This is not mechanical ascension...

Chapter 505: Complicated Situation, Worst Case, Abandon Everything

Big deal…Everyone fell silent. They were not stupid and they naturally realized this. Therefore, they felt terrified when they thought about it carefully.

Something that made both the Empire and the Federation take a step back, but they didn't know it.

"It may be difficult to get a direct answer from the Empire and the Federation." Gutierrez said in a deep voice: "Ask these three first."

"They should have already colluded with the Imperial Federation, so I'm afraid they won't reveal it." Sieg shook his head.

"Let's try it first. It's better to start with them than to get entangled with the Imperial Federation."

"We need to get to the bottom of this," Gutierrez stressed, looking around. "What they are hiding must be of great importance. We cannot be completely ignorant of it."

The other two nodded, setting the tone for the incident, and Gutierrez turned and asked, "What happened to the attacker?"

Sieg's face changed slightly, and his voice was low, "The situation is more troublesome than we thought. According to the confession of the attacker, the civilization behind him is quite powerful..."

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"Well, time flies..." Li Ming came out of the main base warehouse. In a blink of an eye, another month had passed and he had steadily obtained 500 million metal energies.

The mechanical bodies have already been enlightened. Due to production line adjustment issues, the number of F-class mechanical bodies is not large. We can only really start working on it next month.

The transformation of the first batch of mechanical bodies has already been completed. It is estimated that in two or three months, all the previous mechanical bodies will be transformed into holy spirits.

"This guy is quite interesting..."

On the corridor back to the room, Li Ming was flipping through the smart terminal, which was playing the video of "Epic Dragon Blow".

There are many talented people in the interstellar world, but I didn't expect that there are actually people who can roughly analyze it beforehand.

He remembered this guy. When he was in the Ascendant Ruins, the videos he edited were quite exciting, so he paid attention to them.

This guy seemed to be a gossip blogger before, but now he has become an analysis blogger specializing in Qinglong.

After watching the videos all the way, Li Ming staggered back to the room. He was planning to develop genetic seeds, but found that someone contacted him on the black hole network. It was Li Ming's account.

"Abel?" Li Ming couldn't help but grin as he looked at the missed communication link.

He actually enjoyed communicating with this prince, so he called back immediately.

The other party contacted him more than 20 minutes ago, when he was in the process of enlightening the mechanical body.

However, as soon as the communication was established, before it rang twice, Abel answered it, as if he was waiting all the time.

"Li Ming..." Abel spoke, sounding a lot calmer.

"Your Highness, it seems like you haven't contacted me for a long time." Li Ming sighed, "I thought you were no longer devoted to the empire."

Abel frowned slightly and ignored Li Ming's strange way of greeting.

Over the past period of time, he has been digesting and integrating the list that Li Ming provided him last time.

He was extremely cautious this time, so it took him a long time to completely turn those women and their husbands into his own people.

Not only that, the women who acted as go-betweens have disappeared to prevent Li Ming from using them to blackmail them in the future.

"I have some news. Give me an estimate." Abel was already familiar with the situation this time, and he did not hesitate at all: "Prince Heckler submitted a report on the disappearance of the Scarlet Wolf, His Excellency Ivan, to the parliament. He believed that he was captured by your teacher."

"And, ask the Royal Council to ask you for it officially."

"Oh." Li Ming said calmly, "This news is worthless."

Abel added: "I learned that his real purpose is to have you kill Ivan, and then let the Empire deal with your teacher."

"This seems interesting." Li Ming did not comment. "But, in fact, it is of no value. These are three low-level members lurking in the Holy Mother Church."

"Three?" Abel was obviously dissatisfied. "That's too few."

"That Ivan, when he came, my teacher knew that Heckler was going to deal with him. The rest is redundant information. Giving you three is already a friendly price." Li Ming was also dissatisfied:

"Your Majesty, there is no need to bring out this kind of news in the future. It will only damage the relationship between us."

Abel pretended not to hear: "How is your teacher going to deal with the Scarlet Wolf?"

"I don't know." Li Ming answered vaguely, "Everyone's time is precious. If you have nothing else to do, just hang up."

"Wait..." Abel couldn't help but shout, and Li Ming frowned slightly.

Before Abel could say anything, his expression changed slightly and Qinglong's smart terminal rang.

