This is not mechanical ascension...

Chapter 310: Qinglong's purpose? I really can't figure it out!
"Self-detonation?" Everyone frowned. It was just an accident and they were not worried.

Prince Baijan whispered: "It should be set by Benny. He already knows that he has no value."

"If this place explodes, nothing will be found out." Albert looked at Asmara: "Can it be stopped?"

"It will take time to crack the control core." Asmara shook her head.

Albert was silent and looked at Qinglong again. The others also looked at Qinglong.

"It's not as easy to crack as you think." Li Ming also shook his head: "I'm not good at virtual data applications, unless you give me some time."

Reina didn't believe it: "Aren't you a Forge-level mechanic? You can fix the Star Killer Spear in the blink of an eye, but you can't fix this core?"

"I'm a mechanic, not a god. Do you know how much preparation I made to repair that gun?" Li Ming patted his chest, making a thumping sound.
"You guessed right, my mecha doesn't have any attack methods. After all, it consumes a lot of energy and may not be able to hit you. It's better to focus on defense."

"At the same time, there are some special methods. Defense alone cannot make me a star-forging device. It cost a lot of money to achieve the scene just now."

"Let me smash this place, one punch will do, let me crack it, then you have to wait."

Everyone had different expressions and didn’t pay much attention to what Qinglong said afterwards. They only heard the word “head”.

Reina's already dark face seemed to become even darker, and he said angrily: "If you can't break it, then you can't break it. Why are you talking so much?"

Li Ming shook his head, not wanting to pay attention to him, and revealed that the time was counting down and was almost reaching zero.

They could only retreat temporarily, a considerable distance away, and stood on a temporary platform. The warships gathered around them, watching the core ruins collapse inward.

The central area was rippling with invisible waves, silently and without any major energy explosions, only the core ruins that were constantly condensing, collapsing, and deforming.

A large explosion would leave behind debris, but this type of collapse would leave nothing.

"Who took the things inside?" Reina asked in a cold tone, and no one spoke.

"Alas, I was looking forward to it, but it's a pity..." Li Ming shook his head, turned around and said, "Everyone, I'm leaving first."

"Wait!" Reina said in a deep voice, and then he felt his brows tremble, but he still said firmly: "Qinglong, you are a forging-level mechanic, and you have sneaked in a long time ago. You are the most suspicious here."

"Then why should I advocate opening the core ruins?" Li Ming asked back.

"You did it on purpose. I'm afraid you were the one who killed Gabriel." Reina's true intentions were exposed.

"Funny, is there any connection between the two?" Li Ming sneered.

"Then why did you go to so much trouble to sneak into the Combined Fleet? To go shopping?" Reina continued to ask: "These two things must be related to you!"

After he finished speaking, he saw the mechanical head turned around and glanced at him indifferently. Even through the helmet, he seemed to be able to feel the other party's contemptuous eyes, which made him even more annoyed.

"If you want to infer from how I sneaked in here." Li Ming said calmly, "Mr. Asmara, may I ask how I sneaked in?"

Asmara, who was suddenly called out, hesitated and said, "Your Excellency should have used the Torch Organization to reveal Li Ming's whereabouts so that we could capture him and send Li Ming in first."

"You know that he has incredible potential for development. Even if we are discovered, we won't be able to do anything to him."

"Then, we used the method of sacrificing dimensional creatures to teleport you here remotely."

Hmm, it is indeed related to dimensional creatures. Li Ming nodded. He didn’t know how Asuma guessed it, so he let the other party speak first.

"Then it's interesting. Li Ming has been under strict surveillance. How did he do it?" Li Ming asked again.

Asmara didn't understand and continued, "Yes, Li Ming's development potential is indeed amazing. Although he has been given certain preferential treatment, he has not been looked down upon."

"I also specially used a Class A gene suppressor on him and put him under 24-hour surveillance. If there is any abnormal movement, I will discover it immediately."

Albert nodded secretly, there was nothing wrong with Asuma's response.

"Until the interference of the dark tide of the star stream..." At this point, Asmara suddenly paused, a certain brilliance suddenly flashed in his eyes, and he looked at Reina:

"This sudden onslaught of star streams changed everything and allowed Li Ming to complete his sacrifice. Lord Reina, this star stream should not have come about suddenly."

