This is not mechanical ascension...

Chapter 510: Small Gains from the Attack

"The mountain giant - Rupert."

Li Ming looked down at the giant who was clinging tightly to the hammer. His chest was ruptured, flesh and blood burst radially, and his internal organs fell out from between his ribs.

His body was twitching from time to time, with each spasm bringing up a cloud of blood, and his breath was extremely weak.

This is a member of the Star Alliance, and he is quite famous. He possesses special powers in his blood and can become Dynamite. Li Ming now knows that he is actually a branch of the Titans.

The physical features were very obvious and Li Ming recognized him at a glance.

The Star Alliance...why would they attack me for no reason?

Li Ming thought in his mind and looked at the mechanical modified body again.

He had no impression of this guy, not an active X-class life form.

"Since he is Rupert, then you should be, the Tide of Flame - Beckett." Some mental fluctuations emanated from the burly mechanical body.

Beckett was extremely nervous and could hardly calm down. The scene before him was beyond his expectations.

According to the information they had obtained, Qinglong should not appear here.

Unless the other party foresees that someone might attack his students, he lurks in the dark to protect them.

Thinking of this, Beckett's face couldn't help but turn ugly. Their action plan was highly confidential and could not be leaked.

Perhaps it was because of the power behind that mechanically modified body that Qinglong was on guard.

Beckett cursed inwardly, even if he had guessed this, it would be useless at the moment.

Qinglong was too powerful. Rupert was hit hard by a hammer and his life or death was unknown. He was not as strong as the other party and had no chance of winning against Qinglong.

The only hope is to join forces with that mechanical modified body to have the possibility of escaping from here.

"Are they from the Star Alliance?"

Lyle was also stunned. He couldn't understand why the people from the Star Alliance wanted to attack Li Ming?

Could it be because of them that Qinglong lay dormant in secret and used Li Ming as bait?

Lyle also suspected that the reason Qinglong appeared here was because the other party's actions were leaked, and both sides were full of confidence in their own side.

"As for Your Excellency, who is he?"

Lyle's combat system sounded an alarm that the huge mechanical body had locked onto him, and the threat index quickly rose to the point of exceeding the limit.

The damage on the shoulder has been simply repaired using internal nanomaterials. Although the strength has been greatly reduced, it can barely keep the energy pathway running.

The mechanical pupils turned slightly, and met Beckett's eyes.

There was no communication between the two, but at this moment, they both understood what the other meant.

Only by joining forces can we have a chance to escape.

"Your Excellency Qinglong..." Lyle couldn't help but respond, becoming much more solemn.

But before he could finish his words, cracks of red energy like lava burst out from the seams of the mechanical body's armor, and each crack spewed out dazzling ionization.

As the humming sound of the energy core broke through the critical threshold, twelve jets opened in his chest, spewing out blue plasma streams at the same time.

The whole body seemed to be suddenly hit by a huge force, dragging a comet-like light trail in the vacuum and flying backwards.

Join forces? What the hell, it's better for each of us to escape.

He hoped that the other party could buy him some time so that he could escape.

However, as he flew backwards head-on, his multi-dimensional observation system could see everything very clearly.

Beckett's figure also left a trail of blazing fire in the starry sky, and the whole person was like a miniature star out of control.

The ring-shaped flame shock wave bursting out of the chest was no longer a gentle red, but a bluish-white color like a supernova explosion.

White-hot coronal material gushed out of the eye sockets, also dragging a flame trail tens of thousands of meters long as it fled to another location.

Lyle was speechless. The two of them really had a tacit understanding. From the moment they appeared, they showed a tacit understanding in every sense.

Be alert in your heart, now it is a question of choosing one between two options.

One of the two people can always escape, it just depends on who is unlucky.

Immediately, he felt a little relieved, but suddenly became nervous again.

I saw the burly mechanical body seemed to be chasing in the direction of Beckett.

But at the moment of moving, two small mechanical bodies suddenly split out of its body, and four cicada-wing-shaped metal wings popped out from its back, chasing towards him at an extremely fast speed.

"Can it be like this?" Lyle's heart was shocked and he couldn't help but feel despair.

Qinglong's mechanical joint combat methods have only appeared a few times, and they know almost nothing about it.

Li Ming has already switched the control blessing to speed blessing, and the speed is extremely fast.

