Chapter 346 Melting

When Chen Ming heard the voice of the Phase Beast, he felt his scalp tingling.

Because the last time he encountered the Phase Beast was a few hours ago, the Scarlet Dimension and the Phase Space clashed in his consciousness space.

Not only did he enjoy a lot of mental torture, but his mental power was almost exhausted, and he has not recovered completely until now.

Chen Ming thought that the Phase Beast should not be encountered in a short time after running away, but it has only been a few hours...

What happened this time?

What is the Phase Beast doing this time?

Although the Phase Beast itself may not have any malicious intent, the power of the Phase Space it represents and the influence that may cause problems in the Scarlet Dimension made Chen Ming not act rashly, but continued to observe gently with the help of the corpses of the Zerg units.

After arriving above the area where Chen Ming's Guard Zerg first arrived, the Phase Beast made a sound again, as if calling Chen Ming.

Just like last time.

And the last communication was quite friendly.

This time it should also be possible... um...

Chen Ming's eyes were looking at the area where the battle was almost over.

It can only be said that the Zerg fleet in space has been withdrawn to other places, and the remaining Zerg troops on the ground are about to be eliminated by the mechanical race.

There is no subsequent combat resource investment on this planet.

After all, the interior of this planet that first broke through the defense line of the orbital defense facilities has been injected with Zerg eggs, and the nest has begun to develop. It doesn't matter how the ground is now.

So now, when the mechanical race is about to encircle and wipe out the remaining Zerg, it is really difficult for Chen Ming to throw a robot over to contact the phase behemoth.

After waiting for a while without receiving a response from Chen Ming, the phase behemoth over the mechanical colony suddenly attacked the mechanical race's buildings with no idea.

The mechanical race subconsciously counterattacked the air, but none of them could hit the phase behemoth in the phase space.

It can only be said that the existence in the phase space has a unilateral suppression of the normal universe, which is too outrageous.

Looking at the phase behemoth rolling on the ground, or looking at the destruction and various traces of destruction caused by the phase behemoth that cannot be observed by normal means.

Chen Ming suddenly felt that something was wrong. The traces left by these phase behemoths when they destroyed the mechanical buildings seemed to be a little wrong.

Chen Ming saw it this way and felt this way, but if he really wanted to say it, he couldn't tell what was wrong.

He continued to observe the traces left by the phase behemoths for a while with doubts, but still couldn't find the place that made him feel wrong.

And just as he was thinking, a new question appeared in his mind.

How did the phase behemoth follow?

Chen Ming recalled the previous encounters with the phase behemoths.

The first time, the phase behemoths chased the mechanical fleet all the way, and the second time they also chased the mechanical family.

And this time it seems that it is not for the same reason as before, but chasing Chen Ming.

Because the phase behemoth did not attack the mechanical family at the first time, but tried to call him at the first time.

Chen Ming thought about it again.

The first time does not count, because he had not entered the scarlet dimension at that time, and the second time he just encountered the phase behemoth, the phase behemoth was silently destroying the mechanical family, very quietly.

It was not until it discovered Chen Ming's existence that it made the sound that seemed to come from the deep sea.

It was not until then that Chen Ming heard its voice and began to communicate with it.

So, the phase beast should be coming for him this time, and he should try to respond.

Chen Ming just wanted to try to throw a robot over, even if it was directly destroyed by the mechanical race, it would not be a big problem, or find a way to send a robot over from the phase space, but it would be a little more troublesome.

Just when Chen Ming decided to use the things he left in the phase space to send the robot to the phase space and then to the phase beast.

The phase beast that was just ravaging the mechanical race's territory suddenly took off, and a jump wave appeared near its body.

The next moment, the phase beast disappeared.

"?"

"What's going on?"

Chen Ming thought for a while that he had observed for too long, and the phase beast was impatient and left first.

It turned out that the situation did not seem to be what he thought. Just near the location where the phase beast jumped away, a jump wave suddenly appeared again, but no physical object appeared.

This is not the return of the phase monsters, but a fleet of cruiser-level phase ships from a new place.

This is not right.

Chen Ming remembered that the level of phase technology mastered by the mechanical race before was not at this level.

The mechanical race definitely does not have enough phase ships to use, let alone cruiser-level phase production capacity.

It can't be that they developed it in such a short time?

This...

No, there seems to be a special situation.

Chen Ming suddenly thought of a possibility.

That is, if the mechanical race is simply to target the phase monsters, they can choose to put ordinary cruisers into the phase space and let ordinary cruisers directly attack the phase monsters in the phase space, and they don't have to use phase weapons to attack the phase monsters.

The nature of phase weapons is that they can attack the phase space in the normal universe.

But since the spaceships in the phase space are already in the phase space, the ordinary weapons used have the properties of the phase space.

When attacking the existence in the same space, no special ability is required.

