This is not mechanical ascension...

Chapter 406 Leisurely time always passes quickly
"This blood species seems to be no different from the blood species in other places." Li Ming looked at it carefully and reached out to touch it. There was no change in the information he controlled.

"It's just a pure blood species." Li Ming pondered, "In other words, Levenbeck mentioned the blood species here just to make sure I would come and then arouse my curiosity?"

After confirming that Levenbaker was interested in him, he saved a lot of trouble, but his vigilance also increased a lot.

Not sure what Levenbaker was trying to do, Li Ming just took a few photos and asked someone to guard the place.

He was about to leave, but turned back. His eyes flickered, and in the confused looks of Ford and Robin, he drove them away.

There were only mechanical bodies left around. He placed his palm on the vampire and threw out five million metal energies to control it.

It’s not over yet. With the continuous influx of metal energy, this egg-like blood species began to undergo miraculous changes, and ripples appeared on its surface.

Then, as if being kneaded and shaped by an invisible giant hand, the outline of a human figure appeared.

The light of the blood species gradually turned into leaping arcs. The surface bulged, and the scarlet blood threads condensed together to become limbs, which slowly stretched outward. The head gradually became prominent, but the scarlet eyes were filled with confusion and uncertainty.

At first it just curled up, and then gradually stood up, with its limbs spread out. It was thin and about two meters tall.

The skin is a sticky blood red, the facial features are regular, and they are generally similar to humans, with no sexual characteristics.

"Master..." He knelt on the ground with piety.

"Do you remember how you were created?" Li Ming asked. The vampire looked confused and just shook his head.

This thing was created by alchemical technology, a type of biotechnology. It has no solidified storage chip and should be like a neural network.

When there is no consciousness, there is no storage of anything that happens in the outside world.

Li Ming didn't care and asked him if he could return to his original state. After getting an affirmative answer, he let the other party shrink into an egg again.

The total amount of metal energy consumed to control the points was 10 million, which was normal.

But he didn't know what Levenbaker was going to do, so this was the safest thing to do.

Returning to the shadow hidden in the low-altitude orbit, Li Ming found Levenbeck aggressively, threw the cleaned photo in his face, and said in a deep voice:
"What is this? Did you put it there?"

"Hmm..." Levenbeck glanced at the photo and said nonchalantly, "You're really slow."

"Answer my question!" Li Ming's expression was solemn, but he also showed a kind of embarrassment of "only being able to speak harsh words but not taking any further measures".

In his heart, he secretly admired his rapid improvement in acting skills.

"You want to know what this thing is for?" Levenbeck picked up a photo and stroked it in his hand. His voice changed from low to high due to abdominal pressure:
"Then take me to the scene, and I will tell you what this thing does."

"I'll take you to the scene." Li Ming snorted coldly, "You are dreaming. Don't think you can lead me by the nose. I have already sent the photos to the teacher."

"Master craftsman..." Levenbeck's eyes flickered, "Even if he is your teacher, can you recognize him just by looking at a photo?"

"Let me guess. Your teacher wouldn't come here specifically, would he? This is just an insignificant planet. Maybe there are some people you know on it."

"But are those people important to your teacher?"

Levenbeck spoke calmly. Li Ming seemed to be touched. His expression was ferocious for a moment, but then he calmed down and said coldly, "Just stay here honestly!"

drop--
The metal cell door was shut again, and Levenback was somewhat surprised that he hadn't taken the bait.

It seems that Li Ming is quite smart and may still hold out hope for Qinglong.

Thinking of Qinglong, Levenbeck calmed down again. If Qinglong was really a master hammersmith, perhaps he could really see the clues of the blood species.

He once took the initiative to show his research to the Hammer Master, hoping that he could answer some questions.

But the Hammer Master rebuked him harshly, claiming that he was going in the wrong direction and should not use other life forms to promote his own evolution.

It is ridiculous that those low-level life forms, as humble as ants, sacrifice their lives for the supreme path of evolution, which is a worthy death.

Levenbaker snorted secretly.

However, this is not bad news for him, as he can also use it to determine whether the other party is a forging hammer.

