This is not mechanical ascension...

It’s bad enough that I’m controlled by others while I’m alive, but now I can’t even decide my own death?

Sind's eyes were gradually covered with bloodshot, his body was shaking violently, and thousands of lava cracks appeared on the surface of his skin.

Black energy was flowing in every crack, and the edges of the body seemed to be faintly dispersing, as if it was about to split.

But the amethyst shackles on his body also glowed, and the rune chains were intertwined, as if to restrain him.

"Epileptic syndrome was originally a mental illness that would form multiple personalities. However, as he evolved, it gradually evolved into an ability similar to supernatural powers." Anduin explained in a low voice, "It can allow him to split into multiple sub-bodies."

Li Ming nodded.

As if realizing that he could do nothing, Xinde's emotions gradually calmed down. He suddenly rushed forward and hit the metal cage with a "duang" sound.

His head was squeezed in the middle of the cage bars, his eyes were stretched narrow, and the electric arcs surging on the bars burned scars on his cheeks.

"You can't stare at me like this forever!" Xinde's face twisted, he screamed, but also grinned: "I don't know when you will start the experiment, but before you start, I will rush towards death without any scruples!"

"Ha ha ha ha…"

Although he failed to disgust the other party by committing suicide, Li Ming's behavior also made him realize his own importance.

No matter how Li Ming did it, I'm afraid no one except him could use this method. And how could a person like the other party keep an eye on him all the time?

It would be even better if the other party was really forced to stare at him all the time.

Listening to Sind's shrill laughter, Anduin frowned and couldn't help having a headache. People like Sind were the most difficult to deal with. They were not afraid of death but also very crazy.

When they caught him before, they had experienced this. This guy did not defend himself at all after falling into the trap, which really restricted him, Perkins and others.

Li Ming's face remained calm throughout. He was not disturbed by Xinde's crazy expression. He just switched the control object silently.

Just by stretching out his finger and pointing, Anduin's face changed slightly. He felt the change in the time parameters.

The space near Xinde began to ripple, which was not a spatial fluctuation, but a deeper kind of movement.

Sind could already feel the sticky texture of honey in the air, coming from all around and gradually surrounding him.

The flowing black hair solidified first, followed by the limbs. The capillary network under the skin still remained expanded from the rush of blood.

"No, no..." Xinde also noticed something unusual and wanted to resist but he could do nothing. The air coming out of his mouth solidified and the tip of his tongue remained in a curled position.

The whole person seemed to be covered by an invisible crystal and sealing layer, like a mosquito entering amber, unable to move.

"Is this... time exile?" Anduin looked horrified, but after a closer look, he found something wrong.

Because there were still strong emotional fluctuations in Xinde's eyes.

"Thoughts are not solidified?" Anduin realized this and took a breath.

The body is exiled, but the mind is not. The cage of time traps Sind tightly. He can think, but his anger can do nothing to his body.

For such a crazy guy, this feeling of powerlessness is undoubtedly the greatest torture.

Even Anduin felt his scalp tingling when he put himself in the other person's shoes.

Why provoke him? Anduin looked at Sind with pity.

Li Ming's gaze swept across Xinde's body. This was naturally the fine control of the Star of Eternal Silence. Freezing the body without freezing the mind required certain skills.

"I will definitely cooperate!" Kubra saw Li Ming's eyes locked on him, and a chill ran from his tailbone to his forehead. He hurriedly explained: "I'm not sick, and I won't commit suicide. I'll do whatever you ask me to do."

Xinde’s miserable situation was right in front of his eyes, he could neither live nor die. This imprisoned state, half dead and half alive, was too painful.

He is a normal person and doesn't want to experience that kind of loneliness at all.

"Forget it, it's safer to seal it up." Li Ming shook his head. He really didn't have time to keep an eye on these guys. It would be disgusting if one of them really committed suicide one day.

Amid Kubra's continuous wailing, he also sealed the other party.

However, this time, even my thoughts were frozen, and time was solidified. Even if countless years had passed, I couldn't feel it.

"Chairman, I didn't expect that Sind was so crazy. He also left a backup plan in his body. A single thought could cause his genes to collapse." Anduin said with an apologetic tone.

It is not easy to enter a state of genetic collapse, as the highly evolved body will resist this self-destruction.

