This is not mechanical ascension...

Chapter 327 [Mechanical Warrior] Clues to the Terrax Stone

The control page popped up, accompanied by a blurry shaking. Li Ming felt a tearing sensation in his body. His cells began to become restless, stimulated by a force that came from nowhere.

The violent elemental energy that suddenly exploded around his body was not violent, but it simply forced him to passively enter a liberation form, causing further changes.

The golden armor covering the entire body was further refined. Instead of becoming more bloated, it became more concise, as if an invisible hand was meticulously carving it.

In the end, he had transformed into a special form that was not much different from his own appearance, and was covered in armor-like armor engraved with various intricate patterns.

[Gene Warrior] → [Mechanical Warrior]

There is no change in other abilities of the profession, the [Secret Record Fusion] ability disappears, and a new ability is added.

[Mechanical weapon liberation: Unable to integrate external liberation secret records. According to the gene seed, the liberation form will be adjusted automatically. In the liberation form, it will consume a lot of physical strength, increasing the current comprehensive data blessing by 30%, and each life level by 5%. ]

Hmm? Li Ming's eyes lit up, and the released form also interacted with the controlled object, becoming an overall amplification.

A direct increase of 30%. Just based on his current strength, it is an increase of nearly forty times. His throat moved.

The emergence of [Mechanical Weapon Liberation] meant that he no longer had to worry about the liberation of the secret records. He freed up his energy and improved his strength at the same time, achieving the best of both worlds.

This upgrade is well worth the money.

"Risks mean benefits..." Li Ming pondered, "If Fuxi fails, will they send another S-class life form to seduce me?"

"Forget it. We can't treat them as idiots. Even though they were beaten half-crippled by the Xingyuan Empire, who knows what kind of background they still have."

Li Ming thought for a moment and continued to develop the gene seeds. Five or six hours later, he opened his eyes with some depression.

"It's really too slow..." He stood up, but sat down again, sighed, adjusted his mindset, and continued developing.

Soon another day passed. Li Ming stood in front of the porthole and could clearly see a dark red star, which seemed to have entered its final years.

The Meteorite Galaxy is a galaxy belonging to the planet collector, Barbaroel, who is also the overlord of the chaotic star gap and controls nearly one-fifth of the galaxies.

There are only three planets in the galaxy, two of which are barren planets and only one is barely a life planet.

Hantian Star, which is the planet that Blackbeard found for Qinglong.

Due to their unique gravitational influence, the three planets orbit around this dying star in an irregular manner.

A day here is 65 hours, nearly three times longer than the interstellar standard.

On the outskirts of the galaxy, warships are neatly arranged. They are not small in size, with nearly a thousand ships in total.

But there are not many main ship classes, only about a dozen in total.

Theo's Gray-Eyed Mercenaries arrived here a few days earlier than them.

“…As a star in its last years, the surface temperature of Hantian Star should not exceed zero degrees.” After leaving the room, several people were discussing.

The spacecraft cabin was shaking, flames were flashing outside the portholes, and it had already broken into the atmosphere.

They landed on a plain. The cold wind was howling, the ground was silvery white, and some black plants grew messily, absorbing the little warmth that was already there.

For people like them, this temperature is nothing.

"This planet has three continents. This one is the largest and has the most plains. If we want to build a military factory..." Ulrich was introducing, but before he finished speaking, everyone suddenly looked up in another direction in the sky.

With a shrill whistling sound, a small spaceship quickly approached them and stopped not far away.

The recommended engine slowly shut down, and after the hatch opened, a life form wearing a black suit and with dark green skin quickly ran over.

"You are all the people under His Excellency Qinglong, right?" He introduced himself respectfully, "I am the person in charge here. This is your lease agreement, for a period of ninety-nine years. Who... wants to sign it?"

"I'll do it." Li Ming walked out. The planets and galaxies belonging to the "Planet Collector" were never bought or sold, but only rented. Blackbeard had told him this a long time ago.

After signing Li Ming's name, the other party put away the agreement and bowed, saying, "Excuse me, for the next ninety-nine years, this will be your private territory."

The other party left quickly, just going through the motions. Ulrich continued:

"We have applied for several companies here. Can we link them with Mr. Qinglong's certified account in the Mechanics Association? In this way, we don't need to review the qualifications to join the Interstellar Chamber of Commerce."

