This is not mechanical ascension...

Chapter 227: Blerim's Explosion and His Own Death

If you reject me, then we are not friends. If we are not friends, why should I let you stay here?

Doing so would certainly cause the great mechanic's disgust, but Blerim didn't care. Long-term interests were something that needed to be considered between civilizations.

For people like them, no one knows when the next meeting will be, so they will naturally ask for benefits on the spot.

Although he didn't know why the other party came, this place was not a must-visit place, so he must have a reason for coming.

If we don’t do it now, when will we wait?
Li Ming looked at him deeply. The transaction location had been locked and could not be changed for the time being.

He nodded and said, "No problem, I can help you build it, but I have a question, how did you find us?"

"Haha, I knew that Lord Qinglong was a friend." Blerim laughed and said, "Although your spaceship is parked far away, my probe has already covered that area."

"A collector's ship. Too obvious."

He brought up a picture with a look of pride and threat, and it was Ulrich's spaceship.

Li Ming glanced at Ulrich. Ulrich was a little embarrassed. This matter was not his own business, so he didn't take it that seriously.

"Come, keep a close eye on this spaceship and make sure nothing happens." Blerim ordered his men to guard the small spaceship from inside to outside.

Li Ming looked gloomy, and Thiago was still among them.

Blerim personally led the way to the upper floors of the huge warship.

"What civilization's warship is this?" As Li Ming came along, he felt more and more how huge the warship was. He couldn't help but imagine that the main gun of this warship could probably directly blow up the planet.

"Who knows?" Blerim was also unclear and shook his head. "No one can figure out what's in the Red River Star Stream."

The battleship's top deck offers a boundless expanse of space, and one can clearly see a deep red stream of stars that seems to run through the universe. Any star seems insignificant in front of it.

It's like a red curtain, covering up the mysteries of the universe.

"Hmm?" Li Ming inexplicably felt that the Red River Star Stream seemed to become brighter, and the dark red color gradually turned into bright red.

The dissipated star mist suddenly scattered away like a frightened school of fish, and the red star stream seemed to fluctuate, with ripples like the tide slowly emerging.

Li Ming's eyes widened. It seemed like... this was not an illusion?
"The tide is coming..." Ulrich's voice sounded.

Li Ming suddenly realized that the tide of the Red River Star Stream would create a window period for the Red River Star Stream, allowing it to go deeper.

Ulrich sighed a little. In the past tides, he would go deep into the Red River.

Li Ming thought of what Monroe once said, that he was using the Land of Stars to draw something from it.

"Don't worry, we are far away from the Red River Star Stream and won't be affected by the tides." Blerim didn't care. He led everyone into a hall and asked people to set up a welcome banquet.

He kept probing them in his words, asking them why they came.

"We were heading somewhere and were planning to stop for supplies," Ulrich explained expressionlessly.

"Supplies?" Blerim smiled but didn't expose it.

Li Ming glanced at him. This guy didn't think they were running away, and he didn't even think that Theo and Sandro were following them.

That’s right, after all, there was no other news.

After much indirection, Blerim gained nothing and the banquet was set.

The welcome banquet at Blerim was quite unique, with a large number of slave girls dancing gracefully and various kinds of wine being poured continuously.

Li Ming had no interest in the banquet. Halfway through, Blerim took out the weapon drawings for him to refer to.

He wanted to make a metal cold weapon like a knife.

"I have almost prepared the materials, Nova Storm Alloy, Dark Matter Alloy, and Supergiant Core. I think it would be best if they could be folded..." Blerim explained his requirements.

"Well, what's your approximate level of strength?" Li Ming asked casually while looking at the blueprint.

"This..." Blerim was a little surprised, "What does this have to do with weapons?"

"Of course it is related. It's complicated to explain. I need to adjust various weapon data according to your strength." Li Ming frowned.

Blerim thought, "I am not a conventional evolutionary system. If I must make an analogy, I should be similar to an A-level genetic evolutionary body with a development progress of about 60%."

"The burst energy level can exceed 100A."

"Oh." Li Ming nodded thoughtfully, took a look at the materials this guy prepared, and shook his head: "This seems to be only enough for one weapon."

Blerim was slightly stunned, and pretended to be dumb and said, "What else?"

"Nothing." Li Ming chuckled.

