Stellaris Crisis: Rise of the Swarm
Chapter 81

Crisis management

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As Behemoth said, Behemoth is very powerful, and Zhang Han's consciousness can feel its powerful mental pressure even in his sleep.

Just from the perspective of mental strength, Behemoth is lower than Zhang Han who is Overmind, and can reach about half of Zhang Han.

This is already very astonishing. Putting aside the physical strength of Behemoth, the mental power of this size is also devastating to Tabi Star.

Zhang Han sighed, it seems that he really underestimated Behemoth before. Now he has to find a way to save it. Swarm must have suffered a lot from fighting this kind of existence.

This kind of recovery is not easy. Zhang Han discovered an even more embarrassing thing. Although the original Psionics sea had Psionics tides, they were all on the surface.

And as his consciousness was thrown into the Psionics sea, the powerful spiritual power of Overmind consciousness was like a rushing flood, injected into the Psionics sea.

The entire Psionics sea is no longer as simple as setting off a tide, it is about to have huge waves. If such huge waves are allowed to hit the surface of the Psionics sea hard several times, Behemoth will wake up immediately.

This is the case with many things. The problem has just been discovered and it has entered a crisis.

The super reaction of Overmind's consciousness came into play. Zhang Han quickly activated multi-threaded thinking and accelerated thinking. Using the time gained by these two skills, he quickly stopped all Cerebrate's work.

Not only Cerebrate, but also the thinking of Hive Mind was brought into the consciousness space. The nutrient solution of Hatchery Pool in Hatchery was also specially supplied to the two existing Cerebrate.

Really Zhang Han feels more and more the importance of Cerebrate. It is a commander, a coordinator, a supercomputer, and a scientific research center. If it is not too expensive, Cerebrate really has no shortcomings.

Ten seconds later, Cerebrate calculated the two best plans to deal with the current situation.

Plan 1: Hatchery overloads Hatchery Pool and begins to incubate and strengthen Mutalisk in large quantities, which is Mutalisk that strengthens the acid attack and can release Psionics. At the same time, the production area of Hatchery catalyzes more High-energy Crystal, preparing for a saturation nuclear strike.

Plan two is to stop all production work immediately and extract all the mental power from Swarm Network. Cerebrate assists Overmind to control these mental powers and quickly get into the sea of Psionics.

When it reaches a certain depth, Overmind controls the huge mental power to wrap the core of the Psionics sea so that the huge waves on the surface of the Psionics sea will not affect the sleeping Behemoth in the core.

Both options have their own advantages and disadvantages. The first option is most likely to win. Hatchery reserves a large amount of High-energy Crystal for the next upgrade. No matter how ferocious the creature is, all creatures are equal in the face of nuclear attack.

All fear stems from lack of firepower.

If Behemoth can fly, the highly maneuverable enhanced Mutalisk can also catch up to attack and drop bombs. Even if Mutalisk is not enough, Neural Thorn can be used to forcibly brainwash the harpies, allowing them to make up for the losses of Mutalisk.

The cost is also obvious. Nuclear strikes will cause serious damage to the environment. Swarm may suffer heavy casualties and its development speed will definitely be slowed down.

The second plan is to solve the problem from the source. The difficulty lies in the precise operation of mental power, and Zhang Han himself has to withstand the pressure of the deep Psionics sea. Whether it can succeed is difficult to calculate.

If it fails, Behemoth will still wake up, and Swarm will lose the final war preparation time.

It's time for Overmind to make a decision. The consciousness space and time of accelerated thinking flow relatively slowly, but time will not stop.

Psionics A huge wave in the sea crashed hard on the sea. This huge wave was so big that the entire Psionics sea shook.

It was too late to hesitate any longer, Zhang Han made up his mind.

"Extract the spiritual power from Swarm Network, and Hatchery begins mass production of nuclear explosion crystals. Without Mutalisk, the harpies will drop bombs. The survival of Swarm is everything."

Overmind's order was quickly executed, Swarm's work was all stopped, and their mental power was greatly extracted. Stars, the harpy and other peripheral nodes were also partially extracted.

With hundreds of thousands of Swarm mental powers added to Overmind's own mental powers, Zhang Han felt that the mental power he controlled seemed to be comparable to the entire Psionics sea.

Before he could indulge in the powerful power, Cerebrate had already helped him calculate the depth to dive into the Psionics sea and the location of the core of the Psionics sea.

Zhang Han controlled a huge amount of mental power and plunged into the Psionics sea.

In order to dive in faster, Zhang Han, with the help of Cerebrate, kneaded his huge mental power into the shape of a drill. When he dived deep enough, he flattened his mental power into a large net.

The control at this time is the most difficult. First, the mental power must be thick enough to withstand the impact of Psionics's huge waves on the sea. Second, it must not be too thick, otherwise the total mental power will not be enough. Moreover, it is easy to irritate Besmos during the process of wrapping it.

Wrapping Besmos with a mental power net requires extremely high accuracy in mental power control. Zhang Han cannot control it by himself, so he can only suffer a little more Cerebrate.

Slowly, the big net formed by Swarm's mental power grew bigger and bigger, covering the core of the Psionics sea little by little. Everything went smoothly, blocking the huge waves of the Psionics sea.

In the virtual network, Zhang Han's conscious body wiped the sweat from his forehead. It finally succeeded. Cerebrate's contribution to this success was the greatest.

Zhang Han looked at his feet. The two consciousnesses of Cerebrate were very small, just two fleshy caterpillars. They looked quite cute and not as scary as their main bodies.

After all, with the style of painting of Zerg, the huge brain towering on top of Hatchery would make any intelligent creature look crazy.

Gently take the two caterpillars into the palm of your hand and stroke them. Zhang Han is very grateful for their hard work.

Not only in this crisis management, Swarm's large-scale and rapid development cannot be separated from their computing power support. Zhang Han doesn't know how to thank them, so we can only touch them with our hands and comfort them with our consciousness.

Although the caterpillars are very weak, they are also very enthusiastic. They rub their heads on Zhang Han's hand. They are in a very happy mood, just like clingy kittens.

Cerebrate has huge computing power and brainpower, but Swarm did not endow them with intelligence when they hatched them. The reason is also very simple. Boring calculations and statistical work are incompatible with free will. Putting a life with rich emotions in this kind of work will drive the conscious body crazy.

Can you imagine an intelligent person working like a clock with the same precision? That would not make people feel normal, it would only make people feel terrible.

Therefore, suppressing Cerebrate's wisdom is to protect it. If it is not smart enough, it will naturally not understand what is dull and boring.

Hive Mind is an exception. It has both powerful computing power and relatively rich emotional intelligence. It is very complicated to achieve this balance. Generally, a Swarm can only have one Hive Mind.

And Hive Mind doesn't make logical decisions, it doesn't look like a human, but like an advanced artificial intelligence.

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