Chapter 180 Decompression Operation
Lieutenant General Bai's guess coincided with his, but this guess was not supported by sufficient evidence.

He told the commanders-in-chief of each support ship to retreat immediately and notify him if they found any trace of a highly intelligent entity.

There are usually warriors guarding the perimeter of the Matrix. For so long, Lieutenant General Bai had only seen the Matrix on Blue Star that was cooperating with humans without any Zerg warriors around it.

It seems that every time Su Xiaocai appears on the front line, something unexpected happens. Either she discovers the mother body in advance, or she intercepts the professor halfway and catches the enemy off guard.

Bug killer? Crime buster?

Lieutenant General Bai was multitasking, thinking about how to respond if the Matrix appeared and whether his mecha would have any chance of being useful.

"Be careful, it's the mother's plan."

The support ship on Hu Ping's side responded: "Understood."

We still have to enter the interior of the mechanical planet. Even if we cannot install the backup energy source and turn it on, we have to break the sky from the inside so that the mecha can dock inside and proceed to the next step.

The canopy material is quite special, it was originally used as an emergency exit. It is difficult to destroy from the outside, but it is easier to destroy from the inside.
The commander of the support ship immediately named the insect man growing on the sky "Scale Shell" so that he could express himself accurately when giving orders.

“Continue to implement the advancement plan.”

After what happened just now, some people went in to deal with the scale shells, and some went in to deal with the ground insect people, that is, the cowardly insect soldiers.

Hu Ping worked as a pathfinder with the soldiers who had just cooperated well with him. Thanks to Hu Ping's rescue several times, they were completely convinced of Hu Ping.

These people formed a team on their own and set up a channel privately, with Hu Ping as the team leader.

The superior said that he couldn't give them the authority, so couldn't they cooperate secretly?

These soldiers are also very smart. Hu Ping is a better commander and has a higher survival rate. They can also count as part of the military achievement, so why not do it?

The conversation might be recorded and monitored, but this is a small matter. As long as they don't openly call Hu Ping the team leader, their superiors will not pursue it.

The team leader also acquiesced to this decision. He was not as experienced as Hu Ping, so he might as well give up power to save his life.

Hu Ping thought that he was quite capable. Although he was not at the level of a general, he was at least a veteran.

Su Xiaocai has given thousands of war training sessions in total. What does this mean? A soldier who has been in the army for ten years also experiences about the same number of sessions.

Continuously testing his reaction abilities through training, his nerves are more sensitive than most people.

That’s the benefit of realistic simulation.

There are no limits in the simulation cabin, and he had brushes with death many times. If Su Xiaocai hadn't been paying attention, I don't know how many times he would have been sent to the hospital to achieve the skills he has today.

As soon as you enter the training ground of the mechanical planet.

The surrounding tentacles attacked again, and the insect people on the ground wanted to take the initiative. They were very hungry and wanted to devour their own kind.

But there was always a voice in their heads stopping them from taking action, making them confused and annoyed, but they dared not act rashly.

They are not allowed to go out to look for food.

The food comes without invitation.

Without a few scales and shells, there were more gaps. Some insect men jumped up, jumped out of the gravity constraint circle, and pounced on the cave entrance.

Hu Ping, who was the vanguard, raised his knife and stabbed it into the body of the insect man that was rushing towards him.

Actually, it can’t be considered a stab.

The insect-man in the universe that cannot roam will rush towards you in a straight line. There is no need to guess whether it will change its path halfway. Just hit it straight on with the tip of the knife.

He swung the knife, and the insect man skewered on it was thrown onto the scaly tentacles.

The floating blood of the insect man instantly caused the scales to move.

Scale Shell was not polite at all. He grabbed his useless companion and pulled it into his own shell.

The shell of the scaly shell is not big, but the cowardly insect soldiers used as skewers by Hu Ping are quite large.

Although no sound could be heard, the scene of the scaly shell swallowing the insect man seemed to be able to hear the crunching sound of chewing, and the cowardly insect soldier was squeezed into the shell little by little.

During the squeezing process, part of the tissue is squeezed out of the body, and the fragments float away, and are instantly eaten by other scales and shells.

Disgusting!
The commentator on Hu Ping's side couldn't find an adjective to describe the scene before him, so he simply said, "Eating with scales and shells doesn't seem to be very particular."

Barrage:

"When have insect people ever been particular about what they eat?"

