This is not mechanical ascension...

Chapter 115: A wave of fat in the safe
"General, have you gained anything?" Zhu Yunshen came to Fu Zongchen's office to ask. Ren Cangsong sighed and said, "There are no clues. Everyone seems to be fine."

Zhu Yunshen hesitated and said, "The chairman has ordered that they must be released by tomorrow afternoon at the latest."

"I understand." Ren Cangsong rubbed his eyebrows. He had never felt so difficult before.

There were almost no clues, weapons, ballistic trajectories, suspects, or even a way forward.

Zhu Yunshen hesitated for a moment and talked about his gains in the afternoon.

"What they told you and me is that they have the ability to change the trajectory of bullets, or even make bullets pass through obstacles out of thin air." Ren Cangsong said helplessly: "But such people are extremely rare. There are not many in the Itlan civilization."

"Oh, there's one more thing." Zhu Yunshen added, "Li Ming's father was a member of the assassination organization "Xiaolong" under Han Ce, the former deacon of the Privy Council."

"And Fu Zongchen has a team called 'Jin' that is killing all the 'Xiaolong'. His father was killed by Jin."

Hmm? Ren Cangsong suddenly raised his head, his eyes sharp: "Why didn't you say so earlier!"

Zhu Yunshen smiled helplessly: "You don't really doubt Li Ming, do you?"

"It was definitely not him who did it." Ren Cangsong shook his head: "Maybe he provided some help."

"Jin's commander-in-chief has died trying to save Li Ming." Zhu Yunshen felt it was nonsense when he thought about this.

Ren Cangsong didn't expect there were so many things involved. After learning more about it, he frowned slightly and said, "This Wang Yan was probably killed by Li Ming."

"That's right, but Fu Zongchen has already accepted this conclusion, and the body has been found." Zhu Yunshen nodded: "In theory, it can be considered revenge."

"That Xiaolong..." Ren Cangsong asked again.

"It's unlikely to be them. They have been hunted for five or six years and have organized counterattacks before, with heavy casualties." Zhu Yunshen shook his head.

"Broken again?" Ren Cangsong felt inexplicably annoyed.

The man who killed Fu Zongchen might now be laughing wildly at their miserable state.

"You don't have to worry. The other party's target is only Fu Zongchen." Zhu Yunshen comforted him. Ren Cangsong cursed a few words in a low voice and handed him a cigar from the table.

"Try it, Li Ming left it for me."

Zhu Yunshen frowned, took it readily, lit it, blew out a smoke ring, looked around the office, and sighed slightly:
"I didn't expect Fu Zongchen to die so suddenly. I'm still a little dazed."

"Have you searched this room?" Zhu Yunshen asked.

"Not yet. Now is not the time to care about this. No matter how many things Fu Zongchen left behind, it has nothing to do with us." Ren Cangsong said with a slight warning.

"I understand." Zhu Yunshen nodded, his eyes falling on the armored cabin on the wall, "But, what should we do with this thing?"

Seeing this armored cabin, Ren Cangsong also had a headache. "We can only send it back. I wonder how the Baijian prince will react when he learns about this."

"What a pity! All the grand plans have come to nothing." Zhu Yunshen walked to the armored cabin.

boom!boom!
He reached out and patted the side of the armored cabin, feeling emotional. A few hours ago, Fu Zongchen had just taken office as a committee member and received a gift from the Prince of Baijan. How glorious it was.
But that bullet ended everything. As one of the witnesses, Zhu Yunshen still has lingering fears.

However, before he could even stop sighing, he inexplicably felt something was wrong. His face was slightly serious, and he looked up and down at the armored cabin. Somehow, the sound and feel seemed not right.

Not only him, Ren Cangsong also noticed this. The two looked at each other and both had a bad premonition.

Zhu Yunshen tried to pat it again, and even shook it, only to hear a "clang" sound, and something fell down.

Zhu Yunshen picked up the metal block from the ground, his expression became more solemn. Ren Cangsong turned the armored cabin around, and his expression suddenly changed.

There was a small dark hole on it.

Ren Cangsong had sensed something, so he grabbed the small hole with both hands and exerted force. With an unpleasant creaking sound, the entire metal armored cabin was torn apart from the center.

But inside, there was nothing.

"Where's the thing!?" Zhu Yunshen was horrified and felt his scalp tingling. There seemed to be something lurking in the shadows around him, waiting for an opportunity to strike. He was completely shrouded in coldness.

Ren Cangsong's face turned pale and he quickly recalled that everyone had entered this room this afternoon.

