Chapter 499 Characteristics of the Holy Spirit

For Li Ming, the S-level is no longer that urgent, and he may not agree to spend star coins to purchase gene seeds.

Even with a discount, an S-level gene seed would not be less than 50 billion star coins.

He didn't expect Li Ming to agree so easily, which also meant that their positions remained unchanged.

Although he had some conflicts with Theo before, he had been in the Mechanical Royal Court for so long that they had already become a community of interests.

"Does he have any special requirements for gene seeds?" Li Ming asked casually. "If it's custom-made, I'm afraid it will take a long time."

Ulrich quickly explained, "He has no requirements. With his development potential, he's already limited to an S-class life form. Any gene seed will do."

Li Ming nodded, and the two of them chatted until they arrived in front of the mechanical warehouse.

"By the way, he seems to be an exiled noble." Li Ming suddenly remembered.

"Yes." Ulrich nodded and asked tentatively, "What do you mean?"

"It's not bad to support him in restoring his country." Li Ming said lightly.

Ulrich's heart stagnated, and a sour feeling welled up inside him, but he still said, "The main civilization that destroyed his civilization came from the Sea of ​​Stars. This is not a simple matter."

Li Ming raised his eyebrows. "The Sea of ​​Stars? Just do what you think is necessary. If it involves level X life forms, tell me."

Before he finished speaking, he had already stepped into the core base.

Ulrich's expression changed, and he couldn't help but smile bitterly, "...As expected, choice is more important than hard work."

The robots in the warehouse are stacked so densely that the originally designed one-meter gap has now been reduced to fifty centimeters, barely enough to accommodate so many robots.

This is the second expansion of the mechanical warehouse, and its capacity is only one million.

In Ulrich's vision, this is just the first one, and there will be many more mechanical warehouses in the future.

But since the Azure Dragon Platform was deeply bound to Anduin's stargate node, the development speed of the Mechanical Royal Court has not stagnated at all, but has accelerated further.

As a result, the entire Mechanical Royal Court had to undergo a third expansion, and there was no need to continue building other mechanical warehouses, so they were all cancelled.

These mechanical bodies can be put down if you squeeze them together.

Ulrich waited outside wisely, secretly wondering how many S-class mechanical bodies would appear this time.

With Anduin's cooperation, during Li Ming's absence, the Royal Court's stores spread throughout the entire chaotic star gap, but the number of mechanical bodies was seriously insufficient.

Because all the manufactured mechanical bodies have to wait until Li Ming has "seen" them before they can be put into use.

In the warehouse, Li Ming couldn't help but rub his hands, and even blew on the fingertips of both hands, using the ancient methods of his previous life, hoping to increase the probability of [mutation].

Then he stretched out his hands, and strands of golden arcs surged from his fingertips, and then quickly formed an extremely large thunder storm, covering every mechanical body.

However, this time is different from the past.

Even in the white arc storm that enveloped the ordinary mechanical body and did not cause any abnormal changes, there was a hint of golden light.

Blue arc storms exploded one after another, and with a huge base number, there were quite a few purple arc storms.

However, Li Ming's focus has long been away from this.

boom!

Finally, a red arc appeared.

Li Ming searched everywhere and soon saw the second group, the third group...

The entire warehouse was enveloped in arc storms of various colors.

It took a full half hour to complete the enlightenment of the mechanical body.

Finally, four tall and burly mechanical figures with different appearances stood before him.

Its body is covered with sharp thorns, flashing with cold light, like a hedgehog.

There are also smooth lines and the glossy metal surface reflects the surrounding light, full of a mysterious texture of technology.

Others have their bodies inlaid with various strange runes and gems, emitting mysterious and powerful energy fluctuations.

Each one has a unique temperament and style.

"There are only four S-class mechanical bodies, and it's still within the probability." Li Ming felt calm.

A D-class mechanical body can mutate into a B-class mechanical body at most.

C-level, can mutate into A-level mechanical body at most.

Only B-class machines can mutate into S-class machines, and manufacturing B-class machines is not just a matter of cost; there are many problems faced by mass production.

The price of the assembly line is so high that even the current Mechanical Royal Court cannot produce it on a large scale.

Li Ming took a quick look and found that the number of B-class mechanical bodies no longer needed to be estimated, and the number of A-class mechanical bodies had already exceeded forty.

This is already an extremely large number. Even in the Empire and the Federation, the status of Class A life forms is not low.

