Chapter 212 [Alienation Energy] Upgrade Route Selection

"After repairing this Star King, the next step is to play with those people slowly." Li Ming thought to himself and gradually merged into the crowd.

On the street not far away, Qinglong's figure suddenly disappeared.

Gray Eyes, who was following secretly, suddenly twitched his eyelids and turned around abruptly, and saw Qinglong at the end of the street.

His figure instantly appeared behind him. Before he could say anything, he heard the other party say, "Don't be so nervous. I'm just not used to being followed."

Huitong said nothing, secretly surprised. What kind of method is this?

Even though he had been following Ulrich since his castle without diverting his attention for a moment, he was still deceived.

His A-level gene seed is called [Ubus Protoss], and his eyes have the preliminary ability to capture information.

The information state is produced by the interweaving of each living organism and the cosmic environment. It is not a taste, but a trace of existence.

Even for a Class A life form, it is difficult to reach this level. He can only barely capture the information state and cannot make a specific distinction.

But even so, he is already very powerful. At least no one can hide in front of him.

wrong…

He suddenly thought of something and couldn't help asking, "More than ten days ago, I secretly sneaked into your studio. Did you discover me then?"

"What do you mean by infiltration?" Li Ming asked back. What Theo followed at the beginning was just a [Mimicry Projection].

Theo frowned, stared at him for a long time, and shook his head: "Nothing."

This person cast an increasingly heavy shadow in his heart.

Meanwhile, while the two of them were delayed, the surroundings had become noisy, and many plunderers were pointing at them, obviously having recognized them.

Li Ming had finished his work and immediately returned to the Iron Castle.

Less than twenty-four hours later, repairs to Ulrich's Iron Castle had begun.

As soon as he walked into the hall, Li Ming heard a wailing sound.

"Master Collector, I have no choice. I have fought to the very end. Look at the wounds on my body."

Brown was kneeling on the ground, crying bitterly, covered in blood, and seemed to be seriously injured.

"Those mechanics were so cruel! I used my body to block them, but they ignored me and just stepped right over me!"

Brown's eyes were filled with tears as Cassis, expressionless beside him, recounted, "A total of 114 items were lost during the repairs, and 112 were recovered."

"Those escaped mechanics left the Iron Castle immediately and seized the interstellar spaceships at the port. It's impossible to find them back now."

Brown trembled and looked at Ulrich pitifully, "My lord, I am loyal to you, but I am so small..."

Ulrich frowned and did not respond, but looked at Sandro beside him.

"It's not him." Sandro shook his head with a look of contempt: "This guy is too weak. Who can feel at ease if they bribe him?"

Ulrich waved his hand impatiently, and Cassis took Brown away, and then brought up Yasu behind him.

"Oh, it seems to be him." Sandro's eyes lit up and he pointed at the human in front of him.

"Morpheus, a senior staff member of the Security Department." Cassis frowned.

Morpheus' face turned pale and he quickly crawled on the ground. "Master Collector, I don't understand what Mr. Sandro is talking about. I have never met Mr. Sandro."

"You are qualified to contact me?" Sandro sneered.

Ulrich's face was indifferent, and Cassis took him to another place where several people were already standing there with dazed eyes, seemingly still alive.

Are they looking for a traitor? Did the enemy boss personally identify him?

These people were bribed by Sandro, which was really unlucky.

Li Ming looked at it for a while and couldn't help shaking his head.

When Ulrich noticed they came back, his face turned a little ugly. This scene of cleaning up the house was somewhat embarrassing.

"It's okay, you guys continue." Li Ming found a good position and watched with interest.

Ulrich felt uncomfortable and snorted coldly, "The entire security department, all executed."

"Alas, life forms are so untrustworthy." The burly Sandro shook his head. "Do you know what conditions Rob offered them? Five million star coins. Just five million star coins, and the door to your collector's lair will be opened."

"I have a suggestion. Why not make some mechanical bodies? These living beings don't have trustworthy metals. I have some right now. I'll give you a 20% discount. How about it?" Li Ming spoke at the right time.

Ulrich's face turned dark. He still remembered the ghost programs on the mechanical bodies around Li Ming. Who would dare to use them?

If they use these living beings, the other party will have to spend some money, but if they use those mechanical bodies, Qinglong doesn't even have to spend any money.

