This is not mechanical ascension...

Chapter 240: Miraculous Counterfeiting Technology

Not long after, Ted came out again, carrying a metal box in his hand, and left in a hurry.

Li Ming hid back in his shadow and did not continue to follow him. He didn't know what the next dimensional creature to be sacrificed was, and it would be troublesome if he was discovered.

He passed several staff members and went around in circles, spending another two or three hours before he finally returned to the shadow of Thunder.

Dark Night... He had been thinking about this name all the way. He couldn't connect to the Internet here and had no way to look up the other party's relevant information.

But just the relevant information he learned from the conversation between Theo and others was enough to make him fearful.

Bullets loaded with informational poison not only kill people, but also erase all traces of the target's existence in the universe.

What is a trace of existence?

Life is a part, and other people’s memories are also a part.

Of course, Dark Night’s information-state poison has not reached this level if a top-level information-state erasure is carried out.

All traces in the instrument recordings and written records will be erased, and it is equivalent to them not existing from beginning to end.

"Why on earth is this guy targeting me?"

While he was thinking, Lei Ting had already turned around the corridor, but his steps paused.

At the door of Li Ming's room, next to the tall and burly Tepper, there was a man standing.

"Theo..." Li Ming's expression was slightly condensed in the shadows. This old guy was too cunning. He must have used him as an experiment and he must have noticed something, so he blocked the door of his room.

But Tepper would definitely not let him in, and given Theo's personality, he would not force his way in.

When Lei Ting noticed him, he also saw Lei Ting.

His eyes subconsciously fell on the other person's shadow, which kept moving left and right and shrinking forward and backward as the light changed, and then he frowned slightly.

Is this really an illusion?

Theo didn't believe it and watched the other party gradually approaching him. The shadow passed through the crack of the door, while Thunder stopped at the side of the door and stood still.

"When will your master get enough rest?" Theo frowned and looked at Tepper.

"I don't know." Tepper said in a deep voice, "You can continue to wait here."

Theo frowned, looked towards the door, and finally shook his head, "Forget it."

When he was about to leave, there was a click from the door behind him. Theo stopped and looked back.

Qinglong stood at the door, looking quite surprised, "Sir Theo? When did you come? Why are you standing outside the door?"

"Master, Lord Theo has been waiting here about four hours ago." Tepper took the initiative to report.

"Why didn't you knock?" Li Ming was even more surprised. "Sorry, I was busy sorting out the information needed to make the sublimator and didn't pay much attention."

"Didn't you say you didn't want to be disturbed?" Tepper's tone seemed extremely confused.

“…But you can’t even not let me jump when I knock on the door.” Li Ming seemed extremely helpless.

"It's okay." For some reason, Theo felt inexplicably upset and left with a blank expression.

Looking at Theo's back, Li Ming closed the door again and shook his head.

Theo had been observing him silently, but there was no threat for now, so he didn't need to take it too seriously.

What he cares about now is the "wealth" he has seen. After these few hours, he has already figured out the general structure of the Torch Organization.

The current target is three main ship-level gun barrels. If he gets them, his artillery firing capability will see a qualitative leap.

And the alienated energy that serves as the carrier of upgrades, which is dimensional crystallization.

The former is not difficult to obtain. Just wait for the remaining two gun barrels to arrive, find the right opportunity, and use [Shadow Sting] to get it.

What he was considering was when the right time would come, because the installation of the gun barrel did not require waiting for other things to be in place.

In other words, by the time the two gun barrels arrived, the front gun barrel had most likely been assembled on the main ship and left.

So, timing is very important.

Also, as for the impact after the action, if he is affected by this incident and gains alienated energy in the future, it will not be worth it.

As for the storage place of the dimensional crystals, he didn't know what kind of defense it had, and he couldn't even get in.

"How about using [Space Flash]?"

Li Ming was thinking secretly, but he had not yet come up with a plan that would take all aspects into consideration.

If it really doesn't work, taking forceful action is also an option. Even if Connit is suspicious, he can't do anything to him.

