This is not mechanical ascension...

Chapter 127: Exploring the Underground Laboratory There are so many treasures that I am dazzled

"If it weren't for my brother, I would have to take so many detours." Li Ming thanked him again and again and sent Luo Chuan away, who looked relieved.

When he inserted the USB drive back into his smart terminal, he found an extra file inside, which was the coding system.

After getting this thing, Li Ming was completely relieved. He became a little impatient, but he held himself back and went to the training room to practice hard.

In the afternoon, Chen Yan found him and conveyed Huo Torch's intention, saying that they could do as he said, but the matter must be resolved within fifteen days.

Li Ming estimated it and agreed without hesitation.

Finally, he made it to the evening. Li Ming was already impatient and waited until two in the morning, this time even later than the last time.

After sneaking all the way to the underground laboratory, usually no one would come here, but Li Ming still waited cautiously for half an hour.

After making sure that there was no one in several surveillance cameras, he took out a mechanical column and placed it in front of the alloy gate. Three umbrella-shaped support frames extended from both sides of the mechanical column.

This thing can absorb sound waves within a certain range. The first two times the door was opened, there was quite a lot of noise, so Li Ming specially got this thing from the experimental department.

Then, he opened the smart terminal to access the code and entered his vital data.

Along with the slight tremor, he vaguely heard a faint sound, very weak and not far away.

The alloy door was completely opened. Without hesitation, he picked up the sound wave absorber, rushed in, and closed the door from the inside.

Only then did he breathe a sigh of relief. The network here was completely isolated from the outside world. He began to invade the local network here and soon gained the highest authority.

The first thing to do is, of course, to erase all traces of being here.

Then he started to review local files and found a large number of experimental logs. He looked at the timestamps and found that the earliest one could be traced back to eight years ago.

"Eight years ago?" Li Ming thought for a moment and estimated that it was probably the time when Wu Yanqing had just returned to Blue Star.

"…I felt very painful. My genes, cells, blood, and muscle organs were all roaring and rejecting each other. I told Asmara about this and she said it was a necessary process…"

"...I really can't stand it. I feel my genes are collapsing. The powerful superpowers have already caused oppression on my gene seeds. I can only choose one of these two paths..."

“…Asmara is very angry and accuses me of being a coward. I don’t care anymore. My life is the most important. Chen Jinglong, that idiot, can’t see Asmara’s true face…”

This kind of recording continued intermittently for three months, and Wu Yanqing in the recording had suppressed anger in his voice.

Li Ming frowned. At this time, Wu Yanqing's genetic evolution path and superpowers coexisted in his body, causing him great pain.

Under the threat of death, he chose to eliminate the gene seed, but this seemed to make Princess Asmara extremely angry.

"…Asmara came in person. She tied me up in the experimental chamber and made sure that there were no sublimation particles in my body. Her eyes were very cold, as if she was looking at a piece of garbage…"

"...But she still needs me. She is unwilling to accept the fate of a political marriage, but she doesn't want to reveal that she has been to the ruins of the Ascended Civilization..."

Li Ming heard from Chen Yan what happened next. Wu Yanqing made the matter of sublimation particles known to the whole galaxy.

Of course, there are some details, such as the fact that gene purification particles are the changed name of sublimation particles, as well as their true functions, which he distorted in order to avoid attracting more attention.

Only let those who should understand understand.

The remains of the Ascendant civilization. Li Ming heard this name and it appeared several times in subsequent records.

There are also a large number of experimental logs, and Li Ming listens and explores at the same time.

His eyes gradually changed, and he pieced together a lot of things intermittently.

The remains of the Ascendant civilization should be the one that Dean Chen mentioned was discovered near the Red River Star Stream.

But Chen Jinglong also blurred the time of discovery. In fact, the three of them had discovered this civilization relic eight years ago.

He even got in through some means, but for some reason, Wu Yanqing obtained sublimation particles and awakened his superpowers with their help.

But this fusion was only temporary, and Wu Yanqing had no choice but to eliminate his own gene seeds.

But this angered Princess Asmara, who simply pushed Wu Yanqing to the front as a pawn to threaten the Itlan civilization.

The Ascended Civilization was a powerful civilization that once existed in the interstellar space, much older than the Etruscan Civilization.

