This is not mechanical ascension...

Chapter 228 The Impact of the Explosion Confused Ulrich
Theo pondered and did not agree immediately, but asked: "Why do you want to kill him?"

He followed the Azure Dragon because of the request of the person behind the scenes, in order to get the [Flower of Casablanca] provided by the other party, but he did not want to become the other party's thug or provide any benefits.

"He wants to get my free stuff." Li Ming's reason was even more outrageous.

"So simple? Just to vent your anger?"

"You can think so." Facing Theo's scrutinizing gaze, Li Ming said frankly.

"Brelim is quite powerful, and his fleet is very prestigious. We may not be able to kill him," Theo said meaningfully.

Sandro was a little impatient, "Boss, if we work together, we can easily kill him."

Theo glanced at him coldly, and Sandro shrank his head, not liking the feeling of being led by the nose.

But the problem is that once Li Ming takes action, he can't really stay out of it.

This was the trouble with being dragged into this situation, it gave him a headache.

If he hadn't been hanging by the [Flower of Casablanca], he would have given up playing long ago. Qinglong is a guy with too many secrets and too much trouble.

S-level life form, Theo longs for it all the time.

Theo sighed. He had to agree even if he didn't want to. But he asked again, "Where is the silver combat robot under your command? Didn't you take him with you when you evacuated?"

Li Ming shrugged, "Who knows, maybe he has become a staff member."

Theo really didn't like the feeling of being out of his expectation, and said calmly: "I understand, but we need to be arranged to go to the abandoned starship city first..."

"Don't worry, I've already told Blerim that there are some things that need to be sent over."

"Ha..." Sandro rubbed his hands together, looking very excited.

Theo had a blank expression on his face. The other party had already made arrangements and was obviously certain that he would agree, or rather, that he must agree.

After ending the communication, Li Ming thought to himself.

"It has been a month or two since Serrad's theft. Even if Theo seeks help from the Torch Organization, it will be difficult to find him."

"Surely that's not why you're heading to the Torch, because of the Ascended Ruins?"

He had thought about it more than once. This reason was valid for Ulrich or Sandro, but it always felt a little off when applied to Theo.

His eyes flickered. "This old guy must have another purpose for following me. The people from Xingyuan Empire standing behind him..."

Just as he was thinking about it, someone knocked on the door. Through the old video terminal on the wall, he found that it was Ulrich. Li Ming also wanted to go find him.

When he opened the door, Ulrich had a strange look in his eyes. After he came in, he said, "The castle...blew up."

"Exploded?" Li Ming raised his eyebrows and watched Ulri open the smart terminal and play a video. The picture was shaking and blurry.

It's only half of it. At the beginning, there's the rising mushroom cloud and the cracked floating island. The strong winds that blow from time to time seem to knock the recorder to the ground.

I could hear some interstellar dialect, which seemed to be cursing.

"Is the power so strong?" Li Ming was surprised and looked up at Ulrich: "Has most of the trading island been bombed?"

It seems that there are still some parts intact, but in fact it is so broken that the ecological environment can no longer be restored. One of the largest floating islands in the Land of Stars has been destroyed.

"I bought a lot of bombs one after another. Some of the captured bombs had no place to be placed, so I buried them all. I have already reached the point of giving up the castle, so why should I care about how destructive power is?" Ulrich's reasoning was simple and crude, yet vaguely mixed with a sense of excitement.

Then another picture was called up. This was the scene after the explosion. The trading island had been broken into several pieces, maintained by a barely sufficient gravity system, but it was still spreading in all directions.

And due to the rupture of the ecological shield, the gravitational winds continued to destroy the ruined floating island, and the picture became much more stable.

Halfway through the video, Ulrich paused and then zoomed in on the lower right corner of the screen.

That was the ruins of the steel castle after the explosion. Two blurry figures vaguely flew out from it at a very fast speed. Even with the software to make it clear, only blurry afterimages could be seen, and it was impossible to tell who they were.

"Only two people flew out, one of them should be Asmara. We don't know how many people they brought in, but they should all have been killed in the explosion." Ulrich said with an obvious smile on his face.

"If nothing unexpected happens, the other person should be Prince Baijan."