"The Demon Eye is quite particular. It likes to inhale."

"Stop talking, there's a picture. Luckily I chose to limit the picture to be automatically mosaiced."

"If you don't see the real scene, how can you understand the hardship on the front line? I'm different. I let the live broadcast screen automatically become cartoon-like, which makes it much easier to feel."

"Huh? Live streaming has this function? Let me explore it."

"I left as soon as I said I would. The number of people in the live broadcast room dropped by half. If you don't dare to watch it, then don't watch it. What a poor excuse. Tsk tsk."

The audience who fled to other live broadcast rooms soon came back. They originally wanted to go to other vegetable farmers' live broadcast rooms, but they found that Hu Ping's methods were still gentler.

On Feng Wansha's side, blood and flesh were flying everywhere, Liu Xun became a crazy meat grinder, Pan Mingjie launched a sinister sneak attack, Wu Feiyang rushed around, and Li Shanchun chased the insect people into a panic.

Each of them is wonderful in its own way, but without exception, they all feature brutality. Once mosaics are put on, it is almost unwatchable, and the main characters are blurred.

In comparison, Hu Ping's side was just insects eating insects, and the mosaics were only applied to the insects.

As for Ji Heng, he is at the center of the mechanical planet, preparing for an attack. It's a bit boring, so the audience is prepared to open the video later.

Just after returning to Hu Ping's live broadcast room, I saw another tentacle crossing the camera and reaching towards Black Wing.

Black Wing caught it as fast as lightning, then rotated the wrist of the mecha, turning hundreds of times a second.

The scales can be easily pulled out of the shell, and the part that is separated from the shell is extremely soft. If you feed it an electromagnetic bullet, it will be electrocuted to the point that it is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, and then it will fall into a long sleep.

After discovering this, he notified the team to work together.

You know what, watching Hu Ping's actions is quite relaxing.

It's like pulling a carrot, one pull at a time, and each pull creates a hole.

The audience enjoyed the show. Although some people still felt sorry for Wu Qingqing, her master and father seemed to refuse to care about her, so not many people cared about her anymore. The people involved didn't care, and some people with ulterior motives even speculated that Wu Qingqing was not popular.

The popularity of Wu Qingqing's "death" has decreased instead of increased, and the troublemakers are beating their chests in anger.

Why does a surfer who usually believes everything he hears listen so much to Su Xiaocai? It's poisonous, absolutely poisonous.

"Hey, Ping, you have a little trick up your sleeve."

"A Ping is quite charming. As a man, I like him a little bit."

"My husband likes him too. Woohoo, you stinky men, why are you still competing with me for him?"

"It's so complicated! I don't understand. I'll keep reading. I just like your messy relationships."

Hu Ping, whose popularity has skyrocketed, doesn’t know what the comments are saying, but he is having a lot of fun.

After pulling out dozens of them, a sense of crisis suddenly emerged.

He glanced up and saw that the edge of the scale shell he had just cleaned had many small, rough-edged tentacles, which seemed to be merging with each other to form new tentacles.

So the tentacles are not the insect man’s body, the shell is!
It is so similar to the structure of the mother body, both of which are self-derived through special physiological structures.

How could something that cannot move reproduce so many? Hu Ping felt a chill in his heart.

He understood Su Xiaocai's good intentions even more deeply. Every time she trained them, she would probably rack her brains to create different crises for them.

Just so that they can quickly judge the characteristics of new things through observation and avoid carelessness.

"Be careful with that shell. Destroy it."

If you are careless for a moment, you may end up burning the candle.

Someone in the team really didn't notice this, so the scaly shell took the opportunity to touch the mecha's shell, and floated out a fungus-like net-like mucus, rooting on the mecha's surface.

"Ah, what the hell is this thing? My mecha arm can't move." I tried to push it away, but couldn't. It was stuck on it, trying to form a new shell. With just a little more time, they could even destroy the surface of the mecha and enjoy their prey.

"High temperature." Hu Ping immediately said on the public channel.

These scales live in space, an extremely cold environment. When the mecha is pressed down, it releases high temperatures and disperses part of the heat energy accumulated to the surface of the mecha.

The surface of the mecha suddenly became hot.

Under the temperature contrast, the mesh-like mucus of the scale shell turns into a pool of liquid and floats away.

It's useful, my teammates are grateful.

"Thanks, brother."

"Be careful."