If it weren't for the forging hammer, Qinglong wouldn't have been able to tell the clues from just a photo.

Li Ming will take the bait sooner or later, so he won't lose either way.

"But this time can't be too long. I don't want to give up on Ryan." He frowned. Li Ming's tempting bait was right in front of him. He was really tempted. It was a rare opportunity.

But Ryan is also very important. He is related to whether alchemical substances can evolve into ultimate life forms. No one knows what the situation is.

It is easy to extract consciousness from this special body, but it is very troublesome to return to it again. It takes a long time, and during this period, the body's functions will stagnate and the flaws are too big.

Unlike mechanical carriers, which can withdraw and descend instantly through mimicking neural signals, his alchemical carrier has the advantage of not being affected by signal interference, but it is not so easy to descend either.

Wait for things to develop first. If it takes too long, you must make some choices.

His eyes flickered and his gaze fell on the mechanical bodies standing in the corner. He had been studying them for several days and found that these mechanical bodies were very strange.

"Pulling it for a while should keep him at peace for a while." After leaving the prison, Li Ming restrained his expression and thought.

Levenbaker is not a fool. If he doesn't respond for a long time, he will definitely find something wrong.

And even as he was pulling Levenbeck, the wind and rain outside did not stop, and the Corona Borealis ring entered a delicate situation.

The war between the Itlan civilization and the Judges is still going on. Many civilizations have keenly discovered that the number of illegal immigrants in their territory is growing rapidly and various attacks are occurring frequently.

Especially the main Ithran civilization, which is like a sieve.

In an underground secret room on a certain planet, several Itlan people knelt in a row, shivering, surrounded by death guards. Blood spread on the floor, and the smell of blood almost solidified into substance.

"Pfft!"

From left to right, the first one is a fat man lying on the ground with his eyes rolled up, twitching constantly.

Behind him, the man with a vertical eye pattern on his forehead walked behind the second person.

"If you want to know anything, just ask. I'm willing to tell you everything." He begged, but the man behind him ignored him and placed his hand on the back of his head. The vertical pupil lines between his eyebrows emitted white light, and wailing sounds echoed throughout the hall.

Two or three hours later, Blackbeard ended the communication expressionlessly, feeling increasingly annoyed. "No news, no news, not even a single bit of news!"

"How could so many threads disappear without a trace?"

"Where are the people from the operation? Where are Ryan's people?"

More than a month has passed since the pioneers issued the order, and the troops mobilized by all parties have arrived at the Corona Borealis star ring.

They thought it was an easy operation, but right at the beginning, they were thrown a big bucket of cold water. The dense threads that were originally densely packed disappeared silently. The secret operation of the Itlan troops disappeared.

The men under Prince Ryan also disappeared.

Asmara has been staying with Xavier, concentrating on commanding foreign wars. It seems that the matter of the blood race suddenly disappeared?

Apart from those life planets that they had investigated and placed the blood species, they could not find any traces.

It seems to have stopped.

But Blackbeard knew that this was impossible. There was already news circulating inside that this was a game of power between Qinglong and several known bigwigs of the Pioneers.

These people did not disappear, but they were acting in a more secretive style. If the pioneers could not find any clues in a short period of time, they could only turn to Qinglong for help.

When Blackbeard learned the news, he just sighed in his heart. Although Qinglong did not react at all at that time, he did not swallow his anger.

He didn't take it seriously at first. How could there be no clues in such a large operation?

But after more than a month, he fell into confusion.

Can an advanced civilization really do things so perfectly?
He even suspected that Qinglong was secretly helping to suppress the Pioneers.

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And as time goes by, this possibility continues to expand, and the navigators have urged it several times.

But he couldn't find anything, and there was nothing he could do.

"Well, there's nothing wrong with giving up some say. The empire hasn't split yet, but we're the first to start fighting." Blackbeard sighed, feeling helpless.

The pioneers pressured him, and he could only pressure his own men. Many members had already joined this game, and almost no one chose Qinglong's side.

Even he was the same. No one thought that Qinglong alone could compete with the entire Pioneer.