"They are all A-level life forms..." Li Ming couldn't help but sigh.

Although the power of the explosion is terrifying, it is not a single-point killing after all, so it is normal for A-level life forms to escape.

"This time, they are in a mess." Ulrich gloated. It was not the first time he had dealt with the Itlan civilization, and there were many grudges against them.

I don’t know if Gabriel was killed in the explosion, Li Ming wondered to himself and glanced at Ulrich who was gloating.

If this guy knew that among the people coming was the son of Grand Duke Cixi of the Xingyuan Empire, I wonder how scared he would be.

The impact of bombing people from the Itlan civilization and bombing people from the Xingyuan Empire are not on the same order of magnitude.

"By the way..." Li Ming interrupted, "I just discussed with Theo and Sandro and are planning to take action against Blerim. I'm telling you."

Hearing this, Ulrich put away his smart terminal without any surprise on his face. "I knew this guy was too greedy."

"With Theo helping out, there shouldn't be much of a problem. Inside the abandoned starship city, he can't use the warships, which has weakened most of his strength."

Ulrich seemed to have a lot of confidence in Theo, which made Li Ming's heart move slightly, and he asked: "How strong is Theo?"

He had never seen Theo take action and was very curious about this question.

He had already gotten a rough idea of ​​Ulrich and Sandro's strengths, only Theo's was still unclear.

This time, ambushing Blerim can also be a good opportunity to test Theo's true strength, so that he can have a better idea of ​​what to do.

Ulrich groaned, "When Lord Monroe was still around, Theo was his strongest man, his number one fighter."

"But do you know what he is best at?"

"?" Li Ming showed a curious look.

"Assassination," Ulrich said. For some unknown reason, he explained it in detail.

"Theo came from a destroyed civilization. He was even a prince. His gene sequence was called [Shadow Blade Hunter], which was an A-level gene sequence. He was good at hiding his breath and tracking, and his assassination skills were extremely advanced..."

A-level gene sequence, concealment and tracking? Li Ming was thoughtful. His evolutionary system just lacked the theory of evolution.

A-level gene sequences are hard to find, but I didn't expect Theo to be the one.

"Sometimes, he appears behind you and you don't even know it." Ulrich was obviously still frightened when he said this. Li Ming could also sense this. For example, Sandro dared to challenge Ulrich and put forward conditions to him, but he was rarely seen to refute Theo.

But he had a strange look on his face, and he had dealt with Theo many times, but he didn't have too deep experience in these two aspects.

With [Intelligent Assistance], unless the opponent is hiding in the space, it is basically impossible to hide from his perception at close range.

I can find Theo's position accurately every time, so there is no special feeling.

Only then did Li Ming realize his blind spot. No wonder Sandro and Ulrich looked like they had seen a ghost sometimes when Theo suddenly appeared.

And Theo always looks at me at first sight. I didn't pay much attention to it before, but now I think that a lot of information is hidden.

Suddenly, he remembered something else, "I seemed to be looking for an assassin profession before, but I forgot about it for some reason."

In order to prevent himself from forgetting, he opened his smart terminal and wrote it down in the memo.

Ulrich habitually stole a glance with a strange look in his eyes, looking for an assassin?

What is this about? Is it about finding Theo?

Probably to remind himself to always look for Theo, Ulrich was lost in thought and shook his head secretly. He was afraid that Theo would be found so easily.

"When will they arrive?" Ulrich asked.

"It should be soon." Li Ming thought, smiling: "Brelim should have known about the explosion of the Iron Castle. What do you think he will do?"

"Appease? And then contact Asmara secretly?" Ulrich smiled faintly. If he were Blerim, he would definitely do so in exchange for sufficient benefits.

It came quickly indeed, but it was not Theo, but Blerim.

Three hours later, with a livid face, Blerim found Ulrich with a smart terminal. Li Ming was also in the same room.

"Ulrich, what on earth are you doing? Blowing up your own nest?" His face looked extremely ugly. The virtual screen was playing a video recording, which was also the scene of the explosion of the Iron Castle.

Ulrich frowned, scanned the scene, and shook his head, saying, "This is my territory. If it blows up, it blows up. Why do you care so much?"

