This is not mechanical ascension...

Chapter 238: The Correct Use of Hidden Blessings: Traveling Around the Torch Organization Base
Li Ming's eyes flickered slightly, but he still did not comment. Jessiah did not care either, and said with some emotion:

"Lord Monroe was trapped by the nano curse. He was an extremely powerful mechanic, but he tried everything he could to do nothing."

"I followed in his footsteps and underwent full body transformation to become an A-level mechanical transformed body and a master mechanic. Only then did I clearly understand the despair he faced."

"I didn't expect that..." Jessiah's tone became more and more surprised, and he even used honorifics:
"How long have you been in the Land of Stars? Excluding the time you were lurking under Ulrich's hands, you were able to deal with the nano curse for Master Monroe in such a short time. I'm afraid only a Forge-level mechanic can do that."

Li Ming pondered for a moment, still not directly answering Jesseia's question, but just shook his head and laughed, "Forging Star Mechanic?"

He neither denied nor admitted it.

Seeing the other party's stubborn look, Jessiah didn't care. The other party's vigilance was normal. The nano curse came from the Xingyuan Empire.

If the other party admits it, to some extent, it would be considered as an enemy of the Xingyuan Empire.

Jessiah came here just to express his attitude and to show that he is one of them. Even if the other party doesn't believe it for the time being, time will prove everything.

"Forget it, let's not talk about this anymore." After venting his feelings, Jessiah skipped the topic. "There were some things I couldn't say at the banquet before, so I came here specially."

The mimicry structure on his face was restrained, and he looked quite cautious. "Deyes is quite dissatisfied with your joining because Connit once promised that after opening the ruins, he would give him the precious material called "Dark Matter Stardust".

"It can be used as the main material for star-casting tools."

"The star-casting device..." Li Ming was surprised.

The so-called Star-Forging Equipment is the standard equipment for Star-Forging-level mechanics.

The so-called "star casting" refers to casting planets, which can also be said to be able to create a powerful civilization.

In his hand, perhaps only the completely repaired [Matter Reconstruction Fabricator] can be regarded as a star-forging tool.

"Has his level reached this point?" Li Ming asked.

"No, although Deyes is the most skilled among the three of us, he is still some distance away from being a Casting-level mechanic. He is mainly collecting materials."

Jesaya was a little helpless: "He made a deal with us before. He didn't want anything else but dark matter stardust."

"But when you come..."

No wonder Deyes was hostile to him, Li Ming thought thoughtfully, this was equivalent to a grudge against someone who was blocking his way.

Jessiah then added: "Although his level is not low, the source of the relevant data we learned today is still questionable."

"He has made great achievements in the research of virtual intelligence. I personally suspect that he has a way to contact the outside world, otherwise he would not have been able to suddenly learn so much data."

Li Ming seemed to be thinking about something. The others were not stupid either. After what Deyes did, even a fool would suspect that there was something wrong with him.

It looks like a big risk.

But Li Ming changed his mind and thought, if he didn't recognize that thing, he could still use the [Material Reorganization Fabricator] to build the things on the drawing in batches and parts.

But he couldn't prove it in a short time. Even if Connet and others had doubts about Deyes, they had to listen to him.

It was even said that there was a high possibility that he would be isolated or even expelled from the core laboratory.

He didn't care whether he was valued or not, but there were many things he wanted in this base.

Although the risk is great, it is indeed possible. Unfortunately... Li Ming shook his head. He really recognized that thing.

"The issue of Deyes will naturally be handled by Connit." Li Ning still spoke vaguely. Although he had a good impression of Jessia, it was impossible for him to trust the other party with just a few words.

Then he asked, "I am concerned about another thing. What is in the Ascendant ruins?"

Jesaya could clearly sense the other party's distrust, and he did not hesitate to answer this question immediately: "[Sublimation Source Crystal]"

"【Sublimation Source Crystal】?"

Jesaya nodded. "It is rumored that it is one of the three star-casting instruments owned by the Ascendant civilization. I am not sure what its specific function is."

"Of course, the Torch Organization is not 100% sure, and only makes this inference based on the information it has obtained."

He explained, "You may not know that at the peak of the Ascendant civilization, its territory once covered more than 30 star clusters, almost including most of the Corona Borealis star ring."

