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Chapter 175 Arriving at the Little Nebula

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    Regardless of Fisto and Sostor, on the other hand, Keston, the top civilization in the universe, was also attracted to Chikesel by the news. There were also a large group of high-level civilizations and middle-level civilizations who were moved by the news. A small space city immediately became  the focus of the entire universe.  Li Ping, who didn't know all this, was in a somewhat tense state of hyperspace navigation. There was a slight error in the previous hyperspace voyage, and he was actually hit by a large fleet. If the shipworms hadn't always maintained two hyperspace  The energy required for navigation, Li Ping saw that the situation was not good and directly dived into the hyperspace channel, the Zerg would definitely be in trouble.  Li Ping knew that the other party must have discovered him, but he didn't know if they could recognize that he was the Zerg in such a short period of time.  ¡° If he really recognized it, then Li Ping would have to consider restraining his recent actions. After all, the Zerg¡¯s space strength is not strong yet, and it would not be fun if they were caught by a large alien fleet.  But this experience made Li Ping see something wrong.  That is, the opponent's reaction speed is very slow, at least in emergencies, otherwise Li Ping will not be able to safely jump into the hyperspace channel again.  Although you still have a lot of life, after all, you have never died before, so you will still be nervous when encountering this kind of situation, especially when a huge circle of battleships is in front of you.  However, this also made Li Ping more concerned about the subsequent actions. As long as the action is successful, owning a large group of ship insects will no longer be a dream. By then, "Hey hey~~" Li Ping in YY  Ping, couldn't help but laugh strangely in his heart.  Before he could finish his weird laugh, the entire shipworm was swept by a strange wave. This was the shipworm jumping out of the hyperspace channel.  As soon as he came out, Li Ping felt a sense of comfort, and the mothership also squirmed. The carapace turned over and over again, reflecting the light coming from nowhere, all the way to the end.  The entire mothership is very obvious in the somewhat dim space.  The huge "marshmallow" in front of him is Li Ping's destination. Although the highly compressed gas does not have enough gravity to form gas planets or stars, it is enough to emit strong radiation. Visible light is only one of these radiations.  kind of.  As the distance got closer, this small nebula gradually occupied Li Ping's entire field of vision.  Now, his whole body was covered with an armor-like carapace, and he stood in front of the shipworm with a humanoid body, sizing up the nebula in front of him.  The radiation gradually increased as the distance approached, and Li Pian's Zerg armor facing the nebula began to heat up from hundreds of degrees below zero, gradually to above zero, then to hundreds of degrees Celsius, and finally to thousands.  At this point, Li Ping knew that this humanoid body had reached its limit, and if it continued any further, he could only rely on life energy to support it.  However, Li Ping, who has suffered losses, will not force himself to do it.  You must know that when he tried to get close to a star just to test the performance of the ship bug's carapace, he lost a ship bug because of hard resistance.  However, he did not know at the time that the star would have a gravitational mutation within a certain range. The already endangered shipworm was pulled into the no-escape zone of the star without any resistance, even though the jumping organ was under the control of the accessory brain.  Overloading will not help.  The strong stellar storm carries a large amount of high-speed particles and high-energy radiation towards the shipworm. The shipworm is first hit at the tail end of the star. The carapace begins to melt and vaporize almost visibly, and the internal tissues also become necrotic at a rapid rate.  When the jet propulsion capsule was completely necrotic, the shipworm, which had lost a lot of thrust, was even less able to resist and was pulled faster by the strong gravity of the star.  The entire shipworm became a rat in a frying pan, struggling in vain.  Only the outermost carapace lasted the longest, but as the distance got closer, the strongest carapace among the Zerg also persisted for less than a minute before being completely dissolved and peeled off.  After losing the carapace, the damage to the relatively fragile internal tissues is even more serious. It is even like a pressure cooker. Various internal evaporated and gasified tissues are ejected from the holes in the carapace at high speed, looking like a comet from a distance.  