This is not mechanical ascension...

Chapter 173: A Trial [Gene Warrior Ring]

Ya Luo said helplessly: "See, the Land of Stars is full of these sick guys."

Li Ming didn't care and said, "Let's go buy some daily necessities. We'll be staying here for a while and we don't even have a bed."

"Okay." Yaro sighed.

Li Ming then walked out of the store and looked around. The small artificial sun in the sky had dimmed, with only hazy simulated moonlight shining down.

Kai was the only one left in the store, which made him feel more alert. However, when he looked at the huge mechanical body that followed him like a shadow, he could only sigh helplessly.

……

In the machinery shop that occupies several storefronts, there is a wide variety of firearms and weapons.

On the second floor, the first group of people who had gone to Li Ming’s shop during the day were in the room, discussing something.

The scarred man said in a fierce voice: "That guy's attitude is quite gentle, and he agreed to our request very easily."

"Later, several more groups of people went there, and there didn't seem to be any conflicts."

"It shouldn't be a big problem. Judging from his weak and vulnerable attitude, he shouldn't be a capable person. Why did the Star Hunter ask us to go there specially?"

The guy called Daddy, with muscular body and sturdy figure, and his two mechanical arms were covered with oil, said in a deep voice: "Who can come to the Land of Stars without some ability?"

"You can tell what kind of person he is at a glance. With such ability, he wouldn't end up here."

The scarred man chuckled twice, while the old man paced back and forth, "Have you found out where he came from?"

The scarred man responded hastily: "I only know that there are two mechanical bodies following him, but I don't know their specific life levels yet."

"Dad, didn't the Star Hunters tell you?"

"Mechanical body..." Dad frowned, "The Star Hunters are so secretive, they must be no simple people."

"Just keep an eye on it for now. No matter if it's just a gimmick or he really has the ability, just don't let him start it."

Competitors are natural enemies, especially in the same area. Every time the other party does business, they will feel that they earn less.

Of course, the Star Hunter's orders are also an extremely important part.

"Don't worry, we will try our best, and the other two old guys will definitely try to trip us up." The scarred man immediately assured.

"All kinds of skills? What kinds of skills?"

Suddenly, a strange voice was heard in the room.

"Who!" Dad glared with his eyes, and suddenly looked up. He didn't know when the door had been opened, and a figure was standing there with arcs of electricity in his eyes, which was chilling.

At the same time, a strong smell of blood followed, and the father's expression changed drastically, "Who are you!?"

Li Ming smiled, "Let's go together."

"You!" His pupils dilated, and he said sternly, "You actually dared to kill someone in the store, the collector will not let you go!"

The scarred man was trembling all over, and the people behind him were also filled with horror. They didn't expect that the people who were so gentle a few hours ago would now be in front of them.

He doesn't look weak at all, he is clearly a terrifying killing god.

"You're wrong. Missing and murder are different." Li Ming shook his head.

"I'm from the Star Hunter, if you dare to kill me..." the old man with the mechanical arm threatened again.

"Hehe..." Li Ming grinned, and a terrifying aura suddenly burst out from his body. The shadow under him seemed to extend infinitely until it covered the entire room.

.........

"A second-hand sleeping pod is so expensive?" Yaluo cursed, standing in front of a mechanical body, "One hundred thousand, at most one hundred thousand more, not a cent more."

"If it's okay, pack all three for me."

The shop owner also spoke in a foul language, and when he saw Yaluo turning to leave, he put on a smile and flatteringly pulled him back.

After paying the bill, he spat at Yaluo again.

"What kind of quality is that?" On the way back, Yaluo was pulling the goods, wondering what Li Ming was going to do.

According to his teacher's instructions, he and Li Ming should now be hiding on a remote floating island in the Land of Stars.

But now, Li Ming actually opened a store in the Collector's Cabinet. He suspected that if he told his teacher about this, the other party would definitely not believe him.

What's more troublesome is that Li Ming is still unwilling to let Kai go. He has been struggling with this matter and doesn't know how to deal with it.

In order not to reveal his identity, he lied to the anti-plunder department and said that he was not in the Land of Stars, but this was not a solution after all.

As he was thinking about it, he saw the interstellar villains on the road, as if they were inspired by something, and were rushing to a certain direction.

Several people bumped into him one after another, and he couldn't help but feel curious, so he suddenly grabbed one of them, and the other person immediately became furious.

