This is not mechanical ascension...

Chapter 130 The Secret of the Torch

The sturdy man grabbed Sein's head and shouted a series of words that were not in the interstellar common language. His face flushed, and he shook Sein's head, shouting at the top of his lungs, extremely fanatical.

Then, his expression froze, as if he had received some instructions. He threw the head aside and quickly stepped forward to grab Sein's body.

After completing the complicated unlocking steps, he stuffed the refolded gene inhibitor and another fluorescent metal device into his backpack.

Then he suddenly kicked open one of the cubicles, squatted on the toilet, and waved his hands repeatedly with a terrified look on his face.

Before he could do anything, the other person rolled his eyes and fainted. The sturdy man was also stunned, and then quickly tied him up.

He looked up at the smoke alarm on the ceiling, suddenly jumped up, and smashed it with one punch, causing water droplets to spray everywhere.

Immediately, a virtual projection popped up at the entrance of the toilet - "Under Maintenance"

After taking care of all this and taking off his coat, he hurried away.

Outside the 13th connection channel, Guyat looked down at the time, straightened his collar, and adjusted the badge on his left chest.

He looked back at the welcoming team and couldn't help but frowned slightly: "Where is Saiyin? Where is he?"

"It seems he went to the toilet." Someone responded, causing dissatisfaction: "Toilet, he is a C-class life form, his metabolism is extremely slow, he can just control it a little, why did he go to the toilet at this time."

"I'm afraid I have little respect for your Excellency the Duke."

There was a low murmur in the team, and Guyat frowned slightly, "Hurry up and find him back."

"Yes." Two people received the order and hurriedly left the team.

After a while, an emerald green shuttle-shaped interstellar spaceship appeared like a giant whale traveling through the stars.

The surface was covered in smooth quantum stealth material, with sharp wing blades extending from both sides, and a sensor matrix flashing blue light.

At the tail of the spacecraft, the green light beam of the energy launch engine gradually went out, and under the guidance of the docking track, it slowly docked at the platform.

Although they were not a regular diplomatic mission, they were still the Duke of Sera, and Blue Star granted them some privileges. Except for Sera's welcoming team, everyone else on this platform was isolated.

The hatch opened, a suspended staircase extended out, and a figure walked out. He was wearing an elegant green and white outfit, with a gold and green wreath on his head. He was about fifty or sixty years old, with a serious look in his eyes and deep grooves on both sides of his nose.

He walked down with steady steps, one step at a time, and was followed by a large group of people.

"Welcome to His Excellency Duke Bai Ye!" Guyat led a group of people to salute respectfully. Many people gathered outside the cordon and even took out their smart terminals to take pictures, quite curious.

"Guyate, long time no see." Duke Bai Ye nodded slightly, then looked around at the accompanying team and shook his head, saying, "After all, we are in the Blue Star Civilization, there is no need to make such a big fuss."

Guyat said, "It has been streamlined a lot. I wanted to apply to Blue Star for formal diplomatic etiquette, but they refused."

"That's enough." Duke Bai Ye frowned, "Leave as soon as possible. I don't like being stared at."

"I understand." Gu Yat nodded calmly, glanced around, and his face looked a little ugly.

"What happened?" Duke Bai Ye noticed this keenly, "Is there any unexpected situation?"

Guyat hesitated slightly, and Duke Bai Ye did not ask any more questions. Instead, he looked at his deputy beside him and asked, "Tell me, what unexpected situation is there?"

"This..." The deputy hesitated, and Guyat explained, "Your Excellency the Duke, there is no unexpected situation. It's just that someone went to the toilet and hasn't come back yet."

"Going to the toilet?" Duke Bai Ye was a little surprised and looked unhappy. Although he didn't like these etiquettes, it didn't mean that he could leave at will when he was greeted.

"What is your name?"

"Sein." Guyat lowered his head.

"Hmm?" Duke Bai Ye looked over and said coldly, "Is it him? It was under his care that His Highness Yuko was killed?"

"That's it."

There was a hint of murderous intent in Duke Bai Ye's eyes, but it quickly disappeared.

"In that case, let's wait for him here."

Many people in the entourage behind Guyat looked at each other and then gloated.

However, before they had to wait too long, everyone noticed that there was some commotion on the left and screams were heard continuously.

Many people gathered around, as if something had happened.

