This is not mechanical ascension...

Chapter 560 Qinglong is not at home

Zorro only felt a burning pain in his retina, as if there was an invisible spectral impact, and his tear glands gushed out tears uncontrollably.

Less than five meters in front of him, a black line the size of a hair appeared, cutting a jagged path in the air.
The edge of the crack continued to emit a black glow and expanded rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"This TM..." Zorro's heart trembled, veins popped on his forehead. Years of living on the edge of a knife had given him a subconscious reaction that was faster than his thinking.

The moment the crack appeared, he wanted to turn around and run away, or even make some big noise.

However, along with the cracks, there was also a layer of energy field covering the area, which seemed to have increased gravity countless times, as if he was carrying a mountain on his back. Even if he tried his best, he could hardly move at all.

What surprised him even more was that as the crack expanded, the metal ground in his sight took on a wave shape, as if it had turned into liquid, surging continuously.

The high-energy particle flow seeping out from inside is rewriting the parameters of the surrounding space.

But Zorro had never seen such a scene before, and suspected that there was something wrong with his eyes, or that everything happening before his eyes was an illusion.

At this moment, he caught a glimpse of a few "small mechanical bodies" running towards him in groups of two or three. They were not tall, basically less than one meter, and their shells were colorful.

A flame of hope suddenly emerged in Zoro's heart. He knew that those small mechanical bodies were called "children" by other mechanical bodies.

It was difficult for him to understand how a child could be born between machines.

But right now, this is his lifeline. He prays that these mechanical children will not be like ordinary naughty kids.

When you see something so weird, you should go find an adult first instead of joining in the fun.

However, what made him despair was that the group of little guys neither came to join in the fun nor went to find the adults, and they turned a blind eye to the scene happening here.

With a jump of three meters high, he quickly disappeared from his sight.

This energy field may have some hidden properties.

Zorro understood that this was the territory of the Mechanical King's Court protected by the boss Qinglong. If someone really wanted to launch an attack here, they would have to be well prepared.

While he was in a state of confusion, the black crack in front of him had expanded to two meters, with black arcs of electricity bursting out from the edges, and the strange scene around him also calmed down.

Then, as he watched, a stream of light emerged from the black cracks, and when it came into contact with the space here, it quickly expanded into a solid figure.

He was a male human with a solemn expression, wearing simple black combat armor with an extremely sophisticated matte finish.

The surface is covered with fine anti-scanning patterns, which, under strong light, will refract into broken light spots similar to old camouflage.

Zoro's heart trembled, and then two figures appeared, one on the left and one on the right, a man and a woman, each wearing silver and crimson armor.

The three men looked over Zoro, seemingly not surprised that there was a person here, nor did they take him seriously.

"I didn't expect that the defense array of this Mechanical Royal Court would be so difficult to break through." The man in black armor looked around vigilantly.

"After all, it is the planetary defense array left by the Hammer Godsmith. According to the data, only sixteen nodes have been strengthened so far, and it is not yet at its peak state..." The red-armored woman responded.

"If we wait until the Mechanical Royal Court's defense array is fully built, even a space drill will find it difficult to successfully break through."

The guy in silver armor shook his head indifferently: "Forging Hammer is already dead, can the defense array he left behind still be invincible?"

The three of them were chatting here as if no one was around. The leader seemed to be the man in black armor, called Night Owl, and the other two were called Silver Fox and Chi Lian, which were obviously code names.

Zorro became more and more desperate. His damn luck was getting more and more horrible. Judging from the tone of these three guys, they must be no ordinary people.

Of course Zorro knew that these guys definitely didn't come for him, but he witnessed it with a very small probability, and he knew that they would definitely not have a good ending in the end.

Where is Boss Qinglong? Why hasn't he appeared yet? Didn't he find them?

“…Qinglong isn’t that great, he didn’t even notice us.” Silver Fox said casually.

Night Owl frowned: "Let's start the action. This Mechanical Royal Court has long been unnecessary..."

Zorro's heart trembled. These guys wanted to destroy the entire Mechanical Royal Court?
He was heartbroken and his body had just recovered.

After waiting for a long time, the three guys didn't make any move. They looked at each other and Ye Xiao said, "It seems that Qinglong has really left."