"So, how long do you think it will take to be completed? I have prepared a quiet place for you." Blerim struck while the iron was hot.

Ulrich glanced over and sneered to himself.

"Don't worry." Li Ming put down the blueprint

Blerim was anxious and hesitated to speak, but he didn't want to press further.

……

While the banquet was going on, Ulrich's iron castle was littered with corpses, blood was flowing everywhere, and the smell of blood was in the air.

Brown was shaking all over, and fell to his knees, his face full of fear.

The remaining guards around were also covered with scars. They were detained and kneeling on the ground. Behind them were double-tailed scorpion soldiers wearing combat armor. They were fully armed and exuded an iron-blooded murderous aura.

"Ah, ah, Your Highness Asmara... I..." Brown looked at the slim woman in front of him, with only fear in his two big eyes.

Beside Asmara was the Prince of Baijan. He looked around the hall with his hands behind his back, his eyes fell on the nails on the wall, and he sighed slightly:

“It is said that the collector has an original work by Vickrill and a Nebula statue carved by Master Barenboim himself.”

"Your Highness..." Intelligence Officer Arik came from deep inside the palace and reported in a deep voice: "This castle is almost just an empty shell. There is nothing valuable in it."

Asmara looked cold but not surprised: "You ran pretty fast."

"Tobeka..." Asmara shouted.

A thin Itlan woman walked out from the group of people following behind him, with her head lowered.

"Check his memory," Asmara said, pointing at Brown.

Brown trembled all over and wailed non-stop, "Your Highness Asmara, I will tell you everything. Just ask me and I will tell you everything..."

No one paid any attention to him. Tobeka walked slowly up to him and looked at Brown, whose nose and tears were streaming. There was obvious disgust in her eyes, but she still stretched out her slender hand and placed it on his forehead.

In an instant, Brown's whole body was twitching, but he was held down tightly, his eyes turned outward, and a miserable wail came from his throat.

Tobeka's face was calm, some strange scenes flashed across his eyes, and he whispered:

"Your Highness, his memory is very ordinary and he knows nothing. Ulrich asked him to stay and guard, saying that he would be back soon, and he believed it..." "Huh..." Suddenly, Tobeka was stunned and said in surprise: "Your Highness, his memory has been erased for a period of time!"

"Huh?" Asmara, who had not cared at first, suddenly turned her head.

"When?"

"It was erased for about ten minutes three days ago." Tobeka pulled her hand away, and Brown collapsed to the ground, twitching all over and foaming at the mouth.

She whispered, "It shouldn't be Ulrich. According to his memory, Ulrich had already left by then."

Asmara was quite surprised: "There is actually an unexpected gain. If I can erase his memory, I should be able to kill him easily."

Prince Baijan also looked over and asked, "Can it be restored?"

"I could try to revive him, but that would probably render him brain dead," Tobeka explained.

"It doesn't matter." Asmara didn't care. Brown was helped up, and Tobeka put his hands on his temples. The invisible mental force field quickly spread out.

Prince Baijan stepped back subconsciously, feeling as if a layer of plastic film was covering him, which was extremely awkward.

He has always kept his distance from people with psychic abilities.

He looked around and couldn't help asking, "Where is His Highness Gabriel? Is he still on the spaceship?"

"Yeah." Asmara nodded, a strange expression on her beautiful face: "He is very resistant to this place and doesn't want to put himself in danger."

Upon hearing this, Prince Baijan couldn't help but wonder what the great mechanic had done to make the young and energetic son of the Grand Duke of the Empire so scared?
"what--"

Brown's wailing became more intense, his whole body trembled constantly, and a dazzling light shone from his two big eyes. Then flames appeared and burned through.

Tobeka's face turned pale and he clenched his teeth. Suddenly, with a bang, Brown's head exploded completely.

Brain matter and blood exploded all over Tobeka's face. She felt nauseous and the logistics soldier next to her quickly stepped forward to clean up for her.

Asmara frowned, only caring about whether her memory was restored.

"The life form that erased its memory is at a very high level. I only saw one picture, and that's because this goblin has a very deep memory of that picture." Tobeka didn't dare to hesitate. His eyes were shining, and he actually outlined a scene in front of him like a holographic projection.

