This is not mechanical ascension...

Chapter 658 Erase Switch Cooldown
After a little adjustment, the energy particles fluctuating on Li Ming's body gradually converged, and the sharpness in his eyes gradually faded, and finally became plain and simple.

When we came out of the Heavenly Palace, Ulrich was already waiting at the door.

In the past six months, Li Ming has been going to deal with those mechanical bodies at a fixed time, so he naturally would not miss it.

Li Ming was also used to this guy, so he walked straight past him and stepped onto the aircraft hanging on the edge. Ulrich, who was one step behind, followed him.

The gravity traction system was then activated, and the aircraft sank into orbit silently.

Ulrich did not report any data this time. He reported only once in a long time. Li Ming might find it a little novel, but anyone would get bored with the same process every time.

He mentioned another thing, "Mr. Yang's cell activation rejuvenation surgery has been completed, and he has also taken the psychoactive fruit from the Potsdam civilization. According to the test, his estimated lifespan has increased by about two hundred years."

Ulrich only looks young, but his age is several times older than Boss Yang, but he is still called Boss Yang, which is a bit strange.

Li Mingman didn't care, nodded and asked: "Mr. Yang is still unwilling to accept mechanical transformation and become a mechanical life form?"

"After all, it's hard to shake the old ideas that have been passed down for nearly a hundred years." Ulrich smiled bitterly, but added:
"However, Yang Peng has come up with a plan to give him a grandson, thinking that if he has a large family, he might be able to get Old Yang to accept the reform."

Li Ming was speechless, "I think Yang Peng wanted it himself."

"Uh..." Ulrich explained in a low voice, "He has been getting close to a female employee in the company recently, so..."

"Oh?" Li Ming's eyes moved slightly. Ulrich had guessed it and said immediately, "We have already investigated it. We used a memory screening device on that woman without Yang Peng's knowledge to confirm that there is no problem. Her background is very clean."

"When the two of them first met, the other party didn't know Yang Peng's true identity and thought he was also an employee of the company."

Ulrich was very capable, and Li Ming nodded, "That's all right. This old tree is actually blooming."

"As for Elder Yang, don't force him too much. He may want to live on if he keeps living." Li Ming shook his head.

Old Yang's foundation is not that good, he is just a native of Blue Star. After using all the means he can, the best he can do is to extend his life to more than 500 years.

But once it becomes a mechanical body, it can feed mechanical materials and evolve to a certain level, its lifespan will more than double.

Ulrich nodded, and then reported: "The two master craftsmen delivered a batch of goods not long ago, and they are currently stored in the warehouse. You see..."

"Let someone send it to the Heavenly Palace." Li Ming said casually. That was the artificial mother ore that he asked Reynolds and Mikhail to send.

He also remembered that there was still a cooldown when switching his control objects. Except for being forced to fall off after being damaged, under normal circumstances, he still needed to wait seven minutes and thirty seconds before switching.

He has been collecting regular mother ore, but with the emergence of the path of mechanical evolution, the price has continued to rise, and fewer and fewer people are willing to sell.

Five months ago, after the artificial mother ore technology was fully applied, Reynolds and Mikhail sent him a batch of samples.

Let him take a look at the situation, Li Ming was surprised to find out.

Artificial mother ore also meets the needs of the control system and can extract the energy of the mother ore, which allows him to find another way.

He placed a large order immediately, but it took five months for the goods to be delivered to him.

Ulrich nodded, and immediately opened the smart terminal and issued a series of instructions.

Soon after, the two passed through the space channel and arrived at the planet warehouse.

Ulrich was waiting outside as usual, while Li Ming walked in. The array of mechanical bodies stretched as far as the eye could see.

The monthly output is tens of millions of robots, of which eight million are E-class robots and two million are F-class robots.

F-class mechanical bodies are now the low-level service personnel of the Mechanical Royal Court. While the manufacturing cost is suppressed to the extreme, they can work at a high intensity for 24 hours, which saves him a lot of labor expenses.

E-class mechanical bodies are mainly used as combat sequences. The raw materials used to produce these two levels of mechanical bodies are basically supplied internally and do not need to be purchased additionally.

The production volume of high-end mechanical bodies has also increased by leaps and bounds compared to the past, with the monthly output of Class B life forms reaching 50,000.

He can use his [Mutation] ability with a 0.01% chance to transform into an S-class mechanical body, but the level cannot exceed his own.

