This is not mechanical ascension...

Chapter 143: Killer Space Wormhole? White Dwarf Core?
"Nothing..." Chen Yan realized that he had said something wrong, so he restrained his expression and shook his head.

Li Ming stood where he was, his expression remaining calm despite Chen Yan's words.

Xilai frowned, vaguely feeling that something was wrong, but now was not the time to pursue it.

He just asked, "How long will it take?"

Chen Yan whispered, "Two minutes. After the space wormhole opens, we have thirty seconds."

The metal plate covered with patterns shone brightly, becoming more and more dazzling.

"Space wormhole?" Li Ming's expression finally changed. He leaned over to take a look and asked in surprise, "Do dimensional creatures have this ability?"

"You've never seen the world before." Xilai pointed at the black stone and said, "The white dwarf core fragments are sacrificed to the space worm, Boricutl. It can penetrate the space channel and take us away directly."

"Can we leave this planet?" Li Ming asked.

Xilai said impatiently: "You talk too much."

Li Ming also understood that he couldn't delay any longer.

His eyes moved slightly, and the gene inhibitors covering his arms disappeared instantly, and the feeling of weakness in his body also disappeared.

Silently, a prismatic plasma sword appeared in his palm, and the combat system control object was instantly switched, with full power activated, directly stabbing towards Chen Dahai, who was closest to him.

The two were very close to each other, and the other party thought he was wearing a gene inhibitor. His attention was all on the sacrificial metal plate, and he was almost not on guard against him, so he was stabbed through.

Chen Dahai's face was frozen, and he looked down in disbelief. Li Ming was stirring frantically, and severe pain swept through his body.

Xilai's face changed drastically, and ochre-colored elemental particles suddenly rose up around him, like some kind of soil.

"You, where is the gene inhibitor!?" Xilai shouted in surprise. Chen Yan, who noticed the movement, turned around with a dull expression.

I saw that the place where Li Ming was had been replaced by a huge ochre-colored mecha.

ka ka ka-

The sound of the mechanical components deploying echoed throughout the room. The six mechanical arms behind it deployed instantly, and the energy restraint device quickly stored energy.

Whoosh!Whoosh!Whoosh!
Energy beams shoot out, forming energy light rain.

Xilai didn't have time to be shocked. The cloud of earth element particles suddenly shrank and turned into a sphere, wrapping him tightly inside.

The outer layer quickly turned into gray-white rock, and dense energy light rain crackled on it, causing it to explode layer by layer. However, the shattered parts turned into earth element particles again, filling the gap again, almost inexhaustible.

boom! !

The next moment, the front of the stone shield exploded, and rock fragments flew in the face.

Around the tank armor, five prismatic floating shuttles were arranged in a circle and hovered behind Li Ming. Each of them emitted a beam of laser from the tip, quickly outlining a shield.

"You do have a secret. Since I can't take you with me, I can only kill you." Xilai said in a deep voice. The ochre-colored rocks covered his entire body like a suit of armor.

"Quick battle, quick decision." Li Ming realized that fighting for too long would cause problems, and he had an idea in his mind.

Silver-gray particles surged like waves and quickly attached to the plasma sword in his hand.

The plasma sword, which was originally less than two meters long, quickly expanded to four meters, and its length covered half of the room, like a giant sword that could cut through ships.

Almost at the same time, the surging electric arc covered the giant sword and oscillated at an imperceptible amplitude. This was the high-frequency resonance effect caused by electromagnetic gathering.

This means that this power is not under Li Ming's control, but it also comes with extremely strong cutting power.

This series of actions was smooth and flowing. When the electric arc covered the giant sword, the entire mecha rushed over and the thunderstorm giant sword chopped down.

Xilai controlled the rock shield to resist, but it was completely unable to stop it. The electric current in the air made his scalp numb and his muscles swelled into ochre-colored stones.

But the next moment, he was cut in half by the Thunderstorm Giant Sword, his body was broken into two pieces, the wounds were charred, but his strong vitality prevented him from dying immediately, and he twisted on the ground in extreme pain.

"This this…"

This scene struck Chen Dahai, who was also seriously injured, as if he had been struck by lightning. He immediately recalled many things and looked at Li Ming in horror, "It's you, it's you who killed Lady Caroline!"

There was a storm in his heart.

what! ?

Chen Yan, who was huddled in the corner, couldn't help but raise his head with a stiff expression.

The one who killed Lady Caroline was Li Ming?
Before she had time to think about it, she saw Chen Dahai wailing as he was cut into two halves.

