This is not mechanical ascension...

Chapter 614 Three-Line Plan
The small warship that Li Ming and Sheffield were riding on was borrowed from Mikhail. It had a simple and rustic style and was built strictly according to the design drawings.

Unlike Reynolds, who adds a lot of inexplicable things.

On the console, he was entering coordinate instructions.

"How long will it take to reach your secret base?"

Li Ming hadn't taken off his Qinglong vest yet, so Sheffield didn't dare to neglect him and responded quickly:

"The secret base is still in the Chaos Star Gap. Starting from here, we can reach it via the star gate in an estimated one and a half months."

Li Ming thought for a while and realized that the time was not too long. He glanced at Sheffield, who looked a little nervous, and spoke in a polite tone.
"Mr. Sheffield, you should have guessed by now that this gene seed has a high priority in my hands."

"I understand. I will try my best to ensure the success of gene seed modulation."

Sheffield's heart tightened. He took the star beast to the secret base on his own initiative. Although it was accidentally avoided from being robbed.

But his original motive made him feel a little guilty, and he vaguely felt that Qinglong had guessed his thoughts.

He originally thought that this thing would only make Qinglong slightly distressed, but he did not expect that its importance far exceeded his expectations.

His previous behavior was somewhat of a challenge to Qinglong's bottom line, so he was very nervous.

"Just do your best." Li Ming tapped her briefly and stopped.

At the same time, a notification popped up in the auxiliary system inside the Tanwei, indicating that someone was contacting him.

After glancing at the notes, Li Ming asked Sheffield to arrive, notify him, and then returned to the room.

After answering the call, there was still a sound wave line floating on the right side of the tank's internal field of vision, which was the navigator.

"Your Excellency Qinglong." He spoke first, his tone full of respect.

"How is the situation over there now?" Li Ming came up and asked directly.

Igor didn't waste any words and immediately reported: "The first half of the plan is the same as your estimate."

"However, even if the results of the battle in the Chaos Star Gap were reported, Gustav and the others did not dare to take the initiative to launch an attack. Currently, the coordinate location is empty and has been moved."

Igor was quite helpless. "I have tried my best to induce and even stimulate Tandin to take the initiative, but the group of people from the Higher Life Forms United Organization are only willing to passively defend."

"Normal." Li Ming was not surprised. "No one wants to be cannon fodder. If Tandin and Alves get ruthless, they will definitely kill a lot of people."

"But... now the coordinates of that place have been moved. It may be difficult to find it again." Igor reminded vaguely.

In the first half, he really admired Qinglong's superb methods, which were to use the Star Alliance to join the game and indirectly contain the battle situation in the Chaos Star Gap.

But when the news of the victory came, he was a little confused.

But according to the battle situation, even if the Star Alliance is not restrained, Qinglong has enough strength to settle the battlefield on the spot, so it seems unnecessary for the coordinates to do so.

Therefore, he wanted to stimulate the joint organization of higher life forms to take action and try his best to stop the other party before they moved, but he still failed.

"Okay, I understand." Li Ming just nodded without commenting.

Of course he understood what the navigator meant.

But the other party is now working backwards based on the results, but in fact, he always remained vigilant beforehand.

The Gun of Kashmir is the biggest uncertainty, and very little relevant information has been circulated.

To be on the safe side, he involved the Covenant in the Overlord Laboratory, but it turned out that the Spear of Kashmir was not as powerful as he imagined.

Igor's current conclusion is hindsight.

Of course, it was because he took the "mysterious" Azure Dragon as the main subject that he came to the conclusion that "this plan is completely unnecessary."

After all, he didn't think that Qinglong would have any uncertainty beforehand.

As for the relocation of the Dominant Laboratory, Li Ming didn't care.

He, Reynolds and Mikhail had visited the Dominate Laboratory more than once, and he had made preparations long before this plan was implemented.

No matter where the location is, for him it is just a matter of distance, not whether he can find it or not.

Seeing that Qinglong's reaction was indifferent, Igor did not continue to dwell on the matter.

But I became more and more curious about what secrets that place was hiding.

"Oh, there is one more thing. Our respected president should be ready to hide now." Igor's words were not without sarcasm. "We were just about to return, and he disappeared with an excuse. I'm afraid he is afraid of being liquidated by you."

"He runs pretty fast." Li Ming was not surprised. These X-level life forms would be hard to find once they decided to hide.