Hu Ping's discovery led them to send several more mecha divisions into the training ground. The vanguard was responsible for "picking out the carrots" while the people behind dealt with the shells of the scales.

There are too many scales and shells to be cleaned up in a short time.

Hu Ping could only solve the problem of the road leading to the energy supply station of the training ground first. The two members of his team would act as guards to defend and repel or kill the cowardly soldiers.

The team leader and Hu Ping, one on the left and one on the right, escorted the mecha warrior carrying the energy device to the energy supply department.

The road is not long and can be reached in one minute by driving a mecha normally. But today, it took more than an hour.

"Damn it! There are too many cowardly soldiers. Where did all these cowardly soldiers come from on the other side of the border? There must be a mother body."

They come in an endless stream from all directions, just like the tactics of a swarm of insects.

Hu Ping began to speculate that it might be a newborn mother, most likely the mother from which the Greedy One evolved.

The IQ of that kind of mother is not as high as that of a natural mother, and the inherited genetic memory is also limited, but such a mother is strong and can even suppress insect warriors.

You know, the Warrior evolves from the Greedy, and the energy accumulation of the evolutionary line is the same. To evolve the mother, one must also have the characteristics of the mother.

For example, the ones above your head.

Hu Ping gritted his teeth and suddenly understood the purpose of Lieutenant General Bai setting up temporary supply points in each training ground. Each training ground was a node of the mechanical planet. If it could not be flattened, the mechanical planet would have to be blown into pieces.

When the node is disconnected, the backup anti-gravity system will be activated and automatically detach from the mechanical planet.

The detached parts will float outwards, which is a self-protection mechanism of the mechanical planet.

Divide and conquer, making it impossible for the Zerg to provide timely support, and then defeat them one by one.

After thinking it through, Hu Ping knew that every link was important and his task must be completed.

He commanded his teammates to attack the energy supply station to see the damage there. If the energy was cut off in time, the insects would not come to destroy it.

Unlike the 022 mechanical planet which already has artificial intelligence, other mechanical planets do not have artificial intelligence assistance. To cut off energy, they need the assistance of the main control room.

In the energy supply room before him, many instruments were torn to pieces by the insect people, and it was obvious that the main control room had not been shut down in time.

Fortunately, once the outer shell protecting the energy source was broken, the instrument was automatically cut off.

It also saved some equipment.

The mecha pilot carrying the energy device was a senior maintenance technician. After scanning the supply room, he judged: "Hurry up, it can be repaired."

"Leave two to protect the maintenance technicians." Five mecha technicians and the team leader blocked the door, and Hu Ping led the others to clean up the insect people in the supply room.

The maintenance technician quickly opened up the old energy equipment and took emergency repair measures on the damaged areas. The protective shell was broken, so the inside needed to be disassembled so that the fuse could be reconnected.

Hu Ping understands this.

Watching the maintenance technician using tools to unscrew the parts, Hu Ping used his mecha fingers to find the weak point. He exerted force with his mecha fingers and made a hole in the thin metal plate.

Then use both hands to open it and the safety device will be inside.

"Emergency situations should be handled urgently, and maintenance rules do not apply."

The others looked at him.

"Dude, how do you know so much?"

"Learn from the bottom of your heart, and with Coach Su, you will understand a lot."

Why else? It was Su Xiaocai who taught him. Su Xiaocai is simply an all-round master. Only after putting it into practice did Hu Ping realize how much he had learned.

Hu Ping knew that the mechanical planet was abandoned, and the only reason he spent so much effort cleaning it up was because the things could be recycled.

Also, such a building can easily allow the Zerg to take over and become a base camp that can protect the Zerg.

"Can Coach Su be specially hired to come to the army to train us?" There is no need to learn just the basics like Hu Ping. During this offensive process, if Hu Ping joins the army, his accumulated merits can enable him to be promoted directly to private first class.

He will continue to direct later.

Some people are so outstanding that it is hard to arouse jealousy.

There are not many mecha technicians here who graduated from university. It’s not that they don’t want to take the exam, but they don’t have the conditions to do so.

The entry threshold for the mecha technician profession is too high, but without a college education, most people cannot be promoted to at least the general level.

Because the knowledge retained in the brain is not as high as that of those who have attended college.

They are limited by this and their on-the-spot reactions are not as flexible as those of college students like Hu Ping.

The senior maintenance technician here, although a college graduate, is typically stubborn and easily gets into dead ends. He doesn't think as deeply as Hu Ping, so he adopts conservative maintenance methods.

