This is not mechanical ascension...

Chapter 554 An incredible guess
Seeing that Li Ming was not wearing a mecha, Robin's tense expression couldn't help but relax a little.

He knew that this was an exclusive virtual conference hall for participants of the United Organization of Higher Life Forms.

Under normal circumstances, the one who would participate would definitely be Lord Qinglong, not Li Ming.

Although the matter was a bit urgent at the moment, he still felt nervous when he really had to face Boss Qinglong.

"What's wrong?" Li Ming couldn't help but ask when he saw his anxious look.

As he finished speaking, Robin had already jumped in front of him in two steps. He was about to speak, but seemed a little embarrassed.

After hesitating for a moment, he gritted his teeth and said, "I have a friend who has something wrong, and I want to help him..."

Li Ming's expression changed slightly, and he immediately guessed whether there was a trap here.

Prince Heckler, who has been thinking about the chosen one, has made a move more than half a year after his last move. It seems that the time has come for him to make a move.

"What friends? Is there a problem?" Li Ming asked.

"A guy named Zorro. We hung out together for a while, and we were close friends. I saved him, and he saved me." Robin couldn't help but explain:

"He asked me for help about a month and a half ago, but I ignored him at first."

"A month and a half ago?" Li Ming looked puzzled. "Aren't you two...friends who have risked their lives for each other?"

When Robin mentioned this, his face was a little embarrassed. "He is a bit unreliable. After I followed you, he often sent me cooperation invitations for a period of time, but I didn't accept them."

"This idiot thought I was kidnapped. When he first asked me for help, I thought he was joking."

Li Ming's expression became more and more puzzled, and he looked at Robin with a strange look. It was really a "love-hate relationship".

Robin was anxious but didn't notice it, and continued, "After the first time, more than half a month later, he asked me for help a second time, saying that he had offended the empire. I thought he was joking."

"He is a very perceptive guy. He is unlikely to offend the empire."

"Until just now, he asked me for help for the third time and also attached a video."

Robin came over, took out his smart terminal and played a video. The picture was shaky, the sound was noisy and chaotic, and the angle of view was weird, as if it was a candid shot.

Most of the video is occupied by a silver metal fence, as if the person shooting the video is in prison.

From time to time, a soldier would walk by, wearing heavy black combat armor with clear Imperial insignia on it.

This is the first half of the video. The second half shows a disheveled, dishevelled guy madly cursing Robin. The scene keeps shaking, the background is weird, and the sky is bright blue.

"…Robin, I fuck you…, I fuck you…"

Robin said helplessly: "I just realized that he was really captured by the Empire..."

Li Ming asked Zhuque to analyze the video instead of synthesizing it. He thought for a moment and asked again:

"…This is the Empire's "Wandering Legion", which mainly operates in the dimensional world. Is your friend in the dimensional world?"

Robin nodded: "Yes, it seems that some strange changes have happened in the dimension world recently. Some main creatures died inexplicably, and many people took advantage of it, so he went to the dimension world to try his luck."

"He also invited me, but I rejected him."

misfortune?

Li Ming asked Zhuque to check again and found that this was indeed the case.

The changes in the shallow dimensional world have been happening for some time, attracting many scavengers. Some people even picked up dead A-level or even S-level dimensional creatures and made a fortune.

No one knows the specific cause yet.

It seems that there is no problem. Li Ming hesitated for a moment and said, "According to what you said before, he seems to have escaped from the Empire at least three times?"

"This..." Robin hesitated and said, "Actually, I also find this matter very strange. He is just a B-level life form. Under normal circumstances, it is impossible for him to escape from the Empire."

"Not to mention, he even escaped three times in a row."

"The messages he sent me were very confusing." Robin took out the records and looked through them. Some of them were specially encrypted codes that only Robin could decipher.

Many black hole networks do not trust others and use encryption to transmit information.

Robin narrated: "...It is said that he discovered a black gold liquid oil field in a certain dimensional world, but something very strange happened. A blue light ball entered his body, and then he was captured by the Empire..."