But when he realized he couldn't break free, he changed his face and said with a smile, "Brother, what's wrong? Is there anything I can help you with?"

"What happened? Where are you going?" Yaluo asked.

"You don't know yet? The entire store of 'Daddy's Big Machine' was taken over, as well as 'Giant Gun Shop' and 'Flame Rose'."

"It is said that several stores are full of blood. Although there are no bodies, I am afraid that they are in grave danger." The guy exclaimed: "I wonder which fierce person did it."

"Are they all machine shops?" Yaluo suddenly had a premonition.

"Yeah." The guy was slightly stunned, then he realized: "Yeah, why are they all machine shops?"

Yaluo opened the local network and saw that, as expected, this matter had become a hot topic of discussion. Although the bodies had not been found yet, everyone knew that these people must have been killed.

Everyone is guessing which tough guy did it, but some people have said that these stores all sent people to the same newly opened machinery shop today.

Ya Luo left him behind and hurried back to the store.

"Where is Li Ming?" He grabbed Kai and asked anxiously.

"Just up there," Kai said, pointing at the metal staircase with a confused look on his face.

He hurried upstairs, found Li Ming, and asked anxiously, "Did you do this?"

Li Ming glanced at him and shrugged.

Yaluo was hesitant to speak. After verifying this matter, he didn't know what to say.

Kill without any hesitation. Why does it feel like this land of stars is too suitable for Li Ming?

"I hope everything will be alright." Finally, this was all he could ask.

"According to the unspoken rules here, I should be fine." Li Ming said, feeling a little emotional in his heart.

Not having to worry about traces or surveillance cameras, the technique feels really good.

"As long as there are no corpses, it's fine." Yaluo added. He has been in the Land of Stars for a long time and there is no truly safe place here.

It is impossible for the collector to pursue anything for the sake of a few ordinary life forms. It is enough for him to just respect his rules on the surface.

"What's in your hand..." Only then did Yaluo see clearly the purple ring that Li Ming was fiddling with.

"Just a little gadget." Li Ming stuffed it into his arms.

This is an upgraded intelligent terminal for control, which is already a Class B item. During the massacre, he did have some extra gains, and found two mother ores and some precious metal materials in those shops.

One of them, named "Dovia Glass Ore", was used on the smart terminal. After strengthening it, it consumed another 500,000 metal energies to upgrade it to Class B.

【Smart Star Ring--Class B: Multiple intelligent information processing terminals.

...

Control effect: Occupation--Hacker
Control ability - Intelligent assistance: can mimic the host's surrounding environment information within a range of 50000m, assist in processing, and can see through the camouflage of the same level. 】

The range has been greatly increased, and there is also the ability to see through camouflage.

……

At the same time, in the center of this area, there was a palace isolated by tall metal walls.

A figure held a broken and damaged mechanical battle blade in his hand, and his eyes were specially customized high-power magnifying glasses.

He was wearing a black and red tuxedo, he was tall and straight, and his skin was light red.

A sharp red tail sways constantly, and a pair of curved horns grow on its head, like a demon in some interstellar indigenous mythology.
"Holtley, elemental carving craftsmanship, it should be the battle blade of the Paladin Legion, but it's a pity that it is too badly broken." He said lightly, "Sixteen million."

"Master Collector." The Vigo standing below had a slightly changed expression, his four eyes flickering, "In order to bring back this broken blade, my team lost two-thirds of its members. Sixteen million is too much..."

Before he could finish his words, his vision blurred and the broken blade stuck straight into the floor in front of him.

"If you don't want to sell it, take it away. No one in the Land of Stars can offer a higher price than me. If you want to sell it in another civilization, I won't stop you."

The high-power magnifying glass on the collector's face was folded, quickly shrunk into the size of a small lens, and then put into the right pocket.

The Vigo man carefully reached out his arm for the broken blade on the ground, his arm veins bulging as if he wanted to pull it out. However, even if he used all his strength, the blade remained motionless.

"Eighteen million, the final price." The collector frowned slightly and added two million.

The Vigo man's throat rolled, and he nodded with difficulty, his whole body covered in cold sweat, "Deal."

The payment was transferred on the spot. After the Vigo people left, a middle-aged human dressed like a butler who had been standing behind the collector whispered, "The Vigo people are really good at calculating. They actually want to take it away."

The collector raised his hand, and the broken blade fell into his hand again. "This is interesting."