Coupled with the indiscriminate blessing of the [Glory] characteristic, each of these mechanical bodies is stronger than two others.

It can be said that the mid-to-high-end combat power under his command is definitely not weaker than any overlord-level force in the Chaos Star Gap.

"Only by putting these mechanical bodies back in their proper places can we fully enrich the Mechanical Royal Court, this bloated giant." Li Ming pondered.

He did not leave immediately, but instead selected one from each of the five levels of mechanical bodies: S, A, B, C, and D.

"I need to think more about the characteristics of the Holy Spirit." Li Ming was quite curious. The description of [Mechanical Creator] was too general and simple. He had to figure out the specific characteristics himself.

"Why are you pink?" Li Ming looked at the A-class mechanical body in the middle, which was not tall.

The metal outer armor is painted pink. Not only that, the lower body is also decorated with similar metal skirt armor.

It is quite unique, so Li Ming specially picked it out.

"Master, I don't know either." The pink mechanical body in front of him nodded, and its voice was a little soft and fearful.

As soon as she opened her mouth, Li Ming noticed that the mechanical bodies standing nearby all looked at her with attention.

On the left were B, C, and D, low-level mechanical bodies, which they glanced at and quickly moved away.

The S-class mechanical body on the right, like a big black warrior, glanced around boldly.

The pink A-class mechanical body lowered its head, seeming a little shy.

"So anthropomorphic?" Li Ming noticed this and couldn't help but be surprised.

Due to the power of the [Mechanical Lord], the mechanical bodies he enlightened are actually intelligent life forms, not just pieces of data.

But that does not mean that they are born with emotions of joy, anger, sorrow and happiness. These emotions still need to be born independently through subsequent contact and training.

Only the loyalty to Li Ming that is rooted deep in my heart will not change.

But under the influence of the characteristics of the Holy Spirit, these machines have extremely complex emotions since birth, even desires, inferiority, and other deep emotions.

"This is simply a race..." Li Ming thought, and shook his head: "This is simply a race."

I just don't know how these guys give birth to children.

This thought subconsciously popped up in Li Ming's mind, but he immediately erased it. After all, he was the creator of the other person, and this was just too much of a bad taste.

After thinking about it, Li Ming waved his hand.

Summoned a D-class mechanical body, he looked quite ordinary, two meters tall, with a silver skeleton, the appearance of a regular mechanical model, and did not carry any weapons.

"Master..." He looked even more awed, the voltage was a little unstable, causing his mechanical pupils to flicker.

"Do you know how you evolved?" he asked.

"Evolution?" He was obviously confused.

Li Ming looked at the other mechanical bodies, and they also looked confused.

He thought about the information he had learned and simply took out a piece of medium-to-high-end metal, which was green-gold in color, a green-copper alloy with extremely high energy conduction properties.

As expected, the first moment it was taken out, the D-class mechanical body in front of him looked straight at it, and the internal voltage rose rapidly.

"Follow your instinct..." Li Ming gave the order, and the D-class mechanical body seemed to be impatient and picked up the piece of metal at the first moment.

In an instant, a golden arc burst out from the place where the two touched, and then the green metal began to slowly melt and was gradually absorbed by the D-class mechanical body in front of it.

Soon, green-gold lines spread across his silver skeleton, and the arcs of electricity bursting from the metal shell became increasingly fierce until they reached a certain limit.

boom!

He underwent a huge change. His body shrank, green armor appeared on his silver skeleton, his limbs became more flexible, and he turned into a C-class mechanical body on the spot.

There was still a small half of the purple metal left in his hand, and the melting did not stop, gradually turning into a green dagger along his palm.

"Absorbing metal to evolve..." Li Ming watched the scene carefully and was not surprised.

Afterwards, Li Ming conducted various experiments and gradually gained a better understanding of the Holy Spirit mechanical body.

Evolution by eating metal can only work on C-level mechanical bodies. If you want to transform from C-level to B-level, you need to use high-compression electromagnetic energy to transform the energy engine.

It is even more difficult to transform from level B to level A, and it requires the assistance of materials with special energy properties, such as mother ore.

Li Ming has not yet figured out what is required to move from A-level to S-level.

"Hmm...evolve by eating metal..." Li Ming thought, doesn't this conflict with him?

But on second thought, although it seems to be a conflict, the needs are completely different.