Asmara frowned. In this blurry scene, there was a sturdy human being standing with a long metal box in his hand. Inside the box was a black and gold sniper rifle. He could only see the general outline while the specific details were very vague.

Asmara looked at it carefully, and then his expression suddenly changed, "Phantom Hunter?"

Prince Baijan walked quickly forward, almost sticking to the illusory scene, as if wanting to see it clearly.

"It is indeed the Phantom Hunter, so this person should be the legendary Dark Night." Prince Baijan confirmed with an extremely solemn expression.

Asmara lowered her head and fiddled with the smart terminal. Prince Baijan looked unhappy. "Not long ago, a Grand Duke of Xingyuan Empire was assassinated. It was this man who did it."

“It’s him.” A young voice sounded beside him. Prince Baijan turned around and saw that it was actually Gabriel’s holographic projection.

"The Phantom Hunter in his hand should be the weapon used for assassination."

"The Phantom Hunter is a sniper rifle made by a Forge-level mechanic. It is extremely powerful and can fire informational poison." Gabriel looked solemn. "This person fled along the Red River Star Stream and actually came to the Land of the Stars."

"What does he want to do?"

This question brought everyone's attention to Tobeka.

Tobeka said hurriedly, "I didn't get it completely. He seemed to want to repair something."

"Repair something?" Asmara immediately concluded, "He came to find Qinglong, and what he wants to repair is probably his sniper rifle."

"That should be the case." Prince Baijan also nodded, and then asked in confusion: "But why is this gun damaged?"

Gabriel said leisurely, "He actually fired two bullets, but the second one was blocked, which probably caused great damage."

"If Dark Night appears here, we must report it to the empire."

Asmara's eyes moved slightly, "Yes, if An Ye and Qing Long collude, I'm afraid there will be big trouble."

At this moment, intelligence officer Arik came forward with a cold sweat on his forehead: "Your Highness, when this goblin died just now, a microwave signal suddenly came out of his body."

Asmara looked over, "Didn't we already shield this castle?"

"It has been shielded, but this microwave signal is not transmitted to the outside world, but... underground." Arik felt a shudder in his heart.

"Underground?" Asmara looked down, and then his face changed drastically. A violent vibration was heard, as if some huge monster was turning over from underground.

boom!
The blazing light illuminated the entire trading island like daylight. Heart-pounding energy surged into the sky. Dark purple lightning kept jumping, making a roar that resounded through the sky.

In less than five seconds, accompanied by a low roar, a beam of light pierced the ecological shield of the floating island. A huge mushroom cloud rose from the steel castle, and violent waves of fire rolled in, raising huge clouds of smoke and dust.

The violent energy ring spread, and the ground began to crack. The many plunderers on the floating island were stunned, and then fled in all directions.

Outside the trading island, the aftermath of the explosion activated the battleship's shield. Gabriel stood in front of the porthole, with the rolling flames reflected in his pupils.

"Your Highness, it's a good thing you didn't go out." Ronan said thankfully behind him.

Ford stood not far away, his throat rolling.

.........

After the party, Blerim arranged for them to stay near his room.

After clearing the surveillance equipment in the room, Li Ming turned on the smart terminal. The traders from the Black Hole Network were approaching Li, but he was temporarily unable to trade, which made him very unhappy.

After thinking for a moment, he pulled Theo and Sandro into a small group. After turning on the video, Theo and Sandro's big heads appeared on the left and right.

Li Ming opened his mouth and said, "I am going to kill Blerim."

"Huh?" Sandro was slightly stunned, then shocked, "So sudden?"

Theo frowned, "Were you discovered?"

"Yes, the Patrol is also under the supervision of Blerim." Li Ming nodded.

Theo's face changed slightly. Although A-level life forms can survive in the interstellar space for a short period of time, they cannot cross the long distance between the stars.

If the spaceship was destroyed, they would still end up dead.

"But he doesn't know you are here." Li Ming added, and Teoli breathed a sigh of relief.

"Well..." Sandro immediately asked, "What are your plans?"

"There's no plan. It shouldn't be a problem for us to just kill him with a bunch of people." Li Ming shook his head, very roughly, "and then divide the spoils."

Just when I was in urgent need of genetic material, Blerim delivered it to me.

And Sandro suddenly became excited, "Good plan!"

(End of this chapter)