It can only be done with the assistance of other means, such as gene editing at the microscopic level.

There are only a handful of people in the entire galaxy who have this kind of technology, and it is also extremely risky. Only a madman like Sind would do this.

"Don't worry about it." Although there was a small incident, Li Ming didn't care. The mechanical body behind him took the cage and prepared to move it to the special storage area.

"Some time ago, Anatoly sent me some portions of 'Void Flowing Golden Spot'. They taste pretty good. Would you like to try some?" Li Ming invited. It seemed too unkind of him to send others away after they had run around for him.

Anduin naturally would not refuse the opportunity to get closer, and the two of them chatted casually and walked out of the spaceship dock.

As soon as he walked out of the door, he ran into Ulrich who was hurrying over. He seemed to be preparing to report something, but when his eyes swept over Anduin, he closed his open mouth again.

"Since the chairman has something to deal with, I will go back first." Anduin said tactfully.

"No need..." Li Ming stopped him and said, "Anduin is one of us, just tell me what you want to say."

It must not be an urgent matter, otherwise Ulrich would not have come in person to show his presence.

Ulrich immediately said, "Ten minutes ago, someone made a scene at Stargate Node No. 3 and demanded to see you."

"Oh?" Li Ming's eyes moved slightly. The entire galaxy wanted to see him. If it was an ordinary troublemaker, they would definitely not report it to him.

"who?"

Ulrich explained: "After being captured by the patrol guards, they called themselves the Titan survivors and claimed that they had extremely important news to tell you. The term 'Titan survivors' triggered a sensitive word reminder, so they came to me."

"Titan descendants?" Li Ming was slightly stunned. Why did the Titan descendants come to find him inexplicably?
Anduin next to him also felt it was quite strange. The Titan descendants had always avoided this interstellar space in the past, but this time they actually came to the door on their own initiative.

"Do you want to go and take a look together?" Li Ming asked Anduin.

"No, they're here to see you. I won't go and join in the fun." Anduin declined, letting him know that he had already given him enough face, and it would be tactless to follow them.

"Okay, then you follow Ulrich and rest for a while. I'll see what these Titan survivors want to do." Li Ming nodded and instructed Ulrich, "Send them to the Heavenly Palace." "Yes."

He returned to the Heavenly Palace first, but he couldn't help speculating in his mind, and even thought of the Titan relics. After all, there were two holy castles whose whereabouts were unknown, and he had always been thinking about them.

He didn't have to wait too long, as the patrol guards soon brought the person over.

In the reception room, Li Ming met three Titan survivors with strange looks.

Recorder?
Looking at the iconic inverted water drop-shaped brain, Li Ming recognized it at a glance.

In the Titan Chronicles, there are special records of this branch of Titans. They are considered the historians of the Titans, responsible for recording and organizing many major events. Many powerful Titans have special recorders following them.

The chapters about the recorders occupy quite a bit of space in the Titan Chronicles, probably because they were the writers.

They also compiled the relevant information about the Glorious Dynasty. Although they are not good at evolution, their status in the Titan branch is not low.

At once, Li Ming had many thoughts in his mind, but he spoke warmly, "You are welcome, please sit wherever you like."

Charles and the other two were a little restrained. Comparing the levels of life, the life form in front of them was of the same nature as the Lord.

"What would you like to drink?" Li Ming said as he walked to the wine cabinet next to him. "Spicy or mild, or something else?"

"No, thank you, sir." Charles shook his head and introduced himself first, "You can call me Charles, this is Boris, and this is Gad."

He pointed left and right, and the three of them crossed their arms at the same time. Then, the fingertips of his left hand pointed from the center of his eyebrows to the north, and the little finger of his right hand drew the trajectory of a waning moon. He bent slightly, revealing a peculiar brain structure.

"You don't have to be so polite." Li Ming raised his eyebrows. This was an ancient etiquette from the Titan era, a way to express utmost respect to the superiors.

Immediately, he stretched out his right hand and waved it in front of him. This was the Titans' response.

Charles' eyes flickered slightly. The other party could respond to this relatively unpopular courtesy, which meant that he had studied the Titan Chronicles carefully.

