Chapter 240: Miraculous Counterfeiting Technology

Not long after, Ted came out again, carrying a metal box in his hand, and hurried away.

Li Ming hid back in his shadow and did not continue to follow him. He didn't know what the next dimensional creature to be sacrificed would be. It would be troublesome if he was discovered.

He passed by several staff members and went around in circles, and it took him another two or three hours before he finally returned to the shadow of Thunder.

Dark Night... He had been thinking about this name all the way. He couldn't connect to the Internet here and had no way to look up the other party's relevant information.

But just the relevant information he learned from the conversation between Theo and others was enough to make him wary.

Bullets loaded with informational poison not only kill people, but also erase all traces of the target's existence in the universe.

What is a trace of existence?

Life is a part, and other people’s memories are also a part.

Of course, Dark Night’s information-state poison has not reached this level, if top-level information-state erasure is carried out.

All traces of instrument recordings and written records will be erased, and it is equivalent to them not existing from beginning to end.

"Why on earth is this guy targeting me?"

While he was thinking, Lei Ting had already turned around the corridor, but his steps paused.

At the door of Li Ming's room, next to the tall and burly Tepper, there was a man standing.

"Theo..." Li Ming's expression in the shadows was slightly condensed. This old guy was too cunning. He must have used him as an experiment, and he must have noticed something, so he blocked the door of his room.

But Tepper would definitely not let him in, and given Theo's personality, he would not force his way in.

When Lei Ting noticed him, he also saw Lei Ting.

His eyes subconsciously fell on the other person's shadow, which kept moving left and right and shrinking forward and backward as the light changed, and then he frowned slightly.

Is this really an illusion?

Theo didn't believe it and watched the other party gradually approaching him. The shadow passed through the crack of the door, while Lei Ting stopped at the side of the door and stood still.

"When will your master get enough rest?" Theo frowned and looked at Tepper.

"I don't know." Tepper said in a deep voice, "Your Excellency can continue to wait here."

Theo frowned, looked towards the door, and finally shook his head, "Forget it."

When he was about to leave, there was a click from the door behind him. Theo stopped and looked back.

Qinglong stood at the door, looking quite surprised. "Sir Theo? When did you come? Why are you standing outside?"

"Master, Lord Theo has been waiting here about four hours ago." Tepper reported proactively.

"Why didn't you knock?" Li Ming was even more surprised. "Sorry, I was busy organizing the information needed to make the sublimator and didn't pay much attention."

"Didn't you say you didn't want to be disturbed?" Tepper's tone seemed extremely confused.

“…But you can’t even stop me from knocking on the door.” Li Ming seemed extremely helpless.

"It's okay." For some reason, Theo felt inexplicably depressed and left with a blank expression.

Looking at Theo's back, Li Ming closed the door again and shook his head.

Theo had been observing him silently, but there was no threat for the time being, so there was no need to take him too seriously.

What he cared about now was the "wealth" he saw. After these few hours, he had already figured out the general structure of the Torch Organization.

The current target is three main ship-level gun barrels. If he gets them, his artillery firing capability will see a qualitative leap.

And the alienated energy that serves as the carrier of upgrades, that is, dimensional crystals.

The former is not difficult to obtain. Just wait for the remaining two gun barrels to arrive, find the right time, and use [Shadow Sting] to get it.

What he was considering was when the right time would come, because the installation of the gun barrel did not require waiting for other things to be in place.

In other words, by the time the two gun barrels arrived, the previous gun barrel had most likely been assembled on the main ship and left.

So, timing is very important.

Also, as for the impact after the action, if he is affected by this incident and later gains alienated energy, it would be a waste of time and effort.

As for the storage place of the dimensional crystals, he didn't know what kind of defense it had, and he couldn't even get in.

"How about using [Space Blink]?"

Li Ming was thinking secretly, but he had not yet come up with a plan that took all aspects into consideration.

If it really doesn't work, taking forceful action is also an option. Even if Cornett is suspicious, he can't do anything to him.