"Wait a moment, I have something to deal with." Without waiting for his answer, Li Ming ended the call.

I took the smart terminal and found that it was a communication application from StarNet, and it was through the official channels of the Interstellar Alliance.

"Gutierrez? Chairman of the Star Alliance?" Li Ming looked at the name. The avatar was a cold man in a suit.

"He's a big shot, Star Alliance..." Li Ming hesitated for a moment before switching his username and answering the call.

"Mr. Qinglong." A dull voice came from the other side of the screen.

"President Gutierrez." Li Ming also responded and asked directly: "I wonder why you suddenly contacted me?"

"It's like this..." Gutierrez was also very direct: "I heard that Your Excellency returned from the ruins of the Holy Spirit Civilization a month or two ago, but my brother Claude and Your Excellency Gonzalez disappeared without a trace."

"The Empire and the Federation said that they encountered void turbulence inside the Red River Star Stream and disappeared without a trace. I wonder if that's true?"

This guy is quite cunning. Their unified statement is that he disappeared after coming out.

But that’s not quite the right way to put it.

Li Ming remained calm and said calmly: "Since the Empire and the Federation have already responded to your question, why do you need to ask me again?"

Gutierrez couldn't help but frown. If Qinglong's answer was the same as that of the Empire and the Federation, then he could be sure that Qinglong was also involved in the disappearance of Claude and Gonzalez.

Only the participants would give unified testimonies, which was also his original expectation.

But Qinglong's words made him suspicious. After hesitating for a moment, he said in a deep voice: "Let me be frank. I don't believe in the Empire or the Federation. If you have any other information, please tell me directly."

Li Ming pondered for a moment, then asked, "Didn't Claude and Gonzalez tell you that I didn't actually go to the Holy Spirit Ruins?"

"You didn't go?" Gutierrez was stunned. "You..."

Before he finished speaking, Qinglong continued, "I had something urgent to do and couldn't get away, so I asked my student Li Ming to go in my place."

“This…” Gutierrez was a little confused and subconsciously didn’t believe it: “Why does Lord Qinglong have to evade me like this? The ruins of the Holy Spirit Civilization are such an important place…”

"You can ask this question to other people, the people of the Empire, the people of the Federation, and the other two master craftsmen..." Li Ming said calmly. This response caught Gutierrez off guard, and it was completely beyond his expectations, but he quickly grasped the point: "But your student Li Ming was also at the scene, didn't he know?"

"He is just my student and represents me. Do you think he has the right to speak in front of the representatives of the Imperial Federation, Mikhail, and Reynolds?" Li Ming asked back.

Gutierrez stopped talking for a moment, and then spoke again, without any emotion. "If that's the case, why didn't anyone inform the Star Alliance in advance about the Machinists' Guild?"

"Does the Mechanic Association think that just relying on the Empire and the Federation to issue an order, our Star Alliance will also obey?"

"Hmm..." Li Ming said helplessly: "You should question the Empire and the Federation about this matter. Our Mechanics Association is exhausted in dealing with the Empire and the Federation."

After a long silence, Gutierrez said, "I understand. Sorry for bothering you, sir."

"Tsk... The Star Alliance has just realized that being disorganized is not good." Li Ming couldn't help but shake his head. He was quite surprised that Klaue was actually the younger brother of this Gutierrez.

He didn't pay much attention to it and had long forgotten about Claude.

Glancing at the other smart terminal in his hand, which was still connected to the black hole network, Abel sent him another message - "There is still important information."

Li Ming shook his head, established the connection again, and said slowly: "Your Highness, tell me all the information you have in the future."

Abel said in a cold voice, "I have figured out why Heckler must find the Chosen One of the Holy Castle."

"Oh?" Li Mingzhen became interested. He had asked Abel last time, but the other party couldn't find it.

Abel didn't say much this time. "He seems to have some method that can lock the Holy Castle, or even open it."

"But we must have enough Holy Castle pheromones. The number of Terrax Stones is seriously insufficient, and the Overseers carried by the chosen ones carry enough pheromones."

"Find the Holy Castle, or even open it?" Li Ming couldn't help but be surprised, and then asked suspiciously:
"It shouldn't be that easy to open the Holy Castle, right?"

