This is not mechanical ascension...

Chapter 543 "Qinglong, it's cold, put on more clothes."

Thinking of this, he wanted to build it immediately and test the idea in his mind.

[Life Power Core] has a complete transformation route, and the original base is a mechanical secondary heart.

Thinking in his mind, Li Ming did not leave immediately, but challenged again to see if he could defeat the peak transcendence level trial.

About an hour and a half later, he ended the challenge and did not pass.

He was stuck in the siege of the last sixteen members of the Yuan Clan. It was almost as he expected. He had the advantage when facing four against one, but it was not so easy when facing eight against one.

He hit an enemy hard enough to injure him severely, but at that moment, the other fifteen had already fallen on his head, so he could only move around and grind slowly.

He should be able to pass it after grinding it a dozen times, but he did not waste time. Instead, he prepared to go back and use the source material to upgrade directly, and he would definitely pass it.

When he came out of the trial arena, he saw the expressionless and slightly displeased Supervisor, who seemed to want to say something.

Li Ming could guess what the other party wanted to say with his feet, it was nothing more than cheating or something like that.

He opened his mouth and said, "I'll get off first. We'll talk again when we have time."

As soon as he finished speaking, his figure collapsed on the spot. The Supervisor's words were held back in his stomach, and the buzzing sound in his body became much more rapid.

Slowly opening his eyes, Li Ming stood up and thought about building the [Life Power Core].

However, as he walked, his brain gradually cooled down.

The actual application scenarios may not be as good as he imagined.

“After all, people are not fools. It’s not easy to hit someone just by standing still or by attacking like the guys in the King Trial.” Li Ming let out a breath.

Also, there is a big problem, which is "repair time".

S-level [Life Power Core], [Immunity] lasts only three seconds.

However, the repair time is much longer than this time.

When he just repaired the Infinite Hammer, it took him several minutes, not to mention three seconds.

There had been no need for this before, and he had not specifically calculated the specific repair time.

But he estimated that each repair seemed to take much longer than three seconds, but it was definitely not a one-second repair.

This is the case starting from the low-level E-level and E-level control objects.

"During a real battle, there is no free time. We can only use the X-level [Life Power Core], and the repair cost is increased tenfold..."

He thought that although the cost increased tenfold, this expectation was actually fine.

But soon, he thought of a solution: "Well... Actually it can still be done. All we need to do is to build a number of S-level [Life Power Cores] in advance and replace them to fill the repair time. That's it."

Compared with the increased cost, the little metal energy wasted in creating multiple control objects of the same type is actually nothing.

"One has at least 110 million metal energies..." Li Ming pondered, "I'll calculate the repair time later and see how many can achieve uninterrupted connection..."

Shaking his head, Li Ming took out his smart terminal and looked at it again, raising his eyebrows: "It's not over yet?"

He was delayed in the Holy Castle for at least two hours.

"Well, the crafting will take some time to finish. Since it's not finished yet, let's go over there and take a look." Li Ming thought to himself.

Normally, this kind of scene would be over in a few hours if we moved quickly, but it's already been almost a day.

I guess something unexpected happened.

At a metal corridor fork in the road ahead, Li Ming turned around and came to the virtual projection room, asking Suzaku to connect to the virtual projection interface.

After the Interstellar Alliance verifies your identity, it builds a dedicated link.

……

In the Interstellar Alliance headquarters, in the meeting hall of the United Organization of Higher Life Forms, low noise echoed in the hall.

Even though nearly half an hour had passed since the video ended, people were still discussing it.

"Qinglong is very skilled. He didn't even come here, but he used Reynolds to get the job done."

"Sir, where on earth did you come from? Could it be..." At this point, the advanced life form that polished the horns to a shiny finish lowered his voice:

"Is it really like the rumors of the Mechanics Association, that he is the backup consciousness of the long-dead hammersmith?"

"I was a bit disdainful at first, but now it's hard to say. Such a powerful god craftsman, whose various technologies are at the forefront of the interstellar space, would never appear out of nowhere."

"I'm afraid this incident will cause quite a stir."

Through virtual projection, Perkins' figure was reduced to normal size. At this moment, her eyes flickered. She had been challenged by the Covenant.

If nothing unexpected happens, the probability of failure is very high.

If that's the case... Perkins glanced at the group of official X-level life forms with an unfriendly look, then don't blame me.