"As for how he escaped, he said he suspected that he had awakened some kind of special ability. He was able to find the best opportunity every time and evade all the guards and surveillance cameras, as if he had rehearsed it countless times..."

"However, he is alone and cannot travel through dimensions, so he can't get far each time."

"Blue light ball? Perfect timing?" Li Ming felt vaguely that the situation was a little strange.

Such a bizarre plot is indeed unlikely to be something Heckler could come up with.

However, after thinking about it, he said, "No matter what, you should not go out first."

Robin's face turned anxious, and he gritted his teeth and wanted to say something, but then he heard Li Ming say: "There should be our exploration team in the dimensional world, let them go there..."

Robin finally breathed a sigh of relief after hearing what Li Ming said.

People like them don't have many real friends, and one less is one less.

Li Ming said halfway when he remembered, "Oh, right, the coordinates are still a problem. Where was he caught?"

When Robin mentioned this, his expression became a little strange again. He scratched his head and said, "There is another particularly outrageous thing..."

"Every time he asked me for help, he would leave a coordinate, claiming that he would arrive there in half a month, so that I could ambush him in advance."

"Although he is unreliable, he probably won't say anything when it comes to his life, but..."

Robin himself didn't know how to describe it. It was too bizarre to predict where he would arrive in half a month.

But Li Ming seemed to have triggered some key words at this moment, and his eyes were shining brightly.

The changes in the shallow dimensional world, the blue light ball that merged into the body, the extremely precise timing to escape from the empire, and even the ability to predict where he would appear in half a month...

"No way... this is too..." Li Ming had an incredible guess in his mind and asked abruptly: "How is your friend's luck?"

"Luck?" Robin didn't quite understand, and recalled hesitantly: "It should be called bad luck..."

"According to him, his mother was originally the daughter of a high-ranking official in a small civilization, but she eloped with her bodyguard, which led to his difficult childhood."

"Later, his grandfather found his mother, but he hated him so much that he killed his father and left him to fend for himself..."

"…Later, her grandfather died suddenly. His mother used force to seize part of the family inheritance and took him back. He thought good days were coming."

"..." Who would have thought that after all the trials and tribulations, his mother had long since realized that her original choice was a complete mistake, and she remarried with someone else, gave birth to new offspring, and didn't like him very much..."

"..." Robin knew it in detail. Li Ming listened carefully and his expression gradually became extremely strange.

Zorro's career can be described as "legend". Although he was not well-received, he excelled with his own abilities. Just when his mother was about to entrust him with an important task.

The civilization he lived in launched a political purge, his family was wiped out in an instant, and he himself became a prisoner.

Afterwards, he experienced a series of misfortunes, escaping from prison, being caught by robbers, and so on...

“…Which means that he is not simply unlucky, but when something good happens to him, his luck will take a turn for the worse…” Li Ming concluded.

"You could say that..." Robin touched his nose, also speechless.

"When you put it that way, I have an idea in my mind." Li Ming couldn't help but nodded, but Robin didn't realize what he meant.

Then Li Ming took out the smart terminal and contacted Ulrich, "How many S-class mechanical bodies do we have in the dimension world?"

Ulrich hesitated for a moment, then responded, "There are three machines exploring the dimensional world."

"Send five more."

Robin's pupils shrank slightly. Eight S-class machines?

It was such a big scene, he was a little confused, was his face so important?
I couldn't help but feel touched and my eyes immediately became red.

When he came, he was ready to cry, make a fuss, and even commit suicide, hoping that Li Ming would save his friend because he had cooperated for so long.

"As for the coordinates..." Li Ming looked up, and Robin suddenly came back to his senses and responded quickly: "I'll send it to you right away."

"Send it directly to Ulrich. Send someone to that coordinate and rescue a man named Zorro. Robin will send you the relevant information."

Li Ming said, and added, "We are facing the Empire, but don't pay attention to him. If he resists, he will be killed without mercy."