"From what I know, Heckler seems to have found a special method that allows lower-level life forms to directly enter the Holy Castle and use it as a medium to force it open." Abel hesitated slightly when he said this.

"What method?" Li Ming asked.

Adam hesitated and said, "It seems like some kind of trial..."

"Trial?" Li Ming's voice was surprised, but his expression became very interesting.

In an instant, he thought of five words - Trial to Become a King.

It seems that he can really do it, find the Holy Castle alone, and be the chosen one, with a low life level, which meets the requirements for starting the trial to become the king.

The Empire might actually have the ability to forcefully open the Holy Fortress.

Heckler, whom I had never met before, actually found this method.

The Imperial Prince is really not a simple role.

Li Ming opened his mouth, but suddenly thought of another question, and asked in confusion: "It has been more than a year since he set his sights on Robin. Didn't you catch a chosen one among the people you screened?"

Abel pondered and said, "From what I know, the people sent by Heckler suffered heavy casualties, and the people they captured were basically of no value. On the contrary, many people on the list have disappeared."

"Didn't catch any one?" Li Ming realized something was wrong. Based on his current understanding, this Heckler was obviously not a good-for-nothing and should not be so useless.

"This involves other civilizations, which I don't know much about for now." Abel didn't know any more, and said in a deep voice: "This information should be valuable, right?"

Li Ming came back to his senses and said thoughtfully: "Fifty low-level members and three mid-level members."

"Only three mid-level members?" Abel asked.

Li Ming said suspiciously: "Your information is so big and empty..."

Halfway through his words, he said again and again: "Forget it, forget it, I'll give you one more, four mid-level members, these are the wives of planetary governors, don't be dissatisfied."

Abel felt relieved at this. After receiving the information transmitted by Li Ming, he ended the communication with satisfaction.

These people are enough for him to digest for a long time.

"Heckler...it seems that he is only one away from being the chosen one to find the Holy Castle..." Li Ming pondered, not sure whether the other party could open the Holy Castle, but it also made him feel a little urgent.

If this guy really has the means to break into the Holy Castle by force, he is currently unable to confront the Empire head-on.

However, it is now clear that someone is blocking his further development.

If he were outside the interstellar space, no one would doubt Li Ming.

But within the empire, one clear name comes to mind: Adam.

The House of Lords is in decline, and Adam is on the rise. But if the House of Commons finds the Holy Castle, the situation that Adam has worked so hard to build will be destroyed in an instant.

But...if it really is Adam, wouldn't it be too obvious? It shouldn't be that simple.

Li Ming thought about it, drank a sip of development potion, turned on the gravity equipment, and entered the development state.

"Fight. The harder you fight, the better."

The interstellar situation becomes increasingly complicated, with the corpses of Overlord-class Titans appearing.

It seems that the Star of Eternal Silence will be found soon.

Heckler is also tracking the traces of the Holy Castle, and Levenbeck is also a hidden danger. Almost all of these things are related to him.

The Covenant was kept in the dark about the corpse, but they have already been aware of it and will inevitably react.

Li Ming was thinking in his mind, and his brows were knitted tightly. In such a complicated situation, it was hard to say what kind of unexpected changes would occur.
Even if Adam finds the Star of Eternal Silence tomorrow, Heckler discovers the Holy Castle the day after tomorrow, and the ultimate life form appears the day after tomorrow, he will not be surprised.

As he thought about it, he couldn't help but feel annoyed. If any of these things went wrong, it would trigger a chain reaction and have a huge impact on him.

But then he thought again, "I'm different from them. At worst, I can just abandon everything and stay quiet for a few decades. As long as I become an X-class life form, I can definitely dominate the interstellar space now."

"However, the prerequisite is to obtain the X-level gene seed."

He couldn't help but feel relieved. Although it was the last choice, it was at least a way out, and it hadn't reached that point yet.

Thinking about the X-class gene seed, naturally, he thought about the Feast of Dusk.

According to the latest news, Anatoly has clues about the sub-ultimate star beast, and will invite all X-level life forms participating in the Dusk Banquet to go hunting together.

This joint hunting sounds abstract, but for now, it is one of the few opportunities except for snatching level X gene seeds from the three major civilizations.

"It seems that I must go to this evening banquet." He pondered in his heart.

(End of this chapter)