This is not mechanical ascension...

Chapter 212 [Alienated Energy] Upgrade Route Selection
"After repairing this Star King, the next step is to play with those guys slowly." Li Ming secretly calculated and gradually merged into the crowd.

On the street not far away, Qinglong's figure suddenly faded.

Gray Eyed, who was following secretly, suddenly twitched his eyelids, and turned around abruptly, and saw Qinglong at the end of the street.

His figure instantly appeared behind him. Before he could say anything, he heard the other party say, "Don't be so nervous. I'm just not used to being followed by others."

Huitong said nothing, secretly surprised. What kind of method is this?
I had clearly been following him since Ulrich's castle without diverting my attention for a moment, yet I was still deceived.

His A-level gene seed is called [Ubus Protoss], and his eyes have the initial ability to capture information.

The information state is produced by the interweaving of each living being and the cosmic environment. It is not a taste, but a trace of existence.

Even for a Class A life form, it is difficult to reach this level. He can only barely capture the information state and cannot distinguish it specifically.

But even so, it is already very powerful. At least no one can lurk in front of him.

wrong…

He suddenly thought of something and couldn't help asking, "More than ten days ago, I sneaked into your studio. Did you find me at that time?"

"What do you mean by infiltrate?" Li Ming asked back. What Theo followed at the beginning was just a [Mimicry Projection].

Theo frowned, stared at him for a long time, shook his head and said, "Nothing."

This person cast an increasingly heavy shadow in his heart.

Meanwhile, while the two were delayed, the surroundings had become noisy, with many plunderers pointing at them, apparently having recognized them.

Li Ming had finished his work and immediately returned to the Iron Castle.

Less than twenty-four hours had passed and repairs had already begun on Ulrich's Iron Castle.

As soon as he walked into the hall, Li Ming heard a wailing sound.

"Master Collector, I can't help it. I have fought to the last moment. Look at the wounds on my body."

Brown was kneeling on the ground, crying bitterly, covered in blood, and seemed to be seriously injured.

"Those mechanics are so cruel. I used my body to block them, but they ignored me and stepped right over me!"

Brown's eyes were filled with tears, while Cassis narrated expressionlessly, "A total of 114 items were lost during the maintenance, and 112 were found."

"Those escaped mechanics left the Iron Castle at the first possible moment and robbed the interstellar spaceships in the port. It is no longer possible to find them back."

Brown trembled and looked at Ulrich pitifully, "Sir, I am loyal to you, but I am so small..."

Ulrich frowned and did not respond, but looked at Sandro beside him.

"It's not him." Sandro shook his head with contempt: "This guy is too soft-hearted. Who can feel at ease if they bribe him?"

Ulrich waved his hand impatiently, and Cassis took Brown away, and then brought in the escort behind him.

"Oh, it seems to be him." Sandro's eyes lit up and he pointed at the human in front of him.

"Morpheus, a senior staff member of the Security Department." Cassis frowned.

Morpheus' face turned pale, and he quickly crawled on the ground. "Master Collector, I don't understand what Mr. Sandro is talking about. I have never met Mr. Sandro."

"You are also qualified to contact me?" Sandro sneered.

Ulrich had a cold expression on his face, and Cassis took him to another location where several people were already standing there with dazed eyes, seemingly still alive.

Are they looking for a traitor? Has the enemy boss personally pointed him out?

These people were bribed by Sandro, which was really unfortunate for them.

Li Ming looked at it for a while and couldn't help shaking his head.

Ulrich noticed that they had returned and his face turned a little ugly. This scene of cleaning up the house was somewhat embarrassing.

"It's okay, you guys continue." Li Ming found a good position and watched with interest.

Ulrich felt uncomfortable and snorted coldly, "The entire security department, all of them will be executed."

"Alas, life forms are too untrustworthy." The burly Sandro shook his head. "Do you know what conditions Rob offered them? Five million star coins. Just five million star coins will open the door to your collector's lair."

"I have a suggestion. Why don't we make some mechanical bodies? These living creatures don't have trustworthy metals. I have some right now. I'll give you a 20% discount. How about that?" Li Ming spoke at the right time.

Ulrich's face turned dark. He still remembered the ghost programs on the mechanical bodies around Li Ming. Who dared to use them?
If using these living beings, the other party will have to spend some money, but if using those mechanical bodies, Qinglong doesn't even have to spend money.

