This is not mechanical ascension...

Chapter 213: Mimic Personality Layout and Targeting

In the combined fleet, Ford was sweating profusely. Sitting in front of him were Asmara and his father, Prince Baijan.

"Commander, do you really want me to hand over my smart terminal?" He said with difficulty, "There is no provision in the wartime regulations to confiscate officers' smart terminals."

Asmara's face was cold. "Since you know the wartime regulations, you should remember what the first sentence says - obey the commander's orders unconditionally."

Ford's throat was rolling, and he felt very uneasy. He had never expected that the fleet had just initiated a communications blockade yesterday, completely closing off all external contact channels for everyone inside.

Just ask him to hand over the smart terminal today. It contains all his secrets.

He looked hopefully at Prince Baijan.

"Hand it over." Prince Baijan's voice was very gentle.

Ford's face was dejected. If his father didn't support him, then the matter was a foregone conclusion.

But...why?
He didn't quite understand. Asmara suspected that he and Li Ming had informed each other?

He took out his smart terminal hesitantly and even thought of smashing it on the spot, but considering the technical level of logistics, he still handed it to the table.

"Untie it." Asmara said casually, with her head slightly raised, like a proud queen.

Ford took a deep breath, reached out, and unlocked the screen.

"Log in to your Black Hole Network account."

Ford was stunned. "Commander, there are clear regulations that members of the royal family are not allowed to..."

"Fred!" Prince Baijan interrupted in a deep voice.

Ford didn't understand what agreement his father and Princess Asmara had reached, but he knew he could only follow orders and had no choice but to board the black hole network.

There were some red dots of messages in the background, and he looked at them eagerly. After Asmara picked it up, he narrowed his eyes slightly, turned around the screen and asked, "Is he Li Ming?"

Ford looked at the message "Where is the Combined Fleet?"

He was so confused that he didn't know how to answer.

He even had an amazing guess in his mind that the reason why he was able to join the joint fleet and was not rejected by Asmara.

It is very likely that it is because he can contact Li Ming, which may come in handy at a critical moment.

This woman is so vicious!

"That should be it." Asmara nodded, "Okay, you can go out now."

Ford subconsciously glanced at Prince Baijan, then quickly looked away, lowered his head and left.

Two soldiers wearing purple combat armor, one with a double-tailed scorpion on its chest armor, stood in front of the door and quickly caught up with him.

"Double-tailed Scorpion", an elite general under Asmara's command.

Sensing the movement, Ford turned around and was about to ask, when he heard one of them say, "We are under the command of the commander to protect you 24 hours a day."

Ford took a deep breath. Was he really targeting Li Ming?
Just because the great mechanic has the ability to defeat Sandro?

Although it doesn't match the previous intelligence, there's no need to make such a big fuss, right?

He couldn't figure it out, but he was afraid. He was afraid that his deal with Li Ming would be discovered, and that Li Ming would fall into a trap.

Although the black hole network would not record any messages, he felt a chill at the thought that Asmara might impersonate him and talk to Li Ming.

"You can see it, right? You should be able to see it... You must see it..." Ford prayed in his heart.

He walked in a daze, staggering, and bumped into someone head-on. He looked up, a little surprised, "Professor Wu Yanqing?"

Then his pupils contracted, and he saw two double-tailed scorpion soldiers following Wu Yanqing.

"You too..." He opened his mouth, wanting to say something but stopping himself, his mouth dry.

Noticing Ford's reaction, Wu Yanqing didn't say anything, but just shook his head. The two of them passed each other, and Old Wu's heart sank to the bottom.

When he discovered that the big mechanic was wearing a complete mecha of the Ascendant civilization, he realized that something was wrong.

As expected, Asmara took immediate action, captured him, and confiscated all his communication equipment.

Today, they even took away Ford's communication equipment. It seems that they want to start with Li Ming in order to find out the specific situation of Qinglong.

He was very worried, knowing clearly how terrible it would be for a civilization, an advanced civilization, to focus most of its attention on an individual life.

He looked gloomy. What was the origin of that great mechanic?
.........

Asmara and Prince Baijan, holding the Ford communicator, have arrived at the logistics intelligence room. All the staff are looking at the two of them, as if they are waiting.

"Let's start." Asmara handed the communication terminal to the person in charge.