The B-class mechanical body is the most cost-effective for him now.

The scene before him could hardly shock Li Ming. He walked to the center of the array with familiarity, stretched out his hands, and a golden arc burst out from his fingertips.

Immediately afterwards, a mighty thunderstorm swept across the entire mechanical array.

Millions of mechanical bodies completed their self-transformation in the storm, transforming from purely mechanical constructs into living beings.

It took a full twenty to thirty hours for the transformation to be completely completed.

At the front, five mutated S-class mechanical bodies were half-kneeling in front of him.

"Including these five, the number of S-class mechanical bodies should have exceeded hundreds..." Li Ming calculated, and then stretched out his palm, and a purple-gold sphere floated out. The surface was not a smooth curved surface, but was made up of 720 equilateral triangles precisely spliced ​​together.

Each facet was embedded with dark patterns similar to living circuits, which were now flickering at different frequencies, and then reflected a purple light. Wherever it passed, large areas of mechanical bodies disappeared.

[Mechanical Warehouse - S-Class: Designed by the Forging Hammer Master, this is a fortress facility specifically used for storing mechanical bodies.

.........

Control effect: Mechanical body recovery blessing - 500%
Control ability - Fortress storage: can store 100 million F-class mechanical bodies. The storage quantity is reduced tenfold for each higher level. 】

This is a high-end mechanical storage device.

There were almost only F-class mechanical bodies left at the scene. After the purple-gold sphere floated back, Li Ming did not put it into the control bar.

A slightly larger metal device appeared in his palm. It had a diamond-shaped appearance and dark purple energy flows like lava at the seams, but was pulled back to the core when it was about to overflow the surface.

One of the sides then opened, sparking brief gravitational ripples that wove dust particles in the air into spirals that swirled around it.

Under the metal cover is a honeycomb structure with purple-gold balls placed on it.

Including this one, there are six.

[Mechanical Fortress--X Level: A cutting-edge mechanical storage device specially built by the master craftsman Li Ming.

……

Control effect: Mechanical body recovery blessing - fifty times

Control Ability - Internal Link: One hundred matching [Mechanical Warehouses] can be stored. The mechanical bodies stored inside can be directly consumed in the control column with relevant abilities. 】

This equipment was not restored from the drawings left by the hammer master, but was upgraded bit by bit by Li Ming.

What is needed is the ability of [internal link].

The more mechanical bodies there are, the longer it will take to fuse and create mechanical creatures. In a real battlefield, the enemy will not give themselves such time.

The main combat machines were put away, and the remaining F-class machines needed to be sent to various places by Ulrich.

After leaving here, he gave Ulrich a few simple instructions and returned to the Heavenly Palace.

"…There are five World Blood left, and I don't think it will last much longer…" Li Ming glanced at the control page. He had built more than one [Mechanical Fortress], and in the past six months, he had built five of them, which were used in various aspects.

An X-level artificial intelligence was also added, which has a different division of labor from Suzaku and is mainly responsible for managing the overt business.

Suzaku is responsible for dominating the laboratory and the management of the secret base.

Forbidden life forms are no longer a problem for him. Even now, he has a certain degree of confidence in killing them, not to mention being promoted to level X life forms.

While thinking in his mind, he had already walked to the inner warehouse. The metal door opened automatically, revealing eleven large silver-white metal boxes neatly arranged in a concentrated manner.

Li Ming walked up to one of them and entered the unlocking code. The metal plates around the box fell down at any time, and bright light shone through the cracks.

Standard crystals the size of glass balls and looking almost identical are neatly placed on the shelves. They are artificial mother ore.

"Tsk..." Li Ming couldn't help rubbing his hands and looked at the other boxes.

To reduce the cooling again, he would need 100,000 mother ores.

But the number before us is 1.1 million.

That's right, he had gathered the required amount for the next cooldown reduction.

The cost price of each of these mother ores is over one million star coins.

He wanted so much at one time that even Mikhail was quite surprised. The production line had not yet been set up, and it took all the production for five months to meet his needs.

The main character is a wealthy person.

"If we shorten it once more, it will only be three minutes and forty-five seconds. Even if we use a million of them, it will only be one minute and fifty-two seconds... and then one minute and fifteen seconds..." Li Ming thought about it and couldn't help but be amazed.

This kind of half-removal is disgusting.