"Of course I care!" Blerim snorted coldly. He thought that Ulrich and Li Ming were doing some secret operation, so they passed by here.

Because in the past, people who sought refuge in the Land of Stars basically fled to the deeper parts of the Red River Star Stream, and took the floating islands along with them.

But now it seems that the two of them have clearly escaped from the Land of the Stars, and even ruthlessly blew up their own nest.

"It's being rumored that your castle was blown up and many people from the Itlan civilization were killed." Blerim glanced at Ulrich and Li Ming's faces and gritted his teeth and said, "Among them, there are even people from the Xingyuan Empire."

"Huh?" Ulrich's originally calm expression suddenly changed. Li Ming frowned. Was he really blown to death?
"Where did you get the news?" Ulrich asked with a serious expression, "Who said there were people from Xingyuan Empire?"

"Look for yourself!" Blenheim threw out a virtual projection. Ulrich looked at it carefully. Li Ming also came over and couldn't help but be surprised.

This is the internal information of the Xingyuan Empire. I don’t know who leaked it deliberately.

It records in detail how Gabriel, the son of the Grand Duke of Thornblood, tracked down Isius's death all the way to the Land of Stars, but was forced to leave due to some unexpected events.

After meeting Asmara, he followed her back to the land of stars.

After the explosion, people under the command of the Bloody Duke have been trying to contact Asmara, but there has been no response. It is not known whether Gabriel is dead or not.

Li Ming was a little disappointed as he was not sure whether he was really dead.

There is a high probability that he is not dead. This kid Gabriel is accompanied by a person with special abilities related to space, or an evolved form, so it is difficult for him to die.

But Ulrich didn't know that, his eyes trembled slightly.

The people of Xingyuan Empire he was talking about were not ordinary soldiers, low-level officers or the like, but people of real status.

This is the son of the Bloodthirsty Duke...

He suddenly turned his head and looked at Li Ming with a gloomy face. He began to wonder if this guy was deliberately trying to trick him.

"You've caused huge trouble!" Blerim felt his hands burning and cursed his bad luck. If he had known this would happen, he would never let them stay here.

It would have been bad enough that Asmara came to the Land of Stars for unknown reasons, but he brought people from the Xingyuan Empire with him. If they were really blown to death, the small Land of Stars would not be able to withstand the wrath of Grand Duke Thornblood.

If I follow the trail of these two people's escape and track them all the way, I'm afraid it will be difficult for me to escape.

Ulrich calmed down. Now was not the time to pursue the matter. He stared at Blerim coldly, "So, what do you want to do? Report us to Asmara?"

"Get out, get out now!" Blerim shouted. He wanted to tell Asmara the other party's whereabouts, but after thinking it over, he decided not to do so.

Because he thought he had no qualifications to negotiate with Asmara. If the son of the Bloody Duke was really killed in the explosion, he'd better stay away from it and not get involved.

Li Ming looked at Ulrich and said, "You guessed wrong."

Ulrich was no longer in the mood to argue with Qinglong; his mind was in turmoil.

If the Bloody Duke's son was really blown to death, he would probably have to flee for the rest of his life.

No, he may not be able to escape. The information state will definitely lock his location.

Seeing that the master mechanic still looked nonchalant, Blerim said in a deep voice, "Now, immediately, right now. If you don't leave, don't blame me for being rude."

Li Ming's eyes moved slightly, and he suddenly looked to the other side and asked, "Don't you want your weapon anymore?"

"Weapons?" Blerim suppressed his anger. "Yes, I don't want them anymore."

Li Ming frowned. Theo why doesn't he take action?
Theo hid in the shadows of the room, making no sound.

This was his most common method of concealment. Even when he was very close, Blerim was unable to detect anything.

He was confused. As soon as he came in, he heard Blerim chasing people away. He didn't know what was going on.

If that was the case, then Qinglong would have no reason to take action.

However, he always felt that Qinglong's gaze was always glancing in his direction.

Coincidence?
Theo frowned slightly. Li Ming had occasionally discovered his traces before, but that was when he did not deliberately hide.

But now it has been restrained to the extreme. Logically speaking, it should not be possible for the other party to sense it easily.

(End of this chapter)