"What's going on over there?" Duke Bai Ye looked into the distance, his tone inquiring.

Guyat withdrew his gaze. For some reason, he felt a little uneasy in his heart. After hearing what Duke Bai Ye said, he prepared to send someone to investigate.

But before he could assign anyone, he saw the two men who had been sent out to look for Sein hurried back, looking flustered.

"Why are you so flustered?" Guyat shouted, and then he heard the two of them hurriedly say: "Sai, Saiyin, he's dead!"

what! ?

Guyat's pupils contracted, and he suddenly grabbed one of the men by the collar and pulled him in front of him. His eyes widened, and he asked sternly, "Is the news confirmed?"

Duke Bai Ye's face darkened, and the people around him choked.

"Yes, for sure. We saw Sein's body with our own eyes. His head was cut off." Another person quickly added, pointing in the direction of the commotion: "In the toilet over there."

Really dead!
Guyat took a deep breath, confusion and panic filling his heart at the same time.

Although he disliked Saiyin, Saiyin's life level was clearly there, and he was beheaded silently.

"I just arrived and you gave me such a big gift." Duke Bai Ye suddenly smiled, but it made people feel cold.

"Your Excellency the Duke..." Guyat couldn't help but say, but was interrupted.

"Even if Saiyin is guilty, it should be handled by our Sera civilization!" He said in a deep voice: "Notify Blue Star and let them give an explanation!"

Guyat felt a little relieved. With Duke Bai Ye around, he at least had a backbone.

……

At the same time, on the 23rd connection channel, a slightly shabby, red and blue painted interstellar spacecraft came, with traces of iron welding all over its surface.

The broadcast in the cabin sounded--
"Hello, this is Jingnan - Houston Starport - Connection Channel No. 23. According to the [Blue Star Safety Protection Regulations], we need to conduct identity verification and full ship inspection. Please put your valuables away."

"repeat…"

The staff in the cabin looked at each other, seemingly a little worried.

The cabin was opened, and the inspection team was already in place. There were five of them, carrying various instruments, including metal detectors, particle resonators, and sound wave radiation equipment...

"Hello everyone, this is Houston Starport. Inspection Team 142 is here to serve you. I am the team leader - Xu Heng." He introduced himself briefly and then said with a smile:

"Please go downstairs for identity verification. After the inspection is completed, you can take your luggage and other things downstairs." "Captain Xu." A middle-aged man dressed as a captain came forward. He had dark skin and smiled apologetically, "Can you wait a moment? The person who is going to pick us up hasn't arrived yet."

Xu Heng couldn't help but frown and said bluntly, "The fact that the person who is supposed to pick you up hasn't arrived yet has nothing to do with identity verification. Go down and wait."

"This..." The captain looked grim, glanced vaguely in a certain direction, and whispered: "Captain Xu, I have already said hello..."

"What greeting? Who are you greeting?" Xu Heng frowned and asked loudly, "What do you mean by that?"

The captain cursed in his heart and was hesitating when he heard a faint sound coming from outside the cabin.

"Is it this one? It seems to be this one..." As the sound approached, a stranger walked up and people from both sides looked at him at the same time.

"Xu, Xu...Xu Heng?" The person who came was naturally Li Ming. He recalled for a while and called out uncertainly.

"It's me." Xu Heng frowned slightly, but heard the other party say: "This ship enjoys the privilege of No. 9. According to the regulations, it should be inspected more carefully."

"Privileges for number nine?" Xu Heng's heart skipped a beat. He stared at the person in front of him. He was a stranger and had never seen him before, but he still smiled and said, "I see. Don't worry, I will check carefully."

Then he directed his men: "You guys, take these crew members for a cup of tea."

The men understood, "Yes, Captain."

Seeing this scene, the captain's expression finally relaxed. He nodded slightly, and then walked out one after another.

He and Xu Heng were the only ones left in the cabin. The other party hesitated and asked, "You are..."

"Don't worry about who I am. Didn't your boss tell you?" Li Ming said casually.

"Yes, yes." Xu Heng nodded hurriedly, "According to the procedure, the testing time should not be less than half an hour."

"Well, just follow the procedure." Li Ming nodded, "You stay here for a while, I'll go inside and take a look."

"Okay, okay." Xu Heng nodded repeatedly and found a place to sit down. While killing time, he was also speculating in his mind.

