Chapter 126: Everything is ready for Sein's bounty

Chen Jinglong had been watching from the side, silently, his eyes fixed on Li Ming.

"What alloy ratio is this?"

"Flame Blue Alloy can actually be refined to this level..."

Ding Hui was amazed and discussed with Cheng Tienan. Li Ming vaguely saw Huang Jijian's figure in the corner, but did not come over.

"Okay, okay, go away." Xia Yuanlun waved his hand impatiently and took Li Ming and the other two back to his office.

"Li Ming wants to apply for the mecha lab, so he's definitely qualified. He's built several weapons, and I've handled them all, so I have a solid knowledge of all the relevant stuff."

Only after Xia Yuanlun had vented his anger by using Li Ming's armor did he formally discuss the matter with Chen Jinglong.

"A small laboratory is essentially a funded laboratory. He is capable, talented, and willing to work hard, and he perfectly meets the requirements." Xia Yuanlun spared no effort to praise him.

The specifications, approval procedures, and funding allocations of small laboratories cannot be compared with those of large laboratories.

In essence, it is to support researchers to continue on their current research path.

"I understand." Chen Jinglong seemed to have an idea in mind long ago. Without Xia Yuanlun saying a word, he agreed: "I will convene the professorial committee as soon as possible. For a small laboratory, only one-third of the votes are needed to pass it."

"You're not in serious trouble." The last sentence was said to Li Ming.

"You have broken the record of Blue Planet by being approved to have your own small laboratory at the age of nineteen." Chen Jinglong said with some emotion.

Although Li Ming has amazing development potential, he would not vote in favor if he did not have the ability.

After all, professors at the University of Science and Technology also have their own sons and grandchildren. Who doesn’t want to take advantage of them?

He was a little skeptical about Li Ming's application for a laboratory because there were other elements involved, but as long as it was compliant, it would be fine.

"Thank you, Dean, Professor." Li Ming expressed his gratitude, but he was not surprised at all. Passing was within his expectations.

He has already made a C-level armor. If he still can't pass, Chen Jinglong should not be the dean.

"By the way, that Castellon might try to contact you. Although he has a sharp tongue, he is a real talent. You might as well contact him." Xia Yuanlun reminded before leaving.

Li Ming seemed to be thinking about something, and suddenly asked, "Does this great mechanic have a lot of mother ore?"

At the mention of the mother ore, Xia Yuanlun's face darkened again. Remembering the robbery of his collection, he glanced at Chen Jinglong coldly, "That's for sure. The Castellon family has been specialized in mechanical craftsmanship for generations. Their background is terrifying."

Li Ming understood and left with Chen Jinglong. He personally sent Li Ming back to the laboratory.

According to him, this matter can be done within two days and is not a big deal. Remote voting also counts, so he should consider the location of the small laboratory.

At the same time, after obtaining approval, the construction of the laboratory and the purchase of equipment will be the responsibility of the Polytechnic University.

He can purchase experimental equipment with a total value not exceeding 20 million star coins, and after specifying it, the Polytechnic University will purchase it.

Professor Xia has provided him with several options that are very cost-effective.

After seeing Chen Jinglong off, Li Ming strolled back and forth on the island. He must have chosen this place as the location for the laboratory, as it was not only safe but also convenient for doing anything.

There is a small forest on the back island, and Li Ming estimated the coverage area by eye.

"Let's just stay here, it should be enough." Li Ming calculated that this place was about 100 to 200 meters away from the experimental building.

These green belts are not a problem, just cut them up.

To be on the safe side, he found Li Ruoning who had returned from vacation, and showed him a virtual map to ask if the land had any other uses, or if there was anything buried underground.

"That place..." Li Ruoning checked the information and finally shook his head. "There's no other use for it. The professor originally planned to build a private swimming pool there, but Professor Bai complained, so the plan was shelved."

"Private swimming pool..." Li Ming said with a tense expression, "Since it has no other use, I'll just circle it."

Upon hearing this, Li Ruoning couldn't help but ask curiously, "Circle it up? What are you going to do?"

Li Ming explained: "My small laboratory is going to be located there."

"Oh..." Li Ruoning nodded in realization, then suddenly froze in place, his eyes wide open. He couldn't help but move closer: "Your small laboratory!?"

"Did I hear you correctly? When did you get a small laboratory?"

