Chapter 511 If I let you go, wouldn’t all my growth be in vain?

It didn't take long before a response came in the form of a video message, which Li Ming played publicly.

"...This is Cruz's style. He's an Empire mechanic. I've dealt with him a few times. He's best at semi-mechanized transformations, leveraging the inherent strengths of life forms and combining them with modified components."

“So they’re from the Empire…” Li Ming put away the video, his face calm: “Then the scope is even smaller.”

Lyle's heart skipped a beat.

Qinglong did not view the empire as a whole and knew that some people in it were unwilling to take action against him.

"Adam wouldn't be so rude..." Li Ming's voice was slightly disturbed, "It's Heckler again."

Lyle paused, feeling somewhat puzzled. Was he directly targeting Prince Heckler?

Just because of the sentence "Adam can't be that rough"?

He couldn't understand why Qinglong had such great confidence in the Holy Emperor.

Li Mingze was thinking, Adam knew the existence of the Mechanical Holy Spirit, it was impossible for him to provoke him easily, nor was it possible for him to send such a guy to attack him.

But if it was Heckler, he would also feel strange that an S-level life form was sent in front and an X-level life form was sent behind.

What on earth is Heckler doing?

Is the S-level life form in front just used to determine the target of attack?

But there is no need to be so wasteful, A-level life forms are enough.

"Qinglong...you are completely different from what we have in our information." Lyle finally spoke.

"I'm used to holding back." Li Ming remained calm. "But Your Excellency, seeing the situation was dire, was willing to self-destruct the moment it happened. Does even the X-class have assassins?"

"Ha..." Lyle smiled helplessly. "I'm not a dead man. I know about the Scarlet Wolf and have foreseen my own fate. Why should I harbor unrealistic fantasies?"

"It's normal to foresee your own outcome, but not many people have the determination to do so." Li Ming communicated warmly, and the two were like old friends.

Leiden paused, sighed, and said, "My hometown is famous for star burials. Could you please scatter the remains of my body into the stars?"

"Sure." Li Ming agreed readily, "However, I have a small question that I hope you can answer."

Lyle gave a wry smile, "Ask, I can't promise I'll tell."

"Was the S-class life form that attacked Li Ming before sent by Heckler?"

"S-class lifeform?" Lyle was startled. "Someone else attacked you?"

"You don't know?" Li Ming was more and more surprised.

If it were any other question, Lyle really couldn't answer it, but for this one, he thought about it and shook his head: "As far as I know, I was the only attacker this time."

"Even if we send someone to assist, it's impossible to send an S-level life form."

"Is that so..." Li Ming thought thoughtfully.

Lyle asked hesitantly, "Could you please tell me why you don't think I'm the Holy Emperor's man?"

"Because Adam doesn't dare to attack me." Li Ming said.

Lyle was stunned: "Don't dare?"

This answer made him speechless, and he couldn't help but ask, "But why did the Star Alliance act so forcefully?"

"I'm curious about this, too." Li Ming paused and asked, "Sir, are you ready?"

Li Ming has already removed all the mechanical modification components from Lyle's body.

What surprised him was that he could actually absorb the genetic essence from Lyle, which was an unexpected gain.

Perhaps it was because the opponent's mechanization level was not high.

Before Lyle could respond, he felt his vision go dark and his thoughts completely vanished.

A huge fire broke out, covering the man's body. Li Ming cleaned the dismantled mechanical components.

After a rough estimate, it should be able to absorb 100 million metal energies, and with the energy engine, it can probably recover 300 million metal energies.

"And those two guys..." Li Ming cleaned up and completely burned the man to ashes before scattering his ashes out of the hatch.

There was no prison in this large spaceship, and Beckett and Rupert were imprisoned in another room.

Although the injuries were extremely severe, the X-level life form's powerful vitality still allowed it to hold on and recover rapidly.

When Li Ming came to this room, the surface of Rupert's wound had almost healed, and the new muscles were extremely tender.

"Qinglong..." Seeing the other party come in, Beckett was horrified, his face was pale, and his fiery red hair was stuck together with blood.

Although he was in physical pain, he did not feel that his life was in danger.

Although Qinglong's strength is beyond imagination, he still held his breath when facing them. It should not be just for interrogation.

