

"The preliminary speculation of the Psychic Research Institute is that the group of Zerg he controls is special and has the ability to convert inorganic matter into energy, or An Wuping has the ability to strengthen the Zerg, giving the Zerg such an ability."

"I will send you the analysis report soon."

"Except that the degree of concealment of his psychic power is a little beyond our imagination, the other overall performance is similar to his previous situation."

"There must be some concealment and lies in what An Wuping said today, but he has already said a lot with enough information, which is enough to show that he and Chen Ming have completely different ideas."

"And from the fact that he told the news about Chen Ming without hesitation, it can be seen that his sense of belonging to the empire has always been higher than that of Chen Ming."

"You can try to develop him."

The person on the other end of the terminal said: "Okay, you can continue to follow up later to further confirm the relationship between him and Chen Ming. If necessary, you can also contact Chen Ming side by side."

"Chen Ming encountered too many things after returning to the empire. There is a high probability that he will not be able to change his mind. But An Wuping does not seem to be such a person. Don't push him down the wrong path."

"If someone raises his psyker level, a Zerg fleet of that size would be enough to be considered level 6."

"In addition, do not use any threats of force, and do not regard killing An Wuping as the final resort."

"The Zerg race is a hive mind. I suspect that An Wuping's consciousness will still exist in the hive mind even if his body dies."

"yes."

Minister Hou agreed immediately.

Suddenly he seemed to think of something. Just as he was about to speak, he hesitated, and in the end he did not say what he had thought of.

At this moment, the doorbell of his room suddenly rang.

He immediately connected to the surveillance camera outside the room and found that An Wuping had returned to the door.

An Wuping waved to the surveillance camera at the door and said, "Something suddenly happened, let's talk more."

A voice immediately sounded from the terminal: "No need to hang up."

Minister Hou put away the terminal and put it in a private place. He stood up and opened the door of the compartment.

"What's wrong?"

"Something happened just now. Some Zerg escaped from the control of the Queen and headed towards the territory of the Machine Clan."

They didn't expect that what they had just talked about would actually happen so soon.

Minister Hou was stunned for a moment.

An Wuping's previous cooperative attitude made him have almost no doubts at this time, and he immediately asked Chen Ming to go back to the room and sit down, and this time he did not close the door.

"Tell me more specifically."

An Wuping cleared his throat and said, "Just now..."

Just now, An Wuping received news from Liang Fei and Li Wei that they wanted to talk to Minister Hou.

Chen Ming knew that the time had come, so from now on, in addition to continuing to use part of his consciousness to control An Wuping and Minister Hou,

He also sent part of his consciousness to the black mist prosthesis that was staying on a Zerg warship.

At this time, the black mist prosthesis has undergone earth-shaking changes compared to its previous normal human appearance, and has turned into a real monster.

Although it still has a human form, some of the features that belong to the Zerg and Machine races have been irregularly distorted and separated from what looks like a human body.

Of course, this is not a real distortion, but Chen Ming deliberately made it look like a failed experiment when designing it.

In fact, the function is absolutely fine, it's just a bit ugly.

And just after Chen Ming transferred his consciousness to the black mist prosthetic body.

The black mist prosthetic immediately released a large amount of black mist, starting from the cruiser he was on and covering more Zerg cruisers around him.

Almost one-third of the total number of Zerg warships staying in orbit were completely enveloped.

Although the Zerg fleet in orbit has been reduced by about half after the Zerg Queen has just formed a slight formation, the number is still terrifying.

It can only be said that the black mist prosthesis does not have this ability under normal circumstances.

However, because there was no place for the Black Mist Core to be used for the time being, Chen Ming first stuffed the Black Mist Core into the Black Mist Prosthesis, and then used his own mental power to dispatch the Black Mist psychic energy. The effect was immediately obvious.

And just after the black mist covered one-third of the Zerg, a special pheromone suddenly appeared in the black mist, which acted on all the Zerg units.

There was some confusion in the Zerg fleet, and then they left the main force and headed towards the edge of the galaxy.

It was as if pheromones were guiding them in a certain direction.

Of course, Chen Ming is actually in control.

It's just that what he needs to show the Zerg fleet now is that the black mist prosthesis used special means to control these Zerg and did the next thing.

The Insect Queen had already divided the teams just now, leaving a Zerg fleet for the Black Mist Prosthesis.

What Black Mist wants to do is also very simple.

Just to make some noise.

It is best to make a big movement, something that can be seen by everyone and all the machine races.

The Zerg fleet shrouded in black mist soon arrived at the edge of the galaxy, entered hyperspace and began to move straight in the direction of the Empire.

If it doesn't circle around a little, this fleet shrouded in black mist will soon encounter a star area of ​​​​the mechanical race.

Of course, it was not the material-rich nebula area that Chen Ming targeted.

It is another star area that belongs to the border, where a large number of defense facilities are deployed in basically all galaxies.

As a hard nut to crack, Chen Ming would not fight this place when he was full and would not get enough benefits from defeating or destroying it.

But if it is used to attract the attention of both the Empire and the Machine Tribe for the Black Mist Prosthesis, then this is a perfect place.

After sailing for a distance, the Zerg warships, which were shrouded in a large area of ​​black fog, suddenly started the biological jump engine together.

They were divided into several fleets and rushed directly into the star field of the mechanical race. In several star systems at the border of the mechanical race star field, they launched almost suicidal attacks at the same time.

