This is not mechanical ascension...

Chapter 660 What Happened to the Teddy Thread Empire?

"Oh?" Li Ming's eyes flashed.

"The succession qualification has been wiped out." Reynolds seemed quite surprised. "After all, he was an X-level seed, but he was directly abandoned. It's so cruel. What did this guy do?"

Li Ming noticed other implications in Reynolds' words and couldn't help but look over.

Reynolds failed to comprehend Qing Long's gaze and simply stared at the black hole network, waiting for his response.

Mikhail said, "Eliminating the inheritance qualification is not just a sentence. It will also eliminate the gene seeds that he has already merged, destroying his development potential, which is equivalent to destroying it."

"To prevent them from harboring resentment and causing great harm to the empire in the future, this is an unwritten rule that will not be written into the law."

Li Ming was quite surprised. The prince of the empire not only had the identity of an heir, but was also a top product of biotechnology.

It has extremely high development potential and is itself an X-level seed.

People like Costat, Ryan, and Heckler, even if they cannot become Holy Emperors, are core figures in the faction and possess great power.

The empire is ruthless enough. It wiped out an X-level seed without any hesitation, which highlights its wealth and power.

Mikhail then continued: "However, this situation has rarely occurred in the entire history of the empire. It basically only occurs at the critical moment when the Holy Emperor of the Empire changes generations."

"Adam is still in his prime, how could this happen?"

From the small to the big, it is indeed not worth their concern that a prince has been deprived of his inheritance qualification.

But the information revealed in it is unusual. Perhaps huge changes are taking place within the empire.

Mikhail's mechanical pupils flickered, as if he was searching for relevant information, but in the end he frowned, as if he found nothing and could only look at the black hole network.

"As I remember, Yask's maternal family is a great noble family. They are quite powerful and normally they would not do anything stupid."

Li Ming also looked at the black hole network.

“…he was found sleeping with Adam’s twelve concubines…” Black Hole Network was concise and to the point.

Li Ming fell silent, with a strange look on his face. He had cuckolded his father. It was such a familiar plot and it was really intense.

"So amazing?" Reynolds couldn't help but give a thumbs up, "No wonder his qualification as heir was revoked."

Mikhail frowned, "Someone wants to harm him?"

"That's right." The Black Hole Network confirmed Mikhail's idea. "According to the combination of multi-party grid information, he seems to be investigating the disappearance of a large amount of resources from the Imperial Royal Laboratory."

Reynolds suddenly realized, "Dare to touch this shithole, no wonder you've been screwed to this extent."

The Imperial Royal Laboratory is an intricate organization within the Empire.

The staff is extremely complex, with many subordinate institutions and a large number of scientific research results. The annual budget it can get is also a terrifying figure.

However, every once in a while, a lot of embarrassing things happen.

For example, they purchase the research results of other civilizations, package them into new research results, and then extract a large amount of budget from the empire.

Or maybe you get a huge budget with groundbreaking research experiments, but end up with nothing in return.

Every time we have to deal with a large number of people and then it ends up in nothing.

"Why would he suddenly touch such a taboo?" Li Ming couldn't help but ask. Combining what the navigator said, he realized that something big had really happened inside the empire.

"I don't know about this, and there is no relevant information to support it." Black Hole Network responded.

"Some time ago, Adam cleaned up the House of Commons in a big way. On the surface, he has almost dealt with it. Next, he may have to go deeper." Mikhail thought, "Adam is very courageous. It seems that he really wants to rebuild the empire."

"It's not that simple..." Reynolds sneered, "The empire is in a state of ruin. Adam really thinks that just a few words from him can make all these people change their ways and become new people?"

"He wants to cut out the flesh, don't accidentally dig out the heart."

Reynolds was not optimistic about this at all, and shook his head, "Mechanical bodies are better, they are always loyal and will never betray."

Li Ming suddenly thought, "This Sixth Prince doesn't seem to be that outstanding, why would Adam think of sending him to do this?"

Among the princes of the empire, except for the first prince Arthur, he was only familiar with Abel, and had no impression of the others at all.