At this point, Charles took his people to sit down, and Li Ming also sat in front of them, saying gently: "This journey of yours is not short."

While waiting for a few people, he had already checked the jump information of the other party's spacecraft. The initial record was at an extremely remote star gate node in the Sea of ​​Stars.

"We have come here with a mission, no matter how far the journey is, we will do it at all costs." Charles said solemnly.

"Oh." Li Ming narrowed his eyes slightly, "You can speak frankly."

"We are here because of the Eternal Abyss." Charles said frankly.

Yongyuan? Li Ming couldn't help but become interested. He raised his head slightly and motioned for the other party to continue.

"I have checked your relevant information. You should have reached a very high level in the King Trial. You should have also carefully read the Titan Chronicles and have a basic understanding of Yongyuan."

Perhaps because Charles was afraid that Li Ming would not believe him, he could not help but emphasize, "However, what we are going to talk about is information that has never been recorded in the chronicles. It was at the end of the war, when the entire tribe had already fallen apart. When the masters were dying, they personally relayed the news to their ancestors, which was then compiled and passed down to this day."

Li Ming's interest couldn't help but piqued. He sat up straight to show his seriousness.

After emphasizing this, Charles did not continue to keep Li Ming on suspense, but said in a deep voice: "First of all, it is the existence form of Yongyuan. Are you wondering why the King of the End suddenly appeared to attack you? Yongyuan has not yet entered its active period."

No, I am not confused, Li Ming shook his head in his heart.

Charles continued, "You must have seen some descriptions in the Titan Chronicles that suspected that the Eternal Abyss had consciousness and was not just a chaotic environment."

"Not bad." Li Ming nodded.

Charles said solemnly: "In fact, at the end of the war, the masters have verified that Yongyuan does have self-awareness, and it is extremely perfect, and can even be directly compared to a living being."

Li Ming frowned slightly. You guys with water-drop heads don’t need to tell me. He has already talked to me.

He definitely wouldn't tell these guys about this. He just had a blank expression on his face. "You came all the way here, is this what you want to tell me?"

Seeing that Li Ming was not surprised, Charles's face changed slightly. He looked at the other two and said, "It seems that you know more than we thought."

Charles said very carefully, "Then you should know that before this evolutionary era, before the evolutionary era of the Titans, there were many evolutionary eras."

"However, they were all swallowed by the Eternal Abyss. On the one hand, it did so because of the laws of the universe, and on the other hand, it also had its own purpose."

Yong Yuan's purpose? Li Ming also became more serious.

"It will subvert the universe." Charles spat out a few words.

"Subvert the universe?" Li Ming frowned slightly.

"That's a bit vague." Charles further explained: "The Eternal Abyss is essentially the emergency management mechanism of the universe. Once certain factors in the universe reach a threshold, the Eternal Abyss will be triggered."

"This mechanism is very common. Whether it is in dimensional space or on planets in the main universe, or even in living things, there are similar mechanisms."

"But the fatal thing is that this mechanism has developed self-awareness. It is no longer satisfied with just appearing when it is needed. It wants to completely occupy the universe."

"This phenomenon has been going on for a long time. Yongyuan has already devoured a lot of cosmic power in the past evolutionary eras."

"However, although the universe has no self-awareness, it has instincts. When Yongyuan was not allowed to appear, it still suppressed him tightly."

Li Ming frowned. This information did not surprise him too much. As for Yong Yuan's purpose, he did not care. Anyway, he had become the primary target.

So, he took the initiative to ask for the information he wanted to know, "So, what are the specific factors that affect Yongyuan's activity? The number of ultimate life forms?"

The expressions of Charles and the other two changed, and Li Ming seemed to disagree with what they said.

Self-awareness devoured the universe. God knows how shocked the masters were when they learned about this.

"Don't you believe what we say?" Charles hesitated.

Li Ming was a little displeased. Seeing these people grumbling and wanting to open their legs but unwilling to welcome him, he simply said:

"Let me be frank with you. I don't care what Yongyuan's purpose is. His first goal right now is definitely to kill me. Don't ask why. Anyway, his first goal is to kill me."

"That's why Tanus came here. So, no matter what earth-shattering purpose he has, it has to come after me."

"So if you know anything, just tell me. I'm getting impatient."

(End of this chapter)