This is not mechanical ascension...

Chapter 122: Finally able to reduce the cooling time of switching controlled objects

"Why are there only these two people who took action? Are they from the same camp?" Zhang Huaiyuan was still trying to react when Li Ming seamlessly got to the point.

Chen Jinglong looked at him deeply and shook his head, "Obviously not. The people we caught along the way had completely different styles of behavior from these two. They looked like the Torch people."

"But these two...heavy armor, sniper rifles, attack and kill without hesitation..."

Chen Jinglong didn't finish his words.

At the same time, secret service members in plain clothes who were hiding in various places came from all directions and began to clean up the scene, pull up shielding lines, and enclose the bodies.

Not long after, a figure jumped down from a great height, holding a half-dead person in his hand. He was wearing gold-rimmed glasses and the sniper rifle behind him was very eye-catching.

"Teacher, we've caught the person." He threw the person in his hand to the field staff, who put on a gene inhibitor while testing him to see if he was carrying any suicide poison.

"This kind of heavy armor and sniper rifle are not something that ordinary people can get." Li Ming took a quick look and quickly came up with a few names.

Star Creation Company, Sera Civilization.

Needless to say, Xingchuang Company is very powerful in Blue Star.

The Sera civilization had long regarded him as a thorn in their side.

Now that Yuko is dead, they have suffered a great loss and are eager to kill him, and they have sufficient motives.

"Jingnanxing at least has an aerospace shield and the [Regulations Prohibiting Light and Heavy Weapons]. It is very difficult to smuggle such heavy weapons." Chen Jinglong squatted down and checked the model of armor on the attacker.

"We should be able to find some clues." Chen Jinglong stood up. In the interstellar society, every movement will leave traces. The bigger the movement, the bigger the trace left behind.

Thinking of this, his brows furrowed slightly. Besides Fu Zongchen being killed...

"Li Ming?" The man brought Li Ming back to his senses while he was thinking, and introduced himself as Yuan Hong.

"I didn't expect that my junior brother has such sharp observation skills." Yuan Hong's eyes were amazing.

Along the way, he followed Li Ming's instructions to arrest people. At first he was shocked and hesitant, but later he became numb. He had never felt so relaxed before.

"I worked as a city guard for a while and learned some skills." Li Ming explained modestly.

When I returned to the laboratory, it was almost dusk.

After repeatedly reminding Chen Jinglong not to forget to deliver his ten mother ores, he reluctantly got out of the car when he saw the other party's face turn black.

Luo Chuan was relieved to see that he had returned safely, and he reminded him as they walked:

"If the dean asks you to do something risky like this again, remember to refuse. Don't be embarrassed. Nothing is more important than your own life."

Seeing that Luochuan was suspected of evolving into an old mother, Li Ming made repeated assurances.

After watching Luo Chuan leave, Li Ming did not return to his room, but knocked on Chen Yan's door.

The room was decorated in a warm and pink color, with various virtual pictures and paper figures with eight-pack abs, which was in line with her personality.

Chen Yan placed her delicate fingers on her lips, signaling Li Ming not to speak.

Li Ming now turns on [Smart Assistance] all the time. As soon as he walked in, he found that there were at least two very deeply hidden surveillance devices.

"Going to bed so early?" Li Ming followed suit and started acting.

Chen Yan also cooperated: "Not yet, watch two episodes of "The Lone Gun" before going to bed."

"Come to my room, I'll show you a big treasure." Li Ming pulled Chen Yan and pushed her.

Chen Yan gritted her teeth secretly.

When they arrived at Li Ming's room, Chen Yan said coldly, "You don't have to act so much. The equipment in my room is just a listening device, not a surveillance device."

"Who released it, Lao Luo?" Li Ming asked.

"It should be him."

"He doubts your identity?" Li Ming frowned slightly.

"I don't know. When I first came here, I checked the entire room and found no surveillance equipment. It must have been put there a few days after I left your room." Chen Yan shook her head.
"Rather than doubting my identity, he's more like trying to determine if I can do you any harm."

When Yan first realized this, he felt depressed.

Luo Chuan, did he really think that Li Ming was a young man who had never seen the world? He was afraid that he was deceiving him.

Li Ming nodded thoughtfully, then his expression became serious and he shouted, "How did you report to Huoju? I almost died in Huoju's hands today, do you know that?"

Chen Yan was confused. No, brother, you changed your expression too quickly.

