Stellaris Crisis: Rise of the Swarm
Chapter 235

Feint east, strike west

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The quality was not enough, so we had to use quantity. The defense Hatchery mobilized all its forces, and the Swarm fleet near the main planets was also sent to the hyperspace channel exit.

The fleet defending Hatchery regards this battle as the core battle that determines the outcome. It no longer makes any reservations and puts all its troops on the card table as chips.

When the defense is concentrated on one point, then the entire defense line will be full of holes. For Zhang Han, it can implement a one-hit-kill decapitation strategy.

Twenty Swarm Leviathans loaded with giga-cannons aimed at the gap in the defense line that had been calculated long ago, and the high-energy electric light dyed each cannon blue.

Several rounds of volleys of Gigacannons created a gap in the defense line. The defensive Swarm who was in the firing range were all beaten into pieces by high-speed projectiles. Some smaller bugs did not even leave pieces of meat, but were melted by the high temperature of the shells.

Inside the Gigacannon, there is a strange scenery, with squirming tubes of flesh and blood and sticky walls. High-energy electromagnetism is bound inside the barrel by exquisite flesh and blood organs. Zhang Han turned himself into a red cannonball. The Gigacannon is charging, and soon he will be shot out like an ordinary cannonball.

The body of Overmind is composed of high-strength cellular nanorobots, which are ever-changing and incredibly strong.

From a design point of view, it is made to resist Shroud weapon and to achieve immortality.

The high temperature fired by the gigabit cannon made Zhang Han feel a little hot.

Defense Hatchery thought that he would not notice a strange cannonball, let alone the terrifying existence of this cannonball that cleared the spore mine field with Psionic Storm.

In an instant, Zhang Han smashed a Brood Lord and escaped from the bloody battlefield.

He quickly changed back to his four-armed and two-legged form, opened all the compound eyes on his head, looked at the main planet, and calculated the path.

He made a picture frame with both hands towards the red lava planet in the starry sky, and huge energy was instantly injected into the curvature engine.

The surrounding space was quickly stretched, blue to purple light filled the sight, and behind it was darkness where nothing could be seen.

Hatchery on the main planet couldn't react in time at all, and the speed beyond light only left it three minutes.

On top of the lava planet, stands a thousand-meter-high Hatchery, which is in sharp contrast with the surrounding red magma and rocks. Magma continues to flow into the underground of Hatchery, and then flows out from the other side, bringing a large amount of energy to Hatchery.

There are a large number of Swarm units in the sky and rocks, from Mutalisk to Ultralisk, and then to Zergling. The combination of troops is very reasonable, and the number is more than 10 million.

They felt the emotions in Swarm Network, and roared and roared uneasily at the sky.

The red sky, reflected by the red magma, suddenly turned white, and all the light seemed to have dissipated, leaving only black and white.

The huge explosion shattered everything, the sound was extremely loud, and then suddenly silence, because the ears hearing the sound were deafened.

The arrogant and huge Hatchery was crushed like a piece of cake, replaced by a large circular pit. All the Swarm units that were too close were turned into fly ash.

Zhang Han was panting in the middle of the pit. One of his arms was broken, but he failed to achieve his goal.

He never expected that the logical consciousness of Hatchery would also strengthen the already very hard planetary crust. The depth of his breakthrough was not enough, and there was still a depth difference of two thousand meters from the target.

"You are really a coward!" Zhang Han roared angrily.

If it were an ordinary creature, it would definitely be frightened by Zhang Han's devastating blow. But Swarm was not afraid. Seas of insects from all directions were ready to surround and attack this red monster falling from the sky.

To go alone and break into the ground requires the courage to live towards death. This planet has not formed a Psionics sea, and the spiritual power of Hatchery logical consciousness is particularly obvious.

Gathering his own mental strength, Zhang Han first fired Psionic Storm to clear out the rushing Mutalisk and Zergling, and with the other hand, he shaped Psionics into a spiral drill and threw it towards the ground.

In the harsh roar of the drill bit, layers of hard rock were drilled away, one hundred meters, two hundred meters, three hundred meters, Zhang Han continued to penetrate deeper, but the strange thing was that the Hatchery logical consciousness that he locked did not escape, he just stayed there quietly.

In order to prevent unexpected events, the variable Zhang Han overloaded its own Psionics organ, exploding the drill bit and increasing the depth by another five hundred meters.

Then the intact arm turned into a drill that could generate a cracking force field. The carapace on the back opened, revealing a jet engine with full power.

The hard rock shattered like tofu, and soon Zhang Han drilled through the ground and arrived in front of the target.

This is a Logic Cerebrate. It has no eyes and is in the shape of a brain. After seeing Zhang Han, it shook the air with its mental power and said, "Unknown Swarm hero, I have seen your power, but I cannot surrender to you. You are not Overmind. I am waiting for the birth of a new Overmind."

Zhang Han pinched the Cerebrate in front of him. It was very soft, like a marshmallow. Zhang Han didn't dare to use too much force for fear of crushing it to death.

"It's useless for you to kill me. I have transferred my spiritual body into Swarm Network through the consciousness anchor point. I am different from ordinary Swarm Node. I am very good at the spiritual field." Cerebrate did not panic at all.

"Unknown Swarm hero, a powerful being like you must be a legendary being with a name in your genes. Can I know your name? Then, we continue to fight."

When facing units of the same Zerg, even if they are hostile to each other, they will generally not lie when communicating.

This is also the reason why everyone has been connected to Swarm Network for a long time, where everyone's emotions are frank and there is no habit of intrigue.

What Cerebrate said is 80% true. If Zhang Han had eyebrows, they would definitely frown into a horoscope.

"I am Overmind. I am resurrected. You can verify my mental power." Zhang Han used his mental power to project his words into Cerebrate's mind.

Cerebrate did not speak immediately. It shook as if to check the authenticity of what Zhang Han said.

"Your mental power is indeed the same as Overmind, but I think you are just a fragment of Overmind's consciousness, not the complete Overmind, so I still don't recognize you."

Cerebrate's answer was the most unacceptable result for Zhang Han. He never thought that after dividing his spirit, there would be such consequences.

"However, I understand your anxiety. You hope to expand Swarm as much as possible while reducing losses. We have the same idea on this point, and I don't want Swarm to suffer excessive losses in the civil war."

"Since I must lose, let's compete. If you, as a fragment of consciousness, have higher mental strength than me, I will surrender."

Life is full of ups and downs so fast. Zhang Han is no nonsense and collides his own mental power with Cerebrate's mental power tentacles in the field of consciousness.

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