"…This matter really has nothing to do with Qinglong?"

The official X-level life forms are now holding smart terminals and reporting this emergency.

In the corner, Mikhail was still questioning Reynolds, "Is this really your idea alone?"

"I've told you so many times that Qinglong doesn't know." Reynolds said impatiently, "Besides, what does it matter whether Qinglong knows or not?"

Mikhail couldn't help feeling more and more disappointed.

Sure enough, this stupid behavior was Reynolds's own initiative.

Everyone had their own thoughts, and for a moment, the initiation ceremony and the congratulatory letters from the leaders of the three major civilizations were no longer important.

Until a sudden voice sounded, "Everyone... His Excellency Qinglong is about to arrive."

Suddenly, all the X-level life forms in the entire conference hall looked at the staff member in the corner who was speaking with courage.

In an instant, the staff member's face turned red. The urgent pressure from the higher life form almost made his heart burst. Blood rushed to his forehead and his face turned red.

Gustav frowned, and just by raising his hand, the pressure disappeared.

The staff member staggered back, bumped into the wall, and fell on his back. Although he was bleeding from all seven orifices, he survived.

However, none of the higher life forms present paid any attention to this insignificant figure, and their eyes were fixed on his side.

Under the virtual projector, multiple blue lights intertwined, and a virtual projection gradually emerged.

When the virtual projection descended, Li Ming naturally would not use a mechanical body. Instead, he used the appearance he had camouflaged in the Land of Stars, which was the Azure Dragon at the beginning.

At the same time, in the room where Li Ming was, the scene of a conference hall was outlined around him.

The first person to appear was naturally the staff member with blood coming out of all seven orifices under his feet.

"Eh..." Li Ming raised his eyebrows, "There really was a bloody conflict. No, you seem to be a staff member, right?"

Li Ming became interested and squatted on the staff. He seemed to have just come back to his senses and was breathing heavily. In his blurred consciousness, he saw the virtual projection in front of him again.

After recognizing the formation, his pupils suddenly contracted, his mouth opened, his eyes rolled back, and he fainted again.

"This..." Li Ming was stunned, and then a staff member broke into the virtual scene, ran over quickly, dragged him away and apologized in a low voice: No, sorry, Lord Qinglong, I'm sorry to bother you.

"It's okay." Li Ming didn't care and replied casually.

At the same time, the surrounding virtual scenes outline more figures.

Li Ming then realized that something was wrong. It seemed as if everyone in the hall was looking at him.

Moreover, his expression was very strange, as if he was looking at me secretly, with fear, and even fear.

The atmosphere at the scene made him feel vaguely strange.

Especially Gustav, Anatoly, and everyone on the board of directors, all looked at him with complicated eyes, and Anduin was even faintly relieved.

What the hell? Li Ming felt puzzled. His intuition told him that something must have happened, and it was closely related to him.

Before he could say anything, he received a signal connection from Mikhail.

"...Qinglong..." Mikhail said in a complicated tone, "Something happened just now..."

"Haha..." Reynolds suddenly connected, "Qinglong, this surprise I gave you is good, isn't it? I played the video of you beating up Tandin and Alves."

"Huh?" Li Ming was slightly stunned. "When did I beat up Tandin and Alvis?"

"Almost, almost." Reynolds said nonchalantly.

Mikhail was slightly annoyed and said, "This idiot... this is what happened..."

Mikhail's narration was more concise, and he told what had just happened in just a few sentences.

No wonder these people looked at me like this. After hearing this, Li Ming became more and more stunned. Looking at Reynolds, his emotions were surging and he couldn't say a word.

This... is too reckless. If something unexpected happens and someone infers something from the video, then a small matter will become a big one.

He didn't really care about this seat.

"Don't worry, I have carefully edited it. There is no possibility of a corpse or speculation of a corpse." Reynolds couldn't help but add:

"It's not just because of you. We have to show our attitude to prevent the Imperial Federation from pushing us too far and asking us to hand over the path of mechanical evolution."

"Yes." Li Ming said lightly, "It is indeed necessary to shock people."

"Ha..." Reynolds patted Mikhail's shoulder and grinned, revealing his metal teeth: "I said Qinglong could understand me."

Mikhail was too lazy to pay attention to him. Things had already happened. Qinglong was very smart, so how could he blame you for this?

