This is not mechanical ascension...

Chapter 9 Crush
Wang Bo's eyes were filled with horror. The scenes around him passed by quickly. The ground was getting farther and farther away. His heart was trembling. He subconsciously wanted to break free, but it felt like he was tied up by steel bars and could not move at all.

boom!
He was thrown out and tumbled several times on the roof. The surroundings were gloomy. Years of mining pollution made the sky as black as ink, with only a little psychedelic light shining from the Red Street.

Wang Bo was shaking all over. He caught a glimpse of the figure out of the corner of his eye. It was standing not far away, with the light behind it, so his features could not be clearly seen. There were four floating "tentacles" around his body, like poisonous snakes, which slowly retracted behind him.

"Extended implantable mechanical arm, mechanically modified body, where did this big guy come from?" His teeth were trembling, and he spoke carefully: "You...you...excuse me...what...do you want to talk to me about?"

"Ma Wu, where are you?" Li Ming asked, deliberately lowering his voice.

"Ma Wu?" Wang Bo's heart skipped a beat. He felt that the voice sounded quite familiar, but he didn't have time to think and blurted out, "He, he is in the old house."

"Specific location"

Wang Bo swallowed his saliva and said, "On the street behind the Red Light Street, there is a house with a black tiger pattern spray-painted on it."

"How many people are inside?"

"There are... not many people, only Ma Wu and a few younger brothers. I can... I can lead the way for you and lure them out." Wang Bo said cautiously.

Wang Bo was so frightened that his eyes blurred and the other party appeared in front of him.

A piece of rag was stuffed into his mouth, and then his whole body suddenly tensed up, his eyes widened, bloodshot, and then tears welled up.

His arms had been twisted into a knot. "Mmm... Mmm..." The extreme pain made his body twist. He whimpered and looked at Li Ming pleadingly.

"Not many people? Do you think I'm a fool?"

Li Ming looked down at him and said, "Wait, I will take the rag out of your mouth. If you dare to make any sound, I will kill you without hesitation."

Before Wang Bo was mentally prepared, the cloth strip in his mouth was pulled out. However, the desire to survive in his heart made him suppress his instinct to wailing. His pale lips trembled and were clenched tightly.

"Tell me, what's going on?"

Wang Bo didn't dare to have any more thoughts, and said in a hoarse and trembling voice: "That... that is a branch of the Tiger Gang, led by Scarface Tiger, with sixty or seventy people in it."

"Sixty or seventy people, Scarface Tiger?" Li Ming stared at Wang Bo with increasingly cold eyes. This guy had just set a trap for him.

Wang Bo looked at the man with fear and trembled, but somehow he felt that the look was familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere before, and the voice was the same.

Suddenly, his pupils widened and he almost screamed out loud: "You, you are..."

He couldn't make a sound as his mouth was stuffed. Li Ming had an indifferent expression. Wang Bo had a lot of contact with him. Combining his voice, body shape and various features, it was not surprising that he could recognize him.

Wang Bo was so frightened that it even overshadowed the severe pain in his body. This person turned out to be Li Ming! ?
It was difficult for him to reconcile the ruthless man in front of him, who had a cold expression, acted ruthlessly and decisively, with the person who was timid in front of him and didn't dare to look up at him.

"I ask, you answer." Li Ming said seriously.

Wang Bo nodded hurriedly. After pulling out the strip of cloth, Li Ming asked many details about the place and then fell into thought.

Wang Bo's face was full of flattery. "Brother Li...Brother Li, I was wrong in the past. Please be magnanimous and forgive me for the sake of our friendship..."

"What's your password?" Li Ming asked, holding Wang Bo's smart terminal in his hand.

Wang Bo was startled, and without delay, he gave a string of numbers, "745297"

I wrapped my finger with a cloth strip, opened the Star Network, and indeed found a name with the note "Brother Ma".

Li Ming nodded, "Okay, you can go now."

Wang Bo was stunned at first, and then his expression changed drastically. Before he could open his mouth, a metal drill attacked Li Ming from behind and pierced his head directly, and red and white objects scattered all over the ground.

"Huh..." Looking at the scene in front of him, Li Ming slowly exhaled.

After a moment, making sure that no traces were left, he stepped into the shadows.

