This is not mechanical ascension...

Chapter 552: The Eternal Star "Within Reach"
There was no communication request in Blackbeard's dialog box, only a row of text reports.

The intervals vary, ranging from one month, half a month to ten days.

Many places in the deep dimensional world have no external connection signals, and reports can only be made in his specific areas.

What is being reported this time is a special event called "space-time riot".

More than half a month ago, when they were searching the area where some special items were washed out by the last Red River Star Stream eruption, they ran into people from the Empire head-on.

Perhaps it was because of the fighting between higher life forms that something was stimulated, inducing a "space-time riot"

"…Several companions have experienced varying degrees of aging and rejuvenation, and none of them are reversible…"

"…The most serious cases even regressed to the infant stage. It was not just a simple physical regression, but also a simultaneous regression of IQ and memory. They were not affected by the "countercurrent paradox."

When Li Ming saw this, his expression couldn't help but change slightly. The so-called countercurrent paradox refers to the regional changes caused by time parameters.

Once it involves a living being, it will only affect the physical level and will not affect thinking and memory.

If the reversal of time and space causes the degeneration of thinking memory, once it is accelerated, there will be no additional memory.

This is inconsistent with the consistency of space and time, and many experiments have also verified the "countercurrent paradox".

But the Star of Eternal Silence broke through this paradox. Its body, thoughts and even memory regressed to the infant stage, which was even more terrifying than murder.

Li Ming recalled some current interstellar theories about time abilities. General time abilities have their own limitations. The information state of living organisms themselves contains "time intensity."

And as life forms become more powerful and their interaction with the universe becomes more in-depth, their own time intensity will also become higher and higher.

Just like a flame at 100 degrees is already difficult to cause damage to F-class life forms, the intensity must be increased.

The intensity of time is the most tenacious entangled information in the information state, and its connection with the universe itself is far deeper than any other information.

It is easy to kill a person, but it is extremely troublesome to change the universe's perception of him on a time scale.

The life forms that Blackbeard can call companions are at least S-level. According to the current theory of time, even if an X-level life form wants to cause such an impact, it will have to pay a huge price.

But the Star of Eternal Silence can do it easily.

Li Ming calmed down and continued reading: "...We have conducted in-depth investigations...but the Star of Eternal Silence seems to be escaping our pursuit. We are looking for the traces it left behind, but the trouble is that the Empire also knows about this."

After reading this message, Li Ming couldn't help but murmur, "It's getting closer."

After a moment of hesitation, he tried to contact Blackbeard, but he didn't hold much hope.

Blackbeard might have left the signal communication area, but what he didn't expect was that the communication was connected so quickly.

"Your Excellency Qinglong..."

On the virtual screen, the reflected light cast shadows of varying depths on Blackbeard's face, the new stubble on his chin was a unique bluish-gray color, and his pupils were full of bloodshot.

But he seemed to be secretly excited, and couldn't wait to say: "I almost found it, I almost found it..."

At this point, he probably felt that this kind of thing had been mentioned too many times in the report, so he added:
"We are really close to finding it this time. The Navigator, the Forger... several of you have already followed the traces and there should be news soon."

"What are the exact coordinates?" Li Ming asked.

"I'll send it to you right away." Blackbeard said immediately, and then he looked forward to it: "Are you coming too?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Ming received a series of data. The deep dimensional world did not have a specific coordinate system, and the direction could only be anchored through a series of measurements.

"Don't worry." Li Ming shook his head. "If there is any situation, please inform me as soon as possible. I will find a way to help you."

Blackbeard was a little disappointed when he heard that Qinglong was not going to come, but when he heard the second half of the sentence, he couldn't help but feel relieved.

During the short time he was reporting the news to Qinglong, he would also check the news from the outside world. Naturally, he already knew what happened at the expansion meeting.

Combined with the last time the other party asked Chlonoa to terminate cooperation with the Empire.

Among the pioneers, even the navigator who was quite dissatisfied with Qinglong did not dare to underestimate Qinglong's methods.

After getting the coordinates, Li Ming reminded the other party to include the coordinates in every report and then ended the call.

.........