"However, there is still one most important question..." Li Ming's eyes flickered, "How strong is the defense of this Torch Main Base?"

The problem he urgently needs to figure out now concerns his series of plan options. If he is not too strong, he can be more unrestrained. If he is too strong, he will have to act with caution.

On the surface, the Torch Organization has two A-level life forms, and the specific development progress is unknown, but Connit has been the leader of the Torch Organization for quite some time, so the development progress must be very high.

The other A-level life form was quite mysterious. At least Theo had never heard of it and had only taken action against it a few times.

Also, can the defense strength of this base be used to counterbalance Class A life forms?

Li Ming thought it was definitely possible. Since Connit dared to gather so many A-level life forms in their headquarters, he must have considered the consequences of not being able to suppress them.

"It's difficult to take action if we don't figure out the hidden power here. Maybe some idiot will jump out..." Li Ming thought. He didn't want to take the initiative to test it.

After sorting out the things in my mind, I decided to take it one step at a time for now and continue developing the genetic seeds.

All kinds of fear and hesitation are due to the lack of one's own strength.

If he were an A-level life form now, with all the control, he could just turn this place upside down...

It was not until the next day that Li Ming officially joined the core laboratory and began to manufacture the sublimator.

This time, without Cornette's guidance, he was subjected to strict scrutiny.

"Sir Qinglong, according to the regulations of the core laboratory, you are not allowed to bring too many electronic devices except for personal smart terminals." The member in charge of guarding scanned Li Ming's body up and down meticulously.

Li Ming did not resist, but asked curiously: "What about Lord Jessiah?"

The guard who was scanning the body was stunned, but the person next to him explained: "Sir Jessia has also removed the weapon module on his body."

"Beep, beep..." The instrument issued a sharp alarm when it scanned Li Ming's face. "Mimicry mask, do you want me to take it off?" Li Ming asked gently.

The guards looked at each other, and the captain in the lead waved his hand hastily: "No, no..."

Li Ming nodded and walked straight through the passage. The soldiers behind him were still whispering, "Captain, this Lord Qinglong is really approachable. Apart from the mimicry mask on his face, he has almost no electronic equipment on him."

"Unlike the other big mechanics, every time they asked us to review them, they felt like they were being insulted."

"Okay, just stay on duty." The captain scolded, and the door of the core laboratory closed.

"Everyone, why are you here so early?" Li Ming stepped into the laboratory and was quite surprised to see that Jessiah and Benny had already started working.

Benny smiled and shook his head: "Sir Qinglong, this is not a fixed get off work schedule. After the banquet ended yesterday, I had nothing to do, so I just came here."

"Where is Deyes?" Li Ming looked around but couldn't find that guy.

"I don't know." Benny shook his head, his expression a little strange, but he quickly restrained it.

"Yesterday, Deyes provided some core data that solved a lot of problems, and today we can move forward," said Jessia.

“The three core fulcrums of the bottom structure should be able to solve one.”

Li Ming nodded and entered the manufacturing process. His title of great mechanic was not entirely exaggerated. His profession [Great Mechanical Assembler] brought him a lot of relevant knowledge.

At the same time, he has switched the development system, using the [Meditation] ability to pretend to work while developing gene seeds, but his efficiency will be greatly reduced.

.........

At the same time, the doorbell rang again in Deyes's room.

He frowned subconsciously, with obvious anger appearing on his face, but he restrained himself after seeing the figure appearing on the video terminal.

When he opened the door, Brot was standing in front of it. To his surprise, Sandro was there too, holding a metal box in each hand.

"Just put it here." Brot pointed to an open space to Sandro.

Sandro seemed to be in a good mood. He put down the metal box and clapped his hands. "It's a pleasure to work with you, bro. I'll be leaving now."

"Okay." Brot nodded. Deyes didn't say anything until Sandro left. Then he pointed at the box on the ground and frowned, "What is this?"

"Metal materials." Brot opened the box casually, and the material reactions produced by various cutting-edge alloys reflected colorful lights in the room.

"Oh?" Deyes was a little surprised and glanced down: "Dark matter alloy..."

