Chapter 213: Mimic Personality Layout and Targeting

In the combined fleet, Ford was sweating profusely. Sitting in front of him were Asmara and his father, Prince Baijan.

"Commander, do you really want me to hand over my smart terminal?" he said with difficulty. "There's no provision in the wartime regulations for confiscating officers' smart terminals."

Asmara's expression was cold. "Since you know the wartime regulations, you should remember the first sentence - unconditional obedience to the commander's orders."

Ford's throat was churning, and he felt very uneasy. He had never expected that the fleet had just initiated a communications blockade yesterday, completely closing off all external contact channels for everyone inside.

Just ask him to hand over the smart terminal today. It contains all his secrets.

He looked at Prince Baijan hopefully.

"Hand it over." Prince Baijan's voice was very gentle.

Ford's face was dejected. If his father didn't support him, then the matter was a foregone conclusion.

But...why?

He didn't quite understand. Asmara suspected that he and Li Ming had leaked the information?

He took out his smart terminal hesitantly and even thought of smashing it on the spot, but considering the technical level of logistics, he still handed it to the table.

"Untie it." Asmara spoke casually, with her head slightly raised, like a proud queen.

Ford took a deep breath, reached out, and unlocked the screen.

"Log in to your Black Hole Network account."

Ford was slightly stunned. "Commander, there are clear regulations. Members of the royal family are not allowed to..."

"Ford!" Prince Baijan interrupted in a deep voice.

Ford didn't understand what agreement his father and Princess Asmara had reached, but he knew that he could only follow orders and had no choice but to log onto the black hole network.

There were some red dots of information in the background, and he looked at them eagerly. After Asmara picked it up, he narrowed his eyes slightly and turned the screen to ask, "Is he Li Ming?"

Ford looked at the message. "Where is the Combined Fleet?"

He was confused and didn't know how to answer.

He even had an astonishing guess in his mind that the reason why he was able to join the joint fleet and was not rejected by Asmara was because of this.

It is very likely that it is because he can contact Li Ming, which may come in handy at a critical moment.

This woman is so vicious!

"That should be it." Asmara nodded. "Okay, you can go out now."

Ford subconsciously glanced at Prince Baijan, then quickly looked away and left with his head lowered.

Two soldiers wearing purple combat armor, one with a double-tailed scorpion on its chest, stood in front of the door and quickly caught up with him.

"Double-tailed Scorpion", an elite general under Asmara's command.

Sensing the movement, Ford turned around and was about to question when he heard one of them say, "We are under the commander's order to protect you 24 hours a day."

Ford took a deep breath. Was this really targeting Li Ming?

Just because that great mechanic has the ability to defeat Sandro?

Although it doesn't match the previous intelligence, there's no need to make such a big fuss, right?

He couldn't figure it out, but he was afraid. He was afraid that his deal with Li Ming would be discovered and that Li Ming would fall into a trap.

Although the black hole network would not record any messages, he felt a chill at the thought that Asmara might impersonate him and talk to Li Ming.

"You can see it, right? You should be able to see it... You must see it..." Ford prayed in his heart.

He walked in a daze, his body stumbling, and he bumped into someone head-on without noticing. He looked up, a little surprised, "Professor Wu Yanqing?"

Then his pupils contracted, and he saw two double-tailed scorpion soldiers following behind Wu Yanqing.

"You too..." He opened his mouth, wanting to say something but stopped, his mouth dry.

Noticing Ford's reaction, Wu Yanqing didn't say anything, but just shook his head. The two of them passed each other, and Old Wu's heart sank to the bottom.

When he discovered that the great mechanic was wearing a complete mecha of the Ascender civilization, he realized that something was wrong.

As expected, Asmara took immediate action, captured him, and confiscated all his communication equipment.

Today, they even took away Ford's communication equipment. It seems that they want to start with Li Ming in order to find out the specific situation of Qinglong.

He was very worried and knew clearly how terrible it would be for a civilization, an advanced civilization, to focus most of its attention on an individual life.

He looked gloomy. What was the origin of that great mechanic?

………

Asmara and Prince Baijan, holding the Ford communicator, have arrived at the logistics intelligence room. All the staff are looking at the two of them, as if they are waiting.

"Let's start." Asmara handed the communication terminal to the person in charge.