Theo, who had been following Li Ming, looked down at the smart terminal and frowned, "My people just received news that the joint fleet lost its trace in the Bardoro system three hours ago."

Among the three A-level life forms present, only Theo's men are relatively organized.

Li Ming's heart moved slightly.

"Lost trace?" Ulrich looked over. "What happened?"

"I don't know for now, but they are trying to suppress a small organization supported by Torch." Theo added.

"Never mind them, let's contact Torch first." Sandro shook his head, and Ulrich looked at Li Ming, "There is a section of the main gun missing in the maintenance room."

"Main gun?" Li Ming looked puzzled, and then suddenly realized, "The one taken from which main ship?"

"It seems to be nearly a hundred meters long. Who took that thing?" He was quite surprised.

"Huh?" Sandro was surprised and laughed, "Maybe it was those stupid looters. The dismantled main gun is useless."

Ulrich's eyes flickered. He had already made some general inquiries and found out that no raider had ever seen the main gun.

However, that thing was really useless, and he originally sold it as an accessory.

Ulrich had a lot of things to deal with and didn't have time to deal with them.

Most of the iron castle was destroyed, but a small part remained intact. He picked a room and destroyed all the surveillance and listening devices inside.

He took out his smart terminal, opened the Black Hole Network, found Ford's account, and sent a message - "Why did the Combined Fleet suddenly disappear?"

There was no response at the first time, and Li Ming didn't care. He put it aside for the time being and opened the control page instead.

Now I finally have some free time to process the batch of mother ore in the space.

He put his hands into his arms and absorbed the small ones first, while also developing the genetic seeds.

Time passed, and after about twelve hours, the mother ore in the folded space was finally absorbed by him.

After deducting the 100 yuan consumed, there are 1247 yuan left.

A familiar prompt popped up on the control page, asking whether to consume one thousand mother ores to reduce the switching cooldown of the control object.

This is what Li Ming was waiting for. He clicked OK without hesitation and controlled one side of the page. The densely packed text disappeared line by line.

The half-hour switching cooldown is reduced again, directly to 15 minutes, which is already very short, and subsequent actions are also more convenient without having to calculate the time carefully.

There are still 247 special energies left, which is enough for emergencies.

Finally, the three dimensional crystals were absorbed extremely slowly, and it took an hour to be completely absorbed.

A prompt popped up on the control page - [Alienated Energy Detected] "Huh?" He looked at the control page, which showed a single column of alienated energy that was not arranged under the obscure divine energy.

He seemed to remember, wasn't this thing called divine energy?

How has it changed?

Li Ming was quite surprised and thought about it carefully.

Alienated energy is the carrying energy needed to upgrade A-level controlled objects, and it is not the same thing as divine energy.

"Tsk..." Li Ming was very surprised. It seemed that this dimensional crystal also seemed to be different.

That divine energy seemed to come from Super Power Istanbul.

As his life level improved and his horizons broadened, he came to understand more and more what level of power the so-called planet-tearing in Super Power Istanbul was, and that this was achieved under severe interference from the main universe.

No wonder the Torch Organization firmly believed at the time that this move could scare the Itlan civilization.

Li Ming guessed that it should be related to the level of the dimensional creatures that are the source of the dimensional crystals.

Absorb the other two dimensional crystals as well to obtain three portions of alienated energy.

He was eager to try it out, glanced at the control page, and had an urge to consume directly.

However, he quickly suppressed this impulse and began to combine himself. Currently, he only had three alienated energies, so he could not upgrade blindly and needed reasonable planning.

He will soon become a B-class life form. His main combat system will still be supported by many controlled objects, with the help of the [Mechanical Iron Cavalry] ability and possession of the [Feros Warrior-class Mecha].

However, due to the use of materialization, one of his important means of burst, [Thunder Frenzy], can no longer be used.

Therefore, the first thing is to upgrade his old friend, the Tank Guard, to replace the [Feroth Warrior-class Mecha].

[Tan Wei] has accompanied him all the way from Silver-Ash Star, so he can be considered to have made great contributions.

The use of alienated energy did not increase the upgrade consumption, but with the infusion of nine million metal energies—
[The Tank Guard Mecha will soon be upgraded to Class A. Please choose an upgrade route.

具现
Control

Li Ming looked at the pop-up prompt. It was reasonable that there were additional effects rather than a simple upgrade.

In the real world, not all B-class weapons and A-class weapons require mother ore or dimensional crystals as materials.