The Itlan civilization did not want the news to leak out and arouse the envy of other civilizations, so they had no choice but to compromise with Princess Asmara.

But no one knows what happened half a year ago, which led to the complete disclosure of the remains of the Ascendant civilization.

Over the years, Wu Yanqing has never given up his research on sublimation particles, and through his own experimental subject, he has actually discovered some secrets.

The Ascendant civilization was once a powerful human civilization.

He believes that sublimated particles really exist in every human being.

Not all of the theories he published were false; a considerable portion of them were his own true understandings.

He believed that he would be able to find humans who possessed sublimation particles, which would be the final glory of the sublimator civilization.

"There is actually such a secret. No wonder Old Wu reacted like that at the beginning." Li Ming murmured to himself.

According to Wu Yanqing, only when the particle concentration exceeds 50% can one truly enter the remains of the Ascendant civilization.

"…There is a group of idiots who have always believed that I have developed a method for acquired fusion and sublimation of particles…"

Wu Yanqing sneered in an experimental log. He had indeed been doing research, but all his attempts had failed without exception.

"…I speculate that Princess Asmara should have mastered this technology, or at least has a certain chance of being able to do it, otherwise she would not be looking for life forms with development potential exceeding level 20."

When Li Ming heard this, he felt a chill in his heart.

It turns out that this is the reason why Islamic civilization is looking for life forms with extremely high development potential, to fuse and sublimate particles.

This is probably the secret that the Torch Organization wants him to steal, but the real owner is not Wu Yanqing, but Princess Asmara.

The torch should not know this.

“…I found it, I really found it, haha…The universe will not let me down!”

Wu Yanqing's voice suddenly became high-pitched, "He will enter the ruins of the Ascendant civilization and find a way to repair the genetic damage!"

Looking at the time, half a year ago was the time when Wu Yanqing returned from the Silver-Gray Star.

Repairing genetic damage?

Li Ming thought thoughtfully that what they experienced in the ruins of civilization must have caused great harm to Old Wu.

Li Ming had already figured out the general idea of ​​what was going on. He tapped a few times on the smart terminal, and immediately, the heavy walls faded away on both sides, revealing a huge glass exhibition stand at the back, which had a number of alloy cabinets.

One of them contained the [Feros Warrior-class Mecha] that Li Ming had seen before. It was in tatters, but still powerful.

He went up and touched it again, reluctant to leave. However, Li Ming immediately turned his attention to other display cabinets.

There are a lot of things. Last time Wu Yanqing only showed him the mecha, and the other things were hidden. If he hadn't sneaked in this time, he wouldn't have known that there were so many things.

Li Ming picked up the nearest object, which was the size of a fist, completely black, and had a hard surface, like some irregular stone.
[Tanlomon Bio-Sublimator - Consumable Type (Broken): A biological device made using the brain stem tissue of the interstellar behemoth Tanlomon.

Control conditions: 500,000 metal energy
Control Effect - Sublimation: Consume the controlled object to greatly increase the concentration of sublimation particles in the body. 】

Li Ming raised his eyebrows slightly. He didn't expect to encounter the highlight at the very beginning.

This thing can increase the concentration of sublimated particles in the body, and judging by its description and consumption, it can probably increase it to an extremely high level.

In all likelihood, it could exceed 50%, which already met the requirements of that relic.

But he has no obsession with sublimation particles. With his ability to control objects, he can easily obtain multiple superpowers.

Awakening superpowers is not very tempting to him, and he will be easily targeted by others. Unless he can awaken a particularly extraordinary superpower, it is not worth taking the risk.

His current concentration is at 10%, and the medicine that Old Wu gave him can still suppress it. If it goes up any further, that medicine may not be able to suppress it.

Unless we are going to enter some ruins, there is no need to increase the particle concentration. Thinking about this, Li Ming put it back.

He then reached out to the stone slab next to him. This thing could not be controlled, but was extremely heavy.

Li Ming was a little surprised that he couldn't pick it up with just one hand, so he used both hands to move it down.

It is only the size of a palm, dark brown in color, with irregular edges and light gold lines on the surface. It feels quite plump overall.

"Some kind of metal?"