The other party placed it on the central operating table, pulled out a wire, connected it to the smart terminal, and then projected it on the big screen.

"Collect all the information about Count Ford. The mimic personality is taking shape..."

"Simulating..."

"Your Highness, what do you think is the level of relationship between Earl Ford and the target?" the person in charge asked.

"A dear friend," Prince Baijan estimated.

"Friend input, voice analysis in progress..."

On the big screen, on the side belonging to Ford, a message popped up.

"I don't know the exact location. It seems that they are preparing to attack a certain station and have entered a wartime state. A lot of information is kept secret from me."

"Don't worry, I will definitely notify you when the combined fleet attacks the Land of Stars."

"It's been a long time since I last saw a complete Ferros Warlord-level armor. The level of this great mechanic is truly unfathomable..." Prince Baijan sighed, and then asked: "Arik, what is the probability that Qinglong is a Casting-level mechanic?"

"13%." Arik, who was standing nearby, responded quickly. "Forging-level mechanics all have their own Star Forging Equipment. I haven't seen him show it yet."

"Based on his current performance, he is at most a highly skilled mechanic."

Prince Baijan nodded, and Asmara said, "I didn't expect to have such an unexpected gain. He must be very familiar with the Ascendant civilization, so he could repair the complete Ferros armor."

"Replied." Arik suddenly said loudly.

On the screen, Li Ming has already replied to the message——
"Has my teacher's battle video reached you? What do you think?"

Li Ming is holding a smart terminal and a set of Ferros armor. There should not be many people who know the value of it, but each of them is a big shot.

"I saw it yesterday. They were in a meeting the whole time. Princess Asmara and my father were whispering to each other. I don't know what they were doing."

"Is your teacher so powerful? I thought he was just an ordinary mechanic."

Li Ming frowned, "Don't try to trick me. Find out what they are doing before asking me about my teacher."

"An abnormal voice has been detected, which does not match the voice of a close friend. Urgent correction is being carried out..."

Prince Baijan frowned.

"Don't worry, given our relationship, I will tell you the first time anything happens." Li Ming looked at this sentence and felt inexplicably awkward.

Would Ford talk to him like this?
The relationship between the two of them has always been one of mutual exploitation, so he said don't ask anymore, if you want to know more, just give me something else in exchange.

And Ford has always been under duress, so why is he so cooperative this time?
"By the way, I have something here and may need your help." Li Ming looked at the next message, and the strange feeling became stronger.

He didn't respond.

"Relationship evaluation error, wrong data..."

"End of conversation..."

Asmara frowned after seeing a series of errors.

"Forget it, it's not a big deal. I have to go to a meeting. Let's just leave it like this for now."

After sending this message, Arik's face looked unhappy. He turned around and said, "Your Highness, the preliminary evaluation results of the mimic personality are out. The two are definitely not close friends. There is even a 62% chance that they are not friends."

not friend?

Prince Baijan frowned. If they are not friends, how did he get the information last time?

Asmara glanced at him calmly, "Old man, your son is not telling the truth."

"When will the next call be?" she asked.

"According to the evaluation, it's best to wait three days." Arik hesitated, "What voice should I use next time?"

"We'll talk about it later." Asmara shook his head and asked, "What about Wu Yanqing?"

"Wu Yanqing's mimic personality said that it would be best if the other party initiated the conversation." Arik said helplessly.

Asmara frowned, "Where is Li Ming's detailed relationship assessment?"

Arik was helpless. "There is no one whose relationship rating is higher than that of his closest relatives. There is no one who can truly threaten him. I have never seen such a strange psychological profile."

"Before and after his father's death, his personalities were almost completely opposite. If the two psychological profiles were input, it would only form a pseudo-personality that is suspected of schizophrenia."

"The profiler even speculated that it was because of his father's death that his closed mind completely split into two completely opposite personalities, which then devoured his original personality."

Asmara's eyes were slightly cold, "Wu Yanqing is not okay either?"

Arik shook his head: "Wu Yanqing and him have been a teacher and student for less than a year, and the two have been together for no more than a month. Their relationship is not close, and they are not even ranked in the top five in the relationship assessment."

Prince Baijan couldn't help but shake his head, "It's tricky."