Ulrich was surprised, then nodded and went to arrange it immediately.

"Eight, should be enough..." Li Ming pondered. According to Zorro's description, the Empire should not have discovered his specialness yet, but it should be soon.

"That's enough, that's enough." Robin's throat rolled, and he realized something in his heart. He asked carefully, "Is he also involved in something big?"

"It's hard to say." Li Ming shook his head and did not give an accurate answer.

Robin felt helpless, knowing that it was pointless to ask further, so he could only leave with a heavy heart.

"Logically speaking, this shouldn't be the case..." Li Ming was still thinking about it. He returned to the Heavenly Palace and did not dare to come to a conclusion about his guess.

However, saving a person doesn't take much effort.

You’ll know once you rescue them.

He took a tube of development agent from the refrigerator and continued to develop the genetic seeds.

Currently, his development progress has reached 52%.

After the upgrade of [Magnetic Crystal Heavy Domain], the time required for his gene seed to advance by 1% has been shortened to one and a half months at the current stage.

Compared to other people, it was already an extremely terrifying speed, but Li Ming often lamented that it was still a bit slow.

There are two more major hurdles ahead, 60% and 90%, at which the development progress will be severely slowed down.

Not taking into account attenuation, it will take at least six and a half years to reach 100%.

If he calculated it, he estimated that if this amount was not doubled, it would be impossible to keep up with the development progress.

However, there are very few items that can affect the progress of development, not to mention the Domination-level source material, which is almost impossible to come by.

“…The Eternal Throne…” The Titan relic suddenly appeared in his mind.

That thing must be of great use, but the problem is that he doesn't even know its coordinates.

The man called Lingshou disappeared without a trace, making it impossible to find his whereabouts.

"And... the Star of Eternal Silence..." Li Ming muttered, "I don't know if I can use the time difference to evolve faster."

There were many similar ideas in the cultural and entertainment products of previous lives, and there are also many similar wonderful ideas in the current interstellar space.

But the application of time technology has not yet reached this level.

There is also the important constraint mechanism of individual time intensity, which causes the idea to only remain at the level of a few fake papers.

Highly active energy particles continuously flow out of the body, but are suppressed by gravity on the surface of the skin.

His brain was highly active without needing to control his body, and all kinds of information and thoughts kept pouring out, and finally landed on the meeting that had just ended:

"…I'm afraid the Empire is in a state of panic. I wonder how many X-level life forms are secretly communicating with each other and are ready to take action…"

The empire's upheaval was happening much faster than Li Ming had imagined.

The development took only half a day, and the meeting was not over for a day.

An old acquaintance from the empire called him.

"Your Highness, it has been a long time since the last time we contacted each other." Li Ming looked at the virtual screen in front of him.

Abel's face looked calmer and more composed than ever before, with a feeling of someone who showed no emotion at all, and he seemed like a big shot.

Abel sighed, "It's been a while. I've been busy lately."

After a brief greeting, he asked tentatively: "You should know why I contacted you, right?"

Li Ming couldn't help but chuckle in his heart. This guy had some little ideas again.

He said casually: "I can probably guess that it is because of the joint organization of higher life forms?"

Abel's eyes flickered slightly. The meeting had just ended for half a day. He got the news because he had high-level intelligence personnel under him.

Li Ming obviously did not have such a channel, and the only way he could know about it in the first place was from Qinglong.

Li Ming might know about this matter or not, but Qinglong still informed him immediately, which shows how much he takes it seriously.

"That's right." Abel said in a deep voice: "This matter has caused a stir within the empire. My father has already held a closed-door meeting to discuss how to deal with this matter."

"However, in addition to those high-level bigwigs, there are also many people who secretly began to criticize the organization that my father founded."

"You can't say that..." Li Ming said "unhappily": "This group of people can't just say it's useful when they enjoy the benefits."

"The Silver Revolutionary Army has been beaten so badly that they dare not show their heads. No one wants to see what is happening right now, but someone is secretly plotting something, and there is nothing we can do."

(End of this chapter)