Chapter 641 Development Progress - 90%

After the sale was announced, all distribution nodes ushered in an unprecedented boom, but thanks to the fact that the distribution nodes were basically orderly and civilized, no major problems occurred.

Li Ming and his two companions had imposed restrictions. In order to prevent scalpers from taking away the money that belonged to them, the distribution nodes were all locally adapted, and only one mechanical seed could be purchased with one ID.

"The first batch of one billion will probably be used up soon..." Mikhail estimated.

It’s not that they don’t want to produce more, but the materials used to build mechanical seeds are very special and require complex extraction, and the production capacity cannot keep up for the time being.

"Don't be in a hurry, take your time..." Li Ming stayed and looked at the data for a while, then logged off.

When I went out, I saw Anduin was still waiting outside, even watching the live broadcast of the sale.

"Your Excellency is truly remarkable." Seeing Qinglong coming out, he put away his smart terminal and sighed.

You, with your thick eyebrows and big eyes, have also learned to flatter me so directly?

Li Ming glanced at him and said, "Thank you for the venue."

"It's a small matter." Anduin waved his hand.

Li Ming chatted with him for a few minutes and then prepared to return to the Mechanical Royal Court.

Anduin still politely sent him to the stargate node and watched him leave.

Then he opened the smart terminal, logged into the black hole network, and searched for various information.

He always felt that what Qinglong had done not long ago could not have happened silently.

With the help of Anduin's star gate, this trip took only about a month.

After returning to the Mechanical Royal Court and getting off the spaceship, Li Ming glanced at the smart terminal and saw that the Dominant Laboratory was almost reaching the designated location.

In just two or three days, the first batch of modified mechanical bodies have already spoken on the interstellar network and even broadcast the transformation live.

Various technology review bloggers spent extremely high prices to buy mechanical seeds from scalpers, and recruited volunteers to conduct experiments in order to get the first batch of traffic and publish various eye-catching videos.

"Research on the sexual characteristics of mechanical life forms and their unique reproductive abilities!"

"Surprise! A famous interstellar color website has a new section - Mechanical Life!"

"A fantastic idea - give my dog ​​a mechanical transformation, and it will become a mechanical life form, even smarter than me."

Various weird videos emerge one after another and gradually develop in the direction of curiosity.

In fact, there are many evolutionary paths in the interstellar space, and new evolutionary paths appear occasionally.

However, this path of mechanical evolution has a universality that even the path of genetic evolution does not have. As long as the length of mechanical transformation meets the requirements, one can embark on this evolutionary path.

Some people even experimented with microscopic organisms and discovered that they could be transformed.

Then, a market that Li Ming had never expected emerged: mechanical pet transformation.

Many people want to modify their pets to make them smarter, more able to accompany them, or even perform some unspeakable activities.

The previous mechanical transformation method was cold, but the mechanical seed is different. It is a new race of life with a different meaning.

A third-party laboratory has conducted high-precision observations and found that the modified body will also show signs of wear and tear over time, that is, the loss of lifespan, which has really shocked many people.

"You're back..." Ulrich hurried over. No matter how busy he was, he would rush over as soon as he received the news that Li Ming had returned.

"Yeah." Li Ming put away the smart terminal.

The first thing to do after returning is naturally to enlighten the mechanical body.

After a long period of capacity adjustment, the efficiency of mechanical production has increased by more than ten times compared to the original, and has reached nearly forty or fifty times.

In just one month, tens of millions of mechanical bodies were accumulated.

Of course, the vast majority of them are still mainly F-class. The Mechanical Royal Court is flourishing everywhere, and the demand for low-level staff is huge, which is entirely filled by these F-class mechanical bodies.

The main force for normal combat is E-level. If one wants to reach the strength of the main combat forces under Reynolds and Mikhail, one needs to use D-level mechanical bodies as the basis and fill in each evolutionary level.

However, the number of D-class mechanical bodies under his command is less than 10 million, and a large number of them need to be replenished.

"After releasing this batch of F-class mechas, I guess the gap in the bottom layer shouldn't be too big. We'll focus on producing E-class and D-class mechas."

After the enlightenment, he said to Ulrich.

In order to cope with the adjustment of the production line, when purchasing related equipment, basically high redundancy is adopted. The production line that produces F-class mechanical bodies will definitely have no problem producing E and D-class ones.

"I understand." Ulrich nodded and left only after sending Li Ming back to the Heavenly Palace.

"I don't know how Gutierrez will react." Li Ