Chapter 594: Forced Belief is Full of Loopholes

Adam was the Holy Emperor of the Empire after all. Even though this matter was hard for him to believe, he quickly suppressed the emotions surging in his heart.

The three times of questioning showed how confused he was.

But since there is such information in front of him, and it comes from the forbidden life form Klonoa, he has to forcibly restrain his rationality and try to trust this information.

Sparks flew from the ceiling above, and the room was filled with a burning smell.

There was a huge commotion outside the palace. The sudden activation of the defensive measures alarmed many people. Many soldiers hurried over to perform their duties, but were stopped outside the palace by the captain of the guard.

Various thoughts were intertwined in Adam's mind. He subconsciously stretched out his finger and pressed nothing. Then he suddenly realized that the whole room was in ruins.

With his arms frozen in mid-air, Adam smiled slightly at himself, feeling that he had lost his composure like this.

He walked straight out of the room, and the moment he opened the door, the captain of the guards cast a look of concern and vigilance at him. He swept his eyes over Adam and finally stopped at the ring on his right hand. Only then did he breathe a sigh of relief.

"Holy Emperor!"

The guards knelt on one knee and shouted in unison.

Adam walked past indifferently and went straight to the spare office. He still waved away other people, turned on the terminal device, and after conducting various verifications, he used the highest authority to start collecting all the information about Qinglong and Li Ming.

A large number of virtual screens surrounded Adam, some with scrolling text and some with playing videos.

"If Qinglong is Li Ming..." He murmured softly, and with two fingers he gently pinched the information about Qinglong into a horizontal axis.

Special events float up and down, drawn on the data axis with white lines, marking each node.

Including the Red River Star Stream ruins... Ryan's death, the appearance of the Mechanical Holy Spirit... and other iconic events.

And at the beginning on the left is a line of small words--

[Qinglong first appeared as a mechanic under the command of Collector Ulrich in the Land of Stars.]

In just one line of words, there are a large number of external links hidden for reference.

But before this line of small words, there is nothing.

This was the first time that the Azure Dragon appeared. It seemed as if it had jumped out from a crack in the void and suddenly rushed into the universe.

"Then it explains why we can't find any information about Qinglong, nor any connection between him and the universe, because this person doesn't exist at all."

Adam murmured softly and pulled out Li Ming's data cable again.

This information line is very complete. The leftmost part is not the time of Li Ming's birth, but the approximate information of his parents and grandparents.

It was almost halfway through that the story began to describe Li Ming's birth, his mother's accidental death, his father's departure, and all the information about his time in the orphanage, all in such detail that it was impossible to overstate the extent of the story.

Adam pulled the data axis to the middle and rear section, and then zoomed in.

There is a blank period of information here because of the friction with Princess Asmara when Li Ming left his native civilization.

It is suspected that after killing Duke Bai Ye of the hostile civilization halfway, he disappeared after the Azure Dragon appeared in the Land of Stars. There was a period of blank information.

Even the empire couldn’t be found, so where was Li Ming during this time?

There is only a small speculation that it was suspected to have been hidden by Qinglong.

"If Qinglong is Li Ming, then it can explain his disappearance during this period..." Adam's eyes flashed and his palm slightly enlarged.

Under the two data axes, shadow lines emerge, which represent the deep logic of each event, from the cause and effect to the result, in great detail.

“…According to previous analysis, Qinglong hid his identity during that period in order to cooperate with the Pioneers’ plan…” More information emerged in Adam’s mind.

But as a blood-loser himself, he naturally knew that this was nonsense.

At that time, the pioneers believed that the sudden appearance of the Azure Dragon was because this person had noticed their existence and wanted to join them, so he showed off his strength.

At first, they estimated Qinglong to be just a great mechanic, and this guess was still tenable.

However, if we apply the logic of Qinglong's behavior at that time to the strength he has shown now, a contradiction will arise.

At least he doesn't have to waste time and energy on the Ascendant Ruins.

"Unless, he wasn't as strong as he is now..." Adam speculated using a logical line he had never thought of before.

Although, when this line of logic emerged in his mind.

He himself felt it was nonsense, but his current inference was forced to believe and try to find more clues, which did not require any evidence.