All you need to do is send the ordinary cruiser into the phase space.

The only problem with doing this is radiation.

Spaceships in the phase space cannot dissipate radiation.

But as long as the spaceship is sent out of the phase space before the radiation overloads, the problem is also solved, and ordinary ships can be used as temporary phase ships.

This is also one of the temporary solutions proposed by several ship research institutes in the Empire that have phase ship research projects, after the Fanchao Institute has developed equipment that can send space stations into the phase space, for the current phase ship cannot be directly put into actual combat.

The difficulty of making a perfect phase ship and the difficulty of making facilities that can send physical objects into the phase space are obviously easier in the latter.

The Empire has not used it much at present because there is no environment for it to be used.

And it should not be a problem for the mechanical family to make similar things, because they just happen to have a suitable environment.

Chen Ming guessed that it should be like this, and we will know the details after seeing it.

He called up the psychic energy and sent the robot to the phase space of the area where the phase beasts were active just now.

He just happened to see the mechanical cruisers that had completed the jump.

Chen Ming could confirm it with a little observation.

The fact was the same as he guessed.

The mechanical cruisers were all ordinary warships, but they had undergone quite obvious modifications.

Some modifications that greatly increased the radiation energy capacity and almost paralyzed the radiation energy dissipation system.

They were specially used in the current situation where qualified phase ships could not be manufactured to participate in the battle.

This is indeed the idea.

So the phase beasts should have sensed these temporary phase ships, so they chose to leave.

If the mechanical race chose to chase them hard, they would definitely be the unlucky ones.

But for them, as long as they drove the phase beasts away, it would be fine.

Now they not only have to solve the problem of the phase beasts, but also the problem of being attacked by Chen Ming's fleet.

They have no time to chase the phase beasts.

Not only was the nebula area where their important materials were deposited attacked by a sudden large-scale Zerg fleet, but the border on the other side was also attacked.

The attack near the nebula area happened at the border, and the reinforcements came only after they had already arrived.

Many of the mechanical support fleets were deceived by Chen Ming, and they were already unable to deal with the Zerg's troubles, so how could they have the time to track the phase behemoths.

For some reason, the mechanical race has not shown any signs of sending out its main battleships, and they are only using the original defense force of the galaxy to fight.

Chen Ming's idea has no room for implementation for the time being.

But it's okay, whether the mechanical race's mothership comes or not is not a loss for him.

He still plans to continue to observe this battlefield from the broad perspective given by psychic energy.

Anyway, the phase behemoth must have a destination for its jump.

If Chen Ming guessed correctly, the purpose of the phase behemoth's jump should be the galaxy where he used psychic energy to send the second batch of guard Zerg.

The situation here is similar to the situation near the location where the guard Zerg first arrived.

The Zerg units died even faster.

There were no living Zergs here at this time, but Chen Ming could still use the Zerg corpses to hear the call of the Phase Beast from the sky above this planet.

And Chen Ming also heard the Phase Beast calling him more clearly this time, and there was a hint of... pain?

The Phase Beast was injured?

Just now?

Chen Ming seemed to realize the key.

He just felt that there was something wrong with the Phase Beast's attack, that is, the way the Phase Beast destroyed the mechanical colony during the attack and the shape of the mark it left on the ground were wrong.

The Phase Beast is a manta ray-like creature with two huge "wings" on both sides of its body.

After the Phase Beast appeared this time, it seemed that it had only used the right "wing" to attack the mechanical race.

And from the rare complete traces left, there seemed to be a very obvious gap on the left wing of the Phase Beast.

Chen Ming also immediately moved the cruiser that had observed the mechanical race and sent it to the phase space, and the robot that had not been discovered by the mechanical race, to the destination of the phase beast's jump.

At the moment when his robot appeared at the destination.

The phase beast sensed Chen Ming's presence, and there was a hint of joy in the voice of calling.

But Chen Ming was not happy at all, because in addition to seeing the phase beast, he also saw a huge gap on the wings of the phase beast that was bitten by something. The wound had scabbed, but the painful mark would not disappear so quickly.

Such marks and the marks that Chen Ming had just reacted to just corresponded to the problem of the phase beast's actions.

And as long as you look more carefully, you will find that the scars on the wings of the phase beast have the same bite marks as the mouthparts of the phase beast.

This phase beast that Chen Ming has met many times was bitten by its own kind, or a larger kind of its own kind.

It was attacked by its own kind.

But this is not the focus of Chen Ming's attention now.

Because he saw not only the terrible scars on the Phase Beast's body.

He also saw a large piece of scarlet twisted flesh and blood in the Phase Beast's mouth.

The moment he saw it, Chen Ming knew that this piece of flesh and blood must be related to the Scarlet Dimension, and it was not a piece of flesh formed after a creature was infected by the Scarlet Dimension, but...

