Chapter 505: A complicated situation, the worst that can happen is abandoning everything

Big deal... Everyone fell silent. They were not stupid, so they naturally realized this, and therefore felt a sense of terror when they thought about it carefully.

Something that made both the Empire and the Federation take a step back, but they didn't know it.

"It's probably difficult to get a direct answer from the Empire and the Federation," Gutierrez said solemnly, "Let's ask these three first."

"They should have already colluded with the Imperial Federation and probably won't reveal it." Sieg shook his head.

"Let's try it first. Starting with them is much better than getting entangled with the Imperial Federation."

"This must be clarified," Gutierrez emphasized, glancing around. "What they're hiding must be of great importance. We can't remain in the dark."

The other two nodded, setting the tone for the incident. Gutierrez then asked, "What's going on with the attacker?"

Zieg's expression changed slightly, and his voice deepened. "The situation is more troublesome than we imagined. According to the attacker's confession, the civilization behind him is quite powerful..."

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"Well, time flies..." Li Ming came out of the main base warehouse. In a blink of an eye, another month had passed and he had steadily obtained 500 million metal energies.

The mechanical bodies have already been enlightened. Due to production line adjustment issues, the number of F-class mechanical bodies is not large. It will take until next month before we can really start working on it.

The transformation of the first batch of mechanical bodies has already been completed. It is estimated that in two or three months, all the previous mechanical bodies will be transformed into holy spirits.

"This guy is quite interesting..."

On the corridor back to the room, Li Ming was looking at the smart terminal, which was playing the video of "Epic Dragon Blow".

There are many talented people in Interstellar, but I didn't expect that there are actually people who can roughly analyze it in advance.

He remembered this guy. When he was in the Ascendant Ruins, the videos he edited were quite exciting, so he even followed him.

This guy seemed to be a personal media of miscellaneous talks before, but now he has become an analysis blogger specializing in Qinglong.

After watching the videos all the way, Li Ming staggered back to the room. He was planning to develop genetic seeds, but found that someone was contacting him on the black hole network. It was Li Ming's account.

"Abel?" Li Ming couldn't help but grin as he looked at the unanswered communication link.

He actually enjoyed communicating with this prince, so he called back immediately.

The other party contacted him more than 20 minutes ago, when he was in the process of invigorating the mechanical body.

However, as soon as the communication was established, before it rang twice, Abel answered it, as if he was waiting for the moment.

"Li Ming..." Abel spoke, sounding much calmer.

"Your Highness, it seems like you haven't contacted me for a long time." Li Ming sighed, "I thought you were no longer devoting yourself to the empire."

Abel frowned slightly and ignored Li Ming's strange way of greeting.

Over the past period of time, he has been digesting and integrating the list that Li Ming provided him last time.

He was extremely cautious this time, so it took him a long time to completely turn those women and their husbands into his own people.

Not only that, the women who acted as go-betweens have disappeared to prevent Li Ming from using them as blackmail in the future.

"I have some information. Give me an estimate." Abel was already familiar with the situation, and without hesitation, he said, "Prince Heckler has submitted a missing report to the parliament regarding the Scarlet Wolf, His Excellency Ivan. They believe he has been captured by your teacher."

"And, we ask the Royal Council to officially demand it from you."

"Oh." Li Ming said calmly, "This information is worthless."

Abel added, "I learned that his real purpose is to have you kill Ivan and then have the Empire deal with your teacher."

"This seems interesting." Li Ming remained noncommittal. "However, they are actually worthless. They are just three low-level members of the Holy Mother Church."

"Three?" Abel was clearly dissatisfied. "That's too few."

"That Ivan, when he came, my teacher knew Heckler was going to deal with him. The rest is redundant information. Giving you three is already a friendly price." Li Ming was also dissatisfied:

"Your Majesty, there is no need to share this kind of news in the future. It will only damage the relationship between us."

Abel pretended not to hear: "How does your teacher plan to deal with the Scarlet Wolf?"

"I don't know." Li Ming said vaguely, "Everyone's time is precious. If you have nothing else to do, just hang up."

"Wait..." Abel couldn't help but shout, and Li Ming frowned slightly.

Before Abel could say anything, his expression changed slightly, and Qinglong's smart terminal began to ring.