At the same time, they are also abiding by the unspoken rules of interstellar space and will hand them back to the Star Alliance.

Li Ming's first move was naturally to absorb the gene essence, while at the same time interrogating, "Your Excellencies, the Star Alliance and I have no past or present grudges. Why did you mobilize such a large force to ambush my students?"

"Although we staged an ambush, we had no intention of harming your students. Initially, I thought the other attacker was Li Ming's protector, and they deliberately spared his life."

Beckett emphasized this matter immediately to prove that he had no intention of harming anyone.

"Then I'm even more puzzled. If you don't intend to hurt Li Ming, why did you ambush him? Are you planning to threaten me?" Li Ming asked back.

Beckett hesitated, but then he thought, if the operation failed, Qinglong would definitely be on guard next time, and the situation would be exposed, so it would be better to do him some favors.

Although being captured is a shame, it is not a matter of life and death among these higher life forms.

Maybe we can sit down and have a drink together afterwards.

"…Your Excellency is clever," Beckett said reluctantly. "We want to know what the Empire and the Federation are hiding, so we're carrying out this operation."

"Want to know what the Empire and the Federation are hiding?" Li Ming frowned. "Then why are you targeting me?"

Then he thought again, "Because it's difficult to attack the Imperial Federation?"

But then another question came up, "I'm not the only one who knows the inside story, Reynolds and Mikhail, why don't you move?"

It looked like a question, but Beckett didn't answer. Li Ming muttered to himself, "Yes, you don't know about that incident, so you think I'm easy to control."

Beckett gave a helpless smile, but in his heart he was paying attention to that thing? What thing?

Knowing that incident, you think Qinglong is difficult to control, and even more troublesome than Reynolds and Mikhail?

After thinking for a moment, Li Ming put his hand on Beckett again. The other party didn't know what he was doing and didn't ask.

"What was the order from Gutierrez?" Li Ming asked suddenly.

"This..." Speaking of the instigator, Beckett hesitated and said cautiously, "You won this game. Nothing like this will happen again. Why do you..."

"Hmm?" Li Ming frowned and looked up at Beckett.

Not long after, he suddenly realized, "So, you still think you can go back? No wonder you're so open about everything you know."

Lyle knew about the Scarlet Wolf and understood that Azure Dragon had no scruples, but these people didn't know.

Li Ming was surprised at first when he saw Beckett was so cooperative.

Rupert, who had been silent, suddenly looked over, his body trembling, but he was held down tightly by the mechanical guards. He said in a muffled voice: "Qinglong, what do you mean?"

Beckett was stunned when he heard the words before he finished speaking. A bad premonition suddenly arose in his heart, and he whispered: "Sir...you'd better stop joking."

"This isn't a life-or-death ambush, just a small game. Why make such a scene for the sake of face? We can't go back, and the Star Alliance won't let us go."

"Don't worry, I will let them go." Li Ming said calmly. They attacked him and still wanted to leave?

If you still need to swallow your anger now, wouldn’t all your growth be in vain?

Beckett's expression changed, and he couldn't help but ask in a deep voice, which seemed a bit timid, "Are you really going to kill us?"

Li Ming did not respond. While they were chatting, the genetic essence of the two people had been completely absorbed.

This attack directly allowed him to obtain three X-level gene sources, which was just enough to fill the remaining gaps in the evolutionary system.

"You can't..." Beckett hadn't finished his words when he saw a huge purple hammer coming towards him, his brain bursting and the rest of his body twitching.

Rupert stared at him, wanting to say something, and Li Ming naturally did not forget and hit him in the face with a hammer.

"Clean up." Li Ming left a word and left on his own.

Use all the genetic essence just absorbed to upgrade the evolutionary essence.

At this point, his evolution system is already full of X-level evolution source materials. Combined with the [Sublimation Source Crystal], the evolution blessing has increased by 192 times. The overall addition is nearly 900 times the development blessing.

It is estimated that the time it takes to increase the development progress by 1% has already entered two months.

Looking at the control page, Li Ming let out a breath and couldn't help feeling a sense of satisfaction in his heart.

But then he thought about it again, combining the information from all sides, the situation was very clear. Heckler sent people to kidnap him, probably in exchange for Robin.

