This is not mechanical ascension...

Chapter 605 Adam: My courage is greater than yours!

"We need them to think so." Adam's face flickered. "Don't worry, I just want to confirm certain things. The final result will still be based on the previous plan."

"If we delay any further, Qinglong might really take action." Malcolm frowned and reminded.

"He has no chance." Gutierrez said confidently, "The moment he shows up, the Kashmir Spear will hit him."

"When he sacked the Holy Castle last time, he proved that he was no match for the Titan Relics."

Malcolm said coldly: "Is he a fool then? Why did he have to let Li Ming come?"

Adam stared at the screen and whispered, "Hermod, tell him that we are willing to take another step back, but we must hand over an X-level life form and explain to the outside world."

At the scene, Anduin frowned slightly, "Hand over an X-level life form?"

Hemode was impatient, wondering what the Holy Emperor of the Empire was up to.

However, Gutierrez did not object, so he had to follow the other party's orders and go ahead.

Hermod said in a deep voice: "Yes, we need to give an explanation to the outside world. This is the final bottom line. After handing over an X-level life form, we will leave the Chaos Star Gap."

The X-level life forms of the three major civilizations were at a loss.

Brother...there are thirty of us still standing here, why are you retreating?

Hand over an x-level life form, and the matter is over? It's not unacceptable.

Anduin's eyes naturally swept over Sven, who had already hidden in the corner, trembling.

But Hermod beat us to the punch, "This person wants us to designate him."

"Who?" Anduin's face changed. Since the other party said so, he might have reached an agreement with Qinglong.

You won't hand him over, will you?

"Sheffield."

Kashmir's gun was pointed at Sheffield. His face froze and he asked in astonishment, "Me?"

Sheffield? Anduin breathed a sigh of relief, but couldn't help but sigh in his heart. He had a pretty good relationship with the other party.

However, Qinglong's method was quite impressive as he only paid one Sheffield to resolve the matter.

The three great civilizations came in such a mighty force, but only took away one Sheffield, which was somewhat inconsistent with interstellar expectations.

Li Ming's face changed slightly. Something was wrong. It was extremely wrong.

What is going on? Why did the three major civilizations regress inexplicably and specifically want to take Sheffield away?

If Sheffield is taken away, who will prepare the gene seed for him?

"Mr. Sheffield, please come here." Hermod urged.

Pointed at by the Kashmir Gun, Sheffield's body stiffened, his face changed, and he shook his head helplessly with a bitter smile.

I didn't expect that I would be the one who was abandoned.

He also has good connections and can adjust to level X gene seeds, which is indeed more important in the eyes of the three major civilizations.

Qinglong has probably used every possible means to achieve this.

However, he just took a step forward when Li Ming suddenly said, "Wait, he can't go with you."

Huh? Anduin looked surprised, and Sheffield's heart skipped a beat.

Hermod frowned slightly.

"Ha..." Adam couldn't help but grinning, staring at Li Ming who had a serious expression on the screen.

As expected, that X-level gene seed is of extraordinary importance.

He was almost 80% sure that Li Ming was Qinglong.

The reason he went to all this trouble was to make sure of this.

Malcolm and Gutierrez looked at the excited Adam at the same time, but then heard him say, "Hermod, just kill Sheffield!"

Since it was determined that the gene seed was of extraordinary importance, there was no need for Sheffield to exist.

"Kill Sheffield?" Hemod blurted out, showing his shock.

Adam negotiated conditions and made concessions, but in the end he asked me to kill him directly?
Li Ming suddenly looked at Hermod, someone was directing him from behind.

It didn't seem like a coincidence that it was targeting Sheffield, and after I opened my mouth to stop him, it seemed like he was waiting for me to speak.

Is it...

"Kill me?" Sheffield retreated far away, energy surging on the surface of his body, activating the palace's internal defense mechanism, runes intertwined, his face grim: "I want to see Qinglong!"

He felt something was wrong. After all, he was an X-level life form and was proficient in gene seed modulation. There was no need for the three major civilizations to kill him.

What kind of agreement did Qinglong reach with the three major civilizations?
"We still want to see Qinglong, please ask him to come." Hemod said impatiently.

Hmm? Anduin realized something was wrong and his expression changed slightly: "Didn't Qinglong make a move?"

"Who told you that Qinglong took action?" Hemod asked back.