"However, there is still one most important question..." Li Ming's eyes flickered, "How strong is the defense of this Torch Main Base?"

The problem he urgently needs to figure out now concerns his series of plan options. If he is not too strong, he can be more reckless. If he is too strong, he will have to act with caution.

On the surface, the Torch Organization has two A-level life forms, and the specific development progress is unknown, but Connit has been the leader of the Torch Organization for quite some time, so the development progress must be very high.

The other A-level life form is quite mysterious. At least Theo has never heard of it and has only taken action against it a few times.

Also, can the defense strength of this base be used to counterbalance A-level life forms?

Li Ming thought it was definitely possible. Since Connit dared to gather so many A-level life forms in their headquarters, he must have considered the consequences of not being able to suppress them.

"It's difficult to take action without figuring out the hidden power here. Maybe some idiot will jump out..." Li Ming thought. He didn't want to take the initiative to test it.

After sorting out the things in my mind, I can only take one step at a time for the time being and continue to develop the genetic seeds.

All kinds of fear and hesitation are due to the lack of one's own strength.

If he were an A-level life form now, with all the control he could use, he could just tear this place apart...

It was not until the next day that Li Ming officially joined the core laboratory and began to manufacture the sublimator.

This time, without Cornette's guidance, he was subjected to strict scrutiny.

"Sir Qinglong, according to the regulations of the core laboratory, you are not allowed to bring too many electronic devices except for personal smart terminals." The member in charge of guarding was meticulous and scanned Li Ming's body up and down.

Li Ming did not resist, but asked curiously: "What about Lord Jessiah?"

The guard who was scanning the body was stunned for a moment, but the person next to him explained, "Lord Jessia has also deactivated his weapon module."

"Beep, beep..." The instrument issued a sharp alarm when it scanned Li Ming's face.

"Mimicry mask, do you need me to take it off?" Li Ming asked gently.

The guards looked at each other, and the leading captain waved his hand hurriedly: "No, no..."

Li Ming nodded and walked straight through the passage. The soldiers behind him were still whispering, "Captain, this Lord Qinglong is really approachable. Apart from the mimicry mask on his face, he has almost no electronic equipment on him."

"Unlike the other master mechanics, who felt like they were being deeply insulted every time they asked us to review them."

"Okay, just stay on duty." The captain scolded, and the door of the core laboratory closed.

"Everyone, why are you here so early?" Li Ming stepped into the laboratory and was quite surprised to see that Jessiah and Benny had already started working.

Benny smiled and shook his head: "Your Excellency Qinglong, this isn't a fixed shift. After the banquet ended yesterday, I had nothing to do, so I just came here."

"Where is Deyes?" Li Ming looked around but couldn't find the guy.

"I don't know." Benny shook his head, his expression a little strange, but he quickly calmed down.

"Yesterday, Deyes provided some core data that can solve a lot of problems, and today we can move forward." said Jessia.

“The three core fulcrums of the underlying structure should be able to solve one problem.”

Li Ming nodded and entered the manufacturing process. His title of "Master Mechanic" was not entirely exaggerated. His profession of "Master Mechanical Assembler" brought him a lot of relevant knowledge.

At the same time, he has switched to a new development system, using his meditation ability to pretend to work while developing gene seeds, but his efficiency will be greatly reduced.

………

At the same time, the doorbell rang again in Deyes's room.

He subconsciously frowned, with obvious anger appearing on his face, but he restrained himself after seeing the figure appearing on the video terminal.

When he opened the door, Brot was standing in front of it. To his surprise, there was Sandro as well, holding a metal box in each hand.

"Just put it here." Brot pointed to an open space to Sandro.

Sandro seemed to be in a good mood. He put the metal box down and clapped his hands. "It's a pleasure to work with you, buddy. I'll be leaving now."

"Okay." Brot nodded. Deyes remained silent until Sandro left. He then pointed at the box on the ground and frowned, "What is this?"

"Metal materials." Brot opened the box casually, and the material reactions produced by various cutting-edge alloys reflected colorful light in the room.

"Oh?" Deyes was a little surprised and glanced down: "Dark matter alloy..."