"Wait a moment, I have something to deal with." Without waiting for his answer, Li Ming ended the call.

I took the smart terminal and found that it was a communication application from StarNet, and it was still through the official channel of the Interstellar Alliance.

"Gutierrez? Chairman of the Star Alliance?" Li Ming looked at the name. The avatar was of a cold man in a suit.

"He's a big shot, Star Alliance..." Li Ming hesitated for a moment before switching his username and answering the call.

"Your Excellency Qinglong." A dull voice came from the other side of the screen.

"Chairman Gutierrez," Li Ming responded, asking directly, "I wonder why you suddenly contacted me?"

"That's right..." Gutierrez said directly, "I heard that Your Excellency returned from the ruins of the Holy Spirit Civilization a month or two ago, but my brother Claude and Your Excellency Gonzales disappeared without a trace."

"The Empire and the Federation said they encountered a turbulent void within the Red River Star Stream and disappeared without a trace. I wonder if that's true?"

This guy is quite cunning. Their unified statement is that he disappeared after coming out.

But that's not quite the way to put it.

Li Ming remained calm and said, "Since the Empire and the Federation have already responded to your question, why bother asking me again?"

Gutierrez couldn't help but frown. If Qinglong's answer was the same as that of the Empire and the Federation, then he could be sure that Qinglong was also involved in the disappearance of Claude and Gonzalez.

Only the participants would give unified testimonies, which was also his original expectation.

But Qinglong's words made him suspicious. After hesitating for a moment, he said in a deep voice, "Let me be frank. I don't trust the Empire or the Federation. If you have any other information, please tell me."

Li Ming pondered for a moment, then asked, "Didn't Claude and Gonzales tell you that I didn't actually go to the Holy Spirit Ruins?"

"You didn't go?" Gutierrez was stunned. "You..."

Before he could finish his words, Qinglong continued, "I had an urgent matter and couldn't get away, so I asked my student Li Ming to go in my place."

"This..." Gutierrez was a little out of his mind and subconsciously didn't believe it: "Your Excellency Qinglong, why are you trying to evade me like this? The ruins of the Holy Spirit Civilization are such an important place..."

"You can ask this question to other people, people from the Empire, people from the Federation, and the other two master craftsmen..." Li Ming said calmly.

This response caught Gutierrez off guard; it was completely unexpected, but he quickly grasped the key point: "But your student Li Ming was also there. Didn't he know?"

"He is just my student and represents me. Do you think he has the right to speak in front of the representatives of the Imperial Federation, Mikhail, and Reynolds?" Li Ming asked back.

Gutierrez fell silent for a moment before speaking again, his voice devoid of any emotion. "If that's the case, why didn't anyone notify the Covenant ahead of time about the Mechanics Guild?"

"Does the Mechanics Association believe that just by relying on the Empire and the Federation, we, the Star Alliance, will obey their orders?"

"Hmm..." Li Ming said helplessly, "You should question the Empire and the Federation about this matter. Our Mechanics Association is exhausted from dealing with the Empire and the Federation."

After a long silence, Gutierrez said, "I understand. Excuse me for disturbing you, sir."

"Tsk... The Star Alliance has finally realized that being loose is not good." Li Ming couldn't help but shake his head. He was quite surprised that Klaue was actually the younger brother of this Gutierrez.

He hadn't paid much attention to it, and had long since forgotten about Claude.

He glanced at the other smart terminal in his hand, which was still connected to the Black Hole Network. Abel sent him another message - "There is more important information."

Li Ming shook his head, reconnected, and said slowly, "Your Highness, from now on, if you have any information, tell me all of it at once."

Abel's voice was cold, "I've figured out why Heckler was so determined to find the Chosen One of the Holy Castle."

"Oh?" Li Mingzhen became interested. He had asked Abel last time, but the other party couldn't find it.

Abel didn't say much this time. "He seems to have some method that can lock the Holy Fortress, or even open it."

"But we must have enough Holy Castle pheromones. The number of Terrax Stones is seriously insufficient, and the Overseers carried by the chosen ones carry enough pheromones."

"Find the Holy Castle, or even open it?" Li Ming couldn't help but be surprised, and then asked suspiciously:

"Opening the Holy Castle shouldn't be that easy, right?"