At the same time, somewhere in a shallow dimensional world, a raging black storm filled the entire world.

In the misty dust, a group of guys in bulky protective suits were setting up various mechanical instruments.

There are several giant spaceships docked nearby, painted in bold green and blue tones.

"Got it, got it!" Someone suddenly shouted in the channel, half-crouching in front of the screen operating the instrument.

Before he could even shout twice, he was slapped on the back of his head, causing him to stagger and almost fall into the sand.

Zorro, wearing a yellow-brown mottled cloak outside the protective suit, came from behind, cursing: "It's nm, it's nm, awaken the sleeping dimensional beasts, all of them will die here!"

"Boss, we are all wearing protective clothing, so our voices can't get out." A low whimpering sound came from the channel, quite aggrieved.
"Do I need you to remind me?" Zoro shouted angrily, "I'm just in case you forget this after you take off your protective suit."

"Okay, stop whining and tell me what you found."

The team member who fell to the ground staggered to his feet, seemingly not caring about the boss's "insult", and said excitedly: "Black gold liquid oil, and it is of ultra-high compression quality, with a purity of over 90%!"

"Estimated by eye, no less than a thousand cubic meters!"

“A thousand cubic meters!?” Zoro’s pupils dilated, his cheeks changed, and he suddenly laughed out loud, “It’s worth at least 10 billion star coins…Haha, I knew it was impossible for me to have bad luck forever.”

"Damn you Robin, I called you to come but you didn't want to come, now... I'm going to be rich!"

He shouted in the channel, attracting the team members to echo, "That's right, if Mr. Robin knew, he would definitely be jealous of the captain's luck."

Hearing these words, Zoro's laughter stopped abruptly.

He looked around, locked onto the person who was speaking, and kicked him, causing him to roll onto the ground.

"Damn it, Robin and I are close friends, how could he be jealous of me?" Zoro snorted coldly, "When I become powerful, I will definitely rescue him from the clutches of Qinglong."

This time, no one agreed and everyone looked at each other.

The boss still stubbornly believed that it was a devil's claw, and Lord Robin was already an A-level life form.

"Okay, dig it up quickly! I want to change the spaceship, I want to buy gene seeds, and I want to evolve into a Class A life form!" Zorro gave the order.

He looked crazy, but seemed to have a lot of authority.

Following his orders, many team members moved in an orderly manner.

Someone called out an automatic mining machine from a giant spaceship, which also seemed to be a high-end model. It emitted a dissolving beam and drilled towards a predetermined position, causing slight vibrations on the ground.

"Boss, the ground shaking may cause the dimensional creatures to awaken." Someone reminded.

Zoro looked solemn, "Fortune comes with risk. I don't know who killed the main creatures in this dimensional world. Now they are about to fall into the deep dimensional world. Only some ordinary things are left. They will hold on for a while."

"Okay!" Although it was life-threatening, no one questioned his words. Everyone did their job and placed shock wave absorbers around.

The ground hummed continuously, and the drilling beam quickly penetrated to a very deep depth.

"…200 meters underground, 250 meters…" The operator reported the system readings, but suddenly, the voice suddenly changed: "Wait…"

Before he could finish his words, the ground roared violently and the outermost team member was suddenly thrown over, with his lower back hitting the deploying shock absorber.

The metal bracket emitted orange-red sparks from the friction with the sand, instantly igniting the black dust haze within a five-meter radius.

"grass!"

Zoro kicked the smoking energy battery away. The red alarm light on the inside of his mask dyed his pupils blood red. He turned around suddenly and asked, "What's going on?"

“The drilling beam angle is off by 16 degrees, it seems to have hit something!”

A team member shouted as a wisp of sand leaked out from the elbow joint of his protective suit and was now spreading upwards along the inside of his arm.

The automatic drill suddenly wailed, and the dark blue light beam that shot into the earth's crust shook violently. Spider-web-like cracks suddenly appeared on the ground, and tiny fragments of light exploded from them, covering the entire area.

"What the hell is going on?" Zorro was confused. He reached out to touch the broken light in front of him, and then he was horrified to find out.

The protective masks on the faces of the team members around him were corroded with honeycomb-like ulcers, which were expanding rapidly.

