Chapter 159: The First Mechanical Guard

"Also, according to the information provided by our insider in the Torch Organization, we can confirm the existence of dimensional gods. This matter will be determined soon."

Prince Baijan told his son and ended the communication.

Ford then answered several more calls, some of which made him look respectful, while others made him curse.

After a rare moment of calm, he rubbed his brows, and suddenly received a piece of news, and immediately jumped up and cursed.

"Damn Duke Bai Ye!" He gritted his teeth and hurried to Wu Yanqing's laboratory.

He originally wanted to talk to Li Ming to see if this guy had any evil ideas.

As a result, he got some news that made him even more upset.

"What do you mean Li Ming has left Jingnan Star?" Ford stared at Luochuan.

Luo Chuan explained with a smile: "It means exactly what it says. Earlier, Li Ming had already left Jingnan Star with Ya Luo."

"Who, who asked him to leave?" Ford felt something was wrong.

"Why can't he leave?" Luo Chuan was puzzled. "I heard that Duke Bai Ye also left."

Ford was furious. "Isius's death hasn't been thoroughly investigated yet, how can he leave?"

Luochuan shrugged.

"Where is he going?" Ford asked.

"I don't know the details, Your Highness, please ask him yourself." Luo Chuan shook his head.

Ford suppressed his anger and left, and immediately contacted Li Ming. No one answered the first time. It was not until the second time that Li Ming's big head popped up from the virtual screen, looking quite lazy.

"Who told you to leave?" Ford immediately asked.

"Myself." Li Ming said slowly.

"Why do you want to leave? Do you know that if you leave now, you will be highly suspicious?" Ford said aggressively.

"What suspicion?" Li Ming was confused at first, then suddenly realized: "Oh, you mean, the death of Isius?"

"Didn't they find a fire source in the Wing Shadow Fleet? Besides, you searched me thoroughly but couldn't find the ring. What does this have to do with me?"

Ford frowned: "Then why do you want to leave?"

"Because I'm scared."

Li Ming's answer surprised Ford. Before he could ask further questions, he heard Li Ming continue:

"Asmara already dislikes me, so there's no guarantee she won't take advantage of Isius's death."

"Of course, more importantly, I don't want to get involved in the vortex of your game. I want to find a place to hide for a while and wait for the storm to pass."

Ford was still puzzled when he heard this. "Even if Asmara targets you, my father will help you."

"Help me?" Li Ming sneered. "Unconditionally?"

Ford paused, "But if you just leave like this, you'll get into trouble."

"I know." Li Ming smiled, "But I believe that His Highness Ford will help me get rid of this trouble."

Ford's face looked grim, and he knew that he was the one who had to clean up his mess again!

"Where are you going?" he gritted his teeth.

"You don't have to worry about this. We have the Star Network and can keep in touch at any time." Li Ming smiled and ended the communication.

After putting away the smart terminal, he found the room he was in was a little messy. It was not only narrow but also had a faint smell.

When I opened the door, the corridor was just as crowded, with all kinds of miscellaneous items placed randomly.

Outside the porthole, the light is like stars, leaping and sailing.

"Junior brother, the spaceship is too broken, don't worry about it." Ya Luo sat in the driver's seat and turned his head with a wry smile.

The spaceship is narrow in front and wide in the back, with a streamlined shape. Its external armor is slightly worn and its paint is severely damaged.

On the left and right sides are mechanical horizontal bars embedded in the hull, and at the ends of the bars are spiral propulsion jets that can be adjusted in angle and are relatively flexible. It is a modified civilian spacecraft and also has a symbolic fire control system.

"It's okay." Li Ming shook his head and asked, "How long will it take us to reach the Land of Stars?"

"We went through the star gate and came directly to the Aurora civilization. It should only take us more than half a month to get there." Yaluo estimated.

"But we need to take a detour, which may take a month and a half."

"A month and a half?" Li Ming frowned slightly. "That long?"

"Interstellar travel usually takes several months," Yaluo said nonchalantly.

"Then why take a detour?" Li Ming was puzzled.

"Uh... because of some reasons." Ya Luo spoke vaguely, and Li Ming did not ask any further questions.

Returning to his room, Yaluo's spaceship had been castrated and its infrastructure was incomplete, not to mention the monitoring equipment.

Li Ming took out the Warp Folding Ring he got from Isius, and a hint of heat flashed across his eyes.

On Jingnan Star, in order to avoid unexpected situations, he never took it out. It was not until this moment that he had the opportunity to study it carefully.