"Small problem." Li Ming nodded.

Ulrich and others have been dealing with some miscellaneous matters during this period, including the registration of various companies, qualification applications, and applications to various large interstellar organizations such as the Mercenary Association and the Interstellar United Chamber of Commerce.

Everything is ready, only the materials are missing. The materials are on the way, so there is no need to rush.

What was beyond Li Ming's expectation was that ten days later, before the materials arrived, someone from the Black Hole Hall sent him a message.

……

Somewhere in a dark and cramped space, a bloody pattern was drawn on the ground, and in the center was a crack that was flashing a blood-red light.

There were several headless corpses lying in a mess on one side, and in the corner there was a sturdy blond man bound by a gene inhibitor. He looked terrified and seemed to be trembling.

There were rustling and moving footsteps in the darkness. They were wearing white robes, and behind them was a bloody and distorted sun. From time to time, low discussions could be heard.

"Three days and three nights have passed, and there is no news from the explorers who went there. Could this guy's intelligence be false?"

“No, no, I swear, it’s absolutely true!” The bound figure on the ground responded hastily, with loose golden hair and a pair of brown pupils revealed through the gaps, with fear and uneasiness in his eyes.

"If they don't come back, you will be buried with them." Someone shouted coldly in the shadows.

After waiting for another hour or two, the atmosphere in the dark and cramped environment became increasingly tense.

At a certain moment, the long and narrow crack in the central area suddenly began to shake unsteadily and sprayed out some thick liquid, with a faint terrifying roar.

"The space parameters fluctuate, and the dimensional channel is unstable!"

"Is there anything coming out?"

There was a lot of noise, and the cracks were shaking more and more violently, making everyone extremely alert.

Finally, with a loud roar, a burly figure squeezed out from the crack in the middle.

"Close it! Close it!" The voice fell to the ground, urging him, as if something terrible was chasing him from behind. Crack! A crisp sound like glass breaking was heard.

At the same time, the crack in the middle suddenly closed, and a human arm wrapped in a metal shell fell from the air. White smoke was coming out of the wound and the fingers were still twitching.

"Huh..." The burly figure was breathing heavily, his white combat armor was covered in blood, and even had several holes in it, bleeding uncontrollably. Someone quickly came up to clean his wounds.

"This is someone from the Xingyuan Empire's Dimensional Pioneer Camp." Someone picked up a piece of arm from the ground and saw the irregular ring logo. His face was horrified, and then he looked at the guy lying on the ground with a cold look.
"Didn't you say that they were from the Holy Silver Civilization? How did they provoke the Dimensional Pioneer Camp of the Xingyuan Empire?"

"I...I..." The figure lying on the ground was speechless, but the life form in combat armor waved his hand, "Don't blame him, that place should have originally belonged to the Holy Silver Civilization, but was occupied by the Xingyuan Empire."

"It does involve some big secret, but unfortunately, I only brought out a... stone."

As he spoke, he spread out his tightly clenched right hand, in which there was a dark, irregular stone.

"The security level of this thing is very strict. If I move a little, the vanguard officers will chase me." The vanguard officer frowned and looked at the object in his hand carefully: "But I don't feel that there is anything special about this thing..."

"Ha..." An untimely laugh suddenly sounded, the vanguard officer's face froze, his pupils suddenly contracted, and he looked down in disbelief, and saw a black blade suddenly protruding from his chest.

Before he could react, the blade split his brain from bottom to top, and red and white substances and blood gushed out.

Everyone around looked behind them in horror.

The blond young man who should have been tied up in the corner had broken free from his restraints at some point, holding a black mechanical sword in his hand.

“You…you…how could you…” Someone was shocked and unbelievable.

"Tsk tsk..." The blond young man raised his left hand from his forehead and brushed his hair back to the back of his head, revealing his handsome face. He smiled elegantly: "Thank you for your help."

"You..." Someone looked angry, and lightning flashed, but the next moment, black light and shadows kept flashing in the dark and cramped space. In just a few seconds, blood clots were scattered everywhere.

The blond young man shook his trouser legs with a bit of disgust, then walked into the pool of blood and picked up the irregular black stone from the ground.

He held it in both hands, put it to the light source and looked at it carefully, with a confused look on his face, "This thing is... Why does it feel familiar?"