The other party placed it on the central operating table, pulled out a wire, connected it to the smart terminal, and then projected it on the big screen.

"Collecting all the information about Count Ford, the mimicry personality is taking shape..."

"Simulating..."

"Your Highness, what do you think is the level of relationship between Earl Ford and the target?" the person in charge asked.

"A close friend," Prince Baijan estimated.

"Friend input, voice analysis in progress..."

On the big screen, on the side belonging to Ford, a message popped up.

"I don't know the exact location either. It seems they are preparing to attack a certain outpost and have entered a wartime state. A lot of information is kept secret from me."

"Don't worry, I will definitely inform you when the combined fleet attacks the Land of Stars."

"It's been so long since I've seen a complete Ferros Warlord-class armor. This master mechanic's skill is truly unfathomable..." Prince Baijan sighed, then asked, "Arik, what's the probability that Qinglong is a Forge-class mechanic?"

"13%," Arik, standing nearby, quickly responded. "Forging-level mechanics all have their own Star Forging Devices. I haven't seen him display them yet."

"Judging from his current performance, he's at most a highly skilled mechanic."

Prince Baijan nodded, and Asmara said, "I didn't expect such an unexpected gain. He must be very familiar with the Ascendant civilization, which is why he was able to repair the complete Ferros armor."

"Replied." Arik suddenly said loudly.

On the screen, Li Ming had already replied to the message——

"Has my teacher's battle video reached you? What do you think?"

Li Ming was holding a smart terminal and a set of Ferros armor. There might not be many people who knew the value of it, but each of them was a big shot.

"I saw it yesterday. They were in a meeting the whole time. Princess Asmara and my father were whispering to each other. I don't know what they were doing."

"Is your teacher so powerful? I thought he was just an ordinary mechanic."

Li Ming frowned, "Don't try to trick me. Find out what they are doing before asking me about my teacher."

"An abnormal voice has been detected, which does not match the voice of a close friend. Urgent correction is being carried out..."

Prince Baijan frowned.

"Don't worry, given our relationship, I will tell you the first time if anything happens."

Li Ming looked at this sentence and felt inexplicably awkward.

Would Ford talk to him like this?

The relationship between the two of them has always been one of mutual exploitation, so he said don't try anymore, if you want to know more, just give me something else in exchange.

And Ford has always been under duress, so why is he so cooperative this time?

"By the way, I have something here and may need your help." Li Ming looked at the next message, and this strange feeling became even stronger.

He didn't respond.

"Relationship evaluation error, wrong data..."

"End of conversation..."

Asmara frowned after hearing a series of errors.

"Forget it, it's not a big deal. I have to go to a meeting. Let's just leave it like this for now."

After sending this message, Arik's face turned unhappy. He turned around and said, "Your Highness, the preliminary assessment results of the mimic personality are out. The two are definitely not close friends. There is even a 62% chance that they are not friends."

Not friends?

Prince Baijan frowned. If they are not friends, how did he get the information last time?

Asmara glanced at him calmly, "Old man, your son is not telling the truth."

"When will the next call be?" she asked.

"According to the evaluation, three days is the best time." Arik hesitated. "What voice should I use next time?"

"We'll talk about it later." Asmara shook her head and asked, "What about Wu Yanqing?"

"Wu Yanqing's mimic personality said that it would be best if the other party initiated the conversation." Arik said helplessly.

Asmara frowned, "Where's Li Ming's detailed relationship assessment?"

Arik was helpless. "There's not a single person whose relationship rating is higher than that of a close relative. There's no one who can truly threaten him. I've never seen such a strange psychological profile."

"Before and after his father's death, his personality was almost completely different. If we input the two psychological profiles, it would only form a mimetic personality that looks like schizophrenia."

"The profiler even speculated that it was his father's death that caused his closed mind to completely split into two completely opposite personalities, which then devoured his original personality."

Asmara's eyes turned slightly cold, "Even Wu Yanqing can't do it?"

Arik shook his head. "Wu Yanqing and his teacher-student relationship has been less than a year, and the two have spent no more than a month together. Their relationship isn't close, and wouldn't even rank in the top five in the relationship assessment."

Prince Baijan couldn't help but shake his head, "It's tricky."