"But..." Arik hesitated: "Combined with the appearance of the great mechanic Qinglong, there may be an exchange of interests between the two parties. Perhaps we can start from this aspect."

"Before the next conversation, I need a feasible plan." Asmara gave the order directly. Arik looked bitter, "Yes, Your Highness."

.........

Weird, something is wrong. Li Ming was still thinking about this matter, looking at the last two sentences.

He imagined Ford's face, and the expression on his face when he said these two sentences. It was indescribably strange and awkward.

Have you fallen in love with me because of my abuse?
This was obviously impossible, and he soon realized that the true identity of the person he was talking to was most likely not Ford.

In his previous life, many ridiculous things happened precisely because of the screen, not to mention in the highly developed interstellar era.

Not to mention that no one was seen, even if a video really popped up, it might not be Ford himself.

If it wasn't Ford, then the other party obviously didn't know their secret.

Are you going to attack me? No, maybe my "teacher".

That mecha was recognized? Li Ming suddenly thought of many things.

He casually glanced at the background information and replied to quite a few people.

"Someone is still paying attention to Isius's death. Many people have been taken away for questioning. They don't seem to be from the Itlan civilization. They have extremely high-end equipment, similar to a lie detector..." Li Ming's eyes froze. This was the news from Luochuan.

The ghost lingers.

Boom!Boom!Boom!
The knock on the door interrupted his thoughts. Cassis came to see him, and Ulrich and others called him to discuss something.

Entering the conference room, the three people's faces were not very good. Sandro said in a deep voice: "He is here, please say it again."

Theo shook his head and turned to Li Ming and said, "I talked to Torch and attributed the deaths of those people to the sudden appearance of the A-level life form."

“Because so many details were covered up, they clearly didn’t believe it.”

"At the same time, we are resisting the request that we all enter the Ascended Ruins."

Li Ming sat on the chair and listened to Ulrich continue: "The combat power of our four A-level life forms scares them and they dare not accept us easily."

"What's the strength level of Torch?" Li Ming asked.

"At its peak, there were a maximum of eight A-level life forms, but now there should only be two," said Ulrich.

The Torch is also a long-established resistance organization in the Silver Cluster. It has experienced its peak and decline, and is now in a trough period.

"Only two A-level life forms?" This number was beyond Li Ming's expectations. This was a resistance organization that was almost spread throughout the Silver Star Cluster.

"That's right, but the number of Class B life forms should be around forty or fifty," Theo added.

"Forty or fifty?" Li Ming was surprised.

Sandro said nonchalantly: "This kind of resistance organization is like this. They are all supported by something called faith or goals. During the most decadent period, there was not even a Class A life form."

This is completely different from being a plunderer. If the boss didn't have the power to suppress his subordinates, they would have rebelled long ago.

"Also, they know a lot about dimensional creatures, which is also a tricky problem," Theo explained.

"Don't worry, the initiative is in our hands." Li Ming said calmly, "Since the great mechanics they have can't solve the problems they face in the first place, they will never be able to solve them."

The three of them looked at each other, and Ulrich spoke up, "Yes, they will agree sooner or later, but there is a prerequisite. We hope that you will not contact them secretly."

Li Ming looked around at the three people. The three of them were on the same front again, fearing that Qinglong would abandon them and that he would collude with the Torch Organization.

"Don't worry." Li Ming assured, "We are all in the same boat."

Simply guaranteeing that it would have no effect, but what Ulrich and the other two did was just to show their attitude and let the other party think about it.

"By the way, have you found the location of the joint fleet?" Li Ming suddenly thought of it and asked.

"They have been found. They destroyed a resistance group related to the Torch Organization not long ago. They should be resting in the Usr civilization now." Theo nodded. The sudden disappearance of the joint fleet caused a lot of people to be nervous, and they were all looking for them.

There was no news until a few hours ago.

"Usir Civilization." Li Ming breathed a sigh of relief and pondered, "If we sail from that place at the fastest speed, how long will it take to reach the Land of Stars?"

"Arrived at the Land of Stars?" Sandro smiled. "The combined fleet hasn't shown off enough. There are still a few months before the tide. What are they doing here?"

Theo thought for a moment and said, "Each warship has a different sailing speed. The group marches at the lowest sailing speed. I estimate that it will take one and a half months to arrive."

(End of this chapter)