Chapter 173: Trial [Gene Warrior Ring]

Ya Luo said helplessly: "See, the Land of Stars is full of these sick guys."

Li Ming didn't care and said, "Let's go buy some daily necessities. We'll be staying here for a while and we don't even have a bed."

"Okay." Yaro sighed.

Li Ming then walked out of the store and looked around. The small artificial sun in the sky had dimmed, with only hazy simulated moonlight shining down.

Kai was the only one left in the store, which made him feel more alert. However, when he looked at the huge mechanical body that followed him like a shadow, he could only sigh helplessly.

…

In the machinery store that occupies several storefronts, there is a wide variety of firearms and weapons.

On the second floor, the first group of people who went to Li Ming’s shop during the day were in the room, discussing something.

The scarred man said in a fierce voice, "That guy was quite gentle and agreed to our request very easily."

"Later, several more groups of people went there, and there didn't seem to be any conflicts."

"It shouldn't be a big deal. Judging from his weak and vulnerable attitude, he probably isn't someone capable. Why did the Star Hunter ask us to go there specifically?"

The guy called Daddy, with a muscular body and a burly figure, his two mechanical arms covered in oil, said in a deep voice, "Who can come to the Land of the Stars without some ability?"

"You can tell what kind of person he is at a glance. If he had such ability, he wouldn't have ended up here."

The scarred man chuckled twice, while the old man paced back and forth, "Have you found out where he came from?"

The scarred man quickly responded, "I only know that there are two mechanical bodies following him. I don't know their specific life levels yet."

"Dad, didn't the Star Hunters tell you?"

"Mechanical bodies..." Dad frowned. "The Star Hunters are being secretive. They must be no ordinary people."

"Just keep an eye on it for now. No matter if it's just a gimmick or he really has the skills, just don't let him start."

Competitors are natural enemies, especially in the same area. Every time the other party does business, they will feel that they earn less.

Of course, the Star Hunter's orders are also an extremely important part.

"Don't worry, we will try our best, and the other two old guys will definitely try to trip us up." The scarred man immediately assured.

"All kinds of skills? What kinds of skills?"

Suddenly, a strange voice was heard in the room.

"Who!" Dad glared angrily and suddenly looked up. He didn't know when the door had been opened. A figure was standing there with electric arcs in his eyes, which was chilling.

At the same time, a strong smell of blood followed, and Dad's expression changed drastically, "Who are you!?"

Li Ming smiled and said, "Let's go together."

"You!" His pupils dilated as he sternly shouted, "You actually dared to kill someone in this shop. Master Collector will not let you go!"

The scarred man was trembling all over, and the people behind him were also filled with horror. They didn't expect that the people who were so gentle a few hours ago would now be killing them.

He doesn't look weak at all, he is clearly a terrifying killing god.

"You're wrong. Missing and killing are different." Li Ming shook his head.

"I'm from the Star Hunter. If you dare to kill me..." the old man with the mechanical arm threatened again.

"Hehe..." Li Ming grinned, and a terrifying aura suddenly burst out from his body. The shadow under him seemed to extend infinitely until it covered the entire room.

………

"A second-hand sleeping pod is so expensive?" Yaluo cursed, standing in front of a mechanical body. "One hundred thousand, at most, not a cent more."

"If you can, pack all three for me."

The owner also spoke in a foul language, but when he saw Yaluo turning to leave, he put on a smile and flatteringly pulled him back.

After paying the bill, he spat at Yaluo again.

"What kind of quality is that?" Yaluo was pulling the goods on the way back, wondering what Li Ming was going to do.

According to his teacher's instructions, he and Li Ming should now be hiding on a remote floating island in the Land of Stars.

But now, Li Ming actually opened a store in the "Collector's Cabinet". He suspected that if he told his teacher about this, the other party would definitely not believe him.

What's more troublesome is that Li Ming is still unwilling to let Kai go. He has been struggling with this matter and doesn't know how to deal with it.

In order not to reveal his identity, he lied to the anti-plundering department and said that he was not in the Land of Stars, but this was not a solution after all.

While I was thinking about it, I saw the interstellar villains on the road, as if they were inspired by something, and were rushing to a certain direction.

Several people bumped into him one after another, and he couldn't help but feel curious. He suddenly grabbed one of them, and the other person immediately became furious.

But when he realized he couldn't break free, he changed his expression and said with a smile, "Brother, what's wrong? Is there anything I can help you with?"