In the past, he often used this as a retreat in his mind to deal with various situations, and now it has become a retreat for others as well.

The two exchanged a few words briefly, and the navigator took the initiative to ask for his activities to be redirected to the Empire, and speculated: "Adam must have entered the Wandering Imperial Ship now."

"Wandering Imperial Ship?" Li Ming was unfamiliar with this term and asked him to explain it in detail.

"This is a plan to deal with super-limited individuals. Once a life form that cannot be controlled temporarily appears in the interstellar space, the empire will activate a similar plan, hide immediately, and control everything remotely." Igor narrated:
"The wandering coordinates are randomly generated, and the communication signals will be processed through multiple transfer stations. Once the wandering imperial ship leaves the empire's home planet, no one will know its navigation track."

"Until we find an effective plan, many civilizations have similar plans. Although the decapitation tactic cannot destroy them, it can still cause great trauma."

Li Ming couldn't help but nodded. What the navigator said was roughly consistent with his previous guess. Adam would definitely not put himself in danger.

Then he asked, "Can you find it?"

Igor paused for a moment. This was almost one of the most secretive plans in the empire. Only a few people were involved in it. How could he possibly find it?

Li Ming also knew that he had misunderstood the other party's meaning, and then said: "Then you just keep an eye on the Empire. If there is anything unusual, report to me immediately."

The navigator responded and ended the communication.

Li Ming took off his tank guard and thought about his next move. The most important thing at the moment was to get the X-level gene seed.

With the help of the complete form of the Eternal Star, it won't take long for his development progress to reach 100%.

But right now, it seems that there is no force in the entire galaxy to check and balance him, but he has not relaxed.

When his relationship with the three major civilizations had not yet broken down because of the incident at the Holy Castle, the Domination Laboratory had extracted something similar to source material from the corpse.

At present, some time has passed and I don’t know if there are any latest results.

"There are mainly two things, the Holy Castle... the corpse..." he murmured in a low voice.

The means Heckler had prepared were expected to be ready soon. After the incident in the Chaos Star Gap, it was estimated that the three major civilizations would close or even destroy the star gate leading to the Saint Castle base.

If the jump is impossible, it will take at least half a year for the real body to get there, and by the time you get there, it will be too late.

However, he can communicate with the Holy Castle and descend to catch the opponent off guard. The only problem is that the mimicry of the Holy Castle cannot leave the Holy Castle, so he can only wait for the opponent to take action.

As for the Domination Laboratory... Li Ming was a little hesitant.

It is impossible for him to stop evolving at level X life form. Only at the ultimate life form stage would he have the capital to fight against Yongyuan.

Without the power of the three major civilizations, it would be difficult for him to research the evolutionary path to a higher level.

"But letting them research on their own won't work either. Once they make a breakthrough, they'll be ready to move again... which will only increase the risk." Li Ming pondered.

Once we get his x-level gene seed, we will start attacking the Overmind Laboratory, which will require several months of waiting.

But he would not waste any time and immediately opened his smart terminal to contact Anduin.

Ask him to send a star gate construction team to the coordinates he specified and build small jump star gates along the way.

The coordinates are near the Dominant Laboratory. Once he gets the seeds here, he can jump there directly.

Working on two fronts, making the most of time.

After thinking about it, he gave Anduin another coordinate, which was the way to the Holy Citadel. Since there were already two lines, it would be better to have a third line to be prepared.

After arranging things here, he entered the long-lost development state.

Without the assistance of a series of medicines, the efficiency is lower, but time cannot be wasted.

By the time he arrived at the secret base in Sheffield, the development progress had reached 69%.

That is to say, when I was with Anduin and the others, it was not easy to use the Star of Eternal Silence for development, otherwise the development progress would have been even higher.

The secret base is located in a rather peculiar star field.

Outside the porthole are two huge colliding meteorites, still maintaining the posture of exploding after the collision. The broken rocks have formed a dense meteorite ring belt around them, which serves as a natural umbrella of protection.

The base is at the deepest part. We move forward and sink into the dock. The warship is stuck in the electromagnetic berth.

The cabin door opened, and the black swan-like Monica was already waiting there, still wearing her black dress, with her hands slightly crossed in front of her, looking quiet and elegant, with her delicate neck slightly raised.