"But..." Arik hesitated. "Combined with the appearance of the Great Mechanic Qinglong, there may be an exchange of interests between the two parties. Perhaps we can start from this aspect."

"Before our next conversation, I need a feasible plan." Asmara gave the order directly. Arik looked bitter, "Yes, Your Highness."

………

Weird, something is wrong. Li Ming was still pondering this matter, looking at the last two sentences.

He imagined Ford's face, the expression on his face when he said these two sentences, which was indescribably weird and awkward.

Did I make you fall in love with me?

This was obviously impossible, and he soon realized that the true identity of the person he was talking to was most likely not Ford.

In his previous life, many ridiculous things happened precisely because of the screen, not to mention in the highly developed interstellar era.

Not to mention that no one was seen, even if a video really popped up, it might not be Ford himself.

If it wasn't Ford, then the other party obviously didn't know their secret.

Are you going to attack me? No, maybe my "teacher".

That mecha was recognized? Li Ming suddenly thought of many things.

He casually glanced at the background information and replied to quite a few people.

"Some people are still paying attention to the death of Isius. Many people have been taken away for questioning. They don't seem to be from the Itlan civilization. They have extremely advanced equipment, similar to a lie detector..." Li Ming's eyes froze. This was the news from Luochuan.

The ghost is still there.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

A knock on the door interrupted his thoughts. Cassis came to see him, and Ulrich and others called him to discuss something.

Entering the conference room, the three people's expressions were not very good. Sandro said in a deep voice: "He is here, please repeat it."

Theo shook his head and turned to Li Ming, saying, "I've talked to Torch and blamed the deaths of those people on the sudden appearance of the A-level lifeform."

"Because so many details were covered up, it was clear they didn't believe it."

"At the same time, we are resisting the demand that we all enter the Ascended Ruins."

Li Ming sat on the chair and listened to Ulrich continue: "The combat power of our four A-level life forms scares them and they dare not easily accept us."

"What is the strength level of Torch?" Li Ming asked.

"At its peak, there were a maximum of eight A-level life forms, but now there should only be two," said Ulrich.

The Torch is also a long-established resistance organization in the Silver Cluster. It has experienced its peak and decline, and is now in a trough period.

"Only two A-level life forms?" This number was beyond Li Ming's expectations. This was a resistance organization that was almost spread throughout the Silver Star Cluster.

"That's right, but the number of Class B life forms should be around forty or fifty," Theo added.

"Forty or fifty?" Li Ming was surprised.

Sandro said nonchalantly, "This kind of resistance organization is like this. They are all supported by something called faith or goals. During the most decadent period, they didn't even have any A-level life forms."

This is completely different from being a plunderer. If the boss didn't have the power to suppress his subordinates, they would have rebelled long ago.

"Also, they know a lot about dimensional creatures, which is also a tricky problem," Theo explained.

"Don't worry, the initiative is in our hands." Li Ming said calmly, "If the master mechanic they have can't solve the problem they face immediately, then he will never be able to solve it."

The three of them exchanged glances, and Ulrich spoke up. "Yes, they will agree sooner or later. But there's one prerequisite: we hope you won't contact them secretly."

Li Ming looked around at the three people. They were on the same front again, afraid that Qinglong would abandon them and that he would collude with the Torch Organization.

"Don't worry," Li Ming assured, "We're all in this together."

It was simply guaranteed to have no effect, but what Ulrich and the other two did was just to show their attitude and let the other party think it over.

"By the way, have you found the location of the joint fleet?" Li Ming suddenly thought of it and asked.

"They have been found. They destroyed a resistance organization related to the Torch Organization not long ago. They should be resting in the Usr civilization now." Theo nodded. The sudden disappearance of the joint fleet caused a lot of people to be nervous, and they were all looking for them.

There was no news until a few hours ago.

"Usir Civilization." Li Ming breathed a sigh of relief and pondered, "If we sail from that place at the fastest speed, how long will it take to reach the Land of Stars?"

"Reached the Land of the Stars?" Sandro laughed. "The Combined Fleet hasn't shown off enough. The tide is still a few months away. What are they doing here?"

Theo thought for a moment and said, "Each warship has a different sailing speed. We are marching in a cluster at the lowest sailing speed. I estimate that it will take one and a half months to arrive."

(End of this chapter)