Li Ping, whose consciousness is still in the ship worm, also realizes what the power of heaven is and what insignificance is.  If it weren't for the life energy contained in the shipworm itself, the entire shipworm would have been fully cooked long ago, and it might not even turn into fly ash!  Fortunately, the ship worm is large and can persist for a long time even without resistance. However, as the ship worm enters the violent and chaotic magnetic field of the star, Li Ping can only guard the biological brain and struggle to maintain the connection with his mental power.  Even though the star was smaller than the sun at that time, its power was still not something that the current Zerg could challenge. High-energy radiation continuously consumed the life energy of the Zerg. Without the repair and protection of life energy, a large amount of light speed  The moving high-energy particles are like high-pressure water cannons, dispersing the shipworm's tissues into sand-like particles.Granular elementary particles.  Li Ping is still frightened when he thinks about it now. At that time, he was completely submerged in a sea of ??various high-temperature gases and high-energy particles. The entire shipworm only had a biological brain and a thick layer of carapace growing around it.  .  The last thing Li Ping saw on the shipworm was the ferocious star that filled the entire field of view and exuded a powerful aura.  After returning to the mothership, Li Ping was silent for a long time.  His constant success has gradually paralyzed his caution. It was not until this disastrous defeat in front of the stars that Li Ping suddenly woke up. Not to mention those powerful advanced civilizations, even in front of these most ordinary stars, the Zerg were still so small.  Fortunately, Li Ping has seen himself clearly again, otherwise, it is not certain whether Li Ping, who is becoming more and more arrogant, will lead the Zerg to do some stupid things.  Although one ship worm was lost, fortunately, the main consciousness of this ship worm was safe and sound, and it contained some insignificant things. Except for the loss of element 99, which made Li Ping a little heartbroken, the other things only had a little bit of heartache.  Time can be made up, and what Li Ping lacks most is time.  Moreover, after this incident, Li Ping also discovered that the warship bug's carapace was not enough to resist high temperatures. Those high-energy particles did too much damage to the carapace. This was a serious flaw. After Li Ping thought about it, he simply put this  The shipworms that were lost were used as tuition fees.  If you want the Zerg carapace to better defend against high-energy particles, you must increase the density of the carapace, whether it is material density or energy density. The higher the density, the stronger the ability to resist high-energy particles.  But the increase in energy density involves high-energy physics, which the Zerg are not good at.  Li Ping had no choice but to sail straight to the bridge.  Li Ping was thinking about other things, but the entire Zerg fleet did not stop at all.  Feeling the gradually increasing gravity, the shipworm began to feel that the space no longer seemed empty, and a small amount of gas molecules had been captured by the keen sensory organs on the shipworm's carapace.  This is a good sign, indicating that the Zerg have reached the outer edge of this small nebula. If they fly tens of millions of kilometers further, there will probably be enough gas for the Zerg to absorb.  At the same time, Li Ping was also woken up by Louise and told him the good news.  This is indeed good news. It means that the destination has been reached, and the first mining operation in the universe that makes Li Ping excited is about to begin.  "Are you here?" After being reminded by Louise, Li Ping pulled his thoughts back.  "It's almost there. I've sensed more hydrogen and helium molecules now. Based on the current speed of inertial navigation, the absorbable concentration will be reached in another 20 hours." "So are you sensing the silicon crystal now?"  Although he has strong mental power, he is not as good as the shipworm with a huge biological brain in terms of fine control of mental power. Moreover, Li Ping is too lazy to do this work now. Of course, with such dedicated subordinates, he must use it as much as possible.  "Not yet, but I can feel that the energy density of this nebula is very high." Louise replied slightly excitedly. Although no trace of silicon crystal has been found yet, the high energy density of this small nebula indicates its future.  not simple.  And it¡¯s not just a large amount of hydrogen and helium. Through close observation, Li Ping discovered that there are also many asteroids and a lot of dust in this small nebula.  