There were still two thousand star coins in Wang Bo’s Star Network account, but Li Ming did not dare to transfer the money, and he did not even dare to take out the smart terminal.

There were a few scattered bills in the wallet I carried with me.

Several nearly transparent purple banknotes, with circles and polygons interwoven, complex and beautiful, flowing with purple light, with a face value of only 10. This is the star coin, made of special materials, containing a certain degree of energy, and can even be used directly as a power source.

It is an anchor in itself, extremely strong, and it directly shattered the original currency of Blue Star.

"No matter how small a mosquito leg is, it's still meat." Li Ming put it in his pocket.

"According to what Wang Bo said, the people in that house are not something I can deal with right now. I can only lure Ma Wu out." He calculated that Zhang Hu had become famous in the Xionghu Gang in recent years and was nicknamed "Scarface Tiger."

Two years ago, he was valued by the leader of the Fierce Tiger Gang and was given the "Fierce-toothed Tiger" gene seed. It is said that the development progress has exceeded 90%, and the core ability has been awakened. It is a true F-level life form, and it is a high-level one.

He can't beat it.

He took out Wang Bo's smart terminal, clicked on the "Brother Ma" avatar, looked through the chat history, confirmed the colloquialisms and preferences, and edited a paragraph -
"Boss, I found a secret! Come to the back alley of the red light street!" followed by a location.

"Boss, come quickly!"

Soon, a message came from the other side - "What secret? You keep making a fuss all day long. If you lie to me again, I will break your legs."

Li Ming did not reply, but let Ma Wu bombard him with messages one after another. Only when Ma Wu stopped replying did he smile.

"He should be on his way now."

In fact, Wang Bo was not an official member of the Xionghu Gang, he just followed Ma Wu.

Li Ming returned to the rooftop and crouched, waiting for his opportunity.

……

"Damn it, you're trying to play this on me. I didn't slap you enough during the day." Ma Wu frowned. The non-stop music around him and the obscene sounds of men and women soliciting customers intertwined together made him feel even more irritated.

His focus now is on the kid named Li Ming. He didn't expect that the other party's father is so bold as to dare to play tricks on the Tiger Gang.

But this is a good deal for him. As long as he can coax the kid to the outer city, he will have the final say on how to deal with him.

"What do you mean half and half? I want them all!" He sneered in his heart.

"Get out of the way!" Ma Wu pushed away a woman who was approaching him. He was a real member of the Tiger Gang and often showed up next to Scarface Tiger. Many people wanted to curry favor with him.

"It should be this..." Ma Wu looked at the alley in front of him. It was so dark that he could hardly see the end. A woman in high heels walked out cursing.

"You useless thing, you can even think of such a way to escape the bill, you are such a piece of shit." She gritted her teeth and passed by Ma Wu.

Ma Wu didn't care and walked in. He became more and more annoyed. He would find Wang Bo and beat him up severely if he didn't give a reasonable explanation to satisfy his curiosity.

"Wang Bo! You little bastard, get out here!" Ma Wu shouted without any hesitation.

"Just him?" On the rooftop, Li Ming's eyes were fixed on him, making sure that there was indeed no suspicious person at the entrance of the alley.

"That's right. This is the territory of the Fierce Tiger Gang. There hasn't been any conflict here for a long time. There's no need for him to be alert for no reason."

This is also the reason why he chose this place as the ambush site. It is too far away and Ma Wu may not go there.

"In that case..."

Ma Wu, who was shouting, suddenly felt a chill on his neck and the wind whistling. He looked up and saw a black shadow falling from the sky and heading straight towards him.

"What!" Ma Wu was shocked. He subconsciously looked up, clasped his arms together, and took a stance.

boom!
He retreated several steps, but he also breathed a sigh of relief. The opponent's strength was not much greater than his. He just fell from the sky and used inertia to knock him back.

But they were ambushed and their faces were filled with anger. They decided to teach this guy a lesson. This place was their territory and any noise would attract attention.

However, before he could open his mouth, he was shocked to find that the figure he had sent out did not fall to the ground, but seemed to be floating in the air. With the faint light coming from the alley, he vaguely saw a silver-white mechanical arm, firmly supporting the ground.

(End of this chapter)