Anduin was at a loss for a moment, then he subconsciously asked, "Qing Long didn't make a move, why did you retreat?"

"Back off?" Hermod said indifferently, "I'm just playing with you guys."

Qinglong didn’t take action?
In the corner, Sven, who felt that his future was bleak, suddenly raised his head and became full of energy again.

"Okay, the game is over." Hemod didn't intend to listen to Adam's orders anymore. He raised the Kashmir Spear and said coldly:

"This is an ultimatum. Either surrender or die. Everyone... give me an answer."

Anduin felt an indescribable fucked-up feeling in his heart. What were the three civilizations trying to do? Were they trying to play a trick on them?

You're not going to kill me again? Sheffield was in a state of confusion, unable to figure out what was going on.

Li Ming remained silent at this moment. He probably guessed who was the leader of this game.

He stared at the Gun of Kashmir. That should be about it.

"Hermode, why don't you do it?" Adam frowned and urged, "Sir Gaius, you kill him."

The imperial representative Gaius's expression changed slightly, but he saw Hermod stretched out his other hand and blocked him.

"Adam." Malcolm said in a deep voice, "Sheffield has a lot of connections. Killing him would probably have the biggest impact."

"Did you have a seizure in your brain?"

"Trust me, it's better to kill him." Adam looked at Gutierrez.

"You need to give me a reason." Gutierrez remained noncommittal. An X-level life form is of extraordinary value.

"I will give you a satisfactory answer later, but now we have to kill him." Adam looked directly at Gutierrez, "I promise in the name of the Holy Emperor of the Empire."

Gutierrez frowned slightly, and after a moment of silence, he said: "Hermod..."

As a result, Gutierrez paused as soon as his name was called out, his face unhappy, "…Who let you in?"

It seems that someone broke into Gutierrez's room. The quality of the Star Alliance personnel is getting worse and worse.

Adam and Malcolm thought subconsciously.

Gutierrez's line had gone silent, so they couldn't hear anything.

"Urgent information from the attendant's room." The officer reporting at the front desk was sweating profusely and his body was shaking.

"Give it to me." Gutierrez realized something was wrong and reached out his hand, and the smart terminal in the other person's hand fell into his hand. He just looked down and suddenly stood up, his face changed drastically, "Is it true?"

"The other party provided a series of video materials, which should be internal members of the Higher Life Forms United Organization..." the officer said quickly, "According to our analysis, the accuracy of the information is over 90%..."

"Immediately mobilize all idle X-level life forms to go to that coordinate." Gutierrez immediately issued a series of orders.

After waving his men to leave, his expression changed, and then he logged into the virtual conference room.

Glancing at Adam and Malcolm, he said calmly: "Hermod, follow my instructions, don't have any doubts, take the Kashmir guns and the Star Alliance people and retreat first."

Two gazes that were almost tangible fell on Gutierrez.

Malcolm immediately shouted, "Adam is crazy, and you are crazy too, Gutierrez, what are you doing!"

"Withdraw now, do you want to become the laughing stock of the universe!?"

"I'm right, Hermod, take your men away now." Gutierrez emphasized again, then looked at the two of them, a sneer slowly appearing on the corners of his mouth: "You will soon know what I am doing."

He didn't give the two people time to react and ended the call immediately.

Adam took a deep breath and Malcolm's face turned pale.

……

Hemod's face was gloomy and unclear, and the Kashmir Spear in his hand was pointed at the central area. The X-level life forms around him had surrounded Anduin and his companions.

Anduin's mind was still a little confused, and he couldn't help but look at Li Ming, as if asking, where is your teacher?

"Wait..." This time it was Hemod who stopped everyone. His face changed, he took back the Kashmir Spear, and finally said lightly: "People of the Star Alliance, follow me."

Walk? where to?
Everyone couldn't help but look over.

Li Ming felt a little relieved, it seemed that there was no problem over there. The "game" that happened before really made him feel uneasy.

"Don't you understand what I am saying? People from the Covenant, follow me! Withdraw!" Hemode's voice was like thunder, filled with anger.

First he was tricked by Adam, and now he has to withdraw his troops. He is also very unhappy.

Withdraw...troops?

Gaius' cheek twitched, and he couldn't help it, "Hemod, what's wrong with you?"

"Who told you to withdraw your troops?" the federal representative scolded.

Why withdraw troops again?

There was an indescribable expression on Anduin's face. This series of changes made it difficult for him to react.

