This is not mechanical ascension...

Chapter 159: The First Mechanical Guard on the Run

"In addition, according to the information provided by our insider in the Torch Organization, we can confirm the existence of dimensional gods. This matter will be determined soon."

Prince Baijan called his son and ended the call.

Ford then answered several more calls, some of which made him look respectful, while others made him curse.

After a rare moment of calm, he rubbed his brows, and suddenly received a piece of news, and immediately jumped up and cursed.

"Damn Duke Bai Ye!" He gritted his teeth and hurried to Wu Yanqing's laboratory.

He originally wanted to talk to Li Ming to see if this guy had any evil ideas.

As a result, he got some news that made him even more upset.

"What do you mean Li Ming has left Jingnan Star?" Ford stared at Luochuan.

Luo Chuan explained with a smile: "It means exactly what it says. Earlier, Li Ming had already left Jingnan Star with Ya Luo."

"Who, who asked him to leave?" Ford felt something was wrong.

"Why can't he leave?" Luo Chuan was puzzled. "I heard that Duke Bai Ye also left?"

Ford was furious: "Ixus's death has not been thoroughly investigated yet, how can he leave!"

Luochuan shrugged.

"Where is he going?" Ford asked.

"I don't know the details, Your Highness, please ask him yourself." Luo Chuan shook his head.

Ford suppressed his anger and left, and immediately contacted Li Ming. No one answered the first time. It was not until the second time that Li Ming's big head popped up from the virtual screen, looking quite lazy.

"Who told you to leave?" Ford asked immediately.

"Myself." Li Ming said slowly.

"Why do you want to leave? Do you know that if you leave now, you will be highly suspicious?" Ford said aggressively.

"What suspicion?" Li Ming was confused at first, then suddenly realized: "Oh, you mean, the death of Isius?"

"Didn't they find a fire source in the Wing Shadow Fleet? Besides, you searched me thoroughly but didn't find the ring. What does this have to do with me?"

Ford frowned: "Then why do you want to leave?"

"Because I'm scared."

Li Ming's answer surprised Ford. Before he could ask further questions, he heard Li Ming continue:

"Asmara doesn't like me in the first place, so there's no guarantee that she won't take advantage of Isius's death."

"Of course, more importantly, I don't want to get involved in the vortex of your game. I want to find a place to hide for a while and wait for the storm to pass."

Ford was still puzzled when he heard this, "Even if Asmara will target you, my father will help you."

"Help me?" Li Ming sneered, "Unconditionally?"

Ford paused, "But if you just leave like this, you'll get into trouble."

"I know." Li Ming smiled, "But I believe that His Highness Ford will help me get rid of the trouble."

Ford's face looked grim, and he knew that he was the one who had to clean up his mess again!
"Where are you going?" he gritted his teeth.

"You don't have to worry about this. We have the Star Network and can keep in touch at any time." Li Ming smiled and ended the call.

After putting away the smart terminal, the room he was in seemed a little messy. Not only was it narrow, but it also had a faint smell.

When I opened the door, the corridor was just as crowded, with all kinds of miscellaneous items placed randomly.

Outside the porthole, the light is like stars, jumping and sailing.

"Junior brother, the spaceship is too broken, don't worry about it." Yaluo sat in the driver's seat and turned his head and smiled awkwardly.

The spaceship is narrow in front and wide in the back, with a streamlined shape. Its external armor is slightly worn and its paint is severely damaged.

On the left and right sides are mechanical horizontal bars embedded in the hull, and at the ends of the bars are spiral propulsion jets that can adjust the angle and are relatively flexible. This modified civilian spacecraft also has a symbolic fire control system.

"It's okay." Li Ming shook his head and asked, "How long will it take us to reach the Land of Stars?"

"We can go through the star gate and directly reach the Aurora civilization. It should only take us half a month to get there," Yaluo estimated.

"But we need to take a detour, which may take a month and a half."

"One and a half months?" Li Ming frowned slightly, "That long?"

"Interstellar travel usually takes several months," Yaluo said nonchalantly.

"Then why take a detour?" Li Ming was puzzled.

"Uh... because of some reasons." Yaluo spoke vaguely, and Li Ming did not ask any further questions when he saw this.

Returning to his room, Yaluo's spaceship had been castrated and its infrastructure was incomplete, not to mention the monitoring equipment.

Taking out the subspace folding ring obtained from Isius, a hint of heat flashed across Li Ming's eyes.

On Jingnan Star, in order to avoid unexpected situations, he had never taken it out. Until now, he had the opportunity to study it carefully.