After turning it slightly, he had a magical feeling.

The space around the ring seemed to be distorted. When I reached out my hand, it felt like it was wrapped in a layer of water film. I could vaguely feel a special space, but strangely, I couldn't reach in.

"Is there some kind of verification?" Li Ming frowned and thought for a moment, and found that it was indeed the case. It seemed to be genetic verification.

He wasn't too surprised. Such a high-tech item would seem strange if it didn't have this kind of verification.

"I can only try this." Li Ming put the ring away again and put it into the control column.

In an instant, he could vaguely sense a space. It was not very big, only about five cubic meters.

He tried to stretch out his hand, and then his arm seemed to really sink into the space, with most of the front end disappearing. When he pulled it out, he was holding a metal tube similar to a syringe in his hand.

It was as thick as Li Ming's arm, and a creature with wings spread was carved on its surface. Through the glass, one could clearly see the blue and green liquid.

"The gene seed of the Wind and Thunder Pterosaur." A smile appeared on Li Ming's face.

It turns out that permission verification can be bypassed in this way, and it is more convenient and can be stored at will.

Then, he took out everything in this space.

There were quite a lot of things, and Li Ming checked them one by one. Among them was actually a D-level gene purification potion. He also had this thing, which he had obtained during the previous entrance examination, and he brought it this time.

"This is..." Li Ming picked out a piece of black metal with golden words on the surface. He was very familiar with it. It was something from the ruins of some civilization.

It was even bigger than the one Wu Yanqing was experimenting with, almost as big as a head. He tried to extract the metal energy.

"One million and sixty thousand metal energies..." Li Ming grinned. He had already seen the "gold content" of this thing once.

This thing was an unexpected gain, probably given to him by Princess Asmara.

After rummaging through it for a while, he found nothing particularly good. Most of it was sundries and a few USB flash drives. Li Ming took a quick look and saw a lot of files, but he didn't take a closer look for the time being.

After sorting these things out and stuffing them all into the space, Li Ming's eyes moved slightly. He was about to try the [Space Flash] ability, but suddenly stopped and broke out in a cold sweat.

"Fuck, I almost forgot. We're in a jump orbit right now. If I do a space flash, will I fall out of the spaceship due to the speed difference? That would be the end of me."

He was still frightened. His spatial ability was special and strange. If he tried it lightly, he would be courting death.

Putting this matter aside for the time being, he stretched out his hand, and a mecha suddenly appeared in front of him. It was the [Tepper Combat Mecha] that Prince Baijan once wore.

He felt a little bit of anticipation in his heart. He placed his palm on it, and a large amount of metal energy was lost. Light shot out from the titanium alloy heat sink on its surface.

The limbs, made of high-strength alloy, began to move autonomously, and each movement was accompanied by a slight hiss from the hydraulic system.

The armor plates on the body open and close like the scales of a living creature, making a sound of metallic friction.

Silicon-based nerve fibers grow wildly along the chrome alloy skeleton, interweaving with the carbon nanotube muscle bionic fibers inside, and finally interweaving into a mechanical heart in the cavity.

As the metal energy continued to surge out, the mecha underwent a profound transformation, and the flame of life was ignited in its mechanical heart.

Li Ming observed carefully. Every part of the mecha seemed to come alive. The mechanical eyes made up of fiber optic arrays flashed with the light of wisdom.

The robotic arm, made of alloy and fiber composite, is flexible and powerful. Its legs are driven by magnetic levitation devices and can move freely and quickly on any plane.

"Tapper... Creator..." He spoke in a mechanical voice, which was still very difficult.

This was the first mechanical guard he modified - [Tepper].

Tepper is a modified wearable mecha. It is purple and gold, with a sturdy appearance and sharp edges.

Most of its internal structure is composed of metal energy, so it consumes one million metal energies.

However, its combat capability is also very impressive, even surpassing Li Ming's current strength. It is estimated that it can fight against a C-level life form with 90% progress.

Moreover, it is particularly outstanding in defense.

Li Ming tried to give orders and found that the intelligence was extremely high, and the underlying code logic was locked in a very special way and could not be changed.

Then, he tried [Guards Armament] again. Suddenly, the burly Tepper began to disintegrate, and a large number of metal parts quickly attached to Li Ming's body. Its sophisticated structure was assembled again, and finally formed a sophisticated armor structure.

"So this is the form." Li Ming thought thoughtfully.

He then took it a step further by donning a tank armor and arming himself with the guards.