Black Hole Network added: "It seems that all the princes have been assigned special missions and have left the imperial capital one after another."

Reynolds was even more shocked: "My goodness, Adam is crazy. How many fronts are he fighting on? Or are he letting these princes play as the vanguard? Isn't he afraid of having no descendants?"

"How long has this been going on?" Mikhail asked.

Black Hole Network said: "According to my estimation, it will not take more than a month for them to receive the mission."

"One month..." Mikhail frowned slightly.
"I lost a son in less than a month..." Reynolds grinned, feeling quite gloating.

"What mission did Abel accept?" Li Ming asked thoughtfully.

The voice of the Black Hole Network remained unchanged. "It should be related to the armed patrol fleet, but I am not sure about the specific mission..."

"Armed patrol fleet, tsk tsk tsk..." Reynolds shook his head, "Another big pit, I don't know how long he can hold on."

Li Ming calmed down, but asked another question, "How do you know that I would be interested in this information?"

Black Hole Network was very frank: "The Pioneers are keeping an eye on the Empire. Your students had a deal with Abel a long time ago. There is a 65% chance that you will be interested in this news."

Li Ming narrowed his eyes slightly. The information channels and aggregation capabilities of the black hole network were indeed terrifying.

Li Ming said calmly: "In that case, please continue to keep an eye on the empire."

The black hole network was silent for a moment, and then a voice came out: "Okay."

The next step is to discuss the specific details of the cooperation, starting with the priority of various types of goods and the issue of commission.

Mikhail would discuss these matters himself, so Li Ming did not waste time and went offline directly.

"Empire...Adam..."

The bright blue light around him dissipated, and Li Ming murmured in a low voice.

Originally, he didn't care much about what happened in the empire.

But now it seems that there is a big secret. It is not easy to swallow up a civilization, and the difficulty of swallowing up an empire-level civilization is even more unimaginable.

But he might as well give it a try.

Unfortunately, even with the memory screening device in place, it is difficult to get people into the upper echelons or even the top levels of this kind of imperial civilization.

Therefore, there is almost no way for relevant information to be circulated.

If it weren't for the black hole network, even the not-so-small matter of a prince having been deposed would have been almost impossible for the outside world to know.

"Even if we ask Abel now, we probably won't get anything out of him."

"This guy, although his bottom line has dropped a lot, it's still..." Li Ming shook his head and looked at the time. There were still five days before the regular meeting of the United Organization of Higher Life Forms convened by Anduin.

Focus your thoughts and continue developing gene seeds.

Five days passed in a flash, and the regular meeting of the Higher Life Forms Joint Organization was held as scheduled. When Li Ming arrived, most people had already arrived.

"Your Excellency Qinglong..." Everyone in the board seats greeted him.

Li Ming responded one by one. While waiting for others to arrive, he had nothing to do, so he opened the contribution list page within the organization.

On the virtual screen that popped up, names were neatly arranged, and topping the list was the former vice president, Perkins, with 735 points.

According to the urgency of the situation and the cost required, the contribution tasks within the organization are divided into five levels from high to low: X, S, A, B, and C.

However, even the lowest C-level will inevitably involve X-level life forms, but it may only be basic tasks such as negotiation and mediation, which will only require a few words at most.

The highest S level is basically the killing level.

Li Ming made some adjustments later. Points were just additional, and any contribution task required the publisher to provide additional compensation.

It is precisely because of the existence of this contribution list that strong subjective initiative has been stimulated, greatly promoting the integration trend within the joint organization of higher life forms.

Most of the troubles members encounter are almost entirely caused by posting contribution tasks.

Many things that seemed difficult in the past can now be easily accomplished with one or two level X life forms.

The general trend that you are in me and I am in you is inevitable.

Seeing that most people had arrived, Anduin raised his hand, signaling them to calm down, and then said, "I think you all know the reason for calling you all together this time."

"The Blood Knight, Kuzan, recently sacrificed several life planets and built the Blood Warship. His crimes are extremely heinous. This kind of advanced life form is useless except for destroying interstellar stability. So I suggest that we conduct a joint hunt and kill him."

