This is not mechanical ascension...

Chapter 486 The only chance

When some are happy, some are sad.

Li Ming's heart was not at peace either. According to his understanding, after the Titan's death, he would undergo self-annihilation similar to "cremation".

This is also the main origin of the Terrax Stone, and Li Ming also speculated that it should be to prevent the corpse from becoming raw materials for other evolutionary paths.

The bodies of higher life forms are extremely precious and have various values. Most of the higher life forms in the interstellar society today use similar methods after death.

Except for some ruthless people, in order to maximize their own value, they will leave the corpses for research and application by their own forces.

But this body was surprisingly complete, with only one arm missing.

There is no doubt that the appearance of this corpse will solve most of the problems on the road of genetic evolution, and may even give birth to a true ultimate life form.

Given the completeness of this corpse, even if an arm is missing, it is certain that gene seeds can be produced. With the level of the Empire and the Federation, more than one copy can even be produced.

All they lack is genetic material. I can only extract it from higher life forms. I don't know if there is any other source.

Li Ming's thoughts were running at high speed. All these were things of the past. The problem they faced now was how to escape safely.

It's such a big secret, the fewer people who know about it the better, they are already trapped in a jar.

Given his own value, he will definitely not be killed, but the outcome will probably not be much better.

However, the powerful strength of Tandin and Alves, two top life forms, is completely unmatched.

But there is still a chance. Li Ming's eyes flickered and he had a vague idea.

His mind raced as he looked up at Mikhail and Reynolds. The two also realized that the situation was unpredictable and their faces looked gloomy.

He couldn't help but ask in a deep voice: "You two?"

No one ignored him.

The two were immersed in their own thoughts. Mikhail felt dejected, thinking that "the universe is mean to me" and was somewhat gnashing his teeth.

How could such a powerful corpse be washed out! ?
I mistakenly believed the disaster model data of the Red River Star Stream, thinking that with such a short disaster duration, there would be no good thing, so I came here calmly, but the result was this scene.

"You two!" Li Ming's voice became heavier. Mikhail suddenly came back to his senses and smiled bitterly, "What's wrong?"

"Now is not the time to be depressed." Li Ming looked solemn.

"I know..." Hearing Li Ming say this, Mikhail felt even more bitter. He felt that young people were fearless, but he also felt helpless: "But, there is no other way."

"Yeah..." Even Reynolds, who was always reckless and wanted to fight and kill, lost his momentum at this moment, with a dejected look on his face: "Those two are guys on the same level as Forging Hammer. Unless Forging Hammer revive from the dead, otherwise..."

He didn't finish his words, he just shook his head.

"It's not the end of the road yet." Li Ming said in a deep voice. Reynolds sighed again, "I understand what you mean. We will definitely not be killed. We are still very valuable. But if we are put on a dog necklace, it would be better to kill me."

Due to the special nature of the Red River Star Stream, the message cannot be delivered, and it is even more difficult to escape.

Seeing that the two guys had lost their minds and were still not getting the message, Li Ming simply explained it more clearly: "I have another idea."

"Hmm?" Mikhail couldn't help but look at it, and couldn't help but feel a sense of hope, but then he shook his head and said, "If your teacher said something like this here, it would still have some weight."

Li Ming was speechless. "But what I'm operating is my teacher's exclusive mechanical body. He has prepared many methods for me."

Mikhail's body trembled slightly. Although he still didn't believe the means Qinglong prepared for Li Ming to fight against Tandin and Alvis, he couldn't help but ask: "What do you mean?"

"My teacher's mechanical body has a special method." Li Ming emphasized: "However, you two must trust me completely."

"What do you mean by completely trusting you?" Mikhail asked subconsciously.

Li Ming said solemnly: "To activate this method, a large amount of metal materials will be consumed. Give me all the metal materials you two are carrying now, as well as the control of the entire mechanical army and the control of your bodies..."

"This..." Mikhail's face changed slightly. This was equivalent to handing over his life and property to the other party.

"No problem!" Reynolds did not hesitate, staring at the God of Creation at the same time: "It has come to this point, the result is almost the same anyway, Mikhail, you are not still hesitating."