The X-level life form of the Star Alliance followed slowly and hesitantly.

It was not like this when we were making the action plan. Why did we end up on the scene with all this “game” and all this withdrawal?

Hemode ignored everyone and was very unhappy. He walked out of the door and turned into a stream of light and went farther away.

Seeing that Hemode was not acting, the other members of the Star Alliance did not delay and followed him. Immediately, one third of the X-level life forms at the scene were reduced.

Anduin's face changed, and he suddenly raised his hand, and a large number of runes emerged.

The x-level life forms around immediately surrounded him and shouted at him.

But he only found that the palace above his head gradually became transparent.

The Covenant fleet, which originally occupied a large area, actually retreated to the periphery at this moment, and a large number of media spaceships gathered around it.

"Why are they really going to withdraw?"

The people of the Empire and the Federation were at a loss.

This time... it should be the Azure Dragon's trick, Anduin speculated cautiously.

Li Ming also looked up at the departing Covenant fleet. He just needed to wait for them to move away so that Reynolds and Mikhail could isolate the inside and outside and make dumplings.

.........

"Sir, are we really going to retreat?"

In the office, the officer who issued the order asked hesitantly, "The attendant office speculates that this news came at the right time, and it may be related to Qinglong."

"Humph." Gutierrez sneered, "Not only is he not unrelated, I'm sure he's the one behind this."

"Then you still..."

"Because this action is essentially a retaliation, the benefits we can gain are limited. We have to compete with two other civilizations for Li Ming. We might as well take this opportunity to figure out the secret of the Red River Star Stream."

Gutierrez said in a deep voice, "They are definitely not willing to reveal the secret to me so easily. If they don't take a high-profile approach at the beginning, they will delay it for longer, giving them time to move. If they want to find such an opportunity again, there will be fewer opportunities."

As soon as he finished speaking, a virtual screen popped up on the smart terminal in front of him, showing Adam and Malcolm.

"Look at how difficult these two old friends are." Gutierrez waved his hand, and after his men left, he waited for a while before answering the call.

"Gutierrez..." Malcolm looked serious and said:

"We have an agreement. You cannot use the matter of the Holy Castle and Azure Dragon to threaten us to reveal the secrets of the Red River Star Stream."

The two of them followed Gutierrez and received a report from the Domination Laboratory. Naturally, they were shocked and angry, but for now they could only negotiate with Gutierrez.

Gutierrez shook his head calmly: "I didn't take the initiative to threaten you, but the coordinates have been sent to me. Do you want me to turn a deaf ear to them? Then do I still want to be the chairman of the Star Alliance?"

"Can't you see that Qinglong is behind this?" Malcolm stressed loudly, "He wants to turn the tables!"

At this juncture, the coordinates of the Domination Laboratory were suddenly leaked, and the direct beneficiary was Qinglong, so he could be identified even without evidence.

"So what if I can see it?" Gutierrez asked.

This is the cleverness of Qinglong. Even if he could see it, could he pretend that it didn’t happen?

Malcolm stared at him coldly, but Adam suddenly said, "The body of a Dominant-class Titan is stored at that coordinate."

Gutierrez looked at it suddenly, confused and puzzled.

"Adam!" Malcolm yelled.

Adam turned a deaf ear to it, his expression calm, and continued:

"We found the body deep in the Red River Star Stream. We are currently studying it and suspect we have found a way to the ultimate life form. We can allow you to join us and share all the research data."

"A master-level corpse... an ultimate life form..." Gutierrez digested the sudden information and murmured, "This secret is more important than I thought."

Malcolm's breathing was rapid. He had briefly exchanged views with Adam before.

That’s not the case. They have been researching it for several years, and they are just going to expose it to the Covenant without even discussing the conditions?
What on earth is wrong with Adam? He has been acting contrary to plan since the very beginning.

Gutierrez calmed down a little and was also surprised. He thought it would take a long time and would cost more.

The other party will be reluctant to reveal the secret to him.

He was even a little unsure whether he could really know the secret this time.

After all, the situation in the Holy Castle is still going on, so it is impossible for a real fallout to occur.

But unexpectedly, Adam told all the secrets right away.

Adam's eyes were deep, "I only have one request, get your people back. If Qinglong wants to turn the tables, then we will pin him to death!"

"Also, I want Li Ming."

(End of this chapter)