Hu Ping explained it clearly, leaving him speechless, but he also understood that Hu Ping was right.

After doing this, Hu Ping led the team to clean up the insect people.

The senior maintenance worker pointed to an energy transmission line as thick as a fist and said, "By the way, please help check if this branch pipeline is damaged. If you find any, you need to use repair fluid to make a temporary repair."

Then, he took out two bottles of rehydration solution and asked, "Do you know how to use it?"

"Well, it requires high temperature. First add the blue one, which can plug the hole, and then use the green one. If the diameter of the damage exceeds ten centimeters and the width exceeds five millimeters, this remedial method cannot be used. I will notify you." Hu Ping was not showing off his knowledge, but confirming again whether what he was doing was the right step.

It is also a practice that reduces risk and liability.

He is not a senior maintenance worker. This job originally belonged to a senior maintenance worker. If he takes it, he has to bear part of the responsibility and cannot make decisions on his own.

"good."

After getting the maintenance worker's approval, Hu Ping led his team to eliminate the danger in the supply room.

There were only fluorescent strips inside the building to show the way, and the rest of the place was very dark. They raised a few floating lamps and pushed them, and they floated forward, illuminating the surroundings.

Since the pipeline needs to be repaired, inspection along the way is essential. Others do not know how to check, so this job is given to Hu Ping.

Hu Ping quickly saw the first point of damage. It was a cut made by a sharp object, with a length of more than ten centimeters, about one or two centimeters, but the width of the damage was only two millimeters and could be repaired.

Hu Ping and the soldiers stepped up the restoration work.

At this time, two insect men crawled out of the exhaust vent above the wall. Hu Ping and his teammates went forward to kill them while he made repairs.

The wire tube cannot be damaged and the place is relatively narrow.

Fight on, hands tied.

A chewing gum bug man jumped down, opened its body like a flying carpet, squeezed out of the vent, turned in the air, and rushed straight behind Hu Ping.

The teammate next to him provided timely support and fired a magnetic bullet.

It was fired by a special mecha that was equipped with a powerful magnet, and in front of the magnet was a meat grinder-like weapon.

When the chewing gum worm man became magnetic, he was instantly sucked over and crushed into mud.

This weapon is most effective against it.

After all, this kind of chewing gum bug is the most troublesome. Once it sticks to people, the pulling force will become tighter and tighter. Bullets will have to shoot it into a sieve before it can be barely killed.

There is no fire attack in space, and bombs cannot be used indoors.

This led to the development of two weapons specifically for this purpose.

"Chewing gum" is constantly squeezing out of the vents. They don't have sharp claws, but have easily deformed bodies, and the posture of them coming out is like squeezing a pimple.

I wish I could squeeze it out in one go.

Teammates: "Fortunately there is no acid vomiting here..."

"Pah, pah, pah. It is forbidden to say any flags on the battlefield."

"hey-hey."

Hu Ping repaired the line and pulled his hand out: "Let's seal this pipeline."

"Ok."

"You put on the plug." The plug was carried by the team leader. This thing was a compressed small ball. When it was thrown into the place to be repaired, violent repairs could be performed.

This type of repair is one-time, and the repaired items cannot be repaired a second time or recycled.

Anyway, it's right to use it in this situation, just block it first.

"No problem. Brother Hu, what do you say?"

"I'll count one, two, three. On three, fire a magnetic bullet at the entrance of the passage. I'll count to four. If it doesn't attract the magnet, count to five and throw it into the vent."

"Row."

Coordinate well together.

Hu Ping pulled out the Chonglu and flew to the vent, counting "one, two..." while chopping down.

The part of the gum that squeezed out of the vent was neatly cut off, and the part that was injured by the insect seemed to have suffered a heavy blow and shrank. "Three."

The magnetic bullet was successfully fired, and a faint flash of blue light could be seen.

"Four." The powerful magnet sucked away the insect people blocking the vents.

At this time, they could see that the inside was "watertight" and the sturdy vents had been slightly deformed.

"five."

The team leader twisted the plug and threw it into the vent decisively.

Countless black mud-like substances gushed out of the plug. The soldiers had forgotten what it was made of. It had a very long name, a gel-like substance that would harden until it covered the entire passage, blocking it.

A very ordinary shield was pressing tightly against the vent, so the plug could only extend inward, squeezing the space for the gum worm.