Although he felt unhappy, what Reynolds said did make some sense, but he would never choose to intimidate in this way.

And because of his secret communication with the two people, the entire conference hall remained silent for a few minutes after he appeared.

It seemed that everyone was waiting for him to speak first.

Li Ming came back to his senses and glanced around. His gaze paused on those official X-level life forms, especially Alta.

According to Mikhail, this guy is his challenger.

After a little thought, he uttered his first words, "Good day, everyone."

As soon as the words fell, the silent atmosphere suddenly became lively, "Good day, Your Excellency Qinglong..."

"..."

Everyone was greeting him and seemed to want to come up and talk to him. Li Ming responded with a smile.

In the corner, Gustav was watching with a gloomy gaze, and Anatoly beside him couldn't help but sigh: "It's really, shocking."

"What's so surprising? You've already seen it in the Desolate Channel." Gustave said lightly.

"It's different." Anatoly shook his head, as if he wanted to say something, but due to the virtual projection, he couldn't use mental fluctuations to communicate secretly. In the end, he just repeated: "It's different..."

Li Ming greeted everyone lively, and only at the end did he say, "I heard that the challenge for the board seat has already begun?"

The already heated atmosphere in the hall sank again, and many people looked vaguely at the group of official X-level life forms.

Arta frowned. He didn't believe that Qinglong could really beat Tandin and Alves, but he definitely couldn't defeat them either.

Since he couldn't figure out what the situation was for the time being, he naturally wouldn't speak rashly.

"Mr. Yalta."

Qinglong, however, came and mentioned the name.

"I'm here, what do you have to say?" Li Ming asked in a calm tone.

It was just a virtual projection, not the real person, but it carried a vague sense of real oppression.

The official X-level life forms were silent. The Empire and the Federation naturally did not speak, and several people from the Covenant frowned.

Yalta's expression changed, but he soon calmed down: "No, Your Excellency Qinglong, you are worthy of the name."

Anduin couldn't help but sneer at these guys who bully the weak and fear the strong.

The expressions of the other directors also relaxed a lot.

At least, I got some face back in the end.

As soon as Arta finished speaking, a sudden voice came, "I have something to announce..."

Perkins' virtual projection passed straight through the crowd and came to the center. The proportionally shrunken blood giant looked a little weird.

Her eyes fell on Qinglong, and without hesitation, she said bluntly: "I want to give the position of vice chairman to Qinglong."

Everyone was stunned, and their expressions turned into amusement. Tsk tsk...why is he giving up his position?

Li Ming was speechless. Why did he get another surprise?

Next time something like this happens, can you please notify him in advance?

"No!" Knox interrupted immediately: "This is too ridiculous, there is no such rule."

Now, the Star Alliance has only lost Qinglong's seat on the board, but if Qinglong becomes the vice-chairman, they will suffer a great loss.

"I feel I am not as good as Qinglong, is that not okay?" Perkins said firmly, "Also, you are just ordinary members now, you have no right to make demands on me."

"Or, we can hold a vote on the board of directors on the spot. I am in favor of that."

"I agree!" Anduin was still the first to agree.

"I agree too."

"Agree!"

"... "

"I refuse." Li Ming frowned.

Everyone was stunned, but no one cared. Qinglong would definitely vote against it. Voting for himself would not look good.

Except for Gustav, Anatoly, and Qinglong who refused, everyone voted in favor.

Perkins had two votes, which added up to eight, a majority.

Their opposition was meaningless, and Gustave and Anatoly had no choice but to vote in favor.

"Fortunately, the board of directors has been reshuffled." Anatoly watched coldly while Gustav remained silent.

Although the current situation is a revenge vote caused by special circumstances, this reputation is extremely terrifying.

If the board seats are not reshuffled, Qinglong will almost have the final say in the future.

Everyone was stunned. This... completed the replacement of the vice chairman?

Only Reynolds grinned and laughed.

Mikhail frowned. He had almost never experienced this feeling before, as he was unanimously elected and had the support of the public.

"But... this may not be a good thing." He sighed to himself.

Perkins looked at him calmly, "Qinglong, now you are the vice president."

Li Ming's expression was complicated, and he seemed a little helpless.

How come during the whole process, no one asked for his opinion and he voted against it?

(End of this chapter)