"It will be available in two days." Li Ming explained, and then said, "When the time comes, we can just ask them to pull a line from our lab to save me the electricity bill."

"No, you..." Li Ruoning still felt a little dreamy.

Is Li Ming going to have his own small lab? So many professors at the Polytechnic University have tried to get their applications approved, but why is Li Ming so confident?

Is it because of Professor Wu?

She thought of it subconsciously, but it was immediately denied because Wu Yanqing's popularity was not good and he couldn't get in through the back door.

"What laboratory?" Li Ruoning asked.

"Mecha lab." It wasn't a secret, Li Ming said, "The equipment in the studio is no longer enough, so I applied for a lab."

Li Ruoning swallowed hard. Is this even human language?

If those bald uncles in the laboratory knew about this, they would probably be jealous to death.

Thinking about it, she rolled her eyes and nudged Li Ming with her shoulder: "Junior brother, your lab hasn't started recruiting yet, right? What do you think of your sister?"

"You?" Li Ming looked Li Ruoning up and down, then shook his head at the expectant look in his eyes: "Not really."

Are you kidding me? Hiring people? That's just asking for trouble.

Li Ruoning rolled his eyes. "Hmph, you'll know when the time comes. Managing a laboratory is not that easy."

Li Ming was too lazy to pay attention to her and simply went back to his room. Li Ruoning was still surprised and wanted to share the news with others.

In less than two hours, the news that Li Ming was allowed to set up a small laboratory spread throughout the laboratory, and staff from several departments were discussing the matter.

This was beyond their imagination. Anyone who could be approved for a small laboratory had to be at least at the tutor level, but after Li Ming came to the University of Science and Technology, half a semester had not yet ended.

Many people subconsciously thought that there was an inside story, but it was quickly overturned. If it happened inside their laboratory, it would not be difficult to understand.

It is well known that Professor Wu values ​​Li Ming.

But this time it involves the entire Polytechnic Institute, and there are many people who dislike Wu Yanqing, and even these people have been looked down upon many times in their daily lives.

It can even be said that it is more difficult for them to apply for a small laboratory than for normal people.

They didn't know that because of Li Ming's amazing development potential, there were not many people willing to make things difficult for him for no reason.

Out of curiosity, they each used their connections to find out the truth behind the matter.

By the evening, all the information was gathered together and the general situation was clarified.

"He managed to create a C-rank armor with his bare hands? What an incredible talent!"

"Those alloy materials weren't wasted. Our civilization doesn't have an assembly line capable of producing C-class armor."

“…”

The laboratory was bustling with activity. For them, this was a big deal.

However, Li Ming didn't care about it. After finishing his exercise, he returned to his room while facing everyone's subtle gazes.

Open the bounty section of the Black Hole Network and stare at Sein's avatar, with a series of numbers below it.

Thirty million.

The Night Chaser can temporarily raise his soul level to C-level, and the improvement is proportional.

The main combat control objects on his body are all C-level, and they can still play a role even if his own life level is raised to C-level.

Once his development progress is further improved and with mutual cooperation, he will be able to fight against Class B life forms in a short period of time, or at least have no problem escaping.

No matter what big plans the torch has, or any other twists and turns that may arise, things will be much more relaxed.

But how to get money on the black hole network becomes a problem.

Unless it was absolutely necessary, he would definitely not recharge directly, as this would result in a small loss of half of his money. Besides, he didn't have any money on hand at the moment.

Therefore, offering a reward became his choice, and he has been looking for a suitable reward these past two days.

To his surprise, he actually found the bounty on Sein.

This bounty only appeared recently. Li Ming speculated that he had been dismissed from his position within the Sera civilization, and killing him would have almost no additional public opinion impact.

That's why it was put on the bounty list.

The maximum bounty for a C-class life form is 100 million star coins, so Sain’s 30 million is not much.

There is also relevant information about Sein above. The development progress of Class C does not exceed 50%. The order of gene seed fusion is: F-class - Bell Rabbit, E-class - Striped Leopard, D-class - Wind Falcon, C-class - Sky-Splitting Eagle, which is good at speed.

Compared with his development progress, this price is not high.

Saiyin now lives in the embassy of the Sera civilization, which is heavily defended and almost impossible to kill.

However, the person who offered the bounty probably didn't think that anyone would take action within the Blue Star. It was likely that someone would only take action against him after he returned to the Sera civilization.