Shaking his head, he began to absorb the artificial mother ore. These things could only be absorbed one by one, which really took a lot of time.

Even at his speed, without stopping, it still took him ten days to completely absorb the 1.1 million mother ores.

It was because after he absorbed tens of thousands of them, he used the time distortion standpoint, otherwise it would have taken even more time.

After absorbing it, Li Ming breathed a sigh of relief. The time distortion position only shortened the relative time.

The time he spent did not decrease at all. The long, boring and repetitive actions really made him feel sick.

To get rid of this feeling, he began to consume.

[Otherwise, consume 100,000 pieces of mother ore energy to switch the controlled object and reduce the cooldown. ]

Naturally, the energy of 100,000 pieces of mother ore dissipated, and the cooling time was further reduced to three minutes and forty-five seconds.

Without blinking, Li Ming continued to upgrade, but the prompt that popped up this time surprised Li Ming.

[Do you want to consume one million portions of the mother ore energy to completely erase the controlled object and switch to cooldown? ]

"Erased it directly?" Li Ming was slightly stunned, then he let out a long sigh and grinned, "Not bad, not bad. At least he still has some humanity in not letting me keep adding more."

This was an unexpected gain. Now he rarely switched controlled objects during battle, but at least it relieved him of a worry and he no longer had to think about this matter.

In a good mood, Li Ming returned to the development room. He had just poured a few bottles of medicine into his mouth and was about to continue developing the gene seeds to reach 100% as soon as possible, when the smart terminal suddenly rang.

Li Ming did not feel annoyed at being disturbed, as such things had happened frequently in the past six months.

He glanced at the virtual screen that popped up next to him, and the note on it surprised him a little -
"Navigator?"

This guy has been keeping an eye on the Empire and only reports to him once a month, mostly in the form of text messages, rarely via communications.

Probably something big happened, Li Ming just gave a look and the communication was automatically connected.

The Navigator seldom uses video communication, basically voice, and Li Ming doesn't even need mimicry.

"Your Excellency Qinglong..." The sound waves on the screen continued to vibrate, and Li Ming did not talk to him any more. He asked directly: "Is there something wrong with the empire?"

"Adam is back." The navigator said briefly, "He has already met with many high-level officials."

"Hmm?" Many thoughts flashed through Li Ming's mind in an instant.

This guy Adam has been hiding for so long, how come he suddenly comes back?

Could it be that he is confident that he can deal with me?
The navigator added, "Not only that, the atmosphere on the Empire's home planet has also become strange, with stricter external censorship and undercurrents. I feel like something is happening."

He had been watching the empire for who knows how many years and had an extraordinary intuition.

"What do you mean?" Li Ming asked.

"I can't explain it, but it's definitely not simple." The navigator didn't just act on intuition, and added, "I contacted the Bloodfaller."

Li Ming's eyes flickered slightly. Ever since the matter of snatching the Star of Eternal Silence came to an end, the Bleeding Ones had almost disappeared.

Even if they did not have Li Ming's multiple channels, they did not guess that the person who lost blood was Adam's person, or even Adam himself.

But the Pioneers also realized that something was wrong. The Bloodfallen had behaved strangely in the whole incident.

Regardless of whether they were arrested or had identity problems, they could no longer be trusted, and an internal purge was subsequently carried out. The blood-losing people disappeared and were no longer active.

"How to say?"

"There are no problems within the Empire, as always," the Navigator responded.

Li Ming remained silent, and the navigator continued, "I feel like he seems to be covering up something. Adam can't have come back for no reason. Something must have happened."

At this point, seeing that Qinglong still had no reaction, he could not help but ask: "Would you like to check it yourself..."

Li Ming narrowed his eyes and gave a negative answer, "No, I can't get away here, you just keep an eye on it first. Adam just came back, it doesn't mean anything."

Just kidding, in three months at most, his development progress can reach 100%.

Unless the Lord of Eternal Abyss comes directly to the Mechanical Royal Court to kill him, no one can expect him to expend extra energy.

The navigator couldn't help but feel disappointed. He thought that Qinglong would be interested in attacking Adam.

Among the three heads of civilization, Adam has the greatest assassination value.

"I understand." The navigator left a word and the screen went out.

Although he refused to take action for the time being, Li Ming couldn't help but think about it.

He hid before because he was afraid of being assassinated by him. Now that he has appeared, he must be no longer afraid of being assassinated by him.

(End of this chapter)