Stellaris Crisis: Rise of the Swarm
Chapter 225

Technique

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Even if you are at a disadvantage, in Cerebrate's calculations, you will be defeated, and the defensive Hatchery's logical consciousness will not surrender so simply. All Hatcherys know the rules of network merger. Since they want to kill a large number of their own Swarm units, it is better to fight to the end.

It began to order its Hatchery fleet to retreat, make way for the exit of the hyperspace channel, and all retreat to the sky above the planet. It used huge spore towers and other defenses to fight a more determined and protracted war of attrition.

This is what Zhang Han is most afraid of. He regrets exposing his strength too early. If he is really dragged into a protracted landing battle, grinding meat with endless Swarm in tunnels and caves, he can't afford the time.

On the road to competing for Overmind, he started very late. Even if he develops quickly, so what. The starting point is too low. The size of his Hatchery grows by 10% every year, which is not as good as the one percent of Zagara and Kundera.

The anxious Zhang Han commanded his Swarm fleet to rush out of hyperspace faster, while accelerating to pursue the Swarm fleet that was defending Hatchery. The distance was soon over halfway.

Zhang Han only destroyed the 40,000 Swarm fleet that defended Hatchery. Even if his fleet suffered minimal losses, facing a galaxy full of spore towers, he did not dare to enter low-Earth orbit. Faced with dual firepower from the ground and space, the losses would be huge.

Helpless, they are all Swarm fleets, and they all have the support of Swarm Network. They know the basics very well. As long as the defender does not want to win, it will be difficult to lose.

"It would be great if I could use Psionics to predict where the logical core of this Hatchery is. I can use the beheading tactic to win quickly." In a helpless situation, Zhang Han said to himself.

"Scati, can you use prophecy to detect the logical core of this Hatchery?" Wanting to give it a try, Zhang Han asked Skati.

"I'm sorry, great Overmind, I can't do it. Now I'm using Swarm's mental power to shield Shroud. Without Shroud, I can't make a prophecy. But..." Skati seemed to have other ideas.

"If I can know the spiritual power frequency of this Hatchery logical core, I can give it a try. Every area with life will form a spiritual world similar to the Psionics sea, and this frequency can be traced. No prophecy is needed. We can follow the traces to find the target."

"This is a Psionics technique. In the past, we often used this method to find people, pretend to be prophecies, and deceive the trust of ordinary people." Because of the last accident, Skadi will try his best to answer Zhang Han's questions every time.

Suddenly, Zhang Han discovered that this casual question was solved. He is Overmind, the former top administrator of Swarm Network, and all the logical cores of Hatchery have corresponding mental power frequencies in his memory!

After Skadi shared the knowledge in his memory, Zhang Han also learned this method instantly. He floated in the universe and slightly grasped the void in front of him. In his consciousness, a chaotic sea of Psionics unfolded in front of his eyes.

It is estimated that the planet wrapped by Creep turned out to be rich in life, and the arrival of Swarm ate up all of them. Therefore, the sea of Psionics is not a monstrous tide, but an endless storm, which will not stabilize for hundreds of years.

If he had known this situation, why would he have brought Skadi? Zhang Han sighed. That's not right. Without Skadi, he would not have been able to suddenly come up with a way to quickly find the logical core of Hatchery.

An ordinary Psionics person would definitely not be able to find that familiar spiritual frequency in such a storm-raging Psionics sea.

But Zhang Han is not. In terms of mental power and physical strength, he is a god-like Psionics. If he can also add the mental power of Swarm Network, then he is at least a god of war.

Looking at the messy mental power threads, they were more complicated than the most complicated ball of wool. The God of War Zhang Han mobilized the mental power of the entire Swarm fleet and began to violently crack it.

Defense Hatchery has no idea what Zhang Han wants to do. Anyway, it is already in the defensive posture of a dead pig that is not afraid of boiling water. It doesn't matter what it wants to do, just delay the defense.

After waiting quietly for an hour, its logical core felt something touching him mentally, just like a person walking at night feels like someone is watching him behind him.

"I found you!" Zhang Han raised the corner of his mouth and smiled slightly. "You are very cunning. You are not on the main planet at all, but you are hiding deep underground in the satellite. Are you planning to escape completely?"

"I always thought that ordinary logical cores were dumb, but that's not the case. With so much knowledge, how could they be dumb? They are all bug spirits." After that, Zhang Han sailed towards the planet satellite with a fleet of three thousand including all Swarm Leviathans.

The Hatchery logic core panicked for a moment at first, but found out that the target of these fleets was the back side of the satellite, and after clearing the defense facilities, it felt relieved.

Yes, no matter how powerful Swarm's mental power scanning is, it is impossible to scan a harmless Roach in such a large range. And it can also be confirmed that this specialized Roach is the core of logic. This is unscientific.

Immediately afterwards, Zhang Han's fleet began to cautiously attack the planet, land on the planet, and clean the spore tower. The same was true for Leviathan on the satellite, without any sense of violation.

But this specialized Roach felt that he had not been discovered, and when he began to focus on directing defensive operations, his reconnaissance Overlord saw the red terrifying bug suddenly disappearing from the field of vision.

That red bug is a type that Specialized Roach has never seen before, and there is no such unit in Swarm's memory bank. It is very powerful, and can destroy tens of millions of spore mines in an instant with lightning, and can also tear Swarm Leviathan with its hands.

Tehua Roach has always paid the greatest attention to this red bug. Its disappearance made Tehua Roach feel uneasy, so he ordered Hive Mind to arrange more investigations and Overlord began to search for its whereabouts.

A huge impact suddenly shook the entire underground Hatchery. Rocks and flesh were crushed to pieces. "What's going on? A meteor hit?"

As soon as this question emerged in Tehua Roach's mind, a huge red figure broke through the flesh and blood wall in front of him and came to him. In his shocked and incomprehensible eyes, it grabbed him with its abdominal limbs on the waist.

"You are the logical core of Hatchery. I am Overmind of Swarm. I order your Swarm to surrender to me." Zhang Han's words came to his mind through Psionics.

Specialized Roach looked at the giant red insect that caught him, and then looked behind the giant insect. There was an underground gap hundreds of kilometers deep, and it actually crashed into it! Through this deep tunnel, Roach could clearly see the starry sky outside with his super eyesight.

"But... may I know how you found me?" Tehua Roach asked.

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