Stellaris Crisis: Rise of the Swarm
Chapter 392

Captured

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Among a thousand fierce battlefields, Zhang Han had an advantage in only 700, which was far lower than the combat power ratio calculated by Cerebrate. In simulated battles, the combat power ratio of Zhang Han using Psionics Enchantment's Swarm and ordinary Swarm could reach 1:3 to 1:4.

There should be less than fifty people on the disadvantaged battlefield, but Gurt used his excellent command and excellent Infestor to teach Zhang Han a lesson and demonstrated Swarm Node's tenacity.

To be honest, with this battle situation, Zhang Han can't believe the time calculated by Cerebrate to capture the fortress planet. It is entirely possible for Gurt to spend another month underground with Zhang Han.

At this time, Aicai's thoughts were moved again, and he defended the city alone and fought tenaciously. Zhang Han can think of many similar names in history. So he decided to launch an all-out attack.

The global all-out attack increased the intensity of the war. In addition to occupying the planet as soon as possible, it was also to locate Gurt's mental power. He did not know that Zhang Han had the ability to locate Node Consciousness's position through Psionics.

Except for Zhang Han, who used this method in the early stages of expansion, it has never been exposed later. For an organizational system like Swarm, it is extremely dangerous for the core nodes to be positioned and beheaded by surprise.

Even if it was Kundera, who had extremely strong personal fighting ability, he entered the battle cautiously, and was beheaded several times by Zagara.

In the eastern hemisphere of the fortress planet, in the trenches deep in the ocean, the huge water pressure is already a good protection, but the defense system here is far more than that.

The huge mountains near the trench are all defense towers. They are silent and seem to pose no threat, but as long as an enemy approaches, they can equally impart the fury of silence to the enemy.

Above the seabed is a layer of malignant Creep. This Creep is an enhanced version of the ordinary Creep. It not only has a higher increase in damage to friendly parties, but is also more durable and less likely to be destroyed.

The cave walls around the trench are filled with fighting bugs adapted to underwater combat. They are on alert and ready to destroy approaching enemies at any time.

This is where Gurt hides. Of course, he doesn't think that this seemingly well-defended place will definitely not be captured. He has also prepared three escape routes. As long as there is an attack, he will move first.

As long as he is still there, the fortress planet's resistance will still be there, and it can continue to kill the enemy.

At this moment, Gurt focused most of his attention on the battle on the planet. This battle was too fierce. There were more than a dozen tubes inserted into the back of his head, some of which provided him with nutrition and mental recovery, while others provided him with increased computing power and mental power.

The cautious Gurt would not have noticed that there were three red figures adjusting their body postures at an altitude of tens of thousands of meters, aiming at him.

These are clones made by Zhang Han. Each clone is the body of Overmind. They were originally prepared to confuse the enemy and resist Zagara's beheading actions. After all, Zhang Han has no confidence in escaping Zagara's beheading actions like Kundera.

Of course, such a body can be used as both a decoy and an offensive spearhead.

The mental positioning was completed, with an error of no more than one meter. Three bodies and six pairs of arms pointed at the target at the same time, and the curvature engine started.

A second later, the calm blue ocean exploded, and the entire sea surface turned into an explosion of white light and surging steam, as if it had been hit by a huge meteorite.

The Hatchery on the sea, the large Swarm units, the mountain-like defense towers under the sea, and tens of millions of marine adaptive fighting bugs were all reduced to ashes.

Nearly 10,000 meters of seawater was pushed away and evaporated, leaving three large circular craters on the entire seabed. The intersection of the three circular craters was Gurt's location.

His body was trapped and imprisoned by the energy barrier, while cutting off his physical connection with Swarm Network.

A textbook decapitation blow, the battle was over in less than 3 seconds. Three red Overmind bodies stood in the center of the pit, each stretched out a hand, and shot out an energy barrier that maintained the energy that trapped Gurt.

While the beheading attack was successful, the fighting bugs on the fortress planet fell into chaos, but soon they slowly restored order and continued to resist and fight tenaciously.

This surprised Zhang Han. If the positions were reversed and his consciousness was suddenly stripped away from Swarm Network, it would be fine for a short time and would only cause confusion. But as long as he noticed that Zhang Han's consciousness would not return, his Swarm might explode soon.

"Gurt, why have you been caught? Your Swarm can still maintain order and the intensity of resistance has not dropped much." Zhang Han asked Gurt with his mental power.

"Powerful fragment of consciousness, I underestimated you." Gurt, who was bound by energy and could not move, said. "This attack is so exciting and fast. It will kill you with one strike. It is faster and more sudden than my preset plan."

"This time, Swarm is really full of talents. However, I have indeed made a plan to be eliminated in advance, so I gave high permissions to other nodes, including my clone."

"They are just my degraded bodies, but they can still command Swarm on my behalf when I am not around."

Zhang Han really didn't expect this operation. He had never made a plan for what Swarm would do if he was no longer around. Gurt's words meant that even if Zhang Han's decapitation strike was successful, the battle would still not end in a short time.

Gurth's degraded clone will definitely be as stubborn as his true form and will fight until the very end.

"Hey, I sighed." Zhang Han once again understood how tenacious Gurt really was.

"Gurt, I admit, you are more skilled this time. But, even if you can delay me for some time, I can still win." Capturing Gurt was a tactical arrangement made by Zhang Han in order to quickly capture the fortress planet, but it doesn't matter even if it doesn't happen, it just consumes a little more time.

"I no longer have any hope that you will surrender to me, but I want to give you a choice, a choice that is good for me and Swarm. Another galaxy was also captured by me three hours ago, and I captured Kesette."

Doubts appeared in Gurt's mind. Could it be that the fragment of consciousness wanted to threaten him with Kesette? Even for his friends, he would not surrender.

"I searched Kesette's memory. He is an excellent and conscientious Swarm Node. What's more, he is not the heroic node recorded in the memory."

"Even if he is going to die, he should die in a battle with the enemy, not in the Swarm civil war. So, I let him and more than a thousand of his subordinates go."

At this moment, even though Gurt was trapped by the purple energy and couldn't even blink, Zhang Han could still see the shock in his eyes.

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