While the black fog prosthesis was committing suicide.

Chen Ming's main consciousness was paying attention to the area that was his main target.

The back of hand power in this area was much looser than the attack of the black fog prosthesis at this time.

After all, this is not a border, but an area wrapped and protected by the border.

It occupies about one-third of one of the seven star regions divided by the star gate.

There are more than ninety valuable star systems in total, and more than four hundred planets with high development value.

Just looking at the ratio of valuable star systems and planets, you can see how rich this area is.

If it weren't for the fact that the star field of the mechanical race is relatively small and the area of ​​this nebula is not too large, the mechanical race might have more resources.

But soon, these rich resources no longer belonged to the mechanical race, but to the Zerg.

This entire mechanical race's logistics star field was his target.

Although Chen Ming had just roughly estimated it.

At present, the size of his Zerg fleet can only affect about 40 mechanical race planets in more than a dozen star systems at the same time.

It's barely acceptable.

Anyway, all the star systems here are important to the mechanical race, and all the planets play an important role in the logistics support of the mechanical race.

If the logistics base here is destroyed, the power of the mechanical race will inevitably be weakened to a considerable extent.

Even if it is not destroyed, as long as the mechanical race is willing to send motherships to clean up the Zerg, it will be a sure win for Chen Ming.

Not to mention that there are still some star systems and planets where there are no mechanical races, Zergs can also be deployed.

The mechanical race thinks that there are no resources to develop, but in the eyes of the Zerg, the planets themselves are resources.

These planets may not have the defense means of the mechanical race.

As long as a Zerg is allowed to drill a bug in, it will be unknown what will crawl out after a while.

After confirming that the Black Mist had started to engage the defense forces of the Mechanical Clan.

Chen Ming deliberately waited for a while to give the Mechanical Clan a response and send reinforcements to the border where the Black Mist Prosthesis was fighting.

After receiving the news of the arrival of the second wave of reinforcements from the Black Mist Prosthesis.

Chen Ming gave instructions to the Queen.

The fleet that had just disappeared near the Hive Planet in the orbit of the Hive Planet immediately started the jump engine.

Countless jump fluctuations appeared in the entire area that was Chen Ming's target.

The Zerg fleet, which once again had more than 200,000 cruisers, directly crossed the border and penetrated into the star field of the Mechanical Clan.

It even split into dozens of smaller fleets and attacked different galaxies.

Doing so is likely to cause Chen Ming to lose more than 200,000 cruisers again.

But anyway, his goal is not to win, but to break through the defense line of the Mechanical Clan and send the Zerg to the Mechanical Clan's planet. As long as they can be sent, the loss is no longer a problem.

Of course, this combat method is only used now when attacking the border planet.

If Chen Ming dared to jump into the really deep area of ​​the mechanical race star field and directly cause trouble to the most important star systems of the mechanical race.

If all his Zergs were not killed, they might not be able to touch the planet itself, let alone cause enough damage to the mothership.

But at least this tactic that is almost equivalent to killing is still very useful near the border area.

Even after the combat power was dispersed, many Zerg fleets were destroyed in space.

But it was precisely this dispersed attack method that made the defense forces of the mechanical race's logistics star zone react a little late.

The orbital defense facilities of several planets have been breached.

And the moment the Zergs on the planets that broke through the orbital defense facilities landed.

In a sudden burst of black fog, several guard Zergs wrapped in thick black fog appeared.

The mechanical race could only see the guard Zerg for a moment, and then the surging black fog completely enveloped the surrounding environment, covering the Zerg units digging underground.

Even though the mechanical race had urgently used the warship's jump capability to deploy units such as demons on many planets within a few hours after Chen Ming's incident.

They also modified the working logic of some orbital defense facilities, allowing some facilities to be used for internal defense.

In order to avoid the trouble caused by the Zerg going deep underground after landing.

But the firepower of these existing ones cannot directly break through the defense formed by the multiple black fogs superimposed together.

The surging black fog is like a huge black parasite, injecting its eggs into the mechanical race's planet.

Although the mechanical race has been desperate, they still failed to achieve complete protection under Chen Ming's rapid raid just a few hours later.

As long as the insects go deep into the depth that the mechanical race cannot handle temporarily under the cover of the black fog, the guards will immediately disappear from the original place and appear on the new battlefield.

Continue to cover the next batch of Zerg, break through the defense line of the mechanical race planet, and go deep underground.

Although the number of Black Mist Mechanical Spiritual Awakening Nerves is limited due to the limitation of the amount of Black Mist Spiritual Energy, there are only seven in total, and there are only seven Black Mist Guard Zergs.

Including the Psychic Guard Zergs that Chen Ming made with the scraps of Psychic Spiritual Awakening Nerves, there are only twelve in total.

At most, they are responsible for the protection of three Zerg landing sites at the same time.

However, after Chen Ming and the Queen of Zerg specially adjusted the attack rhythm of different star systems, these Guard Zergs were enough.

Their combat power is enough to protect the Zerg units to achieve their goals.

As long as the eggs can be placed deep underground on the mechanical planet, the rest of the things can be left to the Queen of Zerg, and Chen Ming does not need to worry about anything.

However, accidents often come faster than tomorrow.

Not to mention that it is not tomorrow yet.

On the battlefield where the first guard Zerg arrived and the battle was about to end, a voice that seemed to be drowning in the deep sea suddenly sounded.

"Phase Behemoth?"