"He was still in his growth phase at that time, so he needed the resources from the ruins..."

"And the existence of Qinglong is a perfect shield..." Adam's eyes flashed.

It was precisely because of Qinglong's appearance that almost no one paid attention to Li Ming.

Even though he has the title of the first person in history to develop potential, he is still a "child" in the eyes of all higher life forms.

Also because of Qinglong's existence, some guys who had plans against Li Ming had to give up.

Especially in the deep dimensional world, during the Holy Elephant Control incident, after Li Ming's development potential was exposed, Qinglong just happened to show the strength to compete with Ryan.

"In fact, he was not hiding his strength at all, but his strength was limited at that time..." Adam speculated more boldly,

"Why is it always Li Ming who takes over for Qinglong? In the desolate channel... in the red river star stream..."

"Because Qinglong is Li Ming."

Adam deduced that if the premise was that "Qinglong was Li Ming", then many questions could be answered.

There was no excitement on his face as if he had discovered a huge secret. Instead, his brows became even more furrowed.

In order to satisfy the inference just made, many issues are actually ignored.

He didn't care about the little issue of "the two of them appeared at the same time before". The biggest issue was -

"If Qinglong is really Li Ming, how did he transform from such an ordinary life form into the Qinglong he is today in such a short time?"

Adam stared intently at the slightly youthful face on the screen. "It hasn't even been ten years since Li Ming's transformation on Silver Ash Star..."

"Even if his body was taken over by Talos, how did he achieve such technological achievements?"

Adam couldn't understand. "Besides, Klonoa is dead. Even Talos couldn't do this."

"Furthermore, Li Ming himself is only an S-level life form. This has been confirmed in the Holy Spirit Civilization..."

After combining more information, many speculations are contradictory. If one is satisfied, the other cannot be satisfied.

Adam tapped the table with his knuckles, his expression solemn. No matter what, the message left by Chlonoa could not be groundless. There must be a huge secret hidden in it.

"Perhaps, things are not as Klonoa thinks, but they are not as we think either."

As he was thinking about it, his heart suddenly moved.

"If Qinglong is Li Ming, it seems to explain why he wants to protect the Chaos Star Gap." Adam seemed to have grasped the thread vaguely.

"The Mechanical Royal Court might not be a business that can be easily abandoned. The X-level gene seed prepared by Sheffield seems to be more important than I imagined."

"It seems that I haven't paid enough attention to the chaotic galaxy, and the energy I've invested is far from enough. I need more." Adam realized this, and his eyes were shining.

Until now, he still had doubts about the authenticity of these six words, but since there was a relevant clue, he didn't mind giving it a try.

"If it's true, Qinglong shouldn't be as terrifying as he appears."

"Moreover, the secret hidden in it may be even greater than that of the Overlord's corpse."

Thinking of this, Adam couldn't help but feel a little regretful. If he had made relevant inferences earlier, things might not have reached this point.

But even he couldn't believe it now.

It was the information left by Chlonoa before his death that gave him more trust.

If it were someone else's inference, it would have been thrown into the trash long ago.

………

Somewhere in an unknown star field, an armed transport ship is sailing in a jump orbit. The phase coating of the ship's diamond-shaped armor continuously emits a cloud of blue-purple particles, like a meteorite that is being weathered and peeled off.

The twisted jump channel twists the surrounding starry sky into a spiral orbit, in which the dark green tail flames ejected by the thruster array are stretched into chain-like light filaments.

In the core room of the large transport ship in the center, the Covenant's S-class life form, Bernhard, was conducting a routine inspection.

Its skin is translucent like red agate, with blood vessels protruding into bell-shaped protrusions. It has a hunched body and stares silently at the scene in front of it.

The soldiers under his command were wearing heavy protective clothing and holding various cutting-edge instruments, scanning continuously. The prismatic metal platform was surrounded by a cross-laser network, and a warning ball that was constantly changing its trajectory was suspended on the platform.

Placed in the center are red stones, about a dozen in number, showing the luster of biological tissue, with the blood vessel-like crystal lattice inside pulsating regularly.

Bernhard's voice was grave. "This is the final test before the handover. Everyone, be careful. If anything goes wrong, everyone will be buried with you."