Using these when upgrading will bring additional strengthening effects. Having experience in strengthening mother ore, Li Ming was not too surprised.

"These two routes correspond to materialized use and controlled use." Li Ming pondered. The [Feros Warrior-class Mecha] was repaired to an A-class mecha, so there was no such prompt.

The original purpose was to use the [Tank Guard] mainly as a materialization, so the [Materialization] upgrade route was naturally chosen.

The prompt disappeared, and on the control page, the icon of the Tank Guard mecha was covered with golden light. The metal on the surface of the mecha fell off, revealing the complex mechanical structure inside.

The old material was absorbed by the golden light, and then turned into liquid metal, slowly covering the surface of the mecha. The overall color changed from orange-yellow, almost light gold, to a unique gold color.

Its surface has a subtle metallic sheen, as if it were made up of countless tiny metal pieces forming a dynamic pattern.

[Tank Guard--Class A: Advanced combat mecha, focusing on defense.

……

Manifested Ability - Stoneskin: Increases damage reduction by 25%. 】

It’s actually this effect, the ability to manifest?

Li Ming was surprised that all the data blessings of his control disappeared. After careful consideration, he found that [manifestation ability] was an ability that could directly act on the body of the controlled object.

However, it was his physical strength that was consumed.

"It should be strengthened for materialization, so these data blessings are useless." Li Ming pondered to himself.

The metal energy required to control an object is generally determined by the control effect and its material.

Since there is no data support, it must be greatly enhanced, not to mention the ability of [Stone Skin] that can be materialized.

Evolved from the ability gained from strengthening the mother ore, it is simple and crude, directly reducing damage by 25%.

He raised his hand, and the Tank Guardian suddenly appeared. It became more sturdy overall, about 2.5 meters tall, with sharp metal edges and corners. New armor structures appeared in many parts, which were thicker and had more complicated patterns. It didn't seem to be just decoration.

A slight knock made a dong-dong sound. It focused on defense, and its defensiveness was probably several times that of [Feros]. I'm afraid it won't be so easy for Sandro to break through the defense.

As for offensive capabilities, he smiled. With [Thunder Frenzy], the overall convertible data has now increased by nearly a hundred times.

If it becomes a B-level life form, with the help of [Tank Guard] and [Thunder Frenzy],
Tsk tsk…

He imagined that the B-level life form was just around the corner, and that he would be able to unlock a control bar at that time.

By the way, there is also the [Extreme Transformation] that was intercepted last time. I wonder what kind of changes it will bring.

He does need to find the Secret Records of Liberation. His current Theory of Evolution and Secret Records of Liberation are both B-level, so there is no urgency.

He had time to slowly fill in the blanks. Many thoughts flashed through his mind, but he suppressed them again.

The next one to be upgraded is the [Silver-Gray Particles], which are considered semi-auxiliary and not other main combat control items.

What he is considering now is endurance. Using various abilities and driving a class A armor consumes too much energy. Without some endurance, he will be killed in seconds.

The [Silver-gray Particles] can not only strengthen the controlled objects, but also increase physical strength, which is perfect.

As for the route, choose control, because the ability of [Silver-Gray Particles] is materialized through the control bar without occupying the control bar.

This is the best value for money.

Another eight million metal energies were smashed in, along with a portion of alienated energy. The [silver-gray particles] boiled and transformed from the inside. The nanoparticles were wrapped in golden energy and turned completely silver.

[Silver-gray particles--Grade A: special nanoparticles, no one knows where they come from.

……

Control Effect: Feature--[Surge of Physical Strength]

Control ability - Fusion: Silver-gray particles can be fused with any control object of the same level to improve its performance without occupying the control bar.]

It actually evolved into a characteristic?

Li Ming's heart moved slightly and he looked carefully.

[Physical Surge: Increases physical strength by 600%, and reduces the speed of physical strength loss by 25%. 】

Huh~ Li Ming grinned. Good, very powerful, just what he wanted.

After consuming 17 million, and seeing the metal energy drop from four to two, he felt a little painful, but it did improve his strength.

As for the last portion of alienated energy, he has not used it for the time being. These control objects are enough for now, and he keeps them for emergency use.

After dealing with these, what he needs to wait for is the improvement of development progress. Class B life form is a qualitative leap for him.

C-level life forms are simply unable to exert the power of these controls, and he became more and more expectant.

(End of this chapter)