This is not mechanical ascension...

Chapter 511 If I let you go, wouldn’t all my growth be in vain?
It didn't take long before a response came in the form of a video message, which Li Ming played publicly.

"…This is Cruz's style. He is a mechanic of the Empire. I have dealt with him several times. This guy is best at semi-mechanized transformation. He takes advantage of the life form itself and combines it with the modified parts."

“So they are from the Empire…” Li Ming put away the video, his face calm: “The range is even smaller.”

Lyle's heart skipped a beat.

Qinglong did not view the empire as a whole and knew that some people in it were unwilling to take action against him.

"Adam can't be that rough..." Li Ming's voice was slightly rippled, "It's Heckler again."

Lyle paused, feeling somewhat puzzled. Was this directly targeting Prince Heckler?

Just because of the sentence "Adam can't be that rough"?
He couldn't understand why Qinglong had such great confidence in the Holy Emperor.

Li Mingze was thinking, Adam knew the existence of the Mechanical Holy Spirit, so he would not provoke him easily, nor would he send such a guy to attack him.

But if it was Heckler, he would also feel strange that an S-level life form was sent in front and an X-level life form was sent behind.

What on earth is Heckler doing?
Is the S-level life form mentioned above only used to determine the target of attack?

But there is no need to waste it like this, A-level life forms are enough.

"Qinglong...you are completely different from what we have in our information." Lyle finally spoke.

"I am used to holding back." Li Ming remained calm. "But Your Excellency, seeing that the situation was not good, he wanted to self-destruct immediately. Does the X-level also have assassins?"

"Ha..." Lyle smiled helplessly, "I'm not going to kill you. I know about the Scarlet Wolf and I've already foreseen my own outcome. Why should I have unrealistic fantasies?"

"It's normal to foresee your own outcome, but not many people have the determination to do so." Li Ming communicated in a friendly manner, and the two were like old friends.

Leiden paused, sighed, and said, "My hometown is famous for star burials. Could you please scatter the remains of my body into the stars?"

"Okay." Li Ming agreed readily, "However, I have a small question that I hope you can answer."

Lyle gave a wry smile, "Ask, I can't promise I'll tell you."

"Was the S-class life form that attacked Li Ming before sent by Heckler?"

"S-class lifeform?" Lyle was startled. "Someone else attacked you?"

"You don't know?" Li Ming was more surprised.

If it was any other question, Lyle really couldn't answer it, but for this question, he thought about it and shook his head: "As far as I know, I was the only attacker this time."

"Even if we send someone to assist, we can't send an S-level life form."

"Is that so..." Li Ming thought.

And Lyle asked hesitantly: "Can you tell me why you don't think I am the Holy Emperor's man?"

"Because Adam doesn't dare to attack me." Li Ming said.

Lyle was stunned: "Don't dare?"

This answer made him at a loss for words, and he couldn't help but ask, "But why did the Star Alliance attack so aggressively?"

"I'm curious about this question, too." Li Ming paused and asked, "Sir, are you ready?"

Li Ming has already removed all the mechanical modification components from Lyle's body.

What surprised him was that he could actually absorb genetic essence from Lyle, which was an unexpected gain.

Perhaps it was because the opponent's mechanization transformation level was not high.

Before Lyle could respond, he felt his vision go dark and his thoughts completely vanished.

A huge fire broke out, covering the man's body. Li Ming cleaned the disassembled mechanical components.

According to a rough estimate, it should be able to absorb 100 million metal energies, and with the energy engine, it should be able to recover about 300 million metal energies.

"And those two guys..." Li Ming cleaned up and completely burned the man to ashes before scattering his ashes out of the cabin door.

There was no prison in this large spaceship, and Beckett and Rupert were imprisoned in another room.

Although the injuries were extremely severe, the X-level life form's powerful vitality still allowed it to hold on and recover rapidly.

When Li Ming came to this room, the surface of the wound on Rupert's body had almost healed, and the new muscles were extremely tender and pink.

“Qinglong…” Seeing the other party coming in, Beckett was horrified, his face turned pale, and his fiery red hair was stuck together with blood.

Although he was in physical pain, he did not feel that his life was in danger.

