This is not mechanical ascension...

Chapter 75 Master Level Ability

The lights came on and the voice of the artificial intelligence sounded: "Welcome, stranger."

Li Ming took a look inside, but did not go in immediately. He took a few photos around the spacecraft and then submitted them to the Black Hole Network for an estimate.

Only then did he realize that Uncle Lame had sent him a message a few hours ago.

"Boy, I stole something. Silver Ash City is conducting a city-wide search. However, the city guards have been transferred away, so there is a shortage of manpower. Where can I find you now?"

OK! Li Ming let out a long sigh and quickly replied: "I'll send you a location, come find me here, and remember to bring your stuff with you."

Uncle Lame replied with an OK expression, obviously waiting for news from Li Ming.

With a huge weight lifted off his chest, Li Ming began to explore the spaceship, only to find that he could not go anywhere except the public areas as all the cabins were locked.

"Sorry, strange visitor, your permissions are limited to public areas." The artificial intelligence apologized for his inquiry. The spaceship card can open the spaceship, and that's all.

"Only those authorized by the captain or with the highest authority can access other cabins."

"The captain is dead..." Li Ming was speechless. He opened the control page and found the small intelligent computer he had obtained before. After taking control, a large amount of information about hackers suddenly flooded into his mind.

A large number of characters continued to surge, permission mechanisms, firewalls...soon, he became a mature hacker.

"This kind of low-level artificial intelligence AI can be cracked by overloading the basic digital logic to perform a DoS attack, but I don't have the tools at hand."

He frowned and activated [Computing Power Support] again, raising his hacking skills to advanced level. His mind was in turmoil, and the overwhelming amount of information made Li Ming dizzy.

"Huh..." Li Ming rubbed his temple and took out the simple smart terminal he had bought before and carried with him. He took it apart and reassembled it in no time.

"Using it as a carrier, although the Y332 chip's graphics processing is not very good, the core frequency is still OK, but it needs to break through the power consumption wall..."

He thought for a moment and then said, "As a public visitor, the electrical appliances I bring have special voltage requirements. I ask you to increase the voltage you provide by 25%."

“No problem,” the AI ​​responded, saying that this was within the permissions of a public visitor.

"As a public visitor, I have a job to complete with the help of a public computer. Please open the data transfer port."

"no problem."

Li Ming connected the smart terminal to the data transmission port and then plugged it into the adjusted voltage socket. Li Ming quickly started the operation.

"Warning! Warning!" The lights in the room flickered and the artificial intelligence began to shout, sometimes fast and sometimes slow.

In just a minute or two, sparks began to pop from the smart terminal in Li Ming's hand.

At the same time, all the lights on the spacecraft went out, and then suddenly brightened up again. The voice of the artificial intelligence had calmed down: "Hello, Captain."

Li Ming was not surprised at all. If there were no suitable tools, this low-level artificial intelligence could have solved the problem more quickly.

"Open all the cabins and call up the navigation logs and the recent surveillance." he ordered.

"As you wish."

drip-drip-drip-
All the hatches were opened at the same time, and Li Ming explored them one by one to see if there were any good things left behind.

About half an hour later, Li Ming moved everything he could find to the public area.

There are quite a few weapons and even more guns and ammunition, but not many of them are useful, and most of them are garbage.

But if he absorbed it, it would also increase his metal energy by nearly a thousand points.

Li Ming absorbed the metal energy while checking the navigation log.

"These guys have cleared at least hundreds of targets..."

"The chief contacted them not long after the assassination. He must be a high-ranking official..."

Unconsciously, time passed. Li Ming's eyes suddenly flashed, and then relaxed.

"Your spaceship looks good. Where did you get it? Did you just buy it second-hand?" The lame man walked in from the cabin, looking around as he walked, marveling at it.

The rectangular object on the back was covered with a black cloth.

"I didn't buy this, I picked it up." Li Ming said casually.

"Picked it up?" The lame man laughed, "Then you are really lucky."

He glanced at it casually, but his expression suddenly froze, his pupils dilated, and then he quickly walked to the pile of debris and picked up a black piece of clothing. His hands were shaking, and he couldn't believe it. "This... this... this is the symbol of "Jin"."

Li Ming turned his head and saw a red flame on the clothes.

"Seems to be."

"As if?" The lame man looked horrified. "What's your reaction? This is Jhin's spaceship! How did you pick it up..."

"Wait..." The lame man suddenly came to his senses. Looking at the spaceship card on the table, an incredible idea emerged in his mind.

