This is not mechanical ascension...

Chapter 256 Unexpected Situation: Li Ming was discovered?

"According to the overall estimate, it is more than 27 million metal energies." Li Ming calculated that the objects under his control now often have millions of them.

These metal energies were enough to cause ripples in his heart, but now he was stretched to the limit. These metal energies could help him to drink a lot of blood.

"The cost of refining the fake into the real one is really not low." Li Ming was shocked. The premium of Boiling Blood Alloy was very serious.

The price of these three thousand pieces of boiling blood alloy on the black hole network would probably not be less than four billion star coins, or even higher.

But this is only the main sacrificial material, and a lot of other materials are needed.

One sacrifice, plus personnel transfers and other hidden costs, the total cost will not be less than 5 billion star coins.

Li Ming was secretly surprised at the wealth and power of the organization. Torch was indeed an old reform organization that had been operating for hundreds of years.

Time is the foundation. When Torch was first created, it randomly discovered some artists from certain civilizations and trained them, collected their paintings and kept them, and they can still be sold for a lot of money now.

This is also the benefit of creating a power. The interstellar universe is so vast that you have to do everything yourself, which is really energy-consuming.

He had the idea of ​​setting up a team long ago, and he also had unique advantages. The [Matter Reconstruction Fabricator] combined with the professional ability of the [Grand Mechanical Constructor] could create mechanical soldiers that would never betray him.

He had originally planned to put it on the agenda after the matter of the ruins here was concluded.

Gathering his scattered thoughts, Li Ming considered how to absorb the boiling blood alloy.

It is definitely not appropriate to absorb it now. These boiling blood alloys will be tested before they are put into storage.

But when it leaves the warehouse, there may be a second inspection.

This time he was not going to absorb only part of it, but to replace the entire thing and create a model similar to the alloy.

"It must undergo a second inspection after leaving the warehouse before we can start." Li Ming frowned, but these alloys are not a small number. After measuring them carefully, one piece is about 2 cubic decimeters.

If I tidy up the folding space myself, I can fit in quite a lot of things, but there will still be a few hundred dollars left that I can't fit in.

"A few hundred pieces still have millions of metal energy, try to get as much as you can." He pondered:

"They are almost ready and will leave in a few days. The time difference between the time when the warehouse inspection is completed and the time when they leave is too short. I may not be able to finish the work in the folding space."

After thinking for a moment, Li Ming's ideas became clearer and clearer.

After a moment, his figure disappeared and hid again in the shadow of the middle-aged man beside him.

More than half an hour later, Li Ming returned to the laboratory. Benny was quite surprised, "Sir Qinglong, why are you here again?"

"Why, you don't welcome me?" Li Ming smiled.

"No, it's just a little unexpected." Benny shook his head.

After a few pleasantries, Li Ming's eyes swept across Deyes's workstation, which was empty. He did not ask Benny, but found Jessiah.

The two of them murmured for a while, and Li Ming seemed to be thinking: "He called Luo Er away, then sent him back, and then hurried back."

"Yeah." Jessia nodded. "My micro-expression analysis system inferred that he seemed to be restraining some emotions. I don't know what this guy is doing."

Li Ming glanced at Jessiah's mechanical pupils, said thank you, and left.

"Left again?" Benny glanced at him and shook his head. He didn't care and just concentrated on studying the sublimator. There was a deep desire hidden in his eyes.

"Deyes should have heard the news about Spurr from Rawl."

In order to set this trap, Li Ming planned for several days and specially chose Luo Er.

All the information he knew was instilled into him by Li Ming, with the purpose of letting Deyes learn the information from him by chance.

According to his estimation, Deyes should be preparing to contact Asmara secretly now.

After returning to the room, Li Ming almost immediately asked Lei Ting to rush to Deyes's room.

Boom!Boom!Boom!
Thunder's metal arm pounded on Deyes' door, ignoring the Do Not Disturb sign.

The knocking sound was almost non-stop. After two or three minutes, with Lei Ting's unremitting perseverance, Deyes opened the door with a dark face.

"It's... you again!" Deyes almost gritted his teeth, feeling extremely helpless and suppressing his anger.

Facing Qinglong and even his mechanical body, he really had no way to deal with it.

"Master, please..." Lei Ting said stiffly.