"You can actually do it." Li Ming was quite surprised. His current height was close to four meters, almost reaching the top of Yaluo's dilapidated spaceship.

The surface of the Tank Guard is covered with a layer of precision metal armor, and the arms and thighs are even thicker. A large shield is hung on the left arm, and its functions in all aspects are improved to a higher level.

After disintegration, in the blink of an eye, all the equipment on the surface of the body disappeared without a trace.

"It really has great potential." After trying it, Li Ming even wanted to create another mechanical guard.

Unfortunately, the metal energy dried up again, and he couldn't help but shake his head.

"【Evolution of the Lord of the Fierce Wind】, Mechanical Guards..." Li Ming secretly calculated that when he became a C-level life form, he would unlock another control column, and upgrading to B-level would also be on the agenda.

I couldn't help but be amazed for a while. The gap in metal energy was getting bigger and bigger.

Xingchuang Company has completely collapsed, Xunying Company has made a comeback, and Zhang Huaiyuan has also gotten back on track and has begun to contact the mineral planet, but it still needs some time to develop.

Of course, there is no need to rush the upgrade, just proceed step by step. Basically, he has all C-level control objects on him, which can still support his use.

It is better to become a C-level life form first. By the time you reach the Land of Stars, the development progress should reach 100%.

He had only temporarily escaped from the vortex, not completely. The Land of Stars wasn't a safe place either, and there were also the ruins of civilization...

Li Ming was thinking. At this moment, the smart terminal placed next to him flashed, the speed of the spacecraft dropped suddenly, and the lights kept flashing.

"Damn, give it a little more, don't..." There was a shouting outside. Li Ming leaned out to take a look. Ya Luo looked embarrassed and was kicking the floor.

"It's okay, it's an old problem. Let me restart it."

"It's okay." Li Ming still smiled, and Ya Luo felt more and more embarrassed.

Back in the room, Li Ming turned on the smart terminal and obtained the highest authority of the dilapidated spacecraft. There was no surveillance video, so he could only open the navigation log.

Glancing at the track, he raised his brows slightly and found that the original navigation track was quite regular, with a vague noise as the original coordinates, which should be the place of stars.

Then they set off to other places and then turned back.

However, just a while ago, after the last journey, Yaluo did not return to the Land of Stars. He should have gone to find Lao Wu.

After the spaceship restarted, Li Ming walked out and unplugged the wires. "Brother, the reason you took a detour must be related to that Star Hunter wanted poster, right?"

Yaluo's expression changed slightly, and he said helplessly, "I won't hide it from you, it's true."

"The Star Hunters are a large-scale plundering group from the Land of the Stars. Their leader is an A-level lifeform, extremely powerful."

"Oh." Li Ming became interested. "If that's the case, why did Senior Brother provoke them?"

"Alas..." Yaluo said helplessly, "Actually, I used to be a member of the Star Hunters. Not long ago, we received information about a batch of goods that the Sera civilization was secretly selling."

"The market value of this batch of goods is no less than 1 billion star coins. If we sell it at half the price, it will be around 400 to 500 million. Naturally, we coveted it, and that's why we made the move."

"Who knew that the Sera civilization used an ordinary travel ship as a cover? After they seized the goods, there were too many innocent people to kill. I couldn't bear to do it, so I had to take advantage of their unpreparedness, rob the ship, and escape."

Li Ming's eyes were blazing. "Goods worth a billion? What goods?"

"It seems to be some kind of military-grade material used to build large weapons." Yaluo couldn't explain it either.

Li Ming's eyes brightened. It was most likely made of metal. How much metal energy would that require?

"Ah, I kind of regret it now. I'm not a good person, so why would I do such a thing?" Yaluo sighed. "But I don't know what I was thinking at the time. I just did it."

"With such a large shipment, the Star Hunters will definitely not let it go. I can only go around their territory and go in another direction."

At this point, Yaluo laughed at himself, "You look down on me too, don't you? A plunderer, what good can I do?"

"No." Li Ming said solemnly, "Brother, you did a great job, great."

Ya Luo was stunned and turned his head to look. He was startled by the green light in Li Ming's eyes. He was too familiar with that look and he understood what Li Ming was thinking in an instant.

That's right, the transport ship was too obvious, Sera and the Star Hunter were tracking it, so he could only abandon it on a planet.

"No, that thing is a hot potato. Star Hunter has spread the word that no one dares to take this batch of goods." He shook his head repeatedly.

"It's too risky. Forget about it. I can't lead you into this trap."

(End of this chapter)