"Of course I understand!" Mikhail snorted coldly. It was just his personality that made him speculate subconsciously. He also understood that there was no time to doubt each other in the current situation.

Now the three of them are tied to the same rope. Since Li Ming said there is still a chance, they can only let him give it a try.

"But we didn't carry much metal material..." Mikhail added.

"Just provide as much as you can." Li Ming pretended to be serious, took a deep breath, and then asked, "What is the specific combat capability of these two guys?"

"Not sure, but I estimate it may be more than 2500X..." Mikhail pondered for a long time before saying an uncertain number.

Li Ming took a deep breath and couldn't help but ask, "The Ultimate Path can actually go this far?"

Reynolds scratched his head and said, "Forging Hammer thought that they had even touched the boundary of the Ultimate Life Form, but later said that these people had completely gone astray and would never be able to become the Ultimate Life Form."

The boundary of the ultimate life form...I'm afraid it's about the same, even if the gap between X-level and the ultimate is a thousand times, and a hundred times that of ordinary life forms.

2000X can barely reach the minimum standard.

Li Ming was secretly shocked, but then he thought that the energy level standard was shaped by the current interstellar society and was deeply bound to the genetic evolution system, thus radiating to other evolutionary systems.

It can only accurately measure the genetic evolution system. Other evolution systems will have some errors. The so-called minimum standard is actually inferred based on their genetic evolution system.

If it were replaced with the ultimate mechanical body of the Holy Spirit Civilization, or a Dominant-class Titan, the situation might be very different.

Li Ming was pondering, while the two master craftsmen had already issued orders to move materials from the battleship warehouse.

Soon, several large boxes were brought over. They contained some high-grade materials that were used to repair possible injuries to themselves and their X-class mechanical bodies.

Reynolds asked hesitantly, "Do you want the advanced unified material found from the Holy Spirit Civilization?"

That thing is quite precious, especially since we already have a prototype of the Mechanical Seed. With the cooperation of these two, it will surely have great potential in the future.

But right now, it’s not certain whether I can leave here alive. Thinking about the future is too far away, so I have to give all the support I can.

"Hmm..." Li Ming thought, "I remember that the two gentlemen each have half, just give me half. Keep half for now. We need to create a joint laboratory to study the mechanical seeds. When the time comes, we can take advantage of the opportunity and work together to study the metal material as well."

This was said as if they had already solved their current problems.

"Okay." Reynolds nodded without saying a word and prepared to take it. Unexpectedly, Li Ming stretched out his hand to Mikhail: "Sir Mikhail..." Mikhail, who had been pretending to be an invisible man, couldn't help but look dark when he saw this. This kid really holds a grudge. Doesn't he just want to take advantage of you?

Since they are going to cooperate in the future, it doesn’t matter who of them provides it.

But no one can predict the future when it comes to variables. What if something goes wrong? So Mikhail doesn't want to give it.

"It's already now, why are you still hesitating?" Reynolds said impatiently, "Forget it, forget it, forget the greater good for the sake of small gains, I'll go get it..."

"Here you go!" Mikhail angrily threw out half a piece of purple metal, and Li Ming immediately pocketed it.

Several mechanical guards walked out from behind him, carrying metal boxes on the ground and followed him back to the small room.

He closed the door and deployed an energy shield on the surface of his body. A thin wall could hardly block the prying eyes of the master craftsman.

Silently, half a piece of purple metal appeared on the palm of his hand and immediately began to absorb the metal energy.

The piece that belonged to him had been absorbed, and the remaining metal energy had now reached 2.2 billion.

Although this metal material is precious, he does not have sufficient research capabilities under his command, so it is basically impossible to reproduce it. It would be better to get it for free from the two master craftsmen, so he did not keep it.

While absorbing the metal energy, a thumb-sized milky white light ball appeared in Li Ming's other hand.

Gently cut it open, and a broken golden core the size of a football appeared, which was the [Holy Spirit Core].

This was the only way he could think of to break the impasse. Although he did not have many mechanical bodies under his command, Mikhail and Reynolds did.