What he absorbs now are high-precision synthetic metal materials. Even the Mechanical Royal Court cannot manufacture them independently and can only purchase them from outside.

It would take him ten days or half a month to absorb ten million of ordinary metal materials, so he didn't have time to waste.

“But if they move up to advanced levels, the materials they need are also extremely demanding.”

However, Li Ming quickly thought of how to maximize the benefits.

"Producing F-class machines, and even lower-level machines..."

From the very beginning, the Mechanical Royal Court never produced F-class mechanical bodies because their strength was too low.

Due to the existence of kinetic weapons, even ordinary life forms can be destroyed by a single volley of bullets, not to mention F-class, even E-class mechanical bodies can be destroyed, and become pure cannon fodder.

Even if he has the ability to [mutate], 99% of mechanical bodies cannot mutate. No matter how low the cost is, there is still a cost.

The mechanical legions under Reynolds and Mikhail do not have mechanical bodies of this level.

Unless there is a demand for mechanical bodies that are mainly for service purposes, but in the chaotic star gap, this demand is extremely low, which is equivalent to no market.

But now that his mechanical bodies can evolve autonomously, the cost-effectiveness of low-level mechanical bodies has become higher. They can evolve by simply feeding them some unrefined metal materials.

With the current production capacity of the Mechanical Royal Court, by allocating a portion from the D-class mechanical body production line, the number of F-class mechanical bodies produced every month is also in the millions.

Li Ming's eyes lit up. "The cost-effectiveness of hiring in large-scale wars has also increased. There are metal debris everywhere. We can make a lot of money from hiring, and we can also make money from fighting to support the war."

"Fight a few times and you can evolve from F-rank to E-rank, or even D-rank~"

But as he was thinking, he saw the respectful and admiring eyes of the mechanical bodies in front of him, and he "tsk" again.

"War mercenaries are just meat grinders..." He then summoned Suzaku and asked, "Can the data of these holy spirits be extracted before they die and injected into other mechanical bodies?"

"It can be done." Suzaku nodded. "We just need to deploy an intelligent core within the area. The extraction rate is approximately over 95%."

"More than 95% is enough." Li Ming did not pursue perfection. The people who made these machines also worked for him, so he nodded.

"That way, we can save on training time. The data from the dead machines can be injected into the uninitiated machines. Tsk tsk... they're all veterans of hundreds of battles. Another victory."

After studying for a while, Li Ming walked out of the machinery warehouse.

Ulrich immediately agreed, and Li Ming acted decisively: "Two things. Allocate half of the production capacity for D-class machines to produce F-class machines."

"In addition, we can prepare to undertake large-scale war contracts."

"Understood." Ulrich nodded immediately and wrote it down in the memo.

Next, these holy spirits will inevitably spread throughout the interstellar space. Once this kind of continuously evolving mechanical body is exposed, it is bound to cause an uproar.

Li Ming would issue instructions, requiring them to ensure that they could absorb energy or metal materials without external interference.

He had just studied them carefully. Under normal circumstances, it was difficult to find any difference between them and ordinary mechanical bodies. The power of the Holy Spirit was hidden very deep.

In the entire interstellar space, apart from Reynolds and Mikhail who have some understanding of the Holy Spirit civilization, others probably know very little and it is difficult to connect it.

If the secret of the Holy Spirit were ever to be exposed on a large scale, he would no longer be afraid of external storms.

Ulrich took the time to look at the mechanical body data synchronized by Suzaku, and his pupils couldn't help but shrink.

This time there were actually five S-class machines, and I couldn't help but feel a little nervous. I tried to control my emotions.

Li Ming was thinking, after this series of events, what should be consumed was consumed, what should be improved was improved, and the strength of the mechanical bodies under his command was raised to a higher level overall.

Sweeping the interstellar space is just around the corner.

Li Ming's thoughts were in a tizzy as he thought of the excitement, but he soon thought of the existence of the three major civilizations and couldn't help but frown slightly.

The foundation of these three major civilizations cannot be caught up in a short period of time, let alone Yongyuan.

That is the sword of Damocles, and you never know when it will fall.

Until now, he still hasn't figured out Yongyuan's situation.

"Unfortunately, the three major civilizations must have some understanding of the Eternal Abyss and know it might be a catastrophe, but they still continue to fight." Li Ming pondered, "Let's see if I can trick them and give all the resources to me."

(End of this chapter)