This is not mechanical ascension...

Chapter 680: Interstellar Concussion Impact
"What's the hurry..." Mikhail frowned at Reynolds's anxious look, "Qinglong may also be paying attention to this matter, and he doesn't have time to deal with you for the time being."

"Even if he is the ultimate life form, it is impossible for him to kill us directly across the void of the universe. There is no need to rush at this moment."

Reynolds stood still and sneered, "Do you think I'm afraid of death? I just want to see if Qinglong has any countermeasures. Instead of fleeing in embarrassment, it's better to join forces to fight back."

"Counterattack?" Mikhail lowered his head, but did not immediately deny this possibility. He pondered: "Qinglong has the Titan holy relic in his hand, and the mechanical body he created can actually kill Tandin directly."

"If this method can be applied on a large scale, it may be possible to fight against ultimate life forms."

"That's definitely not a normal method." Reynolds shook his head. "To create that kind of mechanical body, you need a higher level of metal smelting and mechanical body manufacturing technology. I'm afraid it must be made using special methods, just like the strange armor that Tandin wears."

"What I'm thinking about now is the Mechanical Holy Spirit. If we give him all the mechanical bodies we have, can we create the ultimate mechanical body?"

Mikhail shook his head slowly. "The probability is not high. The forging hammer had a lot of mechanical bodies in his hands. It's not just the number of mechanical bodies that shackled him..."

Reynolds was about to speak again, but he seemed to sense something, and suddenly lowered his head, his expression shocked, "Qinglong finally has information."

Mikhail couldn't help but look at the lit screen beside him, "He contacted both of us at the same time."

"This is your territory, take it." Reynolds put away the smart terminal.

Mikhail nodded. Although he looked much calmer than Reynolds, the pressure he felt in his heart was no less than Reynolds.

With a squeeze of their hands, a virtual screen appeared in front of the two of them. The screen was dark, with only a sound wave line rising and falling.

"Qinglong, you finally have news." Reynolds spoke impatiently.

"I couldn't get away just now..." The sound wave line fluctuated, and a flat voice came out, not giving Reynolds a chance to continue asking, "This time, I want to borrow some mechanical bodies from you two."

Both of them were slightly stunned. Qinglong's reaction seemed too calm, and he didn't seem to feel any sense of urgency towards Adam.

This gave Reynolds confidence, and he readily agreed, "No problem, we can give you any mechanical body we have."

Then he asked, "How confident are you in fighting Adam? Do you need our help in other areas?"

"Deal with Adam?" The voice coming from the screen became a little strange, "Don't worry about Adam, he's dead. I want these machines to clean up the empire..."

Wha...what?
The voice on the screen was still narrating, but Reynolds and Mikhail could no longer hear it.

They captured only four words - Adam, dead.

Reynolds' virtual projection dispersed violently, his face shattered into a mosaic storm, and a torrent of garbled codes rolled wildly in the flying digital fragments. Each string of erroneous codes was trying to reconstruct the human form, but collapsed due to the violent fluctuations in the signal.

Mikhail's mechanical pupils were spinning at high speed, and a muffled sound of overclocked melting was heard from inside his skull, as if two metal hummingbirds were colliding wildly in his eyeballs.

Overloaded plasma sparks burst out from the joints, and the bluish-white plasma spread along the alloy skeleton to the floor.

The shock to consciousness caused the body to overload. Although there was a cooling device inside the body to prevent overload, it was unable to play any role at the moment, and the data processing center even completely crashed.

"Two, two..."

The voice seemed to come from the sky. Li Ming had guessed it would be like this a long time ago, so he didn't make a video link. Otherwise, there would be more things to explain.

Mikhail struggled to maintain his consciousness and finally calmed down, but he couldn't help asking, "Adam, isn't he the Ultimate Lifeform?"

"It is indeed the ultimate life form, but what does this have to do with his death?" Li Ming's voice remained calm.

At this moment, Reynolds' signal stabilized slightly, but he fell into disarray again after hearing these words.

Of course it does!
Mikhail shouted in his heart, that was the ultimate life form, how could it die like this?
He even doubted whether the person on the other side of the screen was Qinglong.