Li Ming glanced at him, quickly went to the cockpit, found the main panel, pulled out a connecting cable, took out the smart terminal, and began to obtain the highest authority.

A series of data pop-up windows appeared. Li Ming operated the array and a progress window popped up, but the speed was very slow. He frowned slightly, "Such a powerful firewall?"

He was a little surprised. Although the spaceship looked shabby, its internal configuration was quite good.

After thinking about it, he touched the smart terminal with his finger, activated the [Computing Power Terminal] capability, transformed into a server array, provided computing power support, and his body began to heat up rapidly.

However, the progress bar also began to climb rapidly, several times faster.

It took him a full twelve minutes to gain full high-level authority on this seemingly shabby spaceship.

The old process is to first pull the surveillance video, then the navigation log, open the internal drawings at the same time, and finally lock the lower cabin.

"A large amount of interstellar precious metals. I want to see how big it is." The file was still being transmitted, and Li Ming did not waste time and went to the lower cabin.

As soon as I sat down the creaking metal stairs and lifted the black velvet covering it, I saw four alloy boxes neatly stacked together.

Taking out the Prism Ion Sword, he hesitated, looked around, and found that the boxes had no locks at all.

"Yeah, it doesn't matter whether it's locked or not." He thought for a moment, put away the ion sword, opened one of the boxes, and what appeared before him were neatly arranged black metal blocks.

"Black?" Li Ming raised his eyebrows slightly, took out a piece, and observed it carefully to see why it looked special.

I then searched on Starnet, but there was no corresponding information.

There are probably only two possibilities for things that cannot be found on Starnet: either they have never appeared, or they have been blocked.

He prefers the second one.

"This is a bullshit interstellar precious metal." Li Ming's face darkened.

A civilization like Blue Star has no right to block any information in the star network. In any case, it was the Itlan civilization that took action.

It was obvious that Huo Ju had not told Chen Yan the truth. This thing must be something special.

He tried to absorb it, and he was indeed able to extract metal energy, and the average content was not low.

Soon, he had absorbed nearly a thousand points of metal energy from the black metal block, which seemed not much.

But when he looked through it, he found that there were more than 300 pieces in this box, totaling more than 300,000 metal energies.

The total amount of metal energy in the four boxes is probably no less than 1.2 million.

After a quick calculation, Li Ming's heart started pounding.

Those treasures in the underground laboratory are crying out for food. With such a huge amount of metal energy in front of you, you’d be a fool not to take it.

"I'm going to get it today, no one can stop me." Li Ming rubbed his hands together, and when he was about to take action, he heard Xu Heng calling him.

"What's wrong?" He came up from below and saw Xu Heng's anxious face, "It's troublesome, something big has happened."

"A Sera man died in this star port. It is said that he was not an ordinary person. The entire star port has been blocked now. All the ships and people that have entered the port must stay here."

"A Sera man died?" Li Ming was surprised.

"Yes." Xu Heng was quite nervous. After all, favoritism and fraud would only cause more trouble the longer it took. If it was discovered, the boss might be fine, but he would be finished.

"Where were the people in the cabin taken?" Li Ming asked.

"The examination hall should still be in the examination room. Under the current circumstances, we should stay there until we are sure there is no problem." Xu Heng explained, as if to comfort Li Ming and himself:
"However, they arrived at the port too late and have nothing to do with the death of the Sera people. It shouldn't be a big problem, but we still have to stay for a few hours."

"Oh, I see. Then go ahead and get busy. When something like this happens, we'll definitely need help." Li Ming thought for a moment and said to him.

"This..." Xu Heng hesitated. He was still afraid that this incident would lead to problems with the spacecraft.

"Don't worry, I will stay here. If anything happens, you won't be the one in trouble." Li Ming comforted him. Only then did Xu Heng breathe a sigh of relief and hurried away.

"That's perfect. The longer it's delayed, the better." Li Ming grinned, thought about it, then opened the smart terminal and found Chen Jinglong.

"Dean, a Sera person died in this star port?" Although he didn't notice Chen Jinglong just now, he knew that the other party must be in this star port.

"Well, Saiyin died here." Chen Jinglong responded quickly.

After waiting for a while, Li Ming calmly typed out a line of words: "What!? Saiyin is dead?"

"What happened? How could he die here?"

"I don't know. We're still investigating. How's it going on your side?" Chen Jinglong asked.

(End of this chapter)