These two were already C-level life forms whom she revered as gods, but they were killed by Li Ming as easily as cutting melons and vegetables.

She was in a daze until a shadow enveloped her.

At some point, the armor on Li Ming's body had disappeared without a trace, and in his hand, he held the fragment of the white dwarf core.

It was lighter than he thought, and he could also extract metal energy from it.

"I, I..." Chen Yan's eyes were filled with tears, and she looked at Li Ming in fear: "I don't want to, and I can't help it..."

"Don't be afraid, you have no choice, I understand." Li Ming said with a smile.

Seeing Li Ming being so amiable, Chen Yan's fear was relieved a little.

But the next moment, he said slowly: "But I hope you can understand me."

Chen Yan was stunned, and then his pupils contracted. The sword hit him, and the delicate head exploded directly.

Li Ming shook his head, reminisced for two seconds, and then turned to his old job, destroying the scene.

There is no need to ask Chen Yan too much. The plan is actually very simple. After finding Chen Yan, the two seeds, Xilai and Chen Dahai, are going to use Chen Yan to capture themselves and take them away from here.

This black stone was stolen property and was easily brought into the command post.

Chen Yan was already frightened and uneasy, so naturally she dared not disobey.

As for the message Li Ming sent her, she probably didn't take it seriously at all. On one side was the giant Torch, and on the other side was a young boy who had threatened her.

The choice was easy for her.

Li Ming originally wanted to wait until the metal energy in the white dwarf core fragments was completely absorbed before leaving here.

However, the metal energy contained in it far exceeded Li Ming's expectations. In the end, a full 1.15 million metal energies were extracted.

"This thing is indeed a star core fragment."

Li Ming was shocked. The food of those dimensional creatures was so good. Any food contained millions of metal energies.

"Star core..." Li Ming's eyes gradually brightened. Why not just ask Ford to turn the star coins into star cores? This thing is small in size and very convenient.

As for whether he could get it or not, that was Ford's own business. Such a large-scale change in star coins, especially for a sensitive person like himself, would easily attract attention and be very inconvenient.

In this way, the gap in metal energy was directly filled, and even some was left over.

He was attacked in the headquarters, which made him feel very bad. However, this unexpected gain immediately turned things around, and he even wished it could happen more often.

"Forget it. There's no guarantee that something might go wrong." He lay in the blood plasma in the corner and waited for another half an hour before a banging sound was heard from the alloy door, which was then broken open.

What appeared before everyone's eyes was a scene that looked like a bloody hell. The entire room was covered with signs of destruction, blood and flesh were scattered, and body parts were everywhere.

Ren Cangsong's face froze, and then he saw Li Ming soaked in blood in the corner. After making sure that he was not dead, he quickly called for medical staff.

"I, I'm fine..." Li Ming said weakly. Ford looked around with a strange expression.

"What happened again?" Ren Cangsong's eyebrows twitched. He asked someone to take Li Ming out and then sealed off the entire room.

"Major Chen Dahai came to me and said that he had captured Chen Yan, and would interrogate him together with Lord Shilai of Sera and Lord Charles of the Itlan civilization..." Li Ming explained.

Ford frowned slightly, "Charles..."

"Caught Chen Yan?" Ren Cangsong was surprised and quickly checked the smart terminal: "Why is there no information about this matter?"

“They didn’t report it?”

"They are the sparks, of course they won't report." Li Ming smiled bitterly.

"Fire?" Ren Cangsong's pupils dilated, and he subconsciously refuted: "Chen Dahai is the major of the Moon Devouring Squad, and his background is clean. How could he be the Fire?"

Ren Cangsong clenched his fists, but quickly adjusted himself and continued to listen to Li Ming's story.

“…Sir Charles fought hard and finally died together with them.” Li Ming looked sad.

Ford's face and brows became more and more furrowed. Why does this story sound so familiar?

At this moment, Ren Cangsong's men carefully took the gene inhibitor off Li Ming.

"Charles, it's all thanks to him." Ren Cangsong sighed, and at the same time he was shocked: "Even Chen Dahai and Xilai are fire seeds, who else is not?"

Nothing more than what he said, fire seemed to be everywhere.

The atmosphere around them suddenly became cold and quiet. Ren Cangsong also felt that he had spoken out of turn, and said in a deep voice:

"Chen Dahai and Xilai are the flames that have been lurking for many years. I don't know how much it cost to send them to their current position."

"There won't be many people like this, otherwise there wouldn't be only the two of them taking action. This time they suffered heavy losses and lost all their efforts."