Chen Ming found it hard to believe what he perceived.

The piece of flesh and blood in the Phase Beast's mouth seemed to be the power directly taken from the Scarlet Dimension by some means. After entering the phase space, there was no support from the existence inside the Scarlet Dimension, so it naturally formed this huge piece of flesh and blood.

This is not flesh and blood, this is condensed knowledge.

The Phase Beast landed in front of Chen Ming's robot, spit out a large piece of flesh and blood in its mouth on the ground, and pushed it in the direction of Chen Ming's robot.

Then it bit the flesh and blood again, tore off a piece and swallowed it directly.

It used the most primitive means to do something that Chen Ming couldn't do easily now, which made Chen Ming stunned.

Now he knew why the Phase Beast kept chasing him.

It might be targeting the bloody crack in his brain.

It wanted to seize the power of the scarlet dimension through the bloody crack.

What does it mean now?

Hasn't it already got the power of the scarlet dimension? What is it doing? Sharing it with him?

Chen Ming tried to make the robot happen like last time, and added doubtful emotions to the sound it made, trying to ask the Phase Beast what it meant.

But the Phase Beast just kept making urging sounds and further pushed the remaining meat towards Chen Ming's robot.

The language used by the Phase Beast is obviously not advanced enough to communicate like humans.

It is obviously impossible to figure out the purpose of the Phase Beast's actions and what happened through communication with the Phase Beast.

Then we can only judge it through logic.

First of all, judging from the current behavior of the Phase Beast, they are a kind of creature that feeds on the power of the scarlet dimension.

The wounds on the giant beast in front of Chen Ming were obviously caused by being bitten by its own kind.

That means that it is very likely that the phase beast snatched the scarlet meat from its own kind and shared it with him.

Hiss——

Wait a minute, isn't this a bit wrong?

In the animal world, sharing food should be shared with the same kind in most cases, right?

Although it is hard to say whether the phase beast is an animal in the animal world, Chen Ming feels that it should be considered as one.

Did the phase beast treat him as one of its own kind?

Chen Ming thought about the scales left by the phase beast last time, and the traces left by the phase space in his consciousness space, and it seemed that this was not impossible.

What does it mean that the phase beast snatched the food of other species and shared it with this "same kind"?

Chen Ming could feel that the phase beast's sharing at this time was for some purpose, as if it wanted him to take more power from the scarlet dimension.

But if the scarlet meat in the air of the phase beast was snatched from other phase beasts, it means that other phase beasts can take the initiative to contact the scarlet dimension, and there is no need to look for him.

Unless the phase beast is a very ferocious creature, but according to Chen Ming's observation, the phase beast seems to have a deep hostility only towards the mechanical race.

Not to mention that the phase beast will share with him.

This doesn't make sense.

And if the phase beast feeds on the power of the scarlet dimension, then the phase beast in front of him doesn't seem to have the ability to tear open a rift to the scarlet dimension from the phase space to obtain food.

This is another point that doesn't make sense.

The more Chen Ming thinks about it, the more confused his brain feels, although his brain is useless.

If it really doesn't work, why not do it according to the phase beast's idea first.

At least he won't misperceive what the phase beast means now, that is, the phase beast wants to share the scarlet flesh and blood with him.

So Chen Ming's main consciousness descended on the robot, and after slightly adjusting the mental power that has recovered well.

The robot controlled by Chen Ming stretched out his hand and pressed on the scarlet flesh in front of him. The scarlet crack in Chen Ming's consciousness space opened slightly, helping Chen Ming to absorb the materialized scarlet dimension.

The whole piece of flesh disappeared in front of Chen Ming in an instant.

And Chen Ming also felt the improvement of his ability again.

It just seemed a little less obvious.

This piece of flesh looked quite large, and it could be held in the mouth of a huge creature with a body length of a kilometer. It was estimated that it was at least tens of meters in length, width and thickness.

But Chen Ming just touched it, and the whole piece of flesh disappeared.

Even part of the flesh that the phase beast had not torn off and swallowed completely was transformed into Chen Ming's power by Chen Ming's spiritual energy.

The phase beast that bit the air immediately straightened its front half of its body, shook its head, stared at Chen Ming's robot left and right for a long time, and made a puzzled sound.

Chen Ming felt that the phase beast did not seem to be wondering why the meat in its mouth was gone, but was wondering about something closely related to him.

"So what are you wondering about?"

The Phase Beast certainly couldn't respond to Chen Ming's question.

It just flew up gently like last time, circled Chen Ming a few times, and then flew high again like last time, made a jump, and disappeared in front of Chen Ming.

"..."

Chen Ming looked at the place where the phase beast disappeared last time and felt a little anxious subconsciously.

Because he knew that this phase beast must be going to its kind to snatch the scarlet meat again.