Only Li Ming had been alone. No... he had nothing on him, and there was no place to hide such a large armor.

"The period before I came was a complete blank. Anyone could have a chance." Ren Cangsong's cheeks twitched. This was simply a naked provocation.

The man was killed and his armor was stolen, as if he were nothing.

Treat the blue planet as nothing!

"After the armored cabin was demonstrated, everyone stayed in the hall and didn't go anywhere except for a few staff members." Zhu Yunshen quickly added relevant information:
"This is a high-end villa area. There are no blind spots in external surveillance. We can find out who has entered and left here with just a check." Zhu Yunshen reacted quickly.

"Call everyone out and check everything on them one by one!" Ren Cangsong suppressed his anger.

"But..." Zhu Yunshen hesitated. Doing so would be too offensive.

When Fu Zongchen just died, they could understand why he stopped everyone because of the emergency, but now...

"If anything happens, I will take responsibility!" Ren Cangsong said in a deep voice.

Having said that, they certainly wouldn't dare to vent their anger on you, so I'll be the one who suffers.

Zhu Yunshen was helpless, but under the circumstances he did not dare to refute and left in a hurry.

Everyone in the room was pulled out and became furious when they learned that every item they carried with them would be checked and even their bodies would be searched.

Shouting that he would fight to the death with Zhu Yunshen!
In the end, it was Ren Cangsong who came out to appease the people, but after the final inspection, nothing was found.

Zhu Yunshen’s surveillance investigation also yielded no results. They reviewed the nearby surveillance footage more than a dozen times but still did not find any suspicious clues.

If it’s not someone from the outside, then it’s someone from the inside.

But the people on the inside couldn't find anything either and were stuck in a dead end.

How could such a large armor disappear out of thin air!
"If you anger me, I will torture you one by one!" Ren Cangsong was already extremely anxious, and he kept roaring: "The Itlan civilization does not have psychic abilities. Let them come, let them come!"

"Calm down, you must calm down." Zhu Yunshen's eyelids twitched and he hurried to comfort her.

No one present was easy to deal with. Even Li Ming, who seemed to be from a common family, had a crazy teacher and an unbreakable golden body of public opinion.

Everyone has some dark little secrets in their hearts. If we really ask Islamic civilization to take action and send in psychics to check memories, the impact caused by this group of people may be even more terrible than the death of Fu Zongchen.

Looking through memories is not without cost. Memory loss and personality distortion are the mildest side effects.

More importantly, as one of the on-site personnel, he would probably also be investigated.

Of course Ren Cangsong knew it was impossible and he was just venting his anger.

He took a deep breath and said, "You stay here and watch. I'm going to go out and report to the chairmen and committee members in person."

Zhu Yunshen nodded. This place was surrounded by three layers of enemies inside and outside, and not even a fly could fly out.

……

"Gone?" In the room downstairs, Li Ming felt that Ren Cangsong had left the sensing range, and the coverage of the positioning was as much as one thousand meters, far beyond Fu Zongchen's villa.

"What are they doing? Reporting? Or looking for someone?" Li Ming pondered. He just pulled them out for inspection one by one, probably because Ren Cangsong had already discovered the empty armored cabin.

Looking at the other person's expression, Li Ming knew that he was very angry.

"Now is a good opportunity. Once we leave here, it will be troublesome to come in again." Li Ming thought about it and waited for another ten minutes. There was no sign of Ren Cangsong coming back.

He no longer hesitated, stepped on the head of the bed, looked at the ceiling, and secretly estimated the location.

"The secret room should be behind Fu Zongchen's office, about three meters away..."

Turning on [Intelligent Assistance], Li Ming compared it bit by bit.

Finally, they determined an approximate range and pried off a piece of the ceiling, revealing the concrete and steel structure behind it.

Slightly hesitant, he moved now. The traces left behind would be difficult to clean and would require taking certain risks.

"Fu Zongchen, you have been an official for so many years, please don't let me down."

He made up his mind, then took out the ion sword and slowly inserted it in. The concrete was cut neatly like a block of tofu.

Soon, Li Ming felt the obstruction, "It should be the alloy part."

He turned it carefully, cut it into a square, and then held it steadily and pulled out the rectangular concrete block. Behind it was a silver-white alloy wall.

The alloy wall is so hard that even an ion sword cannot cut it directly. It needs to be ground slowly.

Li Ming stretched out his fingers and began to absorb, "cutting" a hole and jumping in, and then his breathing stagnated slightly.

This was not a secret room; to be more precise, it was a safe, and he was in a corner.

