This is not mechanical ascension...

Chapter 266: The Mysterious Disappearance of Deyes Shocks the Torch Organization

Looking at Deyes's body which was gradually losing its vitality, Li Ming stroked his chin, quite surprised.

"Asmara is really capable. He actually ambushed Cornett before he could even start his operation."

Li Ming lurked in Deyes's shadow and heard his conversation with Asmara clearly.

"Asmara seemed to have a misunderstanding, thinking that Deyes' betrayal was fake and that the Torch had tricked her."

Li Ming pondered for a moment and quickly guessed Asmara's thoughts. The other party might think that the boiling blood alloy was all fake.

This means that the Torch Organization knew about the ambush for a long time, and even said that it was intentional.

"In this way, it's not a bad thing for me. On the contrary, it's beneficial." Li Ming thought for a while and couldn't help but laugh. He had done something wrong.

All the boiling blood alloy was seized, and Connit had no idea that it had been replaced with model blocks.

Shaking his head, Deyes lying on the ground glared at Li Ming, as if he would never close his eyes.

Li Mingze quickly cleaned up the traces at the scene. He was very familiar with this kind of assassination.

Bloodstains, odors, no matter how small the traces are, will be detected and cleaned up thoroughly under [Intelligent Assistance].

Then stuff the entire body into the folded space.

"The remaining traces of the information state will take at least twenty-four hours to completely disappear without any other interference." Li Ming pondered.

"My ability of [Shadow Sting] can largely avoid leaving behind information states. After all, information states are only generated when they intersect with the real world..."

Deyes died quietly, and the Torch Organization will certainly use all means to find him. He still remembers that the other party has the ability to lock the information state.

However, this kind of lock requires at least some residual information, the simplest of which is clothes and used items.

Even advanced civilizations do not have the technology to specifically distinguish what kind of life form an information state belongs to.

This already involves the analysis of the principles of deep existence in the universe, and the Torch Organization is more like treating dimensional creatures like dogs.

"And this thing." Li Ming suddenly took out a silver-white mechanical pocket watch, found a corner, and casually stuffed it in.

This time, the waves caused by Deyes' mysterious disappearance will definitely not be small. Many things will be involved, so he must be prepared.

Time passes quickly.

The next day, the guard standing guard at the door looked down at the time. Seeing that Deyes had not come out yet, he turned around and knocked on the door: "Sir Deyes, it's time to work."

no respond.

The soldier frowned and continued to tap. After more than ten seconds, the video terminal beside him popped up, and Deyes's voice was low and bored: "I've been working too hard recently. I want to rest today."

"rest?"

The soldiers in charge of the guard looked at each other, and one of them couldn't help but say: "Sir Deyes, we haven't received any orders from above, so..."

"I am your guest, not your prisoner!" Deyes interrupted impatiently: "Don't I even have the right to rest for a day?"

Hearing him say this, the soldier on the right looked unhappy. Just as he was about to say something, he was interrupted by the soldier on the left: "Of course you have, please rest in peace, sorry for disturbing you."

The video terminal went dark, and the soldier on the left said helplessly: "He is a master mechanic after all. We are just soldiers responsible for guarding him. We are not qualified to force him."

The soldier on the right snorted coldly, "Why are you so arrogant? Apart from being a master mechanic, you are at best a B-class life form. Brot was killed by Qinglong. What qualifications does he have to be so aggressive?"

He spoke in a loud voice, obviously intended for Deyes to hear.

The so-called Deyes was naturally an impersonation of Li Ming.

He also repaired Deyes's smart terminal and used his internal account to send two messages to Benny, saying that he wanted to take a two-day break.

Therefore, the core laboratory did not send anyone to look for it.

And so another day passed.

"Mr. Deyes, do you want to rest today?" the soldier on the right knocked on the door and asked.

“Wait a minute…” The response was still dull. The two soldiers looked at each other and said nothing more.

It was not until mid-afternoon that someone from the core laboratory arrived, and Roll hurried to Deyes' door.

"Core experiment..." Luo Er held up the work badge hanging on his chest and showed it to the two of them, then knocked on the door and shouted:

"Mr. Deyes, there are some problems in the laboratory. Mr. Benny sent you a message, why didn't you reply?"