The Star Alliance attacked him in order to force him to tell what happened in the Red River Star Stream.

The only thing that made him feel strange was the S-class life form that had attacked for no apparent reason before.

According to Lyle and his own speculation, this X-class life form appeared abruptly and was incompatible with Heckler's plan.

But that guy was Heckler's man.

"Hmm...if this Lyle hadn't appeared." Li Ming pondered and began to reverse the situation: "I had already put this matter on Heckler's account. Even if he sent an S-class lifeform, I thought it was because he didn't know me well enough."

"Assuming this person is indeed not sent by Heckler, well... it seems like a frame-up." Li Ming couldn't help but think, "Who is it?"

The answer is not difficult to think about, and the name Adam comes to mind.

"What on earth does he want to do? Let me and Heckler fight?" Li Ming frowned, suddenly stopped in front of the spaceship warehouse.

Li Ming still couldn't figure out Adam's plan, which was like seeing flowers in the fog. It seemed that he didn't just want to use him as a knife.

While thinking in his mind, Li Ming pushed the door and walked into the warehouse, which was filled with various trap generators.

The quantum interference core in the corner of the wall was flashing with a faint blue light, wrapped in a transparent force field, with an unstable energy core beating inside.

A space stripper hangs from the ceiling. It looks like a giant metal spider, with miniature black hole generators installed at the ends of its eight robotic arms.

The scale of the trap not long ago was extremely large in scope and could affect X-level life forms, so its nature was extremely impressive.

The auxiliary equipment required is not small, but they are not easy to carry. These are considered core devices and the most precious materials.

Li Ming touched them and found that they were basically X-level control objects, and there were still a few that he could not control.

After spending a little time, he had almost absorbed all the metal energy in these instruments and equipment, leaving only some residue. He didn't know what material it was, but it was definitely not metal.

"Hmm, 1.8 billion metal energies, not bad..." Li Ming looked at the control page and nodded in his heart.

He himself carries 500 million metal energies, which were accumulated by the Mechanical Royal Court some time ago, and the remaining ones he had after upgrading a mechanical guard.

This time, a total of 1.2 billion metal energies were recovered.

One attack is the accumulation of more than two months of the Mechanical Royal Court's efforts.

"It just so happens that there is only one mechanical guard left that has not been upgraded to S-level." Li Ming flipped through the control page and found the last mechanical guard.

Billions of energy were immediately infused into it, and the mechanical guard underwent a silent transformation in the control page.

"I'm just a little bit away from upgrading to an X-level control object, and I still have a portion of World Blood in my hand." Li Ming thought, feeling quite greedy.

"It's a shame none of these guys were carrying weapons or anything like that."

The mechanical guards were upgrading, but his thoughts did not stop.

This ambush was of no concern to him and he easily resolved it.

But the contradiction revealed is not something that can be explained in one sentence. In other words, this ambush is just the beginning.

If he had followed his previous style, he would definitely choose to go to the Dusk Banquet calmly and scare some people who were secretly plotting.

Let them be shocked, speculate secretly, and increase their fear of Qinglong.

But the situation is different now. The reason why the Star Alliance attacked him is that compared to other forces involved in the Red River Star Stream, Qinglong is the easiest to bully on the surface.

Li Ming did not want the intensity of the confrontation with the Star Alliance to gradually escalate in the subsequent tug-of-war, and finally create a powerful enemy that would never stop fighting.

But this matter was very troublesome to handle. He couldn't really charge into the Star Alliance and show his strength...

Well... Actually, he hasn't shown much strength now, and the Mechanical Holy Spirit still needs the help of Reynolds and Mikhail.

These two guys definitely wouldn't join him in attacking the Star Alliance.

We cannot defeat him in a head-on confrontation, but we must let them know how powerful we are. At the very least, we must elevate Qinglong to a level where it will cost a very high price to defeat him, so that they will be afraid of him.

I have to think of a way… He pondered in his heart, his eyes gradually shining, "Then let's make a big noise, just to test Adam and see what he is up to. Maybe we can get some extra benefits."

“I need to think about it carefully…

He pondered, pulled out a virtual screen, circled the names of the forces one by one, and gradually a clear outline emerged.

(End of this chapter)