"What happened? Where are you going?" Yaluo asked.

"You don't know yet? The entire 'Daddy's Big Machine' store was taken down, as well as the 'Giant Gun Shop' and the 'Flame Rose'."

"They say the shops are covered in blood. Even though there are no bodies, I'm afraid they're in serious condition," the guy exclaimed. "I wonder which tough guy did this."

"Are they all machine shops?" Yaluo suddenly had a premonition.

"Yeah." The guy was stunned for a moment before he realized, "Yeah, why are they all machine shops?"

Yaluo opened the local network and saw that, as expected, this matter had become a hot topic of discussion. Although the bodies had not been found yet, everyone knew that these people must have been killed.

Everyone is guessing who was responsible, but some have said that these stores all sent people to the same newly opened machine shop today.

Ya Luo left him behind and hurried back to the store.

"Where is Li Ming?" He grabbed Kai and asked anxiously.

"Just up there," Kai said, his face bewildered, as he pointed at the metal staircase.

He hurried upstairs, found Li Ming, and asked anxiously, "Did you do this?"

Li Ming glanced at him and shrugged.

Yaluo hesitated to speak. After verifying this matter, he didn't know what to say.

Kill without any hesitation. Why does it feel like this land of stars is too suitable for Li Ming?

"I hope everything will be alright." Finally, this was all he could ask.

"According to the unspoken rules here, I should be fine." Li Ming said, feeling a little emotional in his heart.

Not having to worry about traces or surveillance cameras, the technique feels really good.

"As long as there are no corpses, it's fine." Yaluo added. He had been in the Land of Stars for a long time and there was no truly safe place here.

It is impossible for the Collector to pursue anything for the sake of a few ordinary life forms. It is enough for him to just respect his rules on the surface.

"What's in your hand..." Only then did Yaluo see clearly the purple ring that Li Ming was fiddling with.

"Just a little gadget." Li Ming stuffed it into his arms.

This is an upgraded smart terminal for control, and is now a B-level item.

During the massacre, he did gain some extra benefits. He found two mother ores and some precious metal materials in those shops.

One of them, named "Dovia Glass Ore", was used on a smart terminal. After strengthening it, it consumed another 500,000 metal energies to upgrade it to Class B.

[Smart Star Ring--Class B: Multiple intelligent information processing terminals.

…

Control effect: Occupation - Hacker

Control Ability - Intelligent Assistance: Can mimic the host's surroundings within a 50,000m radius, assist in processing, and penetrate the camouflage of the same level.

The range is greatly increased, and the ability to see through camouflage is also gained.

…

At the same time, in the center of this area, there was a palace isolated by tall metal walls.

A figure held a broken and shattered mechanical battle blade in his hand, and his eyes were specially customized high-power magnifying glasses.

He was wearing a black and red tuxedo, and he was tall and straight, with a light red skin.

A sharp red tail swayed constantly, and a pair of curved horns grew on its head, like a demon from some interstellar indigenous mythology.

"Holtley, elemental carving craftsmanship, it should be the battle blade of the Paladin Legion, but it's too badly broken." He said lightly, "Sixteen million."

"Master Collector." The Vigo man standing below had a slightly changed expression, his four eyes flashing. "In order to bring back this severed blade, my team lost two-thirds. Sixteen million is too much..."

Before he could finish his words, his vision blurred and the broken blade stuck straight into the floor in front of him.

"If you don't want to sell it, take it away. No one in the Land of Stars can offer a higher price than me. If you want to sell it in another civilization, I won't stop you."

The high-power magnifying glass on the collector's face folded, quickly shrank into the size of a small lens, and then put it into the right pocket.

The Vigo man carefully reached out his arm for the broken blade on the ground, his arm veins bulging as if he wanted to pull it out. However, even if he used all his strength, the blade remained motionless.

"Eighteen million, the final price." The collector frowned slightly and added two million.

The Vigo man's throat rolled, and he nodded with difficulty, his body covered in cold sweat. "Deal."

The payment was transferred on the spot. After the Vigo man left, a middle-aged human dressed like a butler stood behind the collector and whispered, "The Vigo man is really calculating. He actually wants to take it away."

The Collector raised his hand, and the broken blade fell into his hand again. "This is interesting."

"Hotan, what happened?" he inquired.