"After all this hard work, all I got was such a small piece of stone?" He shook his head. "That place was actually occupied by the Xingyuan Empire. Fortunately, I didn't do it myself. Otherwise, if I had provoked those crazy people in the Vanguard Camp, it would have been difficult to deal with."

He walked casually to the corner, picked up an inconspicuous backpack, and took out a mechanical skull the size of a baby's head. It was crystal clear, round, and purple-gold in color.

“…Butler…” The blond man patted the top of the skull’s head.

The mechanical skull's eyes suddenly glowed green, then flickered, as if a little unstable, and waited for a moment before a mellow voice came out, "Robin?"

"I'm glad it's not down. Take a look and see if you recognize this thing." Robin placed the black stone in his hand in front of the skull.

"I know him." The skull replied affirmatively.

"Ha...then tell me quickly." Robin urged.

"Sorry, you don't have the relevant authority." The voice was soft but firm.

Robin's face fell, not surprised, but he asked: "What authority do you need to know?"

"If it's just the name, A-level authority can know it, but if you want to know the specific origin and function, you need S-level authority." The skull explained, and the voice seemed a little confused: "You haven't become an A-level life form yet?"

"Once you become an A-level life form, you can unlock A-level permissions."

"Fuck, I get angry when you say that." Robin rolled up his sleeves and said angrily, "Yeyue Laboratory told me that there was an accident with the modulation, the gene seed was destroyed, and I need to wait for more than two months."

"Is that so? What a pity." The skull said in a flat tone.

"What a pity! That's what they told me. The truth is that someone stole my gene seed." Robin snorted coldly, "It seems to be some big shot, an S-class life form, and there is more than one person pushing for it."

"Intercepted?" The skull's voice was surprised and intelligent. "The requirements of that gene seed were specially designed by me. It does not belong to any gene sequence. How could it be intercepted..."

"Who knows." Robin gritted his teeth and said, "The strong prey on the weak. Actually, I don't care. It's just a three-month wait. After all, they paid the penalty. I'm angry that they lied to me and treated me like a fool."

"Forget it, forget it, let's not talk about this." Robin was depressed. "Old rules, you can't bypass the authority to tell me what this thing is, so tell me whether to keep it or throw it away."

"It's better not to stay." The skull pondered for a moment.

"Lost?" Robin pondered, turning the stone in his palm from side to side and from several angles. "I feel like I've seen it somewhere before."

"Impossible. You can't accept it at your level." The skull denied.

"Be more tactful when you say something like this next time..." Robin said, his face changed, as if he remembered something, and took out the smart terminal from his bag, but found that there was no signal.

With a helpless look on his face, he walked out of the door with the sword in his hand, and then there was a wailing sound that lasted for five or six minutes.

Finally, he sat on a bloodstained chair, with the blood on the ground reaching above his ankles. A strong smell of blood filled the small base, and he was tugging at the smart terminal in his hand.

"Found it!" He narrowed his eyes slightly and stared at the photo on the screen. In the photo, there was also a black stone, which looked very similar to the stone in his hand.

The shape is slightly different, but the material and gloss look very similar.

"Look, is it the same thing?" He held the screen in front of the skull.

"It's most likely something." The skull was uncertain.

"Ha... It says that this thing feels warm to the touch, so that should be correct." Robin smiled and put away the smart terminal: "I remember that some time ago, when I was bored and looking through the backstage of the hall, I found this bounty."

The reward is simple, and you can even get a reward for just any clue.

"Then I have a stone. What does he have to give me?" Robin rubbed his hands in anticipation, but when he clicked on the details of the person who issued the task, his expression changed slightly: "Just a junior member?"

To a certain extent, the level of members of the Black Hole Hall demonstrates their own strength and means.

It turned out that the person who issued the task was just a junior member, which made him back off.

"No, even those with A-level authority can only know the name of the butler. The person who can issue this task must be extraordinary." After figuring this out, he regained his confidence.

"Robin, I suggest you be cautious when contacting the other party. The level of this thing is not something you can get involved in at your current level." The skull reminded.

"Don't worry, I'm just delivering a shipment. I won't get involved." Robin waved his hand and didn't care. This was not the first time the butler had reminded him.

(End of this chapter)