He recognized several materials and said in amazement, "They are all A-grade materials that are quite expensive and difficult to collect."

"Yeah." Brot agreed, and then said proudly, "Guess how much I spent on these things?"

"It must be at least 500 to 600 million star coins." Deyes estimated.

"Four hundred and twenty million." Brot held up four fingers, each with five knuckles.

"So cheap?" Deyes raised his eyebrows and subconsciously said, "Will there be any problems?"

"After all, I've been by your side for so long, I still have some good eyesight." Brot shook his head. "These materials were obtained by killing Blerim. They should be divided equally among the four of us."

"Qinglong originally wanted to buy them, but the price was too low, so Ulrich and Sandro didn't sell. Now that they're here, they're at a loss, so Sandro wants to sell them quickly."

"Brelim is dead?" Deyes was shocked, his expression gloomy. "Four A-level fighters, that's truly terrifying."

"Yeah." Brott agreed, then added, "But it's a good deal for me. If I find some more stuff, I should be able to make a weapon."

"Good, almost done." Deyes picked up a piece of material and listened to Brot continue:

"Also, I've learned indirectly from Sandro that the four of them aren't united. That idiot Sandro is very dissatisfied with the other three."

Deyes wasn't surprised. "That's perfectly normal. Ulrich and the other two all once followed Star King Monroe. While it can't be definitively said they betrayed him, it's almost the same. They each had their own conflicts. As for Qinglong and them, they're simply using each other."

"Hmm? This material..." Suddenly, his face froze as he looked at the sparkling crystal structure in his hand.

"What's wrong?" Brot asked hurriedly.

"This is a super giant nuclear crystal. Logically, it shouldn't show this kind of 'flame dispersion' reaction under non-natural light sources." Deyes held up the crystal and placed it under the light. What was reflected on the floor was not an illusory translucent shadow, but a burning blue flame.

"What do you mean?" Brott didn't quite understand.

Deyes didn't say anything at first. He walked to a silver-white box on the side and took out something similar to a magnifying glass. It was much more sophisticated, and a large number of virtual data pages were projected around.

Deyes looked at it carefully, his expression becoming more and more solemn, and Brot's expression became more and more nervous.

"Weird." Deyes frowned.

"What's strange? Is there something wrong with the material?" Brot asked hurriedly.

"Yes, and no." Deyes wasn't even sure. "The external characteristics match, and the internal characteristics partially match, but the molecular structure is fragmented, like a waste product from a failed forging. But it can't possibly have such a perfect appearance."

Brot's expression was confused at first, then furious, "Is this material waste?"

Deyes snorted coldly, "Scrap? Scrap doesn't look this perfect. It looks like it's been forged twice, faked twice."

"It's a technique so amazing I've never seen it before," Deyes added.

"Sandro dared to lie to me!?" Brot was furious and was about to go to Sandro to ask for an explanation, but was stopped by Deyes.

"You've already made a deal with him, how could he possibly acknowledge it?" Deyes shook his head. "There's no point in looking for him."

Brot was furious. He thought Sandro was a fool and that he had gotten something for nothing, but in the end, he was the one who was taken advantage of.

"We can't just suffer this loss in vain." Brot said in a deep voice.

Deyes's eyes flickered. "I don't know how much truth there is in what Sandro said, or whether this material was actually obtained from Blerim. It's not certain."

"But this kind of secondary forging fraud can only be done by a master mechanic, and one with extremely advanced skills."

"You mean, Qinglong faked it?" Brott looked slightly shocked, then suspicious. "It's only a little over 400 million. Is it worth all this trouble?"

A sharp glint flashed in Deyes's eyes. "Whether it's him or not, use this as an excuse to find Sandro and then pin this on Qinglong."

"What do you mean?" Brot still didn't understand.

Deyes shook his head and urged, "Just go ahead. It's obvious that you've suffered a loss in this matter. I want to see how Cornett reacts."

"Well... okay." Brot didn't ask any further, anger surging in his eyes.

(End of this chapter)