Theo, who had been following Li Ming, looked down at his smart terminal and frowned, saying, "My people just received news that the joint fleet lost track of the Bardor system three hours ago."

Among the three A-level life forms present, only Theo's subordinates are relatively organized.

Li Ming's heart moved slightly.

"Lost trace?" Ulrich looked over. "What happened?"

"I don't know yet, but they were previously suppressing a small organization supported by the Torch," Theo added.

"Never mind them, let's contact Torch first." Sandro shook his head. Ulrich looked at Li Ming, "There's a section of the main gun missing in the maintenance room."

"Main gun?" Li Ming looked puzzled, then suddenly realized, "The one taken from which main ship?"

"It seems to be nearly a hundred meters long. Who took that thing?" He was quite surprised.

"Huh?" Sandro was surprised, then laughed. "Maybe it was those stupid looters. The dismantled main gun is useless."

Ulrich's eyes flickered. He had already made some general inquiries and found that no plunderer had ever seen the main gun.

However, that thing was really useless, and he originally sold it as an accessory.

Ulrich had a lot of things to deal with and had no time to deal with them.

Most of the Iron Castle was in ruins, but a small part remained intact. He chose a room and destroyed all the surveillance and listening equipment inside.

He took out his smart terminal, opened the Black Hole Network, found Ford's account, and sent a message: "Why did the Combined Fleet suddenly disappear?"

There was no immediate response, and Li Ming didn't care. He put it aside for the time being and opened the control page instead.

Now I finally have some free time to process the batch of mother ore in the space.

Putting his hands into his arms, he absorbed the small ones first, while also developing the gene seeds.

Time passed, and after about twelve hours, the mother ore in the folded space was finally absorbed by him.

After deducting the 100 yuan consumed, there are 1,247 yuan left.

A familiar prompt popped up on the control page, asking whether to consume one thousand mother ores to reduce the switching cooldown of the control object.

This is what Li Ming was waiting for. He clicked OK without hesitation and controlled one side of the page. The dense text disappeared line by line.

The half-hour switching cooldown is shortened again, directly to 15 minutes, which is already very short, and subsequent actions are more convenient without having to calculate the time carefully.

There are still 247 special energies left, which is enough for emergencies.

Finally, the three dimensional crystals were absorbed extremely slowly, and it took an hour to be completely absorbed.

A prompt popped up on the control page: [Alienation Energy Detected]

"Huh?" He looked at the control page and saw a separate column of alienated energy, which was not arranged under the obscure and uncertain divine energy.

He seemed to remember, wasn't this thing called divine energy?

What changed?

Li Ming was quite surprised and thought about it carefully.

Alienated energy is the carrying energy required to upgrade A-level control objects, and is not the same as divine energy.

"Tsk..." Li Ming was very surprised. It seemed that this dimensional crystal also seemed to be different.

That divine energy seemed to come from Super Power Istanbul.

As his life level improved and his horizons broadened, he began to understand more and more what level of power the so-called planet-tearing power of Super Power Istanbul was, and that this was achieved under severe interference from the main universe.

No wonder the Torch Organization firmly believed at the time that this move could scare the Itlan civilization.

Li Ming guessed that it should be related to the level of the dimensional creatures that are the source of the dimensional crystals.

Absorb the other two dimensional crystals and obtain three portions of alienated energy.

He was eager to try it out, and after glancing at the control page, he felt an urge to consume directly.

However, he quickly suppressed this impulse and began to combine himself. Currently, he only had three alienated energies, so he could not upgrade blindly and needed reasonable planning.

He will soon become a B-class life form. His main combat system will still be supported by many controlled objects, with the help of the [Mechanical Iron Cavalry] ability and possession of the [Feros Warrior-class Mecha].

However, due to the materialization, one of his important burst methods, [Thunder Frenzy], could not be used.

Therefore, the first thing is to upgrade his old friend, the Tank Guard, to replace the [Feros Warlord-class Mecha].

[Tanwei] has accompanied him all the way from Silver-Ash Star, so he has made great contributions.

Using alienated energy did not increase the upgrade cost, but with the infusion of nine million metal energies—

[The Tank Guard mecha will soon be upgraded to Class A. Please choose an upgrade route.

materialize

Control

Li Ming looked at the pop-up prompt. It was reasonable that there was an additional effect rather than a simple upgrade.

In the real world, not all B-class weapons and A-class weapons require mother ore or dimensional crystals as materials.