Reina's face froze. How did this bring us back to the Judge Civilization?
He knew about the Star Stream Dark Tide. It seemed that Antonio found someone and formed it through some method. He was quite surprised when he found out about it.

The dark tide of star stream caused a major breakdown of the joint fleet, allowing Li Ming to escape and teleport Qinglong here.

The judge has become an accomplice?

No, this group of people suspected that I was the one who caused the Star Stream Dark Tide!

Everything fits together so perfectly that he even suspected Antonio had secretly reached some agreement with the Torch Organization.

"Bullshit! Does that mean that without this dark tide of star stream, you won't be able to enter the combined fleet?" Reina said coldly. Antonio would definitely report this crucial plan to him.

"You must have a backup plan!"

"Are you two...acting this on purpose for us?" Asmara suddenly said, glancing suspiciously at Reina and Qinglong.

Albert's expression suddenly paused, yes.

Does the murderer have to be one of them? Can't they do it together?
“You are being unreasonable.” Reina became even more annoyed. He really wanted to destroy everything. Unfortunately, he was not invincible yet. He stared at Asmara coldly:

"You entered the ruins many years ago. Maybe you took everything away at that time. You have been acting all these years."

They started to make random accusations. Under such circumstances, it was almost impossible to find out the truth.

Li Ming also looked over in cooperation, "That makes sense."

Asmara's expression tensed slightly. Seeing Qinglong agreeing with him, Reina felt sick as if he had eaten a fly. He said coldly: "Only by searching his memory can he prove his innocence."

His eyes fell on Wu Yanqing, "He should be useless."

"He can't do that. After all, he is another teacher of my student. Anyone who touches him needs to be careful." Li Ming reminded lightly.

Asmara also said immediately: "I still have people who went in there before, I can hand them over."

Are you kidding? Wu Yanqing knew the truth about Gabriel's death, so how could his memory be searched?

Reina snorted coldly, while Li Ming shook his head and said, "It's obviously meaningless to continue arguing. This matter is not simple. I have to go back and think about it carefully."

"As for other things, it has nothing to do with me. If anyone wants to stop me, then go ahead." Li Ming's tone was very casual, and Reina was so angry that he was fuming.

Qinglong is not like him. He follows Grand Duke Gu Ya. After the other party leaves here, it will be difficult to find any trace of him.

Add to that the matter of Star Stream Dark Tide, and Gabriel's death must be linked to him somehow.

He felt cold all over, and An Ye was still watching him in secret. He couldn't break Qinglong's mecha, and couldn't defend against An Ye's sneak attack. How could he stop him?
He could only watch the other side and call his own troops to gradually leave the central area. During their stalemate, the outer warships had already formed a third-outer-third-layer array, but now they had to open a gap.

Wherever they passed, the Itlan people, the Golden Eyed people, and the plunderers all watched the group leave, with awe, envy, jealousy, resentment, and so on in their eyes.

But until they returned to the small, broken battleship, not a single energy flame was lit.

.........

The onlookers were either excited or frightened, or yearning or envious.

On the roof of one of the warships, Blackbeard stroked his chin and also watched the group leave.

"Qinglong, he must be the one who has been secretly fanning the flames during this period. What a powerful mecha... such a thick shell..."

Before, in the eyes of others, the central area was just a constantly exploding energy wave field, but he could see it clearly.

"So, this guy had already started planning this before he went to the Torch Organization. No, even before that."

Blackbeard had known the name Qinglong for a long time, but he did not take it seriously at first. He thought he was just a great mechanic driven by greed. Until what happened just now, he was extremely surprised.

"He has been planning for so long, so his purpose is most likely to sublimate the Source Crystal." Blackbeard has been recalling various clues since the beginning, and now he has a preliminary outline.

"Li Ming is his student. His development potential is as high as level 46. Yet he has been struggling on that small planet for so long. He even became Wu Yanqing's student. He should be investigating..." Blackbeard always pays close attention to his chess pieces.

"Investigate whether there is any problem behind the whole incident of the core ruins."

Li Ming also didn't take it too seriously until recently, when he was shocked by the news coming from the Combined Fleet that this child's development potential was as high as level 46.

After the appearance of Qinglong, it was as if a bolt of lightning connected all of this together.