After turning it slightly, he had a magical feeling.

The space around the ring seemed to be distorted. When one put one's hand over it, it seemed as if it was wrapped in a layer of water film. One could vaguely feel a special space, but the strange thing was that one could not reach into it.

"Is there some kind of verification?" Li Ming frowned, and after thinking for a moment, he found that it was indeed the case. It seemed to be genetic verification.

He was not too surprised. Such a high-tech item would seem strange if it did not have this kind of verification.

"I can only try that." Li Ming put away the ring again and put it into the control panel.

In an instant, he could vaguely feel a space. It was not big, only about five cubic meters.

He tried to stretch out his hand, and then his arm seemed to really sink into the space, with most of the front end disappearing. When he pulled it out, he was already holding a metal tube similar to a syringe in his hand.

It is as thick as Li Ming's arm, and there is a creature with wings spread out carved on its surface. Through the glass, one can clearly see the blue and green liquid.

"The gene seed of Wind and Thunder Pterosaur." A smile appeared on Li Ming's face.

It turns out that permission verification can be bypassed in this way, and it is more convenient and can be stored at will.

Then, he took out everything in this space.

There were quite a lot of things, Li Ming checked them one by one, and among them there was actually a D-level gene purification potion. He also had this thing, which he had obtained during the previous entrance examination, and he brought it this time as well.

"This is..." Li Ming picked out a piece of black metal with golden words on the surface. He was very familiar with it. It was something from the ruins of some civilization.

It was even bigger than the one Wu Yanqing had experimented with, as big as a head. He tried to extract the metal energy. "One million and sixty thousand metal energies..." Li Ming grinned. He had seen the "gold content" of this thing once.

This thing was an unexpected gain, probably given to him by Princess Asmara.

After rummaging around for a while, there wasn't anything particularly good. Most of them were sundries and a few USB flash drives. Li Ming took a rough look and saw a lot of files, but he didn't take a closer look for the time being.

After sorting these things out and stuffing them all into the space, Li Ming's eyes moved slightly. He was about to try the ability of [Space Flash], but suddenly stopped and broke out in a cold sweat.

"Fuck, I almost forgot, we are in the jump orbit now. If I perform space flash directly, will I fall out of the spaceship due to the speed difference? That would be the end of me."

He was still frightened. His spatial ability was special and strange. If he tried it lightly, he would be courting death.

Putting this matter aside for the time being, he stretched out his hand, and a mecha suddenly appeared in front of him. It was the [Tepper Combat Mecha] that Prince Baijan had once worn.

He felt a little bit of anticipation in his heart. He placed his palm on it, and a large amount of metal energy was lost. Light spurted out from the titanium alloy heat sink on its surface.

The limbs made of high-strength alloy began to move autonomously, and each movement was accompanied by a slight hissing from the hydraulic system.

The armor plates on the body open and close like the scales of a living creature, making a sound of metallic friction.

Silicon-based nerve fibers grow wildly along the chrome alloy skeleton, interweaving with the carbon nanotube muscle bionic fibers inside, and finally forming a mechanical heart in the cavity.

As the metal energy continued to surge out, the mecha underwent a profound transformation, and the flame of life was ignited in its mechanical heart.

Li Ming observed carefully. Every part of the mecha seemed to come alive. The mechanical eyes made up of fiber optic arrays flashed with wisdom.

The robotic arm, made of alloy and fiber composite, is flexible and powerful. Its legs are driven by magnetic levitation devices and can move freely and quickly on any plane.

"Tipper...The Creator..." He spoke in a mechanical voice, still very difficult.

This was the first mechanical guard he modified - [Tepper].

Tepper is a modified wearable mecha. It is purple and gold, with a sturdy appearance and sharp edges.

Most of its internal structure is made up of metal energy, so it consumed one million metal energies.

However, its combat capability is also very impressive, even surpassing the current Li Ming. It is estimated that it can fight against a C-level life form with 90% progress.

Moreover, it is particularly outstanding in defense.

Li Ming tried to give orders and found that it was extremely intelligent and the underlying code logic was locked in a very special way and could not be changed.

Then, he tried [Guards Armament] again. Suddenly, the burly Tepper began to disintegrate. A large number of metal parts quickly attached to Li Ming's body. Its sophisticated structure was assembled again, and finally formed a sophisticated armor structure.

"So this is the form." Li Ming thought thoughtfully.

He then tried further, wearing a tank guard mecha and then arming the guards.