However, after hearing what Li Ming said, her face changed slightly, "The Torch can't kill you. They haven't given me any relevant orders to cooperate."

Li Ming's expression was gloomy. "What's impossible? Heavy armor, long-range sniper rifles, and more than a dozen lurking personnel. This drama is too much."

"Heavy armor? Long-range sniper rifle?" Chen Yan was even more surprised: "How could the torch make such a big noise?"

"I was just about to ask you, what did you say to Torch?" Li Ming's eyes were cold.

Me? Chen Yan paused, "Do you suspect that I am interfering?"

She was extremely angry. It was bad enough that she was caught by Torch, but after she sneaked in here, she was caught by Li Ming again.

Now I am in a dilemma, it's like walking on a tightrope without any shoes on, it's extremely uncomfortable,

Her face was tense and she said bluntly: "Since you didn't trust me from the beginning to the end, why did you spare my life at that time? You might as well kill me."

"I'm just about to correct this mistake." Li Ming had pulled out a dagger from somewhere.

"Wait, wait..." Chen Yan waved her hands hurriedly, her temper calmed down, and she was no longer annoyed. She stepped back repeatedly: "I can explain. Give me some time, I can find out what's going on!"

"Are you sure?" Li Ming narrowed his eyes.

"Five days, give me five days!" Chen Yan promised immediately.

Li Ming suddenly smiled, and the dagger in his hand disappeared, smiling brightly: "Oh, it was just a joke, look how scared you are."

Chen Yan's throat rolled and her face turned pale. She just wanted to leave here.

He smiled in agreement and then hurried away.

Is it really necessary to scare him so much?
Li Ming shook his head. He certainly didn't do this simply to scare Chen Yan. He also wanted to use the torch to see if he could find out who the other group of people were.

"After all, I am your key investment target, and I was almost shorted. You have to investigate it anyway." He muttered, opening the box on the ground. Inside were the gadgets he bought today, and he took control of them one by one.

The most important thing is the [Soul Visor].

[Soul Visor--D-Level (Damaged): Made of hafnium alloy as the main material, combined with quantum matrix.

Control conditions: 6,000 metal energy points
Control effect: Hidden blessing--100%
Control ability - psychic masking: distorts the image of oneself in the vision of D-level life forms and conventional monitoring equipment. 】

After he took control, he tried to film himself with a smart device. The whole body was distorted, but it did not disappear completely, just like a cloud of mist. Then, he upgraded it, investing 60,000 points to upgrade it to C-level. The half face armor that had faded severely turned light gold again, and the stripes and grooves formed a special pattern.

The hidden blessing becomes 150%. Li Ming has never tried this blessing effect. I am afraid it needs to be stacked to an extremely high number before there will be any change.

The ability can conceal C-level life forms and advanced monitoring equipment.

He experimented again and found that the original fog image had turned into a distorted transparent body, which was difficult to see unless you looked carefully.

Li Ming was very satisfied, and was more secretive in what he did afterwards. However, there were only about 40,000 metal energies left, which made him smack his teeth. It was too fast.

We have to find a way to get some more.

……

Dean Chen Jinglong is very efficient. Early the next morning, someone delivered the things and put them in a large storage device.

"The teacher said that the things must be delivered to you." Yuan Hong smiled, wearing gold-rimmed glasses and a suit, looking more like a beast in human clothing than yesterday.

"Please thank the dean for me and tell him that if there is such good thing in the future, remember to look for me." Li Ming said jokingly.

Yuan Hong came and went in a hurry, put his things down and left, as if he had something else to do.

Li Ming rubbed his hands and moved it into the room impatiently. As the condensed mist spread, the silver storage box opened, and a mechanical arm lifted up the metal cabinet, on which ten pieces of ores of different sizes were neatly placed.

There are all kinds of colors, placed in different liquid tanks, and most of them contain strange powers.

Li Ming couldn't stop rubbing his hands. The controlled objects strengthened with mother ore might gain supernatural powers, which were quite powerful.

Most of the commonly used control objects have been strengthened by the mother ore, but there are still a few left.

There are also notes on the storage devices with the names of the parent minerals on them. A quick search on the Starnet will reveal their characteristics.

"The dean is very generous. He said ten and he really gave me ten." Li Ming grinned and was in a good mood. He didn't expect that the dean also had so many mother ores.

He absorbed them one by one. The special energy extracted from these mother ores should be enough for him to use for a long time.

"If I cut these mother ores into two pieces, will I be able to extract two portions of special energy?" he thought aimlessly.