"Please send someone as soon as possible." Li Ming didn't say much. He just left a sentence and ended the call.

"Where is he?" Reynolds restored the connection again. He had too many questions in his mind and looked at Mikhail. "What happened? How did Adam die? Was it Qinglong who killed him?"

"I... don't know." Mikhail shook his head hard.

"How could you ask him to end the communication if you didn't ask clearly?" Reynolds couldn't help but complain.

"He wants to end it himself, how can I stop him?" Mikhail frowned, but hesitated and said: "Could this be a trap?"

"Do you suspect Qinglong and Adam are teaming up to kill us?" Having been in contact with Mikhail for many years, he guessed the other party's dark thoughts at the first moment.

In the past, he would have definitely refuted it immediately, but what was happening now was too bizarre.

Adam is the ultimate life form. It has been just over an hour since Adam emerged from the Empire's mother planet, and they are still worried here.

As a result, it was discovered in the blink of an eye that Adam was dead, which was hard to believe for anyone.

The two looked at each other in silence, their hearts in a mess. It was Mikhail who cheered up first and said in a deep voice: "Let's see if there is any latest news from the Black Hole Network. Such a big thing can't be done quietly."

He called up the virtual interface and entered the black hole network. The special software built specifically for them immediately pushed several messages.

Mihaly only took a quick glance, and his body almost lost control again——
"Adam revealed Qinglong's true identity. Qinglong is Li Ming and Li Ming is Qinglong."

What kind of incredible news is this!

Mikhail felt that even with his own sophisticated processing system, it was difficult to understand the meaning of this sentence, not to mention the rest of the relevant information -
"A third Ultimate Life Form entered the scene and joined hands with Adam to attack Li Ming. Li Ming resisted and killed Adam. The third Ultimate Life Form disappeared without a trace."

The following news completely put him into a numb state, and his body was temporarily taken over by the intelligent system, so he would no longer be affected by fluctuations in consciousness.

But the amount of information contained in these messages was really hard for him to understand.

He carefully checked and found that the messages pushed by the black hole network were all from X-level life forms, who were frantically spreading this kind of information and a large amount of video materials.

It is now spreading in the black hole network at a crazy speed, and it is estimated that it will affect the interstellar network in the near future.

According to the Black Hole Network's speculation, the reason these X-level life forms did this was probably to prevent Li Ming from killing and silencing them.

He stared blankly at a picture on the screen. A huge metal mechanical body filled with a sense of violence was holding a spear. It pierced the head of a burly giant and pierced it into the void.

It was not until a long time later that Mikhail's body moved. Reynolds' shadow had completely disappeared, and it was estimated that it would be difficult to connect again in a short time.

"What the hell is this..." Mikhail couldn't describe his feelings in words.

One second I was still worried about what impact Adam would have, and the next second I learned that Adam was dead.

Beating Adam to death, Qinglong... no, Li Ming, to what extent has he evolved? The news came from many sources, and this matter was probably true. Mikhail reacted quickly and hurried to prepare the mechanical body.

……

At the same time, in the federal capital, in the presidential palace, Malcolm has urgently summoned his cabinet members.

In the most secretive meeting room, everyone present was divided into two sides, with a total of no more than twenty people, who appeared in the form of virtual projections. They were all the core decision-makers of the federation.

But at this moment, these powerful figures all had worried looks on their faces.

"Adam...is he really the ultimate life form?" An old man on the left couldn't help but ask.

"I have repeated it more than a dozen times. In that situation, since he has appeared, there is only this one possibility." Malcolm was also anxious and had lost his usual calmness.

A cabinet member frowned and said, "But according to our research progress, the Ultimate Gene Seed is far from being usable. Even if the Empire's research progress is faster, it can't be this fast."

"Maybe it's the Eternal Throne..." Malcolm said uncertainly. At the last moment when the signal was cut off, he vaguely saw that the throne under the huge shadow seemed familiar.

"The Eternal Holy Throne?" Some cabinet members were confused and not even aware of the existence of the Alchemist Baron.

Others who knew some inside information were surprised and said, "The Eternal Holy Throne has this ability. If the Alchemist Baron cooperates with Adam, isn't he afraid of being eaten?"