His throat rolled, and he asked cautiously: "You, have you, surrendered?"

"Huh?" Li Ming was stunned. He didn't expect the cripple to ask such a question. He said speechlessly, "Do my bones look so soft?"

"I killed all those people. I took their spaceship card and came to take a look." He said lightly, but the cripple was stunned.
Killed...those people?

Did he hear it correctly?
He knew very well what level these guys were at. If someone hadn't tipped them off last time, he would have set up many traps and called on people to help.

Even so, the killing was extremely brutal and they barely managed to survive.

In the end, Li Ming was killed so easily?
A myriad of emotions welled up in his heart, and when words came to his lips, he didn't know how to say them, so he just stood there in a daze.

"By the way, do you know who the chief is?" Li Ming asked.

"Chief Executive?" The cripple shuddered, then calmed down and said, "He should be the head of the "Jin" organization."

He looked at the screen in the cabin, where the logbook data and surveillance footage were playing quickly, and couldn't help but hesitate, "Do you still have the highest authority here?"

"What else?" Li Ming shrugged. The lame man wanted to say something but stopped. Suddenly, he felt a layer of black mist covering Li Ming, making it almost impossible for him to see clearly.

"Uncle Lame!"

The lame man suddenly came to his senses and found that Li Ming had walked up to him without him noticing, with a puzzled look on his face: "What's wrong with you? I called you two or three times."

"Let me see that thing on your back." Li Ming pointed.

"Oh oh." The lame man seemed a little at a loss. With a bang, the thing fell to the ground. Then he asked: "What do you want this thing for? Isn't it just a testing device?"

Li Ming didn't say anything, he touched it and breathed a sigh of relief, which meant that nothing had changed.

Seeing that he didn't say anything, the cripple didn't ask any more questions, and said calmly: "The news of the death of this team can't be concealed for too long. You are the only target on the Silver Gray Star, so you must be the biggest suspect."

"Let's get out of here as soon as possible. I have a way. We can sneak to Kasakuk first, and then go to Sand Dust Star from Kasakuk."

"The only inter-civilization star gate is on the capital planet. We definitely can't go there. We can only sail slowly. It should take three to five years to reach the nearest civilization, Insus..."

"Then find a way to get an identity and hide for a while." "Uncle Cripple, I'm tired of listening to all this." Li Ming shook his head and interrupted: "I'm not ready to leave yet."

"You're not leaving?" The cripple glared. "Don't think you can fight Jhin just by killing these people. You were behaving well before, but now that you've revealed your uniqueness, they will never let you go."

"How do you play!"

"Of course I can't beat him. What about Professor Wu?" Li Ming asked.

The lame man was stunned, "Professor Wu..."

"If we really follow your advice, we will waste at least five or six years and won't even get any resources."

"Although Professor Wu is not very popular now, a lean camel is still bigger than a horse. It is indeed no problem for him to protect you." The lame man nodded, but frowned: "But why should he protect you?"

"Guess." Li Ming smiled, but the lame man held back his smile and glared at him fiercely.
"I'm already in my forties or fifties, and I've enjoyed everything I should have. If you want to have fun, then go ahead and have fun. The worst that can happen is that we die together."

The lame man muttered something and picked up a pipe from the pile of debris on the ground.

"Hey, this old thing is not common." He looked at it, then rinsed the mouth of the gun with water, lit the remaining tobacco in it, found a corner and sat down to smoke.

Li Mingze walked into a cabin door holding the detector, closed the door, put his palms together, and 20,000 points of metal energy were lost.

Li Ming put it into the control column and tried to activate its ability.

The control bar actually became blurred, as if it was temporarily locked.

He also keenly felt that something seemed to have changed in his body. Strands of indescribable energy continuously flowed out and seeped into every part of his body.

"Wait a moment, I should have the so-called purification potential."

Li Ming was thinking about it, and when he came out, he saw the lame man sitting by the cabin, still smoking.

He walked straight to the operating table and took out the high-end USB flash drive he had found on Chen Songnan.

The elongated cylindrical bottom has an interface.

Pulling a data cable from the console, he plugged it in, and a window popped up on the virtual screen in front of him - "Unable to retrieve data!"

Li Ming had expected that it could not be recognized. Quantum encryption was an extremely simple and crude encryption method. The randomly arranged passwords were almost endless, and only the quantum key entangled with them could decrypt them.

"What is this?" The lame man was curious and came over to take a look.

"Quantum encrypted USB flash drive." Li Ming explained casually, his hands moving across the virtual keyboard like phantoms, and a large number of data windows kept popping up and disappearing.