Looking at the numbers jumping on the control page, he was a little surprised. He couldn't feel any metallic properties from this thing at all.

"It looks like some kind of metal monument?" Li Ming looked it up and down, left and right, but couldn't see any clues. The metal numbers just kept jumping at a constant speed.

"Huh? So strong?" Li Ming was surprised to find that there was not even a trace of discoloration or rust on it.

The maximum range of his absorption of metal energy is now enough to completely cover this palm-sized object.

If it was Flame Blue Alloy, it would have been sucked dry long ago.

He became a little interested and curious about how much metal energy could be extracted. He kept a close eye on the thing all the time. If there was any sign of rust, he would stop.

However, as time passed, the metal balance continued to jump, with no sign of stopping.

Li Ming's expression changed from curiosity to surprise, and then to dullness.

It took him three full hours to extract 220,000 pieces of metal energy from it before a few signs of rust appeared on the surface.

Li Ming stopped immediately, and then carefully wiped off the traces of rust on the surface, his heart was shocked.

According to his previous experience, if the entire piece was absorbed, he might be able to extract 300,000 pieces of metal energy.

"What the hell is this? Such a small piece has 300,000 metal energies." Li Ming couldn't suppress his surprise.

He speculated that this thing probably came from the so-called remains of civilization, and at the same time he had a deeper understanding of the level of development of sublimated civilization.

To put it simply, this is equivalent to nearly 20 million flame blue alloys condensed together. It is so hard that even a B-level life form would find it difficult to break it.

"It would be fine if it was a fragment of some key component, but the entire ruins have to be made of this material." Li Ming's eyes got hot and he suddenly felt expectant. He actually became somewhat interested in that civilization relic.

"Thinking too far ahead." Restraining his thoughts, he shook his head. The 220,000 metal energies alone were worth the price of the ticket.

It was worth his effort to come here.

Putting the things back, he went to something he had just found, a broken silver cylinder placed in the corner, only half the length of his arm, and looked quite inconspicuous.

After picking it up, his eyes suddenly widened——
[Genetic Isomorphic Evolution Theory - Grade B (Damaged): The theory of evolution that the Ascender civilization has studied for many years.

Control conditions: One million metal energy
Control effect: Development speed boost - 500%
Control ability - Genetic homomorphism: Temporarily modify the inherent characteristics of a gene seed to adapt to the requirements of any gene sequence. 】

【Gene Homomorphism】! ?

There actually is such a thing. Li Ming's breathing suddenly became rapid.

There is no doubt that this is a real treasure. This ability allows him to avoid having to go to great lengths to find powerful genetic sequences.

Or worry about what to do if the gene seed you have fused is not within the powerful gene sequence.

Although it indicates that only one item can be modified now, according to Li Ming's experience, this kind of quantitative data will generally improve as the level goes up.

How could Asmara let Wu Yanqing have such a thing? Bait?

But after a moment he shook his head, suspecting that he was overthinking it, because this thing didn't seem to have anything special on the surface.

Ordinary people have no idea of ​​its true purpose, and perhaps that is why Wu Yanqing took advantage of it.

Such a powerful Ascendant civilization was actually destroyed. After the heat in his heart subsided, he thought about this problem.

[Genetic Isomorphism] This ability is really too amazing.

But then he realized that [Genetic Isomorphism] was actually an ability given to him by the control column, and the true ability of this theory of evolution should not be so incredible.

After calming down, Li Ming continued to look. There were no special items left. Some of them were out of control and were not made of metal.

After touching everything here, he took a deep breath.

"【Feros Armor】, 【Tanlomon Biological Device】, Broken Stone Tablet, 【Genetic Isomorphic Evolution Theory】, they are all good stuff." Li Ming looked around, reluctant to leave.

Unfortunately, he couldn't control anything and could only watch.

However, what made him feel at ease was that no one knew the specific functions of these things, not even Old Wu knew, so there would be no accidents if they were left here.

He comforted himself that once he had accumulated enough metal energy, it would be his sooner or later.

After learning the whole story and the secrets behind it, Li Ming felt much more at ease.

At least, Wu Yanqing only knows part of the secret, and the real boss is with Princess Asmara. As long as he does not expose the sublimation particles in his body, the danger will not be great.

(End of this chapter)