Through the induction of gravity, Li Ping even discovered that there was already a compressed gas mass of considerable mass in the center that was emitting a large amount of radiation.  Fortunately, there is still a long way to go before the critical mass of igniting the hydrogen nuclear fusion reaction to become a star. Li Ping still has a long period of time to find his own "silicon crystal" with peace of mind.  However, it is indeed a big challenge to find and collect the rare silicon crystal "powder" in such a large area, especially when there is a large group of mercenaries chasing after the Zerg as if they are on drugs.  Soldiers and pirates.  But Li Ping is not worried at all. As long as he finds a larger asteroid and then throws seventeen or eight insect nests on it, tens of thousands of worker bees will hatch out quickly.  With worker bees collecting resources, Li Ping can hatch whatever bugs he wants.  "But" Li Ping, who was a little happy after hearing Louise's report, suddenly discovered a problem, "It doesn't seem possible to just rely on worker bees to collect silicon crystals!" "Yes, in this interstellar environment, worker bees are  The collection efficiency is really too low," Louise interjected.  She knew the reason. After all, StarCraft, the prototype of worker bees, did not have an interstellar battlefield. Naturally, farmers had not considered collection operations in an interstellar space environment.  Li Ping thought for a moment. Although worker bees can "swim" to travel and collect resources when the gas concentration in the space environment increases to a certain level, the efficiency of doing so is too low. It is necessary to collect all the silicon crystals in this small nebula.  Have to wait until the Year of the Monkey and the Horse?    And according to the current situation, those silicon crystals are likely to be mixed in interstellar clouds or dust as small crystal particles. There is really not much that the worker bees can do to deal with this kind of "fluid matter".  But this does not mean that Li Ping has nothing to do with these things. As a ship worm, there is another thing that can be used in this situation, and that is the ship worm's particle capture system.  The system originally designed to intercept the energy and particles emitted by stars can collect hydrogen, helium and dust with only slight modifications, and it is not too difficult to filter out the silicon crystal contained in it.  Like a fishing net, if you sift through it over and over again, you can always find those silicon crystals that are deeply hidden.  However, it is unrealistic to collect ship bugs by yourself. At this time, Li Ping had an idea in his mind.  "How long does it take to integrate the stellar particle collection system into the elytra of flying insects and mantises?" Li Ping, who had an idea in mind, asked Louise directly.  It's not that Li Ping is lazy and doesn't want to do his own research, but as the scale of the Zerg grows larger and larger, the scope of the race becomes wider and wider, and various research projects can be said to be as vast as the ocean.  Li Ping gradually realized that it was no longer enough for the Zerg to conduct research and development on its own. Without the support and assistance of Louise and the large number of queens and ship bugs below, the Zerg would never have reached its current level.  Maybe, the Zerg are still crawling slowly in the Milky Way, maybe they have been beaten to a pulp by those alien space pirates or mercenaries.  Now Li Ping is a little grateful to those alien space pirates. Without the pressure they brought, the Queen would not have been exposed to independent research content so quickly.  Although this is suspected of being counterproductive, the self-hematopoietic ability of the Zerg forced by Li Ping has indeed greatly accelerated the evolution of the entire Zerg group.  So now, except for some important experiments, Li Ping has left most of his experiments to his subordinates. He only does some direction guidance work, and most of his time and energy are spent on the analysis and layout of alien civilizations.  A small problem like the one just now can be solved by any queen. Li Ping was naturally relieved. Almost as soon as he asked the question, Louise gave the answer: "It takes about seventeen hours to modify and perfect the genes. After upgrading everything,  The existing flying insects and flying mantises only need two hours. " "Then let the Queen study it as soon as possible and try to complete it before arrival. By the way, the purpose of this modification is to increase the collection efficiency. Don't worry about the appearance. "  "Got it!" Louise replied and went to work.  At this time, Li Ping had little time to spare. Although the content in space was very small, the trace amounts of extractable matter could still provide him with some information about this small nebula.  