"As far as I know, Heckler seems to have found a special method that allows lower-level life forms to directly enter the Holy Castle and use it as a medium to force it open." Abel hesitated slightly when he said this.

"What method?" Li Ming asked.

Adam hesitated and said, "It seems like some kind of trial..."

"Trial?" Li Ming's voice was surprised, but his expression became very interesting.

In an instant, he thought of five words - Trial to Become a King.

It seems that he can really do it, find the Holy Castle alone, and be the chosen one, with a low life level, which meets the requirements for starting the trial to become a king.

The Empire might actually have the ability to forcibly open the Holy Fortress.

Heckler, whom I had never met before, actually found this method.

The Imperial Prince is really not a simple role.

Li Ming opened his mouth, but suddenly another question occurred to him. He asked doubtfully, "It's been over a year since he set his sights on Robin. Haven't you caught a single chosen one among the people you screened?"

Abel pondered and said, "From what I know, the people Heckler sent out suffered heavy casualties, and the people they captured were basically worthless. On the contrary, many people on the list have disappeared."

"Didn't catch any one?" Li Ming realized something was wrong. Based on his current understanding, Heckler was obviously not a good-for-nothing and should not be so useless.

"This involves other civilizations, which I don't know much about at the moment." Abel was no longer aware of the situation and said in a deep voice, "This information should be quite valuable, right?"

Li Ming came back to his senses and said thoughtfully: "Fifty low-level members and three mid-level members."

"Only three mid-level members?" Abel asked.

Li Ming said suspiciously: "Your information is so empty..."

Halfway through his words, he said again and again: "Forget it, forget it, I'll give you one more, four intermediate members, these are the wives of planetary governors, don't be dissatisfied."

Abel felt relieved. After receiving the information transmitted by Li Ming, he ended the communication with satisfaction.

These people are enough for him to digest for a long time.

"Heckler...it seems that he is just one person away from finding the Holy Castle..." Li Ming pondered, not sure whether the other party could open the Holy Castle, but it also made him feel a little urgent.

If this guy really has the means to break into the Holy Fortress by force, he is currently unable to confront the Empire head-on.

However, it is now clear that someone is blocking his further development.

If he were outside the interstellar space, no one would doubt Li Ming.

But within the empire, a very clear name came to mind: Adam.

The House of Lords is in decline and Adam is on the rise, but if the House of Commons finds the Holy Castle, the situation that Adam has worked so hard to build will be destroyed in an instant.

But...if it really is Adam, wouldn't it be too obvious? It shouldn't be that simple.

Li Ming thought about it, drank a sip of development potion, turned on the gravity equipment, and entered the development state.

"Fight, the harder the better."

The interstellar situation is becoming increasingly complicated, with the appearance of corpses of Overlord-class Titans.

It seems that the Star of Eternal Silence will be found soon.

Heckler is also tracking the traces of the Holy Castle, and Levenbeck is also a hidden danger. Almost all of these things are related to him.

The Covenant was kept in the dark about the corpse, but they have already realized it and are bound to react.

Li Ming was thinking in his mind, and his brows were furrowed. In such a complicated situation, it was hard to say what would happen.

Even if Adam found the Star of Eternal Silence tomorrow, Heckler discovered the Holy Castle the day after tomorrow, and the Ultimate Life Form appeared the day after tomorrow, he would not be surprised.

As he thought about it, he couldn't help but feel annoyed. If any of these things went wrong, it would trigger a chain reaction and have a huge impact on him.

But then he thought again, "I'm different from them. The worst that can happen is I'll just abandon everything and find a place to stay quiet for a few decades. As long as I become an X-level life form, I'll definitely be able to dominate the interstellar space now."

"However, the prerequisite is to obtain the X-level gene seed."

He couldn't help but feel relieved. Although it was the last choice, it was at least a way out, and it hadn't reached that point yet.

Thinking about the X-level gene seed, naturally, he thought about the Dusk Feast.

According to the latest news, Anatoly has clues about the sub-ultimate star beast and will invite all X-level life forms participating in the Dusk Banquet to go hunting together.

This joint hunting sounds very abstract, but for now, it is one of the few opportunities except for going to the three major civilizations to snatch the X-level gene seeds.

"It seems I have to go to this evening banquet." He pondered in his heart.

(End of this chapter)