The last time it snatched, it was torn off an extreme piece of meat from its left wing by its kind. If it goes this time, I'm afraid it will still be injured.

Moreover, it was injured for him.

If the injury is too serious...

What is the phase beast for?

Why did it do this?

Chen Ming felt that he really had to think of a way.

Think of a way to communicate with the phase beast at a deeper level.

Chen Ming's idea could not change the fact that the phase beast left.

He could only continue to focus on the attack he launched on the mechanical race at this time.

At this time, more than an hour had passed since Chen Ming's black fog prosthesis took the lead in launching an attack on the border galaxy of the mechanical race.

There is nothing special about the situation on the border.

It is just that the Black Mist Prosthesis led a large fleet to carry out the invasion mission.

Under normal circumstances, the Zerg fleet will definitely die if it attacks the heavily guarded Mechanical Clan galaxy. Even if the mothership does not move out, they will basically be wiped out in the end.

But the premise is normal.

With the Black Mist Prosthesis that Chen Mingyuan continuously provides spiritual power to continuously contribute to this war, the fleet led by the Black Mist Prosthesis even has the momentum to break through the border defense line in one breath and rush directly into the heartland of the Mechanical Clan.

Basically, the Zerg fleet relies on the assistance of the Black Mist psychic energy, the Zerg can use the outrageous effect of Chen Ming's repair psychic energy, and the fleet that far exceeds the number of the Mechanical Clan fleet to run over.

All the fortifications on all the Mechanical Clan planets where the Black Mist passed through were destroyed, and only the wreckage of large areas of Mechanical Clan colonies remained.

In addition, the Zerg fleet also left Zerg eggs on a large number of planets inside and outside the Mechanical Clan border.

When these Zergs hatch, they can further interfere with the Mechanical Clan.

Even if the mechanical race destroyed the Zerg fleet led by the Black Mist Prosthesis, it would not be easy to recapture the planet occupied by the Zerg.

During the battle led by the Black Mist Prosthesis, Chen Ming also found that some fleets of unknown origin were wandering around the border galaxies of the mechanical race.

These fleets were the imperial reconnaissance fleets that Chen Ming had been waiting for.

They had been hiding in the dark and constantly investigating the intelligence of the mechanical race's star field. It would not take long for them to bring the news of the Black Mist psychic energy and the Black Mist Zerg fleet back to the empire to confirm what An Wuping said.

While the Black Mist Prosthesis was advancing triumphantly.

The war near the nebula area of ​​the mechanical race was still going on.

Although the number of Zerg fleets here was more than that brought by the Black Mist Prosthesis, after being divided into dozens of fleets, the number was not enough to crush the mechanical race in a single star field.

So the fleet losses in each galaxy were relatively some.

However, Chen Ming's goal was only to send the insect eggs to the planet, so after achieving the goal, the fleets that did not lose would immediately go to other galaxies to provide additional help.

Such an operation reduced the overall loss of the Zerg fleet and achieved the goal faster.

Just when Chen Ming injected all the valuable planets in the fifty galaxies that he targeted as the first batch into Zerg eggs and prepared to continue commanding the fleet to the next batch of target galaxies.

The real target of Chen Ming's attack this time, the mechanical family's mothership finally couldn't hold back.

The mechanical family locked the last concentrated location of Chen Ming's fleet.

Before the fleet left, a fleet consisting of tens of thousands of mechanical family cruisers led by the mothership appeared in front of Chen Ming's Zerg fleet.

The jump wave and its surging aftermath of the fleet's jump almost covered half of the galaxy.

According to Chen Ming's speculation, the star field of the mechanical family should have a total of about 30,000 to 40,000 cruisers.

In the previous battle, Chen Ming had destroyed tens of thousands of cruisers.

This time, the mechanical family took out tens of thousands of cruisers, which was obviously a huge investment.

But before the absolute number of Chen Ming's Zerg cruisers crushed, this number was still a little insufficient.

Even if Chen Ming couldn't deal with the mechanical family's mothership, at least none of the cruisers that came here could escape.

However, Chen Ming soon discovered that the mothership sent by the mechanical family was the first one to clash with the Zerg fleet and was repaired early.

The mechanical family seemed to have guessed some of Chen Ming's possible abilities, so they specially sent this mothership to clear out the Zerg fleet.

Are they still unwilling to send out the backup forces?

Then Chen Ming didn't plan to send away so many Zerg fleets.

He was going to use the repair psychic energy to pull the mechanical family's fleet, trying to really defeat the mechanical family's mothership from the front.

However, Chen Ming didn't have time to do so.

In the center of the assembled Zerg fleet, a Zerg warship suddenly began to melt.

They melted like candles, and disappeared into space like burnt paper scraps.

There were no signs, no traces.

But Chen Ming had already reacted to what was going on, and his face was extremely gloomy.

This is... the Destroyer.