His inky tongue was forked like a snake's tongue, his teeth were rotten, and green mist drifted out of his mouth when he spoke.

Everyone was silent, even holding their breath, not daring to be negligent in the slightest. The entire testing process lasted two or three minutes.

"Everything is fine."

After a series of complicated tests, the soldiers reported.

"Yeah." Bernhard nodded and waved his hand. His men, as if they had been pardoned, left one after another with their heads lowered.

But he himself did not go out. He just stood beside the stone and kept watch.

The soldiers who walked out did not dare to speak until they had turned several corridors.

“…md, the handover is finally here. To transport this thing, I have to keep three eyes open even when I sleep. I used to only keep two open.” A six-eyed fishman couldn’t help but feel a lingering fear.

"I don't know where to send such a precious thing."

"Precious?" One of them sneered, "That's pretty precious."

"Stop pretending. This is Wailing Redstone. With just a planet like your home planet, you can buy ten of them." Someone couldn't stand it and retorted.

"No..." he explained, "What I mean is, this thing is indeed precious, but compared to the overall resources mobilized this time, it's just a drop in the bucket..."

"Is there really a big move? Any insider information? Is it really to deal with that Azure Dragon?"

Others became interested and asked questions.

The person who looked like the captain said in a deep voice, "Alright, stop asking. We are only escorting them for a short distance. The more you know, the more restless we will be."

He seemed quite prestigious, and the others immediately stopped discussing the matter and only sighed repeatedly, "With such a strict delivery process, are they afraid that someone might sneak up on them?"

"Haha... maybe the Azure Dragon is hiding in the shadows beneath your feet..."

"Then I have to hurry up and step on it twice, because I won't have this opportunity again in the future."

“There’s still a handover…”

In the armored hangar of the spaceship, Li Ming was possessed by a suit of armor. In the internal cavity, an intelligent terminal was suspended, which had been connected to the entire system.

"The defense is really tight..." he couldn't help but sigh.

It is unknown how long it will take for the pioneers to find the coordinates of the star gate.

By then the daylily might be cold, so after much deliberation, Li Ming decided to use the old method.

Just let the navigator identify one of the transportation resources.

This is relatively simple. In just ten days, the navigator responded.

Wailing Redstone is an extremely precious high-grade material that can only be produced on special zone planets with neural networks.

Li Ming took some time and quietly sneaked into the company that sold the Beiming Redstone and hid on the transport ship.

But the entire transportation plan was more rigorous than he had imagined. This was the third time the transport fleet had been replaced.

In addition, a handover must be carried out.

During the entire process, he found very little information in the navigation system, almost only the handover coordinates.

However, he was already familiar with the process and it was just a matter of repeating the lurking process.

They also used the transport ship's external communication network to determine the situation in the outside world, mainly the response measures of the three major civilizations to the chaotic star gap.

There is another extremely important point that supports his hiding.

Although the three major civilizations added shortly after the United Organization of Higher Life Forms issued a statement, they would send people to help Chaos Star Gap to deal with the escaped wanted criminals.

But Li Ming received news from multiple sources that the three major civilizations had begun to send additional personnel and would definitely not take action in the short term.

That's why he took the time to lurk here.

Li Ming was a little confused about the three civilizations' reinforcements. "If they decided to send more troops because of my interference, didn't they have a contingency plan beforehand?"

Li Ming felt that there was something strange about this, but the relevant information stopped there and he could not speculate more.

Two days later, the transport ship arrived at the handover coordinates.

Transport the Wailing Redstone Bernhard out through the connecting bridge.

The one who took over was still an S-level life form, Carlo.

The other party directed the personnel to test the Wailing Redstone, and even received the voyage logs and screened every personnel, including Bernhard.

"You're investigating me too?" Bernhard sounded dissatisfied. "Do you really think someone could sneak in here?"

Carlo said apologetically, "I'm sorry, it's not that I don't trust you, it's just that the higher-ups have ordered a routine test."

Bernhard frowned, but did not dare to refuse and accepted the test with a cold face.

Li Ming, who was hiding in the shadows not far away, was a little stunned.

(End of this chapter)