"Huh?" Zorro was confused, and saw the three figures in front of him suddenly disintegrate.

Then the black crack began to tremble, and a pair of rough big hands grabbed the edge of the crack and suddenly expanded it.

Three more figures walked out, also wearing combat armor, and looked exactly the same as the three scattered figures just now.

Those three just now were fake, just used as a test?
Zorro finally reacted and was shocked that he was so cautious. Then he smiled bitterly. Behind this caution was the fear of the Qinglong boss.

However, after their testing, they have confirmed that Boss Qinglong is not in the Mechanical Royal Court.

This time we are really doomed, even though we were so well prepared.

The string of nonsense and contempt just now was just a wait for Qinglong to react and come out in his true form. The three of them didn't say a word and their expressions were still alert.

Silver Fox looked at Zorro in front of him and raised his armored arm, as if scanning for features.

"...There is no information about this person in the relevant data of the Mechanical King's Court?" Silver Fox was a little surprised, "Night Owl, how do we deal with him? Should we kill him?"

Zoro's heart was twitching as he stared at the black armored man.

Night Owl said indifferently: "We are ordered not to kill people casually. Apart from the main target, if we encounter other arrestable targets, we will arrest them as well."

Fortunately... Fortunately, he was not killed directly, Zoro breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's a good opportunity to ask him if Li Ming is here?" Zi Yuan walked out.

Before Zoro could even react, he saw the woman in front of him, her pupils glowing red.

He didn't even have time to react before he lost consciousness and fell into darkness, his expression numb and his eyes unfocused.

"Where is Li Ming?" Chi Lian asked in a deep voice.

"Heavenly Palace..." Zuo Luomu replied in a dull voice. Everyone's expression changed. Silver Fox breathed a sigh of relief, "It seems that this trip was not in vain."

Night Owl looked up at the palace hanging in the sky with a serious expression: "Let's go, Chi Lian, don't give him any chance."

There was a scarlet glow in Chi Lian's pupils, and he said calmly: "With Qinglong gone, Li Ming is in the bag."

What they feared was the Azure Dragon, not an S-class life form.

Night Owl frowned and reminded: "Be careful."

The numb Zorro was engulfed by them, and silver energy particles surged out of the Silver Fox's body.

It gradually covered the three people, forming an energy field, and disappeared without a trace.

……

In the Heavenly Palace, Li Ming had just finished absorbing this batch of metal energy, and the balance had reached 2.1 billion.

"It's enough anyway." He pondered, opened the smart terminal, and looked through the information reports from Blackbeard, Anduin and others. It is worth mentioning that Chronoa also had a smart terminal and took the initiative to contact him once.

At first, he was a little surprised, but then he thought about it and found it to be normal.

Only more than half a month had passed since the previous anonymous meeting, and more than one collision had already occurred in the deep dimensional world.

It was not a clash with the Empire, but with the X-class life forms that went there. Many of them had life-and-death feuds with each other.

At present, the situation is still relatively restrained and no one is risking their lives, but it shows how complicated the situation is.

"Pack up and get ready to go." Li Ming looked at the latest coordinates.

He didn't need to waste time. It would not be too late to go there now that everything was ready.

However, just as he walked out of the metal corridor and arrived at the central hall, his footsteps suddenly stopped and his expression changed slightly.

There was a sudden stabbing pain in the brain, as if invaded by a foreign object. A red curtain of light covered the eyes, and the world was spinning. I felt as if I was about to fall into a drowsy state.

"Where does this mental attack come from?" Li Ming's heart was in turmoil.

This mental attack came too suddenly and was so intense that he had almost no ability to resist, and everything in front of him suddenly went dark.

But at this moment, [Nightmare Wreath] was activated, and some bumps appeared on the smooth surface of the metal wreath in the control bar.

Li Ming, on the other hand, was as if he was suddenly awakened by a basin of ice water in a daze. The scarlet light curtain in front of him shattered and he was awake.

At the same time, there were some fluctuations in the void not far away.

Li Ming's eyes flashed slightly, but he did not fight back at the first moment. He realized that someone had sneaked in.

But he knew nothing about his background and strength. Moreover, this was his old lair, so it was not suitable for a fight here.