After killing the X-level life form, no one had any special reaction.

This is not the first time. The targets are basically those who have committed serious interstellar crimes and are not qualified to join the united organization of higher life forms.

Gaining fame from outside is one thing, but these guys do have quite a bit of wealth.

"The Blood Knights are quite powerful. Their energy level is said to be close to 1000X. The Mad Blood Fleet under their command is quite special. They are not physical warships. They come and go without a trace..."

"It's useless. Dozens of people surrounded him and beat him to death with one punch each."

"..."

The discussion was very casual. This was Anduin's proposal and needed to be voted on.

It was all red and green, but in the final vote count, most of the votes were in favor.

Anduin nodded without surprise. "The proposal is passed. According to previous practice, killing X-level life forms will contribute to the task and be rated as S-level. After success, participants will receive 100 points."

"If you are willing to go, please contact me as soon as possible. Next, if there are no additional proposals, please feel free to discuss."

Li Ming didn't say anything the whole time, just watched quietly.

The free discussion time is because after the previous meetings, some people did not leave immediately, but stayed in the conference hall to exchange information with each other.

Information that you don’t care much about may be useful in the eyes of others.

Over time, this discussion time was created to exchange information.

After hearing these words, the sounds around suddenly became noisy. All X-level life forms were able to multitask, capturing all the sounds and filtering out those that were useful to them.

However, this time, Li Ming did not log off early. Instead, he continued to sit in the position of chairman, which made many people look at him in surprise.

"..."

"..."

Voices passed by his ears.

Soon, Li Ming filtered out the information he wanted to hear.

"…I recently received a batch of high-quality assets from the empire's absconding nobles and made a small profit…"

"You also met the escaped noble official?" someone looked surprised.

“…I have a few contacts here…”

As if they had found a common ground, more and more people joined in. As everyone exchanged information, everyone realized a fact -
The empire's nobles and high-ranking officials were fleeing on a large scale.

"…The scale of this time seems to be even bigger than when Adam cleaned up the House of Commons. This is going to be a big move…"

Most people have stopped talking about other information and are focusing on things happening within the empire.

"Adam is really ruthless. He has made large-scale moves one after another. Isn't he afraid of causing great unrest..."

"You are wrong. Adam is not planning to make a big move. He is selecting the next Holy Emperor."

Suddenly, a slightly careless voice sounded, instantly overwhelming the others.

The entire conference hall gradually fell silent and everyone looked at the person who was speaking.

Is there really anyone who knows the inside story?

Li Ming couldn't help but look up. It was an inconspicuous X-level life form.

To X-level life forms, the word "inconspicuous" is slightly insulting, but it is indeed the case for the more than 200 X-level life forms present.

His position in the top row of the membership benches proved that he had joined recently.

Ettore, an X-level life form cultivated by a civilization in the Sea of ​​Stars, has not yet embarked on the ultimate path and his energy level is less than 200. It seems that he should not know this.

Without Li Ming asking, someone asked the question he wanted to know, and with suspicion, "Ettore, where did you get this information from?"

"Did Adam call you?" someone added, causing a faint smile.

"Don't disbelieve me." After all, he was an X-class life form, so Ettore didn't care. "The accuracy of my information is over 80%. I don't know what Adam has done. He has inexplicably started to select a successor."

"It is said that the difficulty of the mission is terribly high."

Someone muttered, "The Holy Emperor of the Empire usually starts selecting a successor at the end of his life. What is Adam doing? Is he about to die?"

"He won't die even if you die. Maybe he's preparing for a rainy day." Someone added.

"That's too early. It won't be good for the heir. It will definitely make him a target of public criticism."

"Maybe he's afraid of being killed suddenly..."

"Kill Adam? The entire universe..." Someone said halfway and was unable to continue, and the surrounding voices suddenly fell silent.

Everyone knew what he wanted to say, "There is not a single person in the entire universe who could kill Adam."

But everyone knew why he stopped, because the only one was sitting right below.

Many eyes swept over Qinglong, and no one bothered about the topic, and they all passed it over tacitly.

(End of this chapter)