"The unique sublimation particles of their race can allow superpowers and genetic evolution to coexist, and their strength far exceeds that of evolutionary entities at the same level."

"Because it was relatively close to the Xingyuan Empire, it aroused their vigilance. After hundreds of years of twists and turns, it was eventually destroyed."

During the time that Jessia had been in the Torch Organization, he had gained a relatively clear understanding of the Ascendant civilization.

"The core Ascendant high-level officials created a series of Ascendant relics when they were finally destroyed. The three most important ones are called 'core relics'."

"When it was destroyed, Xingyuan Empire obtained one of them. About 1,500 years ago, another one appeared and was taken away by an unknown person."

"The one found now is suspected to be the third one."

Li Ming suddenly realized that it was no wonder that the core ruins were so valued. The Itlan civilization had been planning this for nearly ten years.

It is not an exaggeration to say that Asmara’s current status is to a certain extent due to the advantage of having been there.

Jesaya was quite emotional. "Although I don't know what the specific function of that thing is, if the Torch Organization gets it, it is hard to say whether it can overthrow the Itlan civilization in a few years."

"It seems that none of you great mechanics are targeting this thing?" Li Ming couldn't help but ask.

Jesaya was helpless: "This thing is a hot potato. The Xingyuan Empire is high above and seems to not care much about this relic, but it keeps making moves behind the scenes."

"The Ethlan civilization is the pioneer, and the Torch Organization has devoted all its efforts to this cause. The advanced civilizations in several nearby star clusters are also ready to move..."

"We are just a few small mechanics. If we try to steal this thing, we will be courting death. Our goal is other things in the ruins..."

Even though Jesseia is already an A-level mechanical modified body and a great mechanic, he can still feel a deep sense of powerlessness when these names are mentioned.

Li Ming did not comment, and the two chatted for a while and exchanged a lot of relevant information.

It was not until Li Ming showed his intention to expel him for the third time that Jessiah left reluctantly.

"This guy's fanatical worship of Monroe doesn't seem fake. Hmm... let's see what happens later. Maybe it will be useful..." Li Ming pondered to himself, his thoughts running, and he glanced at the time.

According to the Blue Star time zone he had always set, it was now eight o'clock in the evening.

He switched to the [Matter Reorganization Device] again, and a group of metal particles kept changing shape in his hands, eventually forming a silver-white metal mask.

[Twisted Mask--C-level: A mask made using a special method.

……

Control effect: Concealment bless 200%
Controlling Energy - Distorted Force Field: Gain 400% stealth and block out sound waves. 】 "It's amazing..." Li Ming couldn't help but sigh as he watched the mask come into being.

This thing really saves him a lot of effort. Whenever he has an idea, he can experiment with it right away.

He made a total of six similar masks, one of which was a B-level item. With the addition of the [Soul Visor] and professional blessing, the total concealment blessing could be 27.5 times.

The experiments and manufacturing consumed a total of about two million metal energies.

"We will start the real manufacturing work tomorrow, so today is a good time to give it a try." Li Ming thought.

His main goal was to obtain more dimensional crystals, that is, alienated energy. Of course, as the main base of the Torch Organization, there should be a lot of good things here, but he knew nothing about it for the time being.

We must find a way to find out the general situation.

After a while, Lei Ting went out again, wandered left and right in the corridor, and finally waited for a figure, it was Theo.

After the banquet, Cornette called Theo away alone and only came back now.

Theo lowered his head in thought, his eyes sweeping over Lei Ting. At first he didn't care.

Until the two of them passed each other and their shadows intersected, Theo suddenly stopped and looked back suspiciously at the blue mechanical body that was going away.

His eyes fell on the other person's shadow, which kept shrinking and lengthening as the downlights in the corridor approached and moved away.

After hesitating for a moment, he appeared silently behind Lei Ting and felt the shadow passing over him.

"Is it an illusion?" Theo frowned and stood there for a long time before turning around.

"This old fellow has a really sharp sense." Li Ming, who was hiding in the shadow of Thunder, was secretly surprised.

After the experiment, he breathed a sigh of relief. With the help of all the concealment, he restrained his emotions and breath. Not even Theo could detect him before he took action.