"Father..." She nodded slightly, then looked at Li Ming with a strange look in her eyes. Naturally, she had heard the news about the Chaos Star Gap a long time ago.

It is also clearly understood that Li Ming has now become one of the most distinguished people in the entire interstellar space.

Sheffield didn't dare to delay and asked immediately: "How are the manpower resources? I want to start allocating gene seeds."

"It's already been arranged." Monica responded, "You can start anytime."

Sheffield didn't dare to be negligent now and asked Monica to look after Li Ming.

He went deeper into the cave, while Monica took Li Ming to the arranged room.

"There is no external communication here?" Li Ming glanced at the smart terminal and looked up and asked.

"In order to maintain secrecy, there is only one external communication device here, and other external signals are blocked." Monica responded in a low voice.

"My teacher can come at any time. There is no need to hide deliberately. Just open everything." Li Ming said casually.

Monica hesitated slightly, but did not refuse. She nodded and said, "I understand."

When she brought Li Ming to the room, the external communication of the smart terminal had been restored, and several pop-up windows appeared in succession.

"Tsk tsk, you contacted me just now, the struggle within the Star Alliance is so fierce." Li Ming took a look at the message alerts and found that they were all negotiators from the Star Alliance.

After seeing Monica off, he tidied himself up a bit, and then Tanwei emerged and called back.

In just a moment, a smiling interstellar human wearing gold-rimmed glasses appeared on the virtual screen.

"Sir Qinglong, I am the negotiator of the Star Alliance. You can call me Zhang Hengyu." He introduced himself.

This name… Li Ming’s heart was slightly moved. As expected, he heard the other party continue: “My grandfather came from Blue Star, and he and your student came from the same civilization.”

He emphasized and added, "Of course, please don't misunderstand me. I am not trying to get closer to you. I just want you to feel more comfortable during the negotiation."

Li Ming's reaction was very calm. "The Federation contacted me ten days after the incident was over. The Empire also established communication with me half a month ago. But the Star Alliance... dragged on until the end."

"I even thought that those captured guys were not important to the Covenant."

"You misunderstood." Zhang Hengyu smiled bitterly and whispered, "In fact, Chairman Gutierrez has been dealing with various impeachments since he came back. Those people are very important, but Chairman Gutierrez values ​​his position more."

"You are quite a talented person." Li Ming couldn't help but be surprised. He certainly knew about the fierce struggle within the Star Alliance and had paid attention to it on the way here.

Gutierrez underwent several rounds of impeachment for losing the Gun of Kashmir and capturing a large number of X-level life forms.

It was a very difficult time, but Gutierrez was not exaggerating. He managed to keep his position in the end. This must have been partly due to his dominance in the laboratory.

This matter is not a secret anyway, and saying it so frankly can win some favor.

"Thank you for your kindness. If this negotiation fails and the Star Alliance can't survive, I hope you can have a small position for me under your command." Zhang Hengyu said so bluntly, and his speaking style did have some flavor of the Blue Star civilization.

"I admire you more and more." Li Ming said lightly. Zhang Hongyu's smile became more intense, but before he spoke, his expression suddenly changed slightly.

Two communication signals were connected simultaneously, originating from Qinglong.

He probably already had a guess in his mind. After confirming the access, the screen in front of him was divided into three parts. On both sides of the Azure Dragon were Costat of the Empire and Dius of the Federation.

They are all "old friends" who have had in-depth contact with Qinglong.

This was not Zhang Hengyu's first contact. Before he contacted Qinglong, he had secretly communicated with these two and asked about their prices.

The purpose is naturally to form a united front and not give Qinglong the opportunity to raise the price. Negotiation is an art that requires extreme pulling and finding out each other's cards.

What surprised him was that Qinglong didn't even give them a chance to make a quote and insisted on waiting until all the heads of the three parties arrived before discussing the matter.

Li Ming did not give the three parties a chance to greet each other, and said directly: "The people from the Star Alliance finally remembered to contact me, Costat, Deus, now we can talk."

This person sat upright, and the large number of think tanks behind him were also ready.

"Oh right..." Li Ming seemed to suddenly remember something, "There is something I need to tell you. One of the three of you has secretly offered me a high price to redeem all the captives."

As soon as these words came out, the three people's faces changed uncontrollably, with only one thought in their minds -
Who is so unkind! ?
(End of this chapter)