At this moment, Duke Bai Ye got the news and came in a hurry, looking gloomy, "Where is Xilai? Where is Xilai?"

Ren Cangsong pointed to the room, and Duke Bai Ye quickly went to check it out, and then came back with an even uglier expression: "What's going on?"

Ren Cangsong sneered, "You still need to ask Duke Bai Ye, your personal guard is actually a fire seed?"

"Fire?" Duke Bai Ye's face changed slightly. After hearing what happened, he stared at Li Ming coldly: "This is just his own statement. Does he have to be the one to say it?"

"The three of them fought to their deaths. Didn't Xilai and Chen Dahai have the slightest chance to kill him during the process?"

"I request that his memory be screened. This matter involves the death of a Sera and an Itlan. We cannot let it slip so easily."

"Enough!" Ford shouted, standing up suddenly, "Your Excellency the Duke, do you understand what the overall situation means?"

"What are you doubting? Suspecting Li Ming? When Chen Dahai came to look for Li Ming, he used the excuse of Chen Yan. I heard it clearly and can testify for him."

"The arrest of Chen Yan was not reported to the command post at all. The two of them handled it privately. The surveillance video captured it clearly. Chen Dahai led Li Ming here. Everything matches up. What else is there to say!"

"The planet-destroying crisis has just passed. Even I admire the courage and wisdom that Li Ming showed during the process. What exactly are you doubting about him, or are you just targeting him out of selfish motives?"

Ford's clear and logical rebuke made Duke Bai Ye look extremely unhappy. He noticed several times that Ford was vaguely leaning towards Blue Star.

But now he understood that Ford was not biased towards Blue Star, but towards Li Ming.

Although he was respectful to Ford on weekdays, he was also a B-level life form after all, and he felt a little embarrassed to be scolded in person by a junior.

His expression changed several times, and finally he became indifferent: "Since there is no room for me to make suggestions here, then it depends on you. Just give me a final report."

Ren Cangsong was quite surprised. Ford's bias was too obvious.

What Duke Bai Ye said was actually not wrong. The deaths of the Itlan and Sera people were no longer an internal matter of Blue Star. Li Ming was the only survivor, so naturally he had to verify whether what he said was true or not.

Ford took a deep breath and didn't explain anything. How could he let someone search Li Ming's memory? Wouldn't that be self-destruction?

Li Ming was sent back to the infirmary. After everyone was dispersed, Ford could not wait to ask, "Who killed Charles? Was it you?"

"No." Li Ming shook his head. "Charles was killed by Chen Dahai and Xi Lai. All I did was kill them in return."

"I didn't want the enemy to overestimate my strength, so I kept this a secret."

Ford frowned, nodded hesitantly, and then heard Li Ming mention another matter: "I don't want the 500 million star coins in cash, you have to convert them into white dwarf cores for me."

"Star core?" Ford couldn't keep up with Li Ming's jumping thoughts: "What do you want that thing for?"

"It has nothing to do with you. You just need to tell me how much you can buy and how long it will take to deliver it?" Li Ming emphasized.

"There is no public price for star cores. Most of them are in the hands of collectors. They may be useful when forging certain weapons." Ford thought: "Five hundred million star coins, maybe... I can get them for you..."

His brows were furrowed, and it was hard to estimate: "It's hard to tell how heavy this thing is. Are you sure you want it? I can only try my best to get it for you."

"Just take as many as you can with 500 million star coins. I have my own price in mind." Li Ming said. He could convert it with metal energy and ask Ford to make up for the shortfall.

"Where did you get the public price..." Ford was speechless, rubbing his brows, "The Torch has a strong desire for revenge, you have to be careful."

Li Ming glanced at him and said, "They arrested me this time mainly to get the truth. Isn't Yitlan going to spread the news about your deeds?"

Ford said: "My father is still trying to see if he can make me a hereditary earl. It's very stressful and requires a lot of benefits."

"How dare you ask for it..." Li Ming laughed. The title of Itlan is more valuable than that of Sera.

Duke Bai Ye has struggled for half his life, but the benefits he gained may not be as great as what Ford gained this time.

He said leisurely: "Five hundred million star coins, great value for money."

Ford immediately became alert and said, "It may not work yet. You don't want to raise the price, do you?"

"I am a very honest person, don't worry." Li Ming grinned, "Besides, the higher your status, the greater the benefit to me, isn't it?"

Ford had the urge to strangle Li Ming to death, wondering if he would be eaten for the rest of his life.

Li Ming ignored him. Now he had more than 1.3 million metal energies and could control one of the three pieces of equipment first.

(End of this chapter)