The birth of mother ore requires an extremely accidental opportunity. Unless it is extremely huge, it will basically not be cut. Some of its internal characteristics can easily be damaged by cutting.

Soon, the last piece was also absorbed by him, and a total of ten special energies were neatly arranged and displayed on the control bar.

Just as Li Ming felt a sense of satisfaction, he discovered a pop-up prompt on the control page:
[Should I consume ten special energies to reduce the cooldown time of switching the controlled object?]

Ok?
Li Ming was stunned at first, and then he instantly became alert.

In order to reduce the cooldown time of switching controlled objects, special energy is required?
Li Ming was surprised. This was really an unexpected result. If it weren't for this unexpected situation, it would take him an unknown amount of time to accumulate ten special energies.

It’s not because of the difficulty, but because he will probably have to consume it after getting it, so it’s difficult to keep accumulating it.

“No reminder at all.” Li Ming shook his head and naturally chose to consume, shortening the cooldown time of switching the controlled object.

On one side of the control bar, neatly arranged special energies disappeared row after row.

The information that came from nowhere flowed through his mind, "The original waiting time was two hours, but now it only takes one hour."

“It’s been reduced by half.”

Li Ming was quite excited, but then he changed his mind and his face fell again. "According to the nature of the control upgrade, I won't need to consume 100 mother ore next time."

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that this was the case. If he cut it in half this time, he would probably cut it in half next time as well, from one hour to half an hour.

If you keep cutting it in half, the consumption will increase in the end and the time you can save will get smaller and smaller.

"It should be enough to reduce it to a few minutes. A battle can be switched several times." Li Ming imagined the future.

Power form, speed form, defense form, comprehensive form, maybe even a superpower form, that would be really cool.

I couldn't help but laugh, but was awakened by the consumption required, "Alas, there is still a long way to go. At least I know what to use to reduce the cooling time."

Back to reality, we still have to keep our feet on the ground and continue to develop gene seeds until the night falls.

When he was sleeping at night, he dreamed that he opened a treasure chest, which was full of mother ore.

However, all those mother ores went crazy. They grew mouths and legs on their bodies and chased him and bit him, scaring him so much that he broke into a cold sweat.

"No, I'm actually being chased by the mother ore. I have to absorb them all."

Li Ming gritted his teeth, covered his head and went for revenge.

Dark clouds gathered at night, lightning flashed, and soon raindrops began to fall like beads.

In an apartment building, in a high-rise room, the curtains were closed and there was only dim light in the room. A few figures were sitting casually on the sofa and chairs, and no one was speaking.

Until the doorbell rang and a bust of a man wearing a blue raincoat popped up on the screen hanging on the wall.

"Open the door..." A dull voice came, someone opened the door, the smell of rain hit me in the face, water droplets dripped from the corners of my raincoat, and he walked in.

"Fire Source..." everyone spoke.

The fire source said impatiently: "Why are you making the lights so dim?"

I flipped on the switch on the wall, and the downlights on all four sides lit up. The bright white light illuminated the entire room as if it were daytime.

The pupils of several people shrank for a moment and remained silent.

"I called you here for two things." He shook himself, raindrops falling, and looked around:

"First, someone attacked Li Ming yesterday. Was it one of yours?"

"All our people have been captured. We don't know who those heavy armored men and snipers belong to." Several people around shook their heads.

"Find out as soon as possible." He said in a deep voice: "With the potential for development at level 16, only he can attract the attention of [Super Energy Istanbul]. If he dies before the plan is completed, all our efforts will be in vain."

"He will never make a mistake!"

"We understand." Everyone nodded with determination on their faces.

"There is one more thing. The Firework Apostle is coming." As soon as the words fell, a mixture of excitement and fear appeared on the faces of the others.

The Fire Source Master seemed not to notice and continued, "However, due to the series of events on Jingnan Star, the difficulty of sneaking in has greatly increased. It will be very troublesome for this person to come in."

"Do you have any channels to solve this problem?"

"This..." Everyone looked at each other, and finally looked at one of them. He was in his thirties, with an ordinary face and a beard. He hesitated and said, "Although I have been lurking in Jingnan for many years, the channels I have access to are not high-end."

Huo Yuanshi frowned, a little annoyed: "Who killed Fu Zongchen? Any clues?"

"Not yet." This time someone quickly answered, "It is said that the investigation team has reached the point where they suspect that the people present have spatial abilities."

(End of this chapter)