From this information, Li Ping can determine some basic information about this small nebula. Li Ping can confirm that there is no danger here, and it is also a useful supplement to the Zerg's astronomical knowledge.  Fortunately, the gravity technologies obtained from the Yu Pirates have been completely integrated by the Zerg. Now, with the help of the extremely sensitive gravity brain, the Zerg can be said to have avoided many cosmic disasters.  For example, a black hole has a puzzling gravity. Within a certain range (Schwarzschild radius), even light cannot escape its gravity and falls into it.  Based on current theories on Earth, we can only know that in a black hole, all physical laws do not exist, and even time stops.  If he encounters this kind of thing, even if the Zerg is hundreds of times stronger, Li Ping can only hehehe, and then obediently return to the reserve base to make a comeback.  However, when the black hole is still dozens of light-years away, the shipworm obediently takes a detour, and there are red dwarfs, white dwarfs, and even neutron stars, which are as conspicuous as beacons in the shipworm's gravitational brain.  , it¡¯s hard not to find out.  Therefore, in these years of space travel, the Zerg have basically not been tricked by these celestial bodies. However, high-energy radiation and high-energy particles always come out of the blue like black guns. Li Ping's mothership alone has been hit several times.  The move.  The powerful flow of high-energy particles is extremely powerful and can even completely blow away the atmosphere of a planet. For example, a 700-meter-class shipworm with a mass of more than five million tons is often blown thousands of miles away.  And because this kind of thing attacks very suddenly, Li Ping is in a hurry every time, and it is common for ship bugs to be injured.  After a long time like this, without Li Ping's teaching, the shipworms have long been accustomed to being cautious in everything.  As the distance approached, the shipworm began to release the flying mantises and flying insects in the insect sacs inside its body. As for the bugs that it had brought with it, they had long since died and only a few dozen flying insects were left. Even the carapace of the shipworm  They were often destroyed by meltdowns, let alone bugs. High-energy particles flowed down several times, and bugs without the protection of ship bugs basically died.    These bugs were hatched by Li Ping later. After some improvements, they have become much more capable and are fully capable of reconnaissance in this environment.  The first one to come out was the flying mantis. The flying mantis, which had just woken up from short-term hibernation, tried hard to stretch its body so that its limbs and various organs in the body could resume functions as soon as possible.  This short-term dormancy ability was developed from the petrified dormancy originally developed by the three insect nests.  In order to cope with situations that may arise at any time, the Zerg fleet always maintains a large number of flying mantises and flying insects, but during normal interstellar navigation, energy is very precious to the Zerg.  And this short-term dormancy just solves this contradiction.  When reconnaissance is not needed, flying mantises and flying insects sleep inside the body of the ship insect to save energy.  And when reconnaissance power is needed, they can quickly wake up and play a role. It only takes a few minutes for the flying mantis to go from dormancy to complete recovery.  A few minutes passed, and the flying mantis that emerged first also fully recovered. With one powerful jump, he broke away from the ship insect and continued to fly outward with inertia.  Since he had just arrived here, Li Ping was not familiar with it at all, and he was not sure whether the greedy Yu Pirates and the always extremely cautious mercenaries could safely let this much larger silicon crystal mining area go unprotected.  I still have doubts. If it were me, even if there was no way to keep personnel for the time being, I would definitely keep some satellites or drones.  And even though they are just space thieves or mercenaries, they can still build some unmanned sentries, space mines or automatic satellites with their technology, and this is what Li Ping is afraid of.  You know, on the planet, maybe a nuclear bomb can destroy hundreds of millions of Zerg, but in the universe, as long as the environment is suitable, maybe a small landmine can trigger the movement of celestial bodies and cause catastrophe.  Under this level of movement of celestial bodies, the Zerg fleet is nothing more than an ant.  Fortunately, there are no dangerous objects in this small nebula, but just in case, Li Pingrang did not let Fei Mantis activate the jet propulsion bag, but relied on inertia to fly first.  ;
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