The safe is not very big, only about four or five square meters, but the alloy cabinets on the wall are filled with various interstellar precious metals, row after row.

"Gold, purple crystal, Kasakulsha gold, gold platinum diamond crystal, wow..." Li Ming's eyes were burning with heat.

Fu Zongchen's role as the Privy Councilor was not in vain.

He was in a hurry, so he immediately picked up a piece of interstellar precious metal and began to absorb it.

With anticipation and anxiety, Li Ming kept praying that Ren Cangsong would not come back so soon.

But fortunately, until five in the morning, there was no sign of Ren Cangsong returning.

And all the metal energy in the entire safe was completely devoured by him.

"Five hundred and twenty thousand points, that's a lot of fat." Li Ming's throat moved. Together with the rest, the overall metal energy had exceeded the six hundred thousand mark.

He guessed that this should only be part of Fu Zongchen's assets.

He probably has more in his personal accounts, as well as physical assets and investments, but he has no hope of getting his hands on them.

He didn't have time to think about it carefully. The entire vault was basically emptied by him, leaving only some inconspicuous weapons, which were the kind that wasted metal energy.

Li Ming also took photos of some materials and pictures and kept them.

In order to ensure that no accidents occurred, he chose to snipe Fu Zongchen at close range, which was risky.

But whether it was the armor or the safe, he didn't regret it. He would upgrade them severely when he returned.

The only trouble is that the traces of his presence here cannot be erased.

Li Ming looked down at the entrance of the hole. Even if he blocked it with an alloy block, the traces were still very clear. If he looked carefully, he could easily lock onto the target.

However, this adventure is definitely worth it. Even if I get discovered, the worst that can happen is I can just pretend to be stupid.

There is no other evidence, and considering his current golden body, it is highly likely that there is nothing wrong.

"However, it's better not to be discovered." He thought, and his tightly furrowed brows suddenly relaxed.

"If you want to hide the subtle traces, of course you have to create bigger traces." He grinned, put on the [Thunder Burning Equipment Ball] to enhance his control over the fire element, and then stretched out his hand, and blazing flames gushed out in an instant.

The alloy used in the safe was very hard, but the cabinets used to store things were not as strong. After more than ten minutes, they had turned into iron pulp.

Li Ming then filled the entire safe with holes of the same size, and did the same with the concrete behind it, and then sealed them with iron slurry, including the small hole he came through.

Some more concrete was dug from the side, crushed into powder, mixed with water, and applied to both sides of the concrete blocks. Finally, more concrete blocks were filled in and the ceiling was covered.

Apart from the slightly higher temperature in the room, almost nothing else could be seen.

Of course, he didn't expect to be able to erase all traces, as long as he could delay it long enough.

Ren Cangsong didn't come back until dawn. At seven o'clock in the morning, the officials started clamoring again and insisted on leaving.

For people like them, the longer they lose contact with the outside world, the more uneasy they feel.

"Fuck, did you feel it last night? It was inexplicably hot, I don't know what was going on." Qi Xing yelled as soon as he opened the door.

"I felt it. I was curious too." Li Ming was the second to agree.

"I didn't feel anything." Rosser shook his head. His room was a little further away.

Ren Cangsong never came back and no one knew what happened to him.

Without Ren Cangsong's support, Zhu Yunshen would not be able to withstand the questioning of these officials.

After holding on until nine o'clock, the news finally came. Zhu Yunshen was shocked, breathed a sigh of relief, and forced a smile: "Everyone, you can leave now."

Unexpectedly, no one present moved. They just looked at each other with subtle expressions.

Qi Zhan was the first to speak: "After leaving here, I don't want anyone to come to me because of Fu Zongchen's death."

"That's right." Others echoed.

"I can't guarantee that either." Zhu Yunshen said helplessly, "We have to find out the truth about Commissioner Fu's death."

"Since there is no guarantee, let's just stay here until the matter is fully investigated."

Zhu Yunshen asked them to leave, but they were no longer in a hurry. They found a seat and sat down, and started chatting.

Qi Xing was dumbfounded.

What a bunch of bastards! Zhu Yunshen's eyebrows jumped. They were all shrewd people, and they still wanted to mix in the political arena of Blue Star.

After they get out, if someone uses today's incident to attack them, claiming that they participated in the assassination of Fu Zongchen, it will be a trouble of every magnitude, and this kind of trouble must be prevented.

"What a bunch of old foxes." Li Ming's eyes were full of wonder. "But this seems to be a good idea."

(End of this chapter)