"Now is not the time to discuss this." Malcolm said in a high-pitched voice, "Now is the time to discuss how to deal with the threat posed by Adam!"

Everyone was startled, but remained silent. It was the ultimate life form, and it was their old rival Adam.

How to deal with it? Who knows how to deal with it?
"The situation may not be critical. Even if the individual Ultimate Lifeforms are invincible, expanding territory does not rely solely on individual strength." Someone comforted him, "In the short term, the interstellar situation may not change much."

The middle-aged man next to him reminded: "The problem is that no one knows what power the Ultimate Lifeform has, and it is highly likely that the Void Anchor will not be retrieved. With that thing, the spatial distance will be infinitely shortened..."

A dignified-looking guy in a general's uniform said in a tough manner: "Then we will fight. It's nothing more than starting the wandering plan again. I don't believe he can split himself into multiple roles and cooperate with the Star Alliance and Azure Dragon!"

"As long as we wait until the second Ultimate Life Form appears, the problem will be solved."

When mentioning this name, some people can't help but sigh: "Qinglong, he is really vicious. He let his students go and avoid this trap..."

Malcolm rubbed his brows. The scene was noisy, with people talking about compromise, fighting...all kinds of things.

At this moment, a virtual screen popped up in the center of the conference table.

Alves?

Malcolm looked slightly shocked as he looked at the name on the screen, which was transferred from his office.

Without any hesitation, he answered the call immediately. The sounds around him instantly fell silent, and everyone looked over.

Alves' bust appeared in the center, with an unspeakable look on his face. Malcolm didn't know what this expression meant at the moment, so he asked hurriedly, "You escaped?"

"I guess so." Alves closed his open mouth again and barely uttered three words.

Malcolm followed up with another question: "What are the casualties? Did you bring back the Void Anchor?"

Alvis shook his head: "There were no casualties, but the Void Anchor was not brought back."

Malcolm's expression had eased slightly after hearing the first half of the sentence, but when he heard that the Spear of the Void had not been brought back, his expression sank again and he said in a low voice:

"Damn Adam! We went there to help the empire, but he was so ruthless!"

"When our ultimate life form is born, we must seek justice from him!"

Malcolm did feel like he was stabbed in the back. Although he sent people to provide support and they had their own ideas, they were also helping the empire after all.

It would have been fine if Adam cheated others, but he ended up cheating their own people as well.

The others also looked unhappy.

"That day will never come." Alves shook his head, not giving Malcolm a chance to interrupt him again, and said immediately: "Adam is dead."

!!!

The conference room, which was originally filled with mixed emotions such as anger and uneasiness, suddenly became dead silent after these words were spoken.

Malcolm was struck by lightning and his face froze in an instant. The other cabinet members were also stunned.

For a moment, no one spoke.

Alves felt helpless, he had known this would be the result, and he was in almost the same state when he witnessed the whole incident.

However, Alves did not give everyone time to react. He still had a lot to report, so he continued, "Adam was killed by Qinglong... or more precisely, by Li Ming."

"After Adam's revelation, Qinglong himself confirmed that he and Li Ming are two sides of the same person, and there is no such person as Qinglong."

Malcolm, whose mind had just begun to become active, was blown to pieces again.

What did he hear? Qinglong didn't exist at all and was the same person as Li Ming?

I...what the hell is this...

In the face of this incident, Adam's murder doesn't seem that important... What the hell.

Malcolm boasted that he had experienced a lot, but these things were indeed beyond his understanding.

Alves ignored it and continued to report: "During the battle between the two, a third Ultimate Life Form appeared and cooperated with Adam to besiege Qinglong, but it was useless and finally left helplessly."

Only Alves' voice echoed in the entire conference room. Malcolm's eyes were dazed. Was this still the StarCraft he was familiar with?

The third ultimate life form?

Where the hell did this third ultimate life form pop up!

Malcolm's mind was in a mess, filled with shock, horror and a hint of despair.

The ultimate life form can only be slaughtered by Azure Dragon? What's the point of playing that!
After a long moment, he licked his dry lips and asked, "No more?"

(End of this chapter)