"You can actually do it." Li Ming was quite surprised. His current height was close to four meters, almost reaching the top of Yaluo's dilapidated spaceship.

The surface of the Tank Guard is covered with a layer of precision metal armor, and the arms and thighs are even thicker. A large shield is hung on the left arm, and its functions in all aspects are raised to a higher level.

After disintegration, in the blink of an eye, all the equipment on the surface of the body disappeared without a trace.

"It really has great potential." After trying it, Li Ming even wanted to build another mechanical guard.

Unfortunately, the metal energy dried up again, and he couldn't help but shake his head.

"【Evolution of the Lord of the Fierce Wind】, Mechanical Guards..." Li Ming secretly calculated that when he became a C-level life form, he would unlock another control column, and upgrading to B-level would also be on the agenda.

I couldn't help but be amazed for a while. The gap in metal energy was getting bigger and bigger.

Xingchuang Company has completely collapsed, Xunying Company has made a comeback, and Zhang Huaiyuan has also gotten back on track and has begun to contact the mineral planet, but it will take some time to develop.

Of course, there is no need to rush the upgrade, just proceed step by step. Basically, he has all C-level control objects on him, which can support his use.

It is better to become a C-class life form first, and by the time you reach the Land of Stars, the development progress should be able to reach 100%.

He only escaped from the vortex temporarily, but not completely. The Land of Stars was not a safe place either, and there were also the remains of civilization...

Li Ming was thinking. At this moment, the smart terminal placed next to him flashed, the speed of the spacecraft dropped suddenly, and the lights kept flashing.

"Fuck, give it a little more strength, don't..." There was a shouting voice outside. Li Ming leaned out to take a look and saw Ya Luo kicking the floor with an embarrassed look on his face.

"It's okay, it's an old problem, wait for me to restart it."

"It's okay." Li Ming still smiled, and Ya Luo felt more and more embarrassed.

Back in the room, Li Ming turned on the smart terminal and obtained the highest authority for the dilapidated spaceship. There was no surveillance video, so he could only open the navigation log.

Glancing at the track, he raised his brows and found that the original navigation track was quite regular, with a vague noise as the original coordinates, which should be the place of stars.

Then they set out to other places and then turned back.

However, just a while ago, after the last journey, Yaluo did not return to the Land of Stars. He should have gone to find Lao Wu.

After the spaceship restarted, Li Ming walked out and unplugged the wires. "Brother, the reason you took a detour should be related to the wanted poster of the Star Hunter, right?"

Ya Luo's expression changed slightly, and he said helplessly: "I won't hide it from you, it is true."

"The Star Hunters are a large-scale plundering group in the Land of Stars. Their leader is an A-level life form and is extremely powerful."

"Oh." Li Ming became interested. "If that's the case, why did Senior Brother provoke them?"

"Alas..." Yaluo said helplessly, "In fact, I was also a cadre of the Star Hunters. Not long ago, we received information that the Sera civilization was secretly selling a batch of goods."

"The market value of this batch of goods is no less than 10 billion star coins. If we sell it at half the price, it will be around to million. Naturally, we coveted it, and then we made the move."

"Who knew that the Sera civilization used an ordinary travel ship as a cover. After stealing the goods, there were too many innocent people to be killed. I really couldn't bear to do it. I could only take advantage of their unpreparedness, rob the ship, and escape."

Li Ming's eyes were burning. "Goods worth a billion? What goods?"

"It seems to be some kind of military-grade material used to build large weapons." Yaluo couldn't explain it clearly.

Li Ming's eyes brightened. It was most likely metal material. How much metal energy would that require?
"Ah, I regret it now. I'm not a good person, so why would I do such a thing?" Yaluo sighed, "But I didn't know what I was thinking at the time. I just did it."

"The Star Hunters will definitely not let go of such a large batch of goods. I can only bypass their territory and go from another direction."

At this point, Yaluo laughed at himself, "You look down on me too, don't you? A predator, what good can I do?"

"No." Li Ming looked solemn, "Brother, you did a great job, great."

Ya Luo was stunned and turned his head to look. He was startled by the green light in Li Ming's eyes. He was too familiar with that look and he understood what Li Ming was thinking in an instant.

That's right, the transport ship was too obvious, Sera and the Star Hunter were tracking it, so he could only abandon it on a planet.

"No, that thing is a hot potato. Star Hunter has spread the word that no one dares to take this batch of goods." He shook his head repeatedly:

"It's too risky. Forget about it. I can't lead you into this trap."

(End of this chapter)