"Sir, three machine repair shops have been cleared out." He whispered.

The Collector paused, his eyes blazing with fire. "Who did this?"

"We're colleagues. Look..." Huo Tan handed over the smart terminal. "We have clean hands and feet."

The Collector was slightly surprised. He took the smart terminal, but the fire in his eyes gradually extinguished. "An outsider, driving the Sera Royal Spaceship?"

"Any news on this matter?"

"I checked," Huo Tan responded. "About half a month ago, Duke Bai Ye of Sera and Atom, a cadre of the Star Hunters, died on the same unknown planet. They were searching for the whereabouts of a batch of goods."

"This guy should have done it, but I don't know his background."

"Two B-level life forms?" The collector was even more surprised and continued to check the information. "They look quite powerful. They spent five million to rent No. 131, Area B, and opened a mechanical repair shop?"

The Collector chuckled, "Interesting, huh?"

The smile stopped and became unpredictable, his eyes stopped on a picture, which was the name of Li Ming's shop and a few lines of annotations.

"We only accept repairs and customizations of weapons of Class C and above, with no upper limit?" The collector's eyes flickered.

Huo Tan said, "Yes, he's very arrogant. Do you want to go and see him? Aren't you always looking for a good mechanic?"

"It's just a gimmick." The Collector shook his head, his expression remaining calm. "Could he be a great mechanic?"

Huo Tan paused and continued, "Also, those gentlemen have invited you to discuss how to deal with the Itlan coalition fleet."

"This is the third invitation. Do you want one?"

The Collector frowned and snorted, "Have they contacted the Torch?"

"The Torch Organization's external channels are all closed." Huo Tan shook his head. "They refuse to communicate with the outside world."

The Collector said coldly, "Refusal to communicate? They killed the people, and they want us to bear the consequences? Damn it!"

"Forget it. In the end, we can only hide in the Red River Star Stream. Once the combined fleet has gained nothing, they will naturally leave."

Huo Tan hesitated, took a step forward, and whispered, "This time, the coalition forces may not give up so easily. Asmara's experimental base is suspected to have been attacked by the Torch Organization. Her fiancé is a high-ranking official in the Xingyuan Empire..."

The collector's expression was gloomy. "What an unexpected disaster! Tell them, I'll be there right away."

"Yes." Huo Tan nodded.

…

"What a decisive guy." Saber swiped his smart terminal, his expression uncertain. "He's quite capable."

At this moment, the door was pushed open, and Saber's dark eyes stared at Li Ming, "What are you doing here? Are you going to clean me up too?"

"Your Excellency has misunderstood." Li Ming shook his head: "I came here to ask you to help me prepare a medicine."

"Potion?" Saber frowned. "Do you have a recipe?"

"Yes." Li Ming nodded and called out the formula, which was the formula given to him by Old Wu to suppress the activity of sublimated particles.

Saber looked at it for a while and said indifferently, "Come and get it in six hours."

"So fast." Li Ming raised his eyebrows slightly. After thinking for a moment, he took out a small piece of transparent particles and asked, "Have you seen this kind of material?"

This was a piece of the golden vertical pupil that Li Ming had cut off with great difficulty, and he was going to ask someone about it.

"Time gel, this is an extremely special material." Saber stared at the particle in his hand and said hesitantly, "It will become harder and harder as time goes by. I saw it at a relic exhibition a long time ago."

"Do you really know it?" Li Ming suddenly became interested. "Is there any way to dissolve it?"

"Yes." Saber stared at Li Ming, "But why should I tell you?"

Li Ming was helpless, "I really don't like killing."

Saber chuckled: "Opening the door for business, there is no reason to turn away customers, just wait..."

He walked into the back room and took out a tube of green liquid. "Glue-eating insects. This stuff can destroy the gel structure. Five hundred thousand."

Li Ming paid immediately and couldn't wait to return to the store, went up to the third floor, closed the door, took out the metal vertical pupil, and then put it into the container.

Pour the green liquid in carefully and observe carefully, then you will find that the green liquid is actually wriggling little reptiles.

After a while, the golden vertical pupil melted, revealing a ring.

Li Ming picked it up and a gleam of light flashed in his eyes.

[Gene Warrior's Ring - Consumables: A broken evolutionary path.

Control conditions: 5 million metal energy

Control Effect - Inheritance: Consume the control item to gain the profession - Gene Warrior.

(End of this chapter)