Stellaris Crisis: Rise of the Swarm
Chapter 204

An impending invasion

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"Sorry, Skadi, I was impulsive and didn't accept your suggestion just now. You are right, Shroud's exploration should be steady and step-by-step. I just took a risk." Zhang Han, a human being with a sense of morality, apologized to Skadi.

In both the conscious space and reality, Skadi knelt down. She still had horrific wounds on her body and was bleeding profusely. "The great Overmind is the highest will of Swarm. You don't need to apologize. Being able to serve Overmind is the meaning of my existence."

Skati's words made Zhang Han realize again that he could not communicate with any Swarm unit from an equal perspective. Swarm's Overmind was everything to Overmind Swarm.

After letting Hatchery start treating Skadi, Zhang Han temporarily gave up his plan to study Shroud and waited until Overmind regained consciousness before doing more research.

It's just that Overmind's consciousness made him full of insecurity. After checking the current paper data of Hatchery, the situation is still good, far exceeding expectations.

On Tabi Star, Hatchery continuously digs minerals and energy from the ground. If they are allowed to hatch, hundreds of thousands of fighting bugs including Hydralisk and Roach will have no problem at all in a day.

Needle Crawler and Zergling can be eliminated. Zergling is superior to them in all aspects and is the most cost-effective land Zerg unit. If you only hatch Zergling, you can make more than one million a day without any pressure.

This is just Hatchery of Death Forest. If the development of Hatchery in Gale Valley on the other side of the planet is also completed, the production capacity can be doubled.

Out of uneasiness in his heart, Zhang Han ordered Hatchery to suspend half of the work of digging underground resources and caves, recover the excess Drone, and prepare to free up the population and start to explode troops.

The situation in the universe is better. The giant hatchery has grown even bigger, and half of the hatching organs have started working. The power generation efficiency of the Dyson membrane has reached 3% of stellar light, and the massive energy hatchery cannot be used up at all.

Due to the lack of minerals, units that require rare elements such as Psionics Corruptor cannot be hatched at full speed. In order to fill the gap and prevent the hatchery from resting, a large number of tusk battleships were hatched.

When there are rare elements, hatch Psionics Swarm units. If there is no ore, hatch the melee tusk battleship.

The tusk battleship is a very good unit with extremely high cost performance. It can be understood as the Zergling in the universe. It can be big or small, and there are not many genetic and technical difficulties. Its weapon is a few pairs of fangs that can break the battleship.

Almost all other parts of the body are made of thick carapace, used to resist damage. Its positioning in the Swarm fleet is to attract firepower and cause damage to enemy ships by the way.

Currently, half of the 20,000 Swarm fleet in Zhang Han's hands are fang warships, and the largest ones are larger than Brood Lord.

The remaining ten thousand Swarm fleet is composed of Psionics Corruptor and Psionics Brood Lord, the ratio is 7 to 3.

In addition to supporting the giant hatchery to hatch the Swarm fleet at a rate of one thousand per day, the massive energy provided by the Dyson membrane also provides a lot of energy, which is basically stored on several major nodes of the Dyson membrane.

Those spider-like Star Eaters are still very greedy for this energy, but they just won't touch it because of the rules.

Psionics Corruptor and Brood Lord both have shield-piercing effects on the field shields. In the simulated battlefield of Zhang Han, the Swarm fleet composed of them can compete 50-50 with the same number of council fleets. The council's fleets will no longer have a quality advantage.

Being beaten away by hundreds of Antilians battleships will never happen again.

The uneasiness in Zhang Han's heart is still growing, and he always feels that it is not safe enough. The energy reserved on the Dyson membrane is prepared for upgrading the sixth-level Hatchery. If you want to hatch the strongest creature like Swarm Leviathan, only the sixth-level Hatchery can do it.

He planned to invest this energy into violent troops, and when Overmind's consciousness returned, he would then decide the direction of Swarm's development. Zhang Han thought of the two types of troops he designed when he traveled through time.

Brood Lord, which sprays highly corrosive green projectiles, already has a replacement and can be given up. However, the mutant Ultralisk, which can use Blood Mist Insect to cause large-scale damage, can be hatched some more.

Now that we have time, in the Hatchery laboratory, the initial design of the mutant Ultralisk was optimized. The real Defiler was created. Not only was it as powerful as in the game, Zhang Han also combined it with Viper, giving Defiler a pair of wings.

Defiler can hide in the vast sea of insects and dig tunnels to hide itself. Usually its wings are hidden under its carapace. When needed, Defiler can fly faster than flying insects.

It still has three core skills: a large-scale gray mist that reduces long-range damage, a blood mist that causes area-wide destructive corrosive damage, and Consume that eats its own units to restore its own energy.

A large number of Defiler will greatly improve the combat effectiveness of Swarm units on the planet.

Zhang Han, who still felt it was unsafe, let go of Swarm's control over the Star Eaters, allowing them to uncontrollably store excess energy on their Consume Dyson membranes. They trained them to grow bigger as much as possible to further improve the combat effectiveness of the Swarm fleet.

This crazy violent behavior lasted for ten days. Zhang Han continued to improve Swarm's combat effectiveness for the sake of a sense of security in his heart.

The news of the reconnaissance of Cerebrate made Zhang Han even more uneasy. There were high-quality objects in the hyperspace channel, coming towards Tabi Star. Because the level of the reconnaissance Cerebrate was too low, we could not determine what it was. We only knew that in three days, a fleet of up to 100,000 people would rush out of the hyperspace channel of Tabi Star.

This galaxy is relatively remote and hidden. Zhang Han always thought that he could farm here for at least ten years, but his fate changed much faster than he imagined.

Deep in the Milky Way, a small and dilapidated spacecraft is sailing in the darkness. The spacecraft is in a very bad condition, the engine is unstable, the structure is not well welded, and there are holes in some places.

Ordinary beings must commit suicide by driving this kind of spacecraft. After entering the interior of the spacecraft through the hole, they found that the people operating inside the spacecraft were all robots with cold bones.

There are also various styles of robots, including military, civilian, and engineering types. Their appearances are also all kinds of strange, including barrel-shaped, human-shaped, and insect-shaped.

They are not professional robots, and they are reluctant to operate the spacecraft, but they still rely on their own efforts and cooperation to make the spacecraft move forward steadily.

A mysterious radio wave guides them, allowing them to find a path in the dark space of space.

Suddenly, a ray of sunlight broke through the dark universe and illuminated the front of the ship.

It was a reddish-brown planet with no atmosphere, making its appearance clearly visible in the light. It was a completely mechanical world, with various factories, pipelines, and roads all over the world.

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