Although Qinglong's strength is beyond imagination, he still held back when facing them. It should not be just for interrogation.

At the same time, they are also abiding by the unspoken rules of the interstellar system and will hand them back to the Star Alliance.

Li Ming naturally absorbed the gene essence first, and at the same time he did not forget to interrogate: "Your Excellencies, I have no grudges against the Star Alliance in the past or in the present. Why did you mobilize such a large force to ambush my students?"

"Although we launched an ambush, we had no intention of harming your students. At first, I thought the other attacker was Li Ming's protector and deliberately spared his life."

Beckett emphasized this matter immediately to prove that he had no intention of harming anyone.

"Then I am even more puzzled. If you don't intend to hurt Li Ming, why did you ambush him? Are you planning to threaten me?" Li Ming asked back.
Beckett hesitated, but then he thought that if the operation failed, Qinglong would definitely be on guard next time, and the situation would be exposed, so he might as well do him some favors.

Although being captured is a shame, it is not a matter of life and death among these higher life forms.

Maybe we can sit down and have a drink together afterwards.

"…Your Excellency is smart." Beckett said reluctantly, "We want to know what the Empire and the Federation are hiding, so we have this operation."

"Want to know what the Empire and the Federation are hiding?" Li Ming frowned: "Then why are you targeting me?"

Then he guessed, "Because it's hard to attack the Imperial Federation?"

But then there is another question, "I am not the only one who knows the inside story, Reynolds and Mikhail, why don't you move?"

It seemed like a question, but Beckett didn't answer, so Li Ming said to himself, "Yes, you don't know about that incident, so you think I'm easy to control."

Beckett gave a helpless smile, but in his heart he was paying attention to that thing? What thing?
Knowing that incident, you think Qinglong is difficult to control, and even more troublesome than Reynolds and Mikhail?
After thinking for a moment, Li Ming put his hand on Beckett again. The other party didn't know what he was doing and didn't ask.

"Gutierrez's order?" Li Ming asked suddenly.

"This..." Speaking of the instigator, Beckett hesitated and said carefully: "You won this game, and nothing like this will happen again. Why do you..."

"Hmm?" Li Ming frowned and looked up at Beckett. Not long after, he suddenly said, "So, you still think you can go back? No wonder you tell me everything you know."

Lyle knew about the Scarlet Wolf and understood that Azure Dragon had no scruples, but these people didn't know that.

Li Ming was surprised at first when he saw Beckett was so cooperative.

Rupert, who had been silent, suddenly looked over, his body trembling, but he was held down tightly by the mechanical guards, who said in a muffled voice: "Qinglong, what do you mean?"

Beckett was stunned when he heard the words before he finished speaking. He suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart and whispered, "Sir... you'd better stop joking."

"This isn't a life-or-death ambush. It's just a small game. Why make it so embarrassing? If we can't go back, the Star Alliance won't let it go."

"Don't worry, I will let them go." Li Ming said calmly. They attacked him and he still wanted to leave?
If I still need to swallow my anger now, then all my growth would have been in vain.

Beckett's face changed, and he couldn't help but ask in a deep voice, but it seemed a little bit timid, "Are you really going to kill us?"

Li Ming did not respond. While they were chatting, the genetic essence of the two had been completely absorbed.

This attack directly allowed him to obtain three X-level gene sources, which was just enough to fill the remaining gaps in the evolutionary system.

"You can't..." Beckett hadn't finished his words when he saw a huge purple hammer coming towards him, his brain bursting and the rest of his body twitching.

Rupert stared at him, wanting to say something, and Li Ming naturally did not forget and hit him in the face with a hammer.

"Clean up." Li Ming left a message and left on his own.

Use all the genetic essence just absorbed to upgrade the evolutionary essence.

At this point, his evolution system is already full of X-level evolution source materials. Combined with the [Sublimation Source Crystal], the evolution blessing has increased by 192 times. The overall addition is nearly nine hundred times the development blessing.

It is estimated that it will take less than two months for the development progress to increase by 1%.

Looking at the control page, Li Ming let out a breath and couldn't help but feel a sense of satisfaction in his heart.

But then he thought about it again, combining information from all sides, the situation was very clear. Heckler sent people to kidnap him, probably in exchange for Robin.