"Okay, Mr. Deyes is very tired and needs to rest." The soldier on the right sneered twice.

Luo Er frowned, too lazy to refute, and just went to knock on the door.

However, Deyes did not respond for three to five minutes, and the room was dead silent.

"Huh? What happened? Did Lord Deyes fall asleep?" Roll muttered.

However, the soldiers in charge of guarding looked at each other and had a bad feeling.

"Get out of the way." The soldier on the right pushed Rawl aside and stood in front of the door and said in a deep voice: "Sir Deyes, please respond as soon as possible. If there is no response within 30 seconds, we will force our way in."

"You can't do this..." Roll was filled with anger. He still had a good impression of Deyes. Seeing this great mechanic end up like this, being bullied by two soldiers, he really couldn't bear it.

“3.2.1…” The two ignored him completely. When the countdown ended, their faces changed and they took a few steps back.

He bent down, using the simple combat armor on his legs to provide power, and jumped suddenly, bang!
The metal door was knocked open, and the room was dark. The two men subconsciously raised their guns and scanned the entire room with their backs to each other.

Their faces changed drastically, and they asked in shock: "Where are the people!?"

Roll, who was close at hand, could not help but come over to take a look. In the small and cramped room, apart from the two soldiers, there was no sign of Deyes.

"Sir...Deyes?" he murmured.

Soon, the decisive Ted arrived in person, the entire corridor was blocked, and all outsiders were expelled.

The only ones left were the soldiers in charge of guarding and Rawl.

Not long after, Fernande came over with an unpleasant look on his face, wearing a black robe and with a cold expression.

Ted quickly came over, his combat armor clanking, and whispered, "We've done a preliminary search, and there's no useful trace in the room."

"I reviewed all the surveillance footage from the previous seven days and didn't get any useful information."

"He hasn't come out since he returned from the core lab three days ago."

"According to the guards' statements, they had conversations with Deyes this morning and yesterday morning, but did not see anyone."

"The video terminal in Deyes' room has been programmed to respond automatically with suspected intelligent AI."

When Fernand walked from the corridor to the door of Deyes's room, he had already learned the general situation of the incident, and his expression was as gloomy as water:
"You mean, Deyes disappeared quietly in the heavily guarded base?"

The soldier in charge of guarding lowered his head, his face pale.

Ted was silent for a moment, "Sir, please order the blockade of the entire main base."

Fernand remained silent, looking at the empty room. "What are the traces in this room?" "There is no information either. They are basically traces of Deyes's life. The items have been checked, but nothing useful has been found for the time being."

Ted shook his head, and Fernande said in a deep voice: "What do you think?"

"He...may have escaped." Ted hesitated. "I don't know how he did it, but he did disappear here."

"Disappeared?" Fernand sneered, "I don't believe anyone can disappear out of thin air. The realm of eternity covers this place, and any fluctuations in space will be detected."

"What a great mechanic! I underestimated him!"

"Block the main base and stop all outbound activities!"

"Yes!" Ted responded in a deep voice and quickly took people to deal with the matter.

"Sir Fernande..." A head cautiously poked out from the side of the room. It was Pierre.

"Pierre." Fernand's expression was restrained and he said indifferently: "You should have known the relevant information. Do you have any ideas?"

"Me?" Pierre asked cautiously, swallowing his saliva. He really did have one.

After all, the dimensional gods had told him that there was another powerful dimensional life form standing behind Deyes, and it was very possible to take the other party away from this base quietly.

But he couldn't say anything, and only said: "There is no useful information at present, I dare not speculate."

"Well." Fernand ordered, "I'll have someone send you all the surveillance videos involving Deyes during this period, and see if there are any new discoveries."

"Yes." Pierre nodded quickly and left in a hurry.

When he returned to the R&D department, he was already sweating profusely. He went back to the office and locked the door.

He let out a long sigh, then sat down on the chair, trembling with his lips.

"Fuck, they took Deyes away quietly, this... this is too scary." Pierre's face turned pale and he became more and more frightened.

"he's gone."

An abrupt voice suddenly sounded in his heart. Pierre's pale face froze for a moment, then quickly became red with blood: "You, you finally appeared again."

Li Ming was lurking in his shadow. "The dimensional creature behind him failed in its goal and has left here with Deyes. My goal has also been accomplished, and I am leaving here."