Deyes looked at Lei Ting's dull expression and suddenly became furious. He really wanted to punch this artificial idiot to death.

Last time, it was the other party's stupid look that deceived him and made him scared for a while.

So before Lei Oklahoma City could finish, Deyes interrupted in a deep voice:
"Whatever your master wants me to do, tell him that I don't have time. I need to rest now. I'm only a B-level life form. I'm not at the level where I can stay awake all the time!"

Lei Ting, who was interrupted, frowned slightly, seeming unhappy.

"Okay, I got it." Lei Ting replied dully again and turned to leave.

"This machine is actually frowning. Is it an intelligent life form?" Deyes's face was gloomy. "Or is it a highly anthropomorphic emotion module?"

After closing the door, Deyes returned to his chair and calmed down for a long time before he came to his senses. He felt extremely depressed. "Why is it that every time I am about to contact Asmara, this mechanical body comes to disturb me? It's really..."

As he was thinking, he was suddenly stunned, his eyes trembled, and his hands that were operating the smart terminal froze. A bone-chilling chill suddenly ran through his body, and an incredible idea suddenly emerged in his mind.

He suddenly turned his head and looked around the empty and narrow room. It seemed to be in order, but a hint of panic emerged uncontrollably on his face.

"What's wrong with this guy?" Li Ming, hiding in the shadows, muttered to himself, looking at Deyes who was looking around with a panicked face.

"Have I been discovered?" His heart tightened and he opened the control page and took a look at the neatly arranged [Twisted Masks].

That’s right, they are all hidden blessings, he shouldn’t be able to find them.

"Come out!" Deyes' forehead and palms were covered in cold sweat, and his face was livid: "Don't hide, I've already guessed it."

"Every time I'm about to contact Asmara, your mechanical body suddenly shows up. Is this a coincidence?"

The room was silent. Deyes sneered, "Why don't you come out? What do you want to do? You might as well say it out loud."

It turned out that it was because of the Thunder's repeated visits. Li Ming suddenly realized it, and then looked at Deyes, who had a calm face and sweat on his forehead. Li Ming couldn't help but shook his head. He didn't react at all, just watched quietly.

After a few more minutes, there was still no movement in the room. Deyes looked determined, but he couldn't help but feel a little worried.

"guessed wrong?"

He walked to a corner, pulled out an instrument that flashed a red light, and began to quickly check every corner of the room.

It should be some kind of special instrument for detecting electronic equipment.

After more than an hour, he searched the entire room inside and out, but found nothing.

"There is no signal fluctuation either. There should be no surveillance or monitoring." Deyes seemed relieved. He sat on the sofa, feeling a little stressed.

"It seems that I have been thinking too much. When to contact Asmara is my own idea. Unless he can see through my heart, how can he predict it every time?" Qinglong is indeed powerful, but he is not yet at the point of being able to see through people's thoughts.

"Besides, most of the room is distorted, and any monitoring equipment will not be able to penetrate it."

"Is it really a coincidence?" Deyes thought, still feeling a little uneasy.

As a traitor, he has to be extremely cautious in everything he does, and this feeling of uneasiness is always there.

But another thought convinced him that if Qinglong already knew that he was contacting Asmara, there was no reason not to expose him.

The two of them were originally enemies, and the reason why he joined Asmara was precisely because of him.

Qinglong had no obligation to cover up for himself, and even wished to kill himself.

"I'm a little too vigilant." He shook his head. Ever since he came in contact with Asmara, he often had delusions of being persecuted, and he saw enemies everywhere.

After sorting out his thoughts, Deyes returned to his seat and continued to operate the smart terminal.

Deyes seemed to have convinced himself. Li Ming watched his operations to determine whether things would develop in the direction he expected.

"No..." Suddenly, Deyes stopped again, frowned and rubbed his chin.

The source of this information is just an experimenter from the Torch Organization and has not been verified.

If he reported it to Asmara in this way, and if something unexpected happened at this juncture, he would be blamed.

Just when I found a good way out, I blocked it by myself.

"Why did you stop again?" Li Ming was surprised, looking at Deyes who suddenly stood up and began to erase the traces of the operation.

He was mumbling some meaningless information. Li Ming listened carefully and finally caught a few useful words.