The Star Alliance attacked him in order to make him tell what happened in the Red River Star Stream.

The only thing that made him feel strange was the S-level life form that had attacked for no apparent reason before.

According to Lyle and his own speculation, this Class X life form appeared abruptly and was incompatible with Heckler's plan.

But that guy was Heckler's man.

"Hmm...if this Lyle hadn't appeared." Li Ming pondered and began to reverse the situation: "I had already put this matter on Heckler's account. Even if he sent out an S-level life form, I thought it was because he didn't know me well enough."

"Assuming this person is indeed not sent by Heckler, well... it seems like a frame-up." Li Ming couldn't help but think, "Who is it?"

The answer is not difficult to think about, and the name Adam comes to mind.

"What on earth does he want to do? Make me and Heckler fight?" Li Ming frowned and suddenly stopped in front of the spaceship warehouse.

Li Ming still hasn't figured out Adam's plan, it's like seeing flowers in the fog, it seems that he doesn't just want to use him as a knife.

While thinking in his mind, Li Ming pushed the door and walked into the warehouse, which was filled with various trap generators.

The quantum interference core in the corner of the wall was flashing with a faint blue light, wrapped in a transparent force field, with an unstable energy core beating inside.

A space stripper is hung from the ceiling. It looks like a giant metal spider, with miniature black hole generators installed at the ends of its eight robotic arms.

The scale of the trap not long ago had a huge coverage area, and it could have an impact on X-level life forms. Its nature was extremely good.

The auxiliary equipment required is not small, but they are not easy to carry. They are considered core devices and the most precious materials.

Li Ming touched them and found that they were basically X-level control objects, and there were still a few that he could not control.

After spending a little time, he had almost absorbed all the metal energy in these instruments and equipment, leaving only some residues. He didn't know what material they were made of, but it was definitely not metal.

"Well, 1.8 billion metal energies, not bad..." Li Ming looked at the control page and nodded in his heart.

He himself carries 500 million metal energies, which were accumulated by the Mechanical King's Court some time ago, and the remaining ones he had after upgrading a mechanical guard.

This time, a total of 1.2 billion metal energies were recovered.

One attack is the accumulation of more than two months of the Mechanical King's Court.

"It just so happens that there is still one mechanical guard that has not been upgraded to S-level." Li Ming flipped through the control page and found the last mechanical guard.

One billion energies were immediately infused into it, and the mechanical guard underwent a silent transformation in the control page.

"I'm just a little bit away from upgrading to an X-level control object. I still have a portion of World Blood in my hand." Li Ming thought, feeling quite greedy.

"Too bad, none of these guys were carrying weapons or anything like that."

The mechanical guards were upgrading, but his thoughts did not stop.

This ambush was of no concern to him and was easily resolved.

But the contradiction revealed is not something that can be explained in just one sentence. In other words, this ambush is just the beginning.

If he had followed his previous style, he would definitely choose to go to the Dusk Banquet calmly and scare some people who were secretly plotting.

Let them be shocked, guess secretly, and increase their fear of Qinglong.

But the situation is different now. The reason why the Star Alliance took action against him is that compared to other forces involved in the Red River Star Stream, Qinglong is apparently the easiest to bully.

Li Ming did not want the intensity of the confrontation with the Star Alliance to escalate in the subsequent tug-of-war, and finally create a powerful enemy that could not be stopped until one of them died.

But this matter is very troublesome to deal with. He can't really rush to the Star Alliance and show his strength...

Well... Actually, he hasn't shown much strength now, and the Mechanical Holy Spirit still needs the help of Reynolds and Mikhail.

These two guys definitely wouldn't join him in attacking the Star Alliance.

We cannot defeat him in a head-on confrontation, but we must let them know how powerful we are. At least we must elevate Qinglong to the point where it will cost a very high price to defeat him, so that they will be afraid of him.

We have to think of a way... He thought in his heart, his eyes gradually brightening, "Then let's make some big noise, just to test what Adam is up to, maybe we can get some extra gains."

“I need to think about it carefully…

"He pondered, pulled out a virtual screen, circled the names of the forces one by one, and gradually a clear outline emerged.

(End of this chapter)