After hearing this, Pierre's expression suddenly changed, "You want to leave too, you promised me..."

"I am here to fulfill my promise this time." The voice of the dimensional god interrupted him.

"I'll show you the full compiled code..."

Pierre's expression finally relaxed and he quickly opened the smart terminal and operated it quickly under Li Ming's guidance.

Like peeling off threads from an onion, audio segments are extracted from a large amount of data stream.

And Pierre's expression gradually changed from surprise and panic to fear and sweat.

"It should be able to fool people for a while." Li Ming looked at Pierre, who was sweating profusely and sorting out relevant information in the shadows.

The compiled source code he gave, after secondary processing, would not compile the final conversation between Deyes and Asmara.

Of course, he also added some extra things. After all, cutting words from the newspaper in a different way will result in a completely different conversation.

What's more, he only made slight adjustments and was right overall.

There is a possibility that the Torch Organization will discover something is wrong, but it will take time.

……

Deyes' sudden disappearance caused turmoil in the entire Torch organization.

Although Fernand immediately ordered the news to be blocked so that it could not reach the ears of other great mechanics.

But the manufacture of the sublimator still had to go on. Laboratory personnel came and went, but Deyes never showed up, and many speculations arose about the sudden blockade within the Torch Organization.

It was not until the third day after Deyes was discovered missing that Fernando was in the office, listening to Ted's report.

"We have checked 70% of the interpersonal activity areas of the entire organization, but so far, we have found nothing." Ted said helplessly.

"Nothing was found?" Fernande frowned, "Not even a trace?"

"In addition, I even tried to sacrifice the gluttonous dog, Kutley, and tracked Deyes's information state within the range, but found nothing."

Fernande's face was gloomy. He suddenly stood up, walked to the window, and looked at the hexagonal core laboratory with a gloomy look.

"I feel like something is wrong."

Ted behind the scenes was very helpless. No one expected that Deyes, who seemed to have no other options, would actually have such a method.

"Sir, what I am most afraid of now is that if the enemy escapes from the main base, our coordinates may have been leaked."

Fernande's brows were furrowed, the grooves on his face were so deep that they could have killed a Cyclops. Just as he was about to speak, the video terminal on the desk rang urgently.

Ferlande made a gesture with his eyes, and Ted reached out to answer the call. A virtual screen popped up, and the reporter spoke hastily and excitedly, "Sir Ferlande, the leader is back."

"Hmm?" After the words fell, the eyes of the two people present brightened slightly, and they all breathed a sigh of relief, as if they had found a backbone.

"Great, the leader is back." Ted couldn't help but say.

But just after he finished speaking, his face changed slightly, and he explained carefully: "Sir Fernande, what I mean is..."

"It doesn't matter. Dealing with these people is not my strong point. I prefer to be straightforward." Fernande shook his head and said sadly, "It would be best if the leader could come back to take charge of the situation."

His face, which had almost turned into stone, finally showed a little smile: "The speed of completion of the plan over there is faster than I estimated. Finally, there is some good news."

Both of them were very excited and went to greet them immediately.

When Fernande arrived at the outer deck and saw the docked, dilapidated spaceship, he paused and looked hesitant.

"Why did they change the spaceship? Where are the others?" Ted couldn't help but wonder.

Cornett and Corvez had already disembarked. The staff who were in charge of welcoming them lowered their heads. The atmosphere nearby was almost frozen to the point of freezing until Fernand's arrival.

"Your breath..." When Fernand got closer, he realized something was wrong. Connit's breath was too weak, and he was even missing an eye. The black blood hole on his left eye was chilling.

"Did an accident happen?" Fernande suddenly had a bad feeling.

"Let's go." Without saying much, Connett frowned and quickly returned to the main base.

When they reached the top floor, everyone else was expelled, and even Ted could only stand guard at the door.

"What's going on?" Fernande asked anxiously.

"We were ambushed by Asmara. Some of our entourage were killed, some were injured, and some were captured. All the sacrificial materials were seized."

Cornette looked solemn, and when he narrated the story again, there was not much change on his face, as if he had accepted this reality.

"What!?" Fernand was stunned, as if he had been hit hard. He asked incredulously: "You were ambushed by Asmara? How did she know about your actions?"

(End of this chapter)