There would definitely be enough money to kill Sein and buy the Night Chaser, and even more than enough.

He had thought about this before, but breaking into the embassy by force was really unrealistic.

He thought for a moment, then suddenly exited the Black Hole Network and began browsing the news, eventually settling on a certain piece of news—

Duke Sera Baiye will arrive in Jingnan soon.

"The Sera royal family has arrived, he has to go to greet them anyway," he thought.

Just at this moment, there was a knock on the door. When the door opened, Chen Yan came as promised.

The woman had strange eyes. For the entire afternoon, the laboratory was discussing the news that Li Ming was allowed to set up a small laboratory.

Even a few colleagues who didn't have a very good relationship with her came over and took the initiative to ease the situation.

"I have decided to help Torch. You pass this message back to them, but the specific entry time and entry port will be determined by me." He said to Chen Yan.

"You agree?" Chen Yan was stunned. "Aren't you afraid of being implicated by Torch?"

"You said they have a big plan that requires my cooperation. I'll have to get involved sooner or later, so I might as well take the initiative." Li Ming said perfunctorily, "Do you understand what I mean? Don't make any mistakes when conveying it."

"Don't worry." Chen Yan nodded. Just as she was about to leave, she asked hesitantly, "Do you want to wait another half an hour?"

Li Ming looked at her in surprise, then waved his hand and said, "Not today. How can we do it every day?"

Chen Yan's face darkened and he walked out.

After seeing Chen Yan off, Li Ming's eyes gradually became serious.

At one o'clock in the morning, he took out his spare smart terminal, entered the background of the security system, synchronized the monitoring screen, and adjusted the monitoring probe.

After everything is ready, switch the control objects to [Soul Visor] and [Smart Terminal].

Turn on [Intelligent Assistance] and [Psionic Shroud] abilities.

After thinking about it, he was still not at ease, so he fumbled around in the control panel and found the [Mimicry Mask] that he hadn't used for a long time, and gave it a slight makeover.

This thing is D-level. The mimicry can cover the entire head and can even fine-tune the size of the head, but it cannot change the characteristics of other parts.

He opened the door carefully, made sure there was no sound outside, and walked out sideways.

He glanced at the synchronized surveillance footage again and saw that there was no change in his door.

After confirming, Li Ming walked out. It was already late at night and there were not many staff members in the laboratory.

But I still encountered a few, but thanks to [Smart Assistance], I was able to escape danger.

When he arrived at the underground laboratory, the heavy alloy door was closed and all the detection equipment nearby was turned off. He just needed to erase this part of the log after returning.

However, he couldn't get in for the time being because he didn't have the code in Luochuan's hand. Today he was just trying out the method to see if his idea was feasible.

He followed the same path back to the room and calculated the time and distance.

As he thought about it, he sighed, "Oh...it's my own territory, why are you treating it like a thief?"

He had no choice. Without Wu Yanqing's order, Luochuan would definitely not let him go in alone.

Wu Yanqing, this interstellar street urchin, has disappeared and no one knows where he is. He cannot be contacted.

"Create a virus and see if I can steal the information." Li Ming took out a USB flash drive, inserted it into the smart terminal, and began typing a series of codes.

Early the next morning, before he went to find Luochuan, the other party came to him first.

"Junior brother, you've given me a big surprise." Luo Chuan said with a wry smile, "Yesterday, when I was in a meeting, I heard that you were allowed to set up a small laboratory."

"When I got back this morning, the old guys from those departments all came over to give me some indirect advice."

"I was just about to look for you." Li Ming grinned and handed over a USB flash drive. "I've drawn a set of design drawings and need to buy some related equipment. I was just thinking of asking my senior brother to help me see if it's possible."

"Oh?" Luo Chuan raised his eyebrows and teased, "Are you so impatient to move out? This small studio is really unfair to you, Junior Brother."

As he spoke, he took the USB drive and inserted it smoothly into his smart terminal. Several pages popped up, and a large amount of data, drawings, and information appeared in front of him.

"Tsk, old Taoist, it's not a big problem. It's just that this biometal forging table is not very good. The main manufacturer, the Pavila civilization, is currently under sanctions from the Itlan civilization, so we can't trade with it."

"You can use a magnetic levitation melting table instead." Luo Chuan immediately pointed out a problem, and after discussing for a while, he pointed out several inappropriate points to Li Ming.

(End of this chapter)