"Hotan, what happened?" he inquired.

"Sir, three machine repair shops have been cleared out." He whispered.

The Collector paused, his eyes blazing with fire, "Who did it?"

"We are colleagues. Look..." Huo Tan handed over the smart terminal. "We are very clean."

The collector was slightly surprised. He took the smart terminal, but the fire in his eyes gradually extinguished. "An outsider, driving the Sera Royal Spaceship?"

"Any news on this?"

"I checked." Huo Tan responded: "About half a month ago, Duke Bai Ye of Sera and Atom, a cadre of the Star Hunters, died on the same unknown planet. They were looking for the whereabouts of a batch of goods."

"It should be this guy who did it, but I don't know his exact origins."

"Two B-level life forms?" The collector was even more surprised and continued to check the information. "They look quite powerful. They spent five million to rent No. 131, Area B, and opened a mechanical repair shop?"

The Collector chuckled, "Interesting, huh?"

The smile stopped and became elusive, and his eyes stopped on a picture. It was the name of Li Ming's store and those few lines of annotations.

"We only accept repair and customization of C-level weapons and above, with no upper limit?" The collector's eyes flickered.

Huo Tan said, "Yes, he is very arrogant. Do you want to go and see him? Aren't you always looking for a great mechanic?"

"It's just a gimmick." The collector shook his head, his expression remained calm: "Could he be a great mechanic?"

Huo Tan paused and continued, "In addition, those gentlemen invited you to discuss how to deal with the Itlan coalition fleet."

"This is the third invitation. Do you want it?"

The Collector frowned and snorted, "Have they contacted the Torch?"

"The Torch Organization's external windows are all closed." Huo Tan shook his head: "They refuse to communicate with the outside world."

The Collector said coldly: "Refuse to communicate? They killed the people, but they want us to bear the consequences? Damn it!"

"Forget it. In the end, we can only hide in the Red River Star Stream. When the combined fleet gains nothing, they will naturally leave."

Huo Tan hesitated, took a step forward, and whispered: "This time, the coalition forces may not give up so easily. Asmara's experimental base was also suspected to have been attacked by the Torch Organization. Her fiancé is a high-ranking official in the Xingyuan Empire..."

The collector looked gloomy, "What an unexpected disaster. Tell them, I'll go right away."

"Yes." Huo Tan nodded.

……

"What a decisive guy." Saber swiped the smart terminal with an uncertain expression, "His strength is not low either."

At this moment, the door was pushed open, and Saber's dark eyes stared at Li Ming, "What are you doing here? Are you going to clean me up too?"

"Your Excellency has misunderstood." Li Ming shook his head: "I came here to ask you to help me prepare a medicine."

"Medicine?" Saber frowned, "Do you have a formula?"

"Yes." Li Ming nodded and called out the formula, which was the formula given to him by Old Wu to suppress the activity of sublimation particles.

Saber looked at it for a while and said indifferently, "Come and get it in six hours."

"So fast." Li Ming raised his eyebrows slightly, thought for a moment, and took out a small piece of transparent particles, "Have you seen this kind of material?"

This is the bit that Li Ming cut off from the golden vertical pupil with great difficulty, and he was going to find someone to ask about it.

"Time gel, this is an extremely special material." Saber stared at the particle in his hand and said hesitantly, "As time goes by, it will become harder and harder. I saw it at a relic exhibition a long time ago."

"Do you really know it?" Li Ming suddenly became interested, "Is there any way to dissolve it?"

"Yes." Saber stared at Li Ming, "But why should I tell you?"

Li Ming was helpless, "I really don't like killing."

Saber smiled and said, "It's unreasonable to turn away customers when opening a business. Just wait..."

He walked into the back room and took out a tube of green liquid. "Glue-eating insects. This thing can destroy the structure of gel. Five hundred thousand."

Li Ming paid immediately and couldn't wait to return to the store, went up to the third floor, closed the door, took out the metal vertical pupil, and then put it into the container.

Pour the green liquid in carefully and observe carefully, then you will find that the green liquid is actually wriggling little reptiles.

After a while, the golden vertical pupil melted, revealing a ring.

Li Ming picked it up and a gleam of light flashed across his eyes.

[Gene Warrior's Ring--Consumable: A broken evolutionary path.

Control conditions: 5 million metal energy
Control Effect - Inheritance: Consume the control object and obtain the profession - Gene Warrior. 】

(End of this chapter)