He recognized several materials and said in amazement, "They are all A-grade materials that are quite expensive and difficult to collect."

"Yeah." Brot agreed, and then said proudly, "Guess how much I spent on these things?"

"It will probably be at least 500 to 600 million star coins," Deyes estimated.

"Four hundred and twenty million." Brot held up four fingers, each with five knuckles.

"So cheap?" Deyes raised his eyebrows and subconsciously asked, "Will there be any problems?"

"After all, I've been by your side for such a long time, so I still have some good eyesight." Brot shook his head. "These materials were obtained by killing Blerim. They should be divided equally among the four of us."

"Qinglong wanted to buy them, but the price was too low, so Ulrich and Sandro didn't sell them. Now that they have these goods, they have lost money, so Sandro wants to sell them in a hurry."

"Brelim is dead?" Deyes was surprised, his expression gloomy, "Four A-level fighters, it's really scary."

"Yeah." Brot also agreed with him, and then said, "But it's a bargain for me. If I find some more stuff, I should be able to make a weapon."

"Good, almost done." Deyes picked up a piece of material and listened to Brot continue:
"Also, I learned indirectly from Sandro that the four of them are not united. Sandro, that fool, is very dissatisfied with the other three."

Deyes was not surprised. "This is normal. Ulrich and the other two had followed Star King Monroe. Although we cannot say that they betrayed us, it is almost the same. They all have their own conflicts. As for Qinglong and them, they are just using each other."

"Hmm? This material..." Suddenly, his face was slightly stunned, looking at the sparkling crystal structure in his hand.

"What's wrong?" Brot asked hurriedly.

"This is a super giant nuclear crystal. Logically speaking, it should not show this kind of "flame dispersion" reaction under non-natural light sources." Deyes held up the crystal and placed it under the light. What was reflected on the floor was not an illusory translucent shadow, but a burning blue flame.

"What do you mean?" Brott didn't quite understand.

Deyes didn't say anything at first. He walked to a silver-white box at the side and took out something similar to a magnifying glass. It was much more sophisticated, and a large number of virtual data pages were projected all around.

Deyes looked at it carefully, his expression becoming more and more solemn, and Brot's expression became more and more nervous.

"Weird." Deyes frowned.

"What's strange? Is there something wrong with the material?" Brot asked hurriedly.

“Yes, and no.” Deyes wasn’t even sure: “The external features match, and the internal features partially match, but the molecular structure is scattered, like a waste product from a failed forging, but it’s impossible for it to have such a perfect appearance.”

Brot's face was confused at first, then furious, "Is this material waste?"

Deyes snorted coldly, "Scrap? Scrap doesn't have such a perfect appearance. It looks like it has been forged twice and faked twice."

"It's a very amazing technique, I've never seen it before," Deyes added.

"Sandro dared to lie to me!?" Brot was furious and was about to go to Sandro to ask for an explanation, but was stopped by Deyes.

"You've already made a deal with him, how could he possibly admit it?" Deyes shook his head, "There's no point in looking for him."

Brot was furious. He thought Sandro was a fool and he got a free bargain, but in the end he was the one who was taken advantage of.

"We can't just suffer this loss in vain." Brot said in a deep voice.

Deyes' eyes flickered. "I don't know how much of what Sandro said is true or false. I don't know whether this material was obtained from Blerim."

"But this kind of secondary forging fraud can only be done by a master mechanic, and a master mechanic with extremely high skills."

"You mean, Qinglong made it up?" Brot looked slightly shocked, and then he was suspicious: "It's only over 400 million, is it worth all the trouble?"

Deyes's eyes flashed with a sharp light: "No matter if it's him or not, you can use this as an excuse to find Sandro, and then link the matter to Qinglong."

"What do you mean?" Brot still didn't understand.

Deyes shook his head and urged, "Just go ahead. It's obvious that you've suffered a loss in this matter. I want to see how Cornette reacts."

"Well... okay." Brot didn't ask any further, anger surging in his eyes.

(End of this chapter)