But in the end, if he was really defeated by Qinglong, it would be too embarrassing. He looked fierce and said, "Go on, check!"

……

The situation in the outside world is unpredictable. On the Silver-Gray Star, more than half a month has passed and the winter is getting worse.

Li Ming felt very comfortable here. Although he was pulling several lines at the same time, he was not mentally exhausted. Instead, he felt a rare sense of comfort.

Ding-dong-
The door of the grocery store was pushed open, and several girls walked in, laughing and playing. They were tall, youthful and beautiful, each with their own style.

"Hey... isn't the boss here an old man?" The girl on the left has towering breasts, and her slender waist and abdomen seem like they could be squeezed to produce water. Under her short skirt is a pair of thighs covered in black silk stockings.

For a life form that has just started its evolution, this low temperature is nothing.

She looked at the young boy who stood up from behind the counter and couldn't help but wonder.

"Mr. Yang is in poor health and went to the hospital for a check-up today. Do you have any needs?" Li Ming asked politely.

"Are you the new waitress here?" The girl on the right, wearing a white long skirt and holding her bag in front of her, asked curiously.

"Not really. I've lived here for a long time. This time I came back to visit my relatives." Li Ming shook his head: "I'm just helping out today."

"Really?" A head suddenly popped out from under the counter, sandwiched between the two girls. His skin was as white as a porcelain doll, and he stared with wide eyes, asking impatiently:
"Then you must have met Li Ming. Judging from your age, you must have grown up with him, right?"

"Him?" Li Ming's eyes moved slightly, "I guess so."

"Hey..." The other two girls looked slightly shocked, and hurriedly pulled the short girl in the middle to the side, muttering in a low voice:
"I saw on the news that Li Ming was bullied a lot when he was a kid. None of his peers were good people."

Li Ming twitched the corner of his mouth and looked at the girls who were plotting loudly, feeling speechless.

"That's not right. It is said that the old man here is very kind to Li Ming. How could he let someone like that be a waiter?"

"Yeah, then shall we take a photo with him?"

"Alas, I originally wanted to find that kind old grandfather, but unfortunately..."

"What's so regrettable about this? There are so many people taking photos with the old man, and the three of us can take photos with him. But this little brother should have appeared recently, and he is quite handsome. The three of us are the first to get to take photos with him..."

"What a weird metaphor you are using..."

They whispered to each other for a while, pretended to pick and choose in the grocery store, and then bought things worth more than a thousand star coins when they checked out.

The hot girl coughed a few times, "Well..."

"Group photo?" Li Ming looked up and asked.

"Hey, why are you..." The girl was stunned, and nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes..."

"Okay." Li Ming thought about it and nodded.

"Ha..." The three of them cheered and frantically took out folding standees from their bags.

After it was stretched open, Li Ming looked even more speechless. It turned out to be his human-shaped stand.

"Little brother, come here..." The three of them tidied up for a while, and then gathered around him, holding a special camera, and took a 360-degree photo.

You can take photos at any angle you want later.

Li Ming estimated that he just served as a check-in watermark.

He stood there without moving, but the three girls beside him kept changing their movements.

"Okay, thank you very much." The hot girl was the most enthusiastic. While fiddling with the smart terminal, she came over and showed off her assets, asking meaningfully,

"By the way, little brother, I don't know your name yet. When will you get off work?"

The other two girls pouted, and Li Ming shook his head, "I have something else to do later."

“Is that so…” The hot girl was a little disappointed and glared at her companion who was trying to hold back his laughter, and then the three of them said goodbye to him.

Glancing outside, there weren't many people here, partly because Li Ming's popularity had dissipated a lot.

On the other hand, it is also because there are really no other attractions on Silver Gray Star and it is located in a remote area. Only those more fanatical fans are willing to come from afar just to see an empty house.

A few days later, he received news from Ford and returned to the Stream Shadow.

"The last batch of metal materials from the Lannica civilization will arrive at Itlan in half a month."

In the cabin, Ford reported, "A total of twelve batches of metal materials, from twelve advanced civilizations, each batch of metal materials, the market price is not less than 10 billion star coins."

(End of this chapter)