As his mind raced, the control panel opened. He took out the [Earth-Shaking Fist] and replaced it with the [False Mask].

In the next moment, the red light curtain surged again, but the mimic spirit body had already covered it.

Li Ming's true consciousness is hiding in the deepest part.

"Success..." a voice came from the void.

Immediately afterwards, a silver light flashed, and four figures gradually emerged.

"Four guys actually sneaked in." Li Ming was quite surprised.

The planetary defense array left by the Hammer Forger is not exaggerated. It now has sixteen reinforced planetary nodes, which is enough to withstand 500X single attack head-on, and there is also a space monitor inside.

Ordinary X-level life forms do not have the ability to get in.

In other words, the person who did it must be extraordinary, and several suspects subconsciously emerged in his mind.

He stared at the guys in front of him and captured a lot of information. Although these guys were X-level life forms, their life strength was very low and they were X-level goalkeepers.

However, he had never seen any of them, so it was difficult to lock on to the target directly.

We have to wait a little longer... Li Ming is very familiar with this kind of scene and still did not take any action.

With his current strength, he is able to kill these X-level life forms in front of him in seconds.

However, he could kill the person instantly, but he did not have the corresponding means of imprisonment and interrogation. He could only let the mechanical guards guard him closely. If he could not get the truth from the interrogation, he would have to kill him.

These guys are just pawns. He needs to figure out who is behind the action.

"No, there's another one called Zorro. Was this guy also caught?"

Li Ming had a strange expression on his face, and then he realized that one of them was the dull-faced Zorro.

"Chi Lian, what happened just now?" Ye Xiao looked at Chi Lian who was standing beside him with a frown on his face.

Chi Lian kneaded his brows, his face looked very unhappy, "It seems that there is some kind of mental defense device in his body, which fought back. It should be left by Qinglong, but it should be destroyed now."

She was a little suspicious. The intensity of the counterattack was not high, but it surprised her.

The nature of it was as if it was trying to bewitch her, which was very strange.

"The device left by Qinglong?" Ye Xiao's expression changed slightly: "Since it has been damaged, Qinglong may be able to sense it. Let's leave as soon as possible."

The man in silver armor next to him shook his head: "In a place like the deep dimensional world, the signal is extremely unstable. It should be difficult to receive it in the first place."

Li Ming captured the key information, "Do they know Qinglong is going to the deep dimensional world?"

Not many people know about this, including Blackbeard, Anduin, and Klonoa...

As he was thinking, the other party had already thrown out a metal device. The moment it landed on him, it opened the metal structure, forming a spine-shaped restraint on his back, as well as shackles between his hands and feet.

The sound of gears meshing was heard, and a large number of capillary probes protruded from both sides of the restraint. These hollow needles drilled into the subcutaneous tissue in a spiral path.

Gene inhibitors are released along the way to curb the genetic characteristics of the evolved body.

"Let's go..." Ye Niao shackled Li Ming with energy.

Although the target had been caught, the three men still did not let down their guard, but carefully concealed their bodies.

When I arrived at the place just now, the expanded black crack had returned to the size of a hair.

The silver fox walked forward and inserted a finger into it, as if conducting some kind of verification. After a moment, the crack suddenly expanded.

"The space channel came directly to my home." Li Ming watched without much excitement.

He has defensive means, and the enemy also has offensive means. The Mechanical King's Court has been developed for too short a time, and its foundation is a big problem.

The three people entered one after another, and after they disappeared, the space crack slowly shrank until it disappeared completely.

Li Ming's main consciousness was hidden deep inside, looking at the outside scene. He was surrounded by extremely sophisticated instruments.

They were now standing on a platform, with a slender metal column above them, the end of which was a twelve-sided crystal structure covered with ever-proliferating scales.

The various personnel below looked at them with tense expressions.

"Synchronize jump and prepare to leave here." Night Owl gave the order.

The people around began to move in an orderly and silent manner, obviously having received professional training.

"Prepare to inspect the target..." Night Owl turned around and said to a key person in charge.

"Understood. We're ready." The other party nodded, and someone came over carrying a metal box.

Buzz—as the white mist gushed out, a scarlet compass was taken out by him.

(End of this chapter)