This is the correct way to use the concealment blessing. He had always wondered before that no matter how high the concealment blessing was stacked, it would not make him disappear directly from the real world.

What is this thing good for?

But now he understood that this thing was used to erase the intuition of living beings.

The intuition of advanced life forms is quite sharp, and they will feel even the slightest bit of being watched secretly.
Hidden blessings need to be combined with hidden means to be truly effective.

At this time, Lei Ting had walked to the metal corridor connecting this area to the outside. There were two torch soldiers guarding the end. They looked back at the blue mechanical body. If the other party took another step forward, they would stop it.

But the blue mechanical body just moved sideways, no one knew what it was doing, until a strange lighting angle, Lei Ting's shadow intersected with the shadow of one of the soldiers, and in an instant, it fluctuated slightly.

Lei Ting stopped moving, and the two soldiers looked at each other, confused.

Shortly after.

Two staff members passed by the corridor, paused, and looked into the metal corridor curiously.

"Are you from the R&D department? Hurry up and leave, this is a level one security zone." The guarding soldier shouted in a deep voice.

The two staff members looked embarrassed and left in a hurry. After walking a distance, they looked back carefully.

One of them had a mustache and whispered, "I heard that the great mechanic Qinglong has arrived at the base."

"Really?" The other man, who didn't have much hair on his head, looked surprised. "How did you know?"

"I have my own way." The man with the mustache looked proud. "Not only that, I also heard that this great mechanic Qinglong solved a problem that had troubled several other great mechanics for a long time as soon as he arrived."

The bald man exclaimed: "Is it really that amazing? They are both great mechanics, why is there such a big gap?"

"There is a gap between great mechanics." The man with a mustache said meaningfully.

The bald man was speechless. "Okay, with your level of mechanics, you can't even forget the classification of alloy hardness values. Don't pretend to evaluate here."

The mustache man looked unhappy. The two of them exchanged a few words and then skipped the topic. "Hurry up. The equipment for the warship has arrived and is waiting for us to inspect it."

"Battleship supporting equipment?" In the shadows, Li Ming had already put on a [Distorted Mask], and then activated [Intelligent Assistance] to outline the base map in his mind.

He was extremely unfamiliar with the place and had no clear goal, so he simply followed the two men for the time being.

The two men made many detours and passed through the central corridor to the other side of the base. After going through numerous verifications, they took the elevator to the upper level of the base.

The metal door slowly opened, the sound of metal rubbing against metal came one after another, and the air was filled with a strong smell of rust.

This seems to be a battleship assembly room. Complex structural parts are slowly transported on a huge crawler conveyor equipment. With the help of a nearly 100-meter-long mechanical arm, they are gradually assembled into a rough battleship.

It can be clearly seen that many things are still missing, including ship guns, internal engines, energy lines and the like.

The two were very familiar with the place. They walked through the battleship assembly room and a metal corridor nearly a hundred meters long, and came to a huge open space.

Above is the boundless starry sky, protected by an ecological shield that provides ample oxygen.

In front of us, there are many metal boxes of various sizes. On a giant transport spaceship not far away, a large crane is unloading them.

The two quickly got to work and began to take inventory.

"Parade Crow Cannons - 246 pieces"

"246 quasi-quantum shield generating devices"

"... "

It seems to be the main accessory of the battleship, Li Ming listened.

The engine, shield, and fire control, these three parts all require extremely high technical difficulty.

Although the Torch Organization can build basic warship hulls, core components that require extremely high technical difficulty still need to be purchased.

"Main ship class - Astartes Spear, electromagnetic cannon..." The man with a mustache stood in front of a metal box that was nearly a hundred meters long. He looked up at the logo on it, then walked in through the gap in the door. What appeared before his eyes was a cannon painted in a bright blue color.

Battleship-class gun barrels?
Li Ming suddenly perked up. The man with a mustache who was taking notes suddenly felt a cold wind blowing on his back. He looked back suspiciously, but there was only darkness.

[Astartes Electromagnetic Cannon--Special Type: Electromagnetic compression ship-borne main gun with extremely strong lethality.

Control conditions: 4 million metal energy
Control effect: electromagnetic concentration effect

Control ability - bombing: materialize the naval gun and bombard a target somewhere (note: energy needs to be stored in advance)]

(End of this chapter)