Beckett's heart sank. In a few breaths, the figure, which had shrunk slightly due to the separation into two mechanical bodies, was already in front of him.

Bluish-white flames gushed out from his palms, and each flame contained enough energy to distort space. The flames intertwined in the air to form a translucent shield.

He is a user of fire abilities. By this level, he has undergone countless transformations and his abilities have been developed to almost the limit.

Even the simplest shield contains an extremely complex structure, like a Möbius strip woven with flames, which consumes energy in an infinite cycle.

Dense flame tentacles extend from the edges, sensing the surrounding energy fluctuations like a living thing.

"Fancy..." Li Ming had no expression on his face and just raised his hammer.

boom!
The infinite hammer drew a dark purple track in the vacuum, twisting the surrounding space into a spiral. The originally blocked space also began to collapse at this moment.

Under the overwhelming force, nothing can stop it. The energy ripples on the surface of the flame shield turned into countless micro whirlpools, intending to dissolve the incoming force.

The flaming tentacles wrapped around the purple hammer like snakes, trying to convert its destructive power into nutrients for the shield.

However, this is only an ideal state. Under the crushing force, tiny whirlpools collapsed, and the flame tentacles wrapped around the hammer head disintegrated into particles and turned into a glowing dust cloud, lingering around the hammer head.

boom!
The billowing flames spread, and the hammer fell unstoppably on his chest. Beckett's face was horrified, and he realized how terrified Rupert was at that time.

The chest instantly collapsed under the impact of the sledgehammer, flesh and blood splattered like fireworks, and the ribs twisted and deformed under the huge force, breaking like fragile branches.

His heart exploded in his chest, his mouth opened subconsciously, blood and flames intertwined into a red fountain, his spine bulged, and he stabbed from behind, gushing out a series of blood beads.

As an X-level life form and a fire mutant, his blood was still boiling hot and flames were rising, and it was not condensed into ice crystals by the cold starry sky.

Just one blow and his consciousness began to fade.

Li Ming's heart remained calm. The burly mechanical bodies suddenly dispersed. There were five of them in total, plus the two that had chased Lyle before, a total of seven.

Over the past three months, the metal energy he had accumulated had already upgraded one of the two newly constructed mechanical guards to S-level.

One of the mechanical guards picked up the dying Beckett, and the other four suddenly dispersed and disappeared in the blink of an eye. Soon, fireworks-like explosions exploded from time to time in the distant stars. The rest were just small fish that activated the trap, which the mechanical guards could easily deal with.

He turned and headed in another direction, but the mechanically modified body had been stopped by his mechanical guards and they were entangled in a fight.

"It's over..." Seeing Beckett being smashed through by a hammer, Lyle's heart sank to the bottom.

He himself was blocked by these two machines. Although they were not stronger than him, they were enough to delay time.

Qinglong came before him, and he already knew the outcome. It was meaningless to resist.

Prince Heckler fell into a trap again this time. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart and subconsciously wanted to activate the self-destruct device, but a large number of electric arcs exploded in the visor and the combat system crashed.

The quantum interference field and super plasma around him were still in effect. His body was severely injured, and after repeated battles, they had already invaded his body.

"The universe is also helping him..." Lyle was dejected and had given up resisting.

Li Ming waved his hand, and one of the mechanical guards stepped forward, took off Lyle's energy engine, and his aura suddenly dropped drastically.

[Star Fission Secondary Heart - X-Class: Advanced Semi-Mechanical Transformation Engine

Control conditions: 300 million metal energy

Control Effect: Additional Carrying

Control ability - Second heart: When the body is seriously damaged, the damage can be quickly repaired by consuming the integrity of the controlled object. 】

It was a standard energy engine that only cost 300 million to control, so it was definitely not a good thing.

Li Ming took it and took a look, only to find that the life form in front of him had not undergone complete mechanical transformation.

Under the alloy shell in the chest area, a beating biological heart can be vaguely seen, and the surface is covered with a metal mesh reinforcement structure.

With every contraction of the heart, fluorescent blue liquid is pumped out from the connected hydraulic pipes, which mixes with the dark red blood into a strange purple-black fluid and flows into the energy engine for secondary fission.

Not only that, a lot of muscle tissue is also retained in other parts.

"Semi-mechanical transformation..." Li Ming's eyes moved slightly.