The gelatinous sealing layer of the life-support duct at the back of the neck is turning black and carbonized at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Zorro's facial recognition frame flashed violently on the auxiliary screen, and the stress sensor at the elbow joint of his protective suit had burst into a bright red overload warning at some point.

It was like an invisible hand was trying to crush his arm bones through five layers of composite fiber.

"Boss, something's wrong. The space readings here are all messed up." A terrified voice sounded in the channel.

Zorro's face changed drastically. Before he could react, he saw the dark blue broken light track area in front of him suddenly shrink, and a bright blue light flew from the ground.

Before he could react, it suddenly shot out and pierced through his protective suit.

"What is that?" Zoro was even more confused and subconsciously touched the place that had just been pierced.

However, nothing happened there, and there was no change in his vital signs.

"what happened?"

The incident just now ended within a few minutes. Zoro didn't understand why, but he quickly checked the casualties and found that there were no casualties.

I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and cursed, "What a bunch of rubbish! They can't even dig the wrong way."

After a while, the staff had been almost replenished and the mining machine had been adjusted.

He was about to continue drilling downwards, but the sound he least wanted to hear came from the channel.

"Boss, there's a problem..." the voice swallowed saliva.

"…There is only half a cubic meter of black gold liquid oil left…"

"Half a cubic meter?" Zoro looked dazed, not having time to get angry.

He looked up suddenly and heard an urgent voice in the channel.

"Boss, someone is breaking through the dimensional space, already... already..."

"Here it comes!" Zoro's face was solemn.

In the sky, a number of standard warships suddenly shuttled in, all of them were extremely high-end models.

On the surface of the dark grey armor, there flow blue energy lines similar to blood vessels.

He subconsciously pressed the vibration knife at his waist and found that his shadow was twitching wildly on the ground. Some unknown force field had expanded.

At the same time, their channel had been forcibly taken over, and a cold voice came: "Scavengers below, this is the Imperial Fleet. Now I order you to give up any resistance and wait for us to take over the scene."

"People from the...Empire?" Someone's legs went weak and he fell to the ground.

Zoro took a deep breath, and suddenly thought of what had just happened. His face changed, and his brain worked at high speed, "It's definitely not a coincidence, but that thing has entered my body..."

"If it falls into the hands of the Empire, I'm afraid it will be the end of us."

The empire has a bad reputation outside, and Zorro has dealt with people from the empire before. Arrogance and contempt are their biggest labels.

He narrowed his eyes slightly, as if he had made a decision.

He exhaled slowly, raised his hands suddenly, and shouted: "We surrender, please don't do anything, my fellow empire brothers..."

……

"The Star of Eternal Silence..." Li Ming returned to the room, still thinking about this matter.

This thing is a solid addition to the Empire, especially to old Adam.

That guy had bad intentions towards him, and although there had been no movement in recent times, he had never forgotten about it.

I will definitely not watch the other party succeed.

Knowing the coordinates, he could threaten Chronoa to go and help when necessary.

"However, Chlonoa is just a means, and it is not very controllable. The best way is to go there in person..." Li Ming thought.

However, only one of Chlonoa and him can exist.

If he wants to go to the deeper dimensional world, he must drain Chlonoa dry.

Although he now possesses various comprehensive abilities, he estimates that Chronoa is more useful in the deep dimensional world.

"Let's see if this guy knows what's good for him first." Li Ming pondered and was not in a hurry to leave.

Another key reason is that he has to accumulate a lot of metal energy to obtain the strongest combat power.

With various ideas intertwined, he began to develop gene seeds skillfully.

Blackbeard's "good news" was farther away than he had imagined. More than two months had passed in the blink of an eye, and there was still no movement in the deep dimensional world.

The Star of Eternal Silence seemed to be playing hide-and-seek with them. It would pass by them every time and they could never find it.

This made Li Ming glad that he did not go there rashly, otherwise, it would only be a waste of time.

Compared to the quiet deep dimensional world, some changes have taken place in the Mechanical Royal Court.

The third phase of the rebirth project has been completed, and the remaining eight artificial planets have been created. Today is the time for handover.

(End of this chapter)