"He went to the Land of the Stars again, exposed the level of the Great Mechanic, and joined the Torch Organization. It should be to get close to Benny, the descendants of the Ascendants..."

"He even saved Monroe. I'm afraid he should have seen the secret behind the whole thing."

Blackbeard's expression became more and more solemn. This Qinglong might have figured out all their plans in this area.

Before this, he didn't know that Monroe was still alive.

"He is already a Casting Star-level mechanic, but he still refuses to transform his body. However, his development potential is probably seriously insufficient. Looking for the Sublimation Source Crystal should be to improve his development potential."

Thinking of this, Blackbeard couldn't help but sigh, "How low is his development potential."

It's not that there are no ways to improve the potential of fundamental development in Interstellar, it's just that the cost is a bit high. With the capital of a Forge-level mechanic, he must have tried many methods.

But this Azure Dragon is still a B-level life form, which is enough to show that its foundation is terribly poor.

Due to the genetic adaptability of living organisms, most methods of enhancing fundamental development potential can only be used once.

Therefore, Qinglong needs to constantly look for new ways to enhance development potential, so he set his sights on the sublimation source crystal.

But he did not act blindly. Instead, he carefully investigated and found out the whole story before taking action.

Everything fits perfectly, and the motives and behaviors all have reasonable explanations.

"He is indeed cautious enough. Even if he doesn't know our origins, he must know that there are many people behind this matter." Blackbeard's eyes were dim:

"However, he must know that the Sublimation Source Crystal has been stolen, and the preparations made over the past few years have been wasted. The person behind the scenes will not let this go..."

His mind turned, and he was slightly surprised: "So, we're going to use Gabriel in exchange?"

Their purpose was naturally to provoke a dispute. They used the sublimation source crystal because it was the smoothest. After so long of preparation, everything happened naturally.

Gabriel's death was the most explosive, like a bolt of thunder from the blue, striking Reina.

"So he has guessed our purpose."

He shook his head. The current situation had developed completely differently from what he had expected. He was not angry, but felt a little weird instead.

"But the Sublimation Crystal only needs to be used once. He can cooperate with any party to borrow it. There is no need to use such a violent method, or even kill Gabriel directly."

"So what does he want to do?" Blackbeard speculated.

A star-casting mechanic who has been dormant for so long must have something big to his mind.

A series of information intertwined in his mind. Suddenly, his expression paused, and an indescribable expression suddenly appeared on his face. Thunder flashed through his mind:

"Could it be... a token of allegiance?"

"Could it be that he not only guessed the purpose of this time, but also more, so...he wants to join!?"

The last of the fog suddenly dissipated, and the mecha seemed to be standing in front of him, staring at him quietly.

Blackbeard looked uncertain. Qinglong heard the news about the sublimation source crystal and crossed the interstellar space to the Northern Crown Star Ring.

Later, he accidentally discovered Li Ming, an excellent seedling, and accepted him as a student. He used him to get close to the original chess piece - Wu Yanqing.

Gradually, I figured out the whole story and became acutely aware that there was an invisible hand behind it.

But he was not sure how big these hands were. Later, he came to the Land of Stars, contacted Monroe, repaired him, and learned more.

After peeling away the layers, he realized that these big hands wanted bigger and more than he thought.

Thus, an idea came to his mind. He also wanted to get a piece of the pie, but any rash contact would inevitably arouse the vigilance and disgust of the mastermind behind the scenes.

Therefore, Qinglong remained calm, showing his ability and strength by adding fuel to the flames, and killed Gabriel as a token of his allegiance, proving that he was not from the Xingyuan Empire.

Blackbeard let out a long sigh and squinted his eyes. "This cake is too big and too hard to divide. It doesn't matter if you are one more person. However, there is one thing that needs to be confirmed..."

These things were just his own unilateral speculations. Although he was 90% sure, there was still one most important link that had not been verified, and that was the ownership of the sublimation source crystal.

If Qinglong was caught while escaping after the operation was successful, there is nothing wrong with that, as no one can plan everything for sure.

Besides, Qinglong’s methods can provide a guarantee, so there’s no danger to anyone’s life.

But if you are caught before the action even begins, that’s a completely different matter, as your means are inferior after all.

As for what happened in the core ruins, he didn't know it at the first time and needed to wait for news.

(End of this chapter)