Using these during upgrades will bring additional strengthening effects. Having experience in strengthening mother ore, Li Ming was not too surprised.

"These two routes correspond to materialized use and controlled use." Li Ming pondered. The [Feros Warrior-class Mecha] was repaired to an A-class mecha, so there was no such prompt.

The original purpose was to use the [Tank Guardian] mainly as a materialization, so the [materialization] upgrade route was naturally chosen.

The prompt disappeared, and on the control page, the icon of the Tank Guard mecha was covered by golden light. The metal on the surface of the mecha fell off, revealing the complex mechanical structure inside.

The old material was absorbed by the golden light, and then turned into liquid metal, slowly covering the surface of the mecha. The overall color changed from orange-yellow, almost light gold, to a unique gold.

Its surface has a subtle metallic luster, as if it is composed of countless tiny metal pieces forming a dynamic pattern.

[Tank Guard--Class A: Advanced combat mecha, focusing on defense.

…

Manifested Ability - Stoneskin: Increases damage reduction by 25%.

It’s actually this effect, the ability to manifest?

Li Ming was surprised that all the data blessings he controlled disappeared. After careful consideration, he realized that [manifestation ability] was an ability that could directly affect the object under his control.

However, it still consumed his physical strength.

"It should be strengthened by the use of materialization, so these data blessings are useless." Li Ming pondered inwardly.

The metal energy required to control an object is generally determined by the control effect and its material.

Since there is no data support, it must be greatly enhanced, not to mention the ability of [Stone Skin] that can be materialized and used.

Evolved from the ability gained from strengthening the mother ore, it is simple and crude, directly reducing damage by 25%.

He raised his hand, and the Tank Guard mecha suddenly appeared. It became a little more sturdy, about 2.5 meters long, with sharp metal edges and corners. New armor structures appeared in many parts, which were thicker and had complex patterns. It seemed that it was not just a decoration.

A slight knock caused a dong dong sound. It focused on defense, and its defense was probably several times that of [Feros]. I'm afraid it would not be so easy for Sandro to break through the defense.

As for offensive capabilities, he smiled. With the [Thunder Frenzy], the overall convertible data has increased by nearly a hundred times.

If you become a B-level life form, cooperate with [Tank Guard], use the blessing of [Thunder Frenzy],

Tsk tsk…

He imagined that the B-level life form was right in front of him, and he would be able to unlock a control bar at that time.

By the way, there is also the [Extreme Transformation] that was intercepted last time. I wonder what kind of changes it will bring.

He does need to find the Secret Records of Liberation. His current Theory of Evolution and Secret Records of Liberation are both B-level, so there is no urgency.

He had time to fill in the blanks slowly. Many thoughts flashed through his mind, but he suppressed them again.

The next upgrade is the [Silver-Gray Particles], which are considered semi-auxiliary and not other main combat control items.

What he is considering now is endurance. Using various abilities and driving A-class armor consumes too much energy. Without some endurance, he will really become a second-killer.

The [Silver-Gray Particles] can not only strengthen the controlled objects, but also increase physical strength, which is perfect.

As for the route, choose control, because the ability of [Silver-Gray Particles] is materialized through the control column without occupying the control column.

This is the best value for money.

Another eight million metal energies were poured in, along with a portion of alienated energy. The [silver-gray particles] boiled and transformed from the inside. The nanoparticles were wrapped in golden energy and transformed into a completely silver color.

[Silver-gray particles--Level A: special nanoparticles, no one knows its origin.

…

Control Effect: Feature--[Surge of Physical Strength]

Control Ability - Fusion: Silver-gray particles can be fused with any control object of the same level to enhance its performance without occupying the control column.

It actually evolved into a characteristic?

Li Ming's heart moved slightly and he looked carefully.

[Physical Surge: Increases physical strength by 600%, and reduces physical strength loss by 25%.]

Huh~ Li Ming grinned. Good, very powerful, just what he wanted.

After consuming 17 million, he felt a little painful when he saw the metal energy change from four to two, but it actually improved his strength.

As for the last bit of alienated energy, he has not used it for the time being. These control objects are enough for now, and he keeps them for emergency use.

After dealing with these, what he needs to wait for is the improvement of development progress. Class B life form is a qualitative leap for him.

C-level life forms are simply unable to exert the power of these controls, and he is becoming more and more expectant.

(End of this chapter)