He did know that within the three major civilizations, there were specialized mechanical transformation departments.

There is a type of people whose development potential is neither high nor low, just enough to support them to cross the threshold of x-level life forms, but not enough to support them to continue their development.

The three major civilizations have no shortage of lower-level X-level life forms.

Gene seeds are a huge waste for them.

They are more inclined to carry out semi-mechanized transformation of life forms at this level. Their bodies are strong enough and they only need to add some additional armor and install a strong enough energy engine.

At a very low price, you can get a not-too-strong X-level life form, which is worthwhile.

But the guy in front of him was clearly at level X in strength, so he must be a special case.

As you think, shadows appear from all directions.

The mechanical guards have almost cleared out the small fry, dragging behind them large equipment, the core devices of various trap generators.

"These things should be able to recycle a lot of metal energy." Li Ming raised his eyebrows and felt relieved.

The mechanical guards escorted these guys back to the spaceship.

Buzz--
The hatch opened, and Robin and Ford looked at Li Ming, who was wearing a tank, with lingering fear.

"Qing... Lord Qinglong." Robin greeted him haltingly. He seldom dealt with this big boss and felt nervous.

They saw the battle scene clearly. The battle ended with just two hammer strikes. It was so scary.

"Your Excellency Qinglong." Ford seemed calm for a long time, and couldn't help but recall some things in the past.

Li Ming nodded lightly, and then the armor faded away. Li Ming subconsciously shook his body, as if waking up from a dream.

"Suzaku, let's leave here first." Li Ming ordered.

"Do we need to calculate a new route according to the established itinerary?" Suzaku asked.

"No need, let's find a place to stay first." Li Ming said with a slight gleam in his eyes.

Ford couldn't help but look at it, "Not going to the evening banquet?"

"No hurry." Li Ming shook his head, "I need to figure out some things first."

The spacecraft activated its stealth system and slowly moved away from this core area.

It was not until a long time later that the highest commander of the star gate node dared to slowly approach here and looked around with a frightened expression.

All blockades have disappeared, but he can still vaguely feel the boiling energy remaining here.

.........

In the small laboratory on the spacecraft, Lyle was imprisoned on the experimental bed. Li Ming, wearing a tank guard, said calmly: "... Your brain has not been mechanized..."

Taking off the face armor of this mechanically modified body, the left half is a sophisticated mechanical structure, and the electronic eyes are flashing with data streams.

The right half retains human skin and facial features, but a luminous neural interface is embedded under the skin, and the rotation frequency of the biological eyeball and the electronic eye is highly consistent.

This guy's level of mechanization transformation is even lower than Li Ming imagined.

Tan Wei's metal fingers gently pinched, and the three-dimensional simulated image covering the other's cheek was peeled off like a veil.

The images made up of holographic particles reassembled in mid-air and gradually condensed into a clear photo of a human being.

The man in the photo is about thirty years old, with a resolute face and a hint of fatigue in his eyes.

Lyle looked up and couldn't help but reveal a trace of nostalgia.

"I can't even find your information..." Li Ming said in surprise: "It shouldn't be possible for an X-level life form to be so unknown."

Upon hearing this, Lyle remained silent. The self-destruct device had been dismantled and he could no longer decide whether to live or die.

"Hmm... With this body strength, it must be an X-level life form, not a genetically evolved one..." Li Ming used various means to obtain information from the other party.

"It must be because his injuries were too severe that he underwent this kind of semi-mechanized transformation, right?"

"I only have so many enemies, and even fewer who are determined to attack Li Ming." Li Ming said as he disassembled a large number of metal structural parts from Lyle's body.

"There are only so many forces that can carry out X-level mechanical transformation."

"It's highly unlikely that Reynolds and Mikhail are here. The two members of the Covenant are already seriously injured and dying. The only two left are the Federation and the Empire." Li Ming paused and carefully took out a thumb-sized crystal structure.

"I have had more conflicts with the Empire, but the Star Alliance can attack me for no apparent reason, so it seems possible that the Federation could do the same." Li Ming pondered and suddenly said, "So, I have a simpler method."

He simply made the disassembled metal parts into mimicry, opened the smart terminal, found Reynolds, and sent it directly to him.

“Have you seen this kind of transformation style?”

(End of this chapter)