Even though there were a lot of losses during the voyage, the total now still exceeds 450 million.

There are also several standard X-class mechanical bodies. It can even be said that they themselves can become fusion raw materials as long as they don't resist.

But Li Ming was not sure what the fused Mechanical Holy Spirit could achieve. He murmured in a low voice, "At least, it must be strong enough to escape."

Outside, Reynolds stood in front of the porthole, looking at the giant corpse in the distance, and couldn't help but say: "It's really weird, a Dominant-level Terrax can actually rush out."

He glanced at Mikhail hesitantly, "Do you think Li Ming has a solution?"

"Weren't you very confident just now?" Mikhail couldn't help but sneer.

"If a kid like him is so confident, I definitely can't fall behind." Reynolds said, and then said anxiously: "But after all, I'm not Qinglong himself, so I always feel insecure."

"Tell me, what method did Qinglong give him that allowed him to still have such confidence now?"

Mikhail remained silent and glanced at the closed door. "I just hope that when we described Tandin and Alvis, we were accurate enough so that he didn't misunderstand us."

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"Is this..."

On the other side, Costat had already flown out of the battleship, his eyes fixed on the giant's corpse. Although he had some guesses, it was still hard for him to believe it.

The muscle fibers in the missing right arm of the corpse were severely worn, and there were special black symbols left on the muscles.

"Yes, Your Highness, this is the Terrax, the corpse of a dominant-level Terrax." A mental wave came, and an old man in a white robe was approaching.

“Sir Raphael…” Costat nodded, still a little incredulous: “The Red River Star Stream actually rushed out a corpse of a Dominant-level Terrax. There has never been a similar case before.”

"Yes, this may overturn many speculations about the Red River Star Stream." Raphael also sighed.

Costat couldn't help but ask, "But this catastrophe lasted so short, how could something so powerful emerge?"

"Not sure, but we tend to think someone has sabotaged it." New mental fluctuations spread, and everyone nodded: "Sir Granger"

"Someone destroyed it?" Dius was stunned and couldn't help asking, "Teacher, who can destroy the Red River Star Stream?"

"It's not the Red River Star Stream..." Granger is a female fire spirit with red skin and hair that burns like flames.

She explained, "The causes of the duration of the catastrophe are quite complicated. You can understand that someone forcibly pulled this body out."

"Pulled out by force?" Everyone's faces turned pale. Just approaching the corpse made them feel horrified, let alone pulling it.

“Who can do this in this galaxy?” Dius murmured to himself.

Gonzalez was still hiding behind everyone, his heart pounding with fear. The more he listened, the more frightened he became.

Rafael added: "According to our tests, the missing arm was amputated recently."

He did not hide the fact that these people were already core senior executives and were qualified to know these things.

"Cut it off recently?" Even Costa found it inconceivable. "The strength of the corpse of a Dominant-level Terrax is so great that it cannot be destroyed by ordinary X-level life forms."

"Are there still such people in the current interstellar world?"

His imagination ran wild, and at this moment he even thought of Qinglong.

The guy didn't go to the ruins of the Holy Spirit Civilization probably because he had more important things to do, and this corpse is a good example of that.

"According to our estimation, special methods must have been used, because the other party obviously could not take away the entire body." Raphael shook his head.

Costat did not relax too much. Regardless of whether it was a special method or not, the fact was that it was cut off.

Gonzalez's throat rolled and his face was pale. The injuries he had suffered from Qinglong had not yet fully recovered, and he cursed in his heart.

It's over. What on earth are those idiots in the Covenant doing? They know nothing about such an important thing.

He felt bitter. If he wanted to survive now, he could only join the Empire or the Federation.

"By the way, have you finished exploring the ruins of the Holy Spirit Civilization so quickly?" Raphael asked, "I thought it would take at least three or four months."

"Almost..." Costat sighed, "Even if we haven't finished exploring, there's no chance anymore?"

"What do you mean?" Raphael was puzzled. The research institute was very concerned about this matter and had already prepared several laboratories.

"The ruins of the Holy Spirit Civilization collapsed and have completely dissipated," Costat explained.

(End of this chapter)