"Quantum encryption?" The lame man was quite surprised. "It's not a simple thing."

“Drip-Drip-”

A red warning window appeared on the virtual screen. Li Ming frowned slightly, "Can't unlock it?"

"You want to unlock it?" The lame man was even more surprised. He coughed twice, and white smoke came out of his mouth and nose. "You know quantum entanglement, the encryption method keeps changing. Only the quantum key can match it."

"Without a team and server cooperation, it's simply a pipe dream to unlock it."

Li Ming naturally understood.

"Advanced hacker is not enough." Li Ming pondered, hesitated for a moment, and finally decided to upgrade the small intelligent computer.

This thing definitely cannot be handed over to Qin Xiao directly like this.

Four thousand points of metal energy were consumed immediately, and the small intelligent computer underwent a transformation. The metal shell became more refined, and all the physical buttons disappeared. Instead of becoming larger, it shrank to the size of a watch.

【Small Intelligent Brain--D: A more professional computing power support tool.

……

Mastering the Effect: Hacking Techniques - Advanced
Control ability - computing power blessing: temporarily improve hacker skills to master level. 】

"Master level?"

Li Ming raised his eyebrows. Hacker master?
He felt a familiar dizziness, and then he activated the [Computing Power Blessing]. In an instant, an indescribable feeling came over him, and a large amount of information was instilled into his mind.

It seemed as if he had been sitting in front of the intelligent computer for decades. His daily task was to operate the intelligent computer day after day, and he could easily come up with all kinds of relevant knowledge.

"Huh... Such a powerful master." Li Ming shook his head to relieve the pain, but suddenly froze, his eyes were filled with astonishment, and a line of words appeared on the bright blue screen that only he could see -
[Hacking skills are upgraded to master level, and the ability is obtained - personal terminal. Do you want to consume the [Small Intelligent Brain] to permanently solidify this ability? ]

After a certain technology is upgraded to the master level, it can be derived into an ability term, and by consuming the control object, this ability can be permanently solidified in the body.

Li Ming suddenly realized that a master craftsman who had been immersed in a certain field for many years always had his own unique skills, but his unique skills were a little bit against the norm.

[Personal terminal: Temporarily turn yourself into a server terminal at the same level]

"Logically speaking, only when one is promoted to C-level, the skill level is equivalent to the master level. This temporary improvement is equivalent to taking a shortcut." Li Ming pondered.

To upgrade to C level, the amount of metal energy consumed would be tens of thousands.

Solidification must be done, otherwise there is basically no hope of cracking it. The server terminal is completely different from the ordinary terminal.

But after it was solidified, the small intelligent computer disappeared, and naturally the master-level hacker's blessing was gone.

“What’s wrong?” Seeing Li Ming standing there motionless, the cripple thought he was frustrated in cracking the code, so he comforted him, “Don’t be discouraged. Quantum encryption is a well-known problem. Many bounty hunters are afraid of encountering it.”

"Every profession has its own expertise. It's amazing that you can crack the artificial intelligence of this spaceship. Many hacker experts hired by bounty hunter teams are only at this level."

Li Ming glanced at him and sat back at the operating table.

He thought of a solution. He first asked a master hacker to write a cracking program, and then directly start the cracking program after it was solidified.

"drop-"

Several hours later, Li Ming breathed a sigh of relief, pressed the last button, and the cracking program started.

His fingers touched the operating table, and then, some special connection was established between the two. His body seemed to be performing high-frequency physical activities, quickly becoming hot and emitting mist, which left the lame man stunned.

During this period, Li Ming took several breaks. It was not until dawn that a large number of windows popped up on the virtual screen in front of him, all of which were densely packed with files.

The lame man next to him, who was originally smoking calmly, now had his eyes almost popped out of his head, his entire face almost glued to the virtual screen, and said in disbelief: "You really solved it?"

"What else? Did it come to its senses on its own?" Li Ming was exhausted both physically and mentally, but he still had the heart to joke as he opened the files one by one.

"No...let me take it slow." The cripple felt dizzy. When he learned that Li Ming was already an E-level life form, he was not that surprised.

Because, that is still something that can be done by "human beings", but what about now?

After all, I have been working as a bounty hunter for many years and have some understanding of hackers.

The hacker's skills are one thing, and the equipment is another. The latter is even more critical than the former.

It is really outrageous that the artificial intelligence of such a small spaceship can crack quantum encryption.

(End of this chapter)