“…No, I have to verify the authenticity…”

Verify message?

Li Ming raised his eyebrows, but he didn't feel too surprised.

The news came from an ordinary experimenter. After the initial excitement faded, it was normal for Deyes to feel suspicious given his personality.

"But how do you want to verify it?" Li Ming became interested.

It would certainly be impossible for Deyes to inquire openly.

After erasing the traces, Deyes opened the smart terminal. Li Ming tried to take a look, but it looked blurry in the shadow.

But after waiting for a few more minutes, Deyes walked out the door.

Look at the direction, it's Brot's room

When I opened the door and went in, I saw Brot lying on the bed, watching a virtual image on a virtual screen. There was a big word in the upper left corner - [Eitlan Fan Ge]

This is a hit fictional drama about the Itlan civilization a few years ago, telling the bloody lives of several low-level Itlan people.

The lives of these A-level life forms are quite boring, and there is almost no entertainment here.

Brot's injuries had almost healed, and he was surprised by Deyes's arrival: "Why did you come to see me suddenly?"

Deyes opened the distortion field to cover the two of them, and said straight to the point: "After a while, I hope you make some big noise."

"A big noise?" Brot was surprised, and then asked tentatively: "How big a noise?"

"It's about the same as last time."

"Ah?" Brot looked obviously a little scared. He was still frightened by the slap from Connet last time.

He felt that if the other party didn't hold back, he would be beaten to death.

Deyes added: "Don't worry, I'm not asking you to get killed. If Connit or other high-ranking officials of the Torch Organization say something to stop you, stop immediately."

"This..." Brot was even more confused, "What on earth are you going to do?"

"I want to verify one thing." Deyes' eyes were dim.

"It's really simple and crude..." Li Ming roughly understood Deyes's idea.

Since it is said that Cornett will leave the Torch Organization base, let's make some big noise and see if Cornett will show up in the end.

If it appears, then the news is probably fake. If Connit does not appear in the end, then it is probably true. Then we will notify Asmara.

Although it will be a bit behind schedule, the Torch Organization's sacrifice cannot be completed in a short time.

"Don't worry, I won't hurt you." Seeing Brot hesitate, Deyes couldn't help but add.

"I know you won't hurt me." Brot smiled helplessly.

The two were bound together within the Torch organization, and if anything happened to Brot, Deyes wouldn't be better off either.

"But who should I choose as my target?" Brot spread his hands. "Sandro is no match for me. He can't possibly fight me. Ulrich is too smart. If I provoke him for no reason, he will definitely notice something is wrong."

"I can't beat Theo, but I can't beat Benny..."

Halfway through his speech, he looked at Deyes's expression and was slightly stunned: "Qinglong?"

After saying this name, Brot's face looked very unhappy and he felt a burning pain on his cheek. The psychological trauma caused by that slap was no less than that of Connit's punch.

"He's the only one left." Deyes nodded, his expression indifferent: "You have a grudge against him. His mechanical body often hangs around in the rest area. You can start a fight at will."

"Can he really fight?" Brot said tentatively, eager to give it a try. "His mechanical body is powerful, but if he didn't rely on sneak attacks, it would be difficult for him to cause any harm to me."

Brot emphasized: "Yes, he is no match for you in terms of overall strength. This time you wear my "Ape Bones" and bring your "Tiger Fist"."

"Ha!" Brot was excited. "Last time, I didn't expect those two machines to be so powerful. I didn't bring my weapons with me. This time, I must dismantle those two machines!"

But then he hesitated again, "But, Theo and the others won't just sit there and watch, right?"

Deyes shook his head, looking very confident: "Don't worry, as long as you don't endanger Qinglong's life, they won't interfere."

"Besides, they haven't been at peace lately."

"That's no problem." Brot suddenly stood up and showed a sinister smile.

In the corner of the room, a pair of black metal fists were hanging on a metal base with a blue fluorescent glow. The extended metal structure seemed to cover the arms, forming dynamic arm guards.

There are ejectable metal barbs on the elbows, with sharp flashes at the ends. The fists are extremely thick and seem to have built-in thrusters, and the surface is carved with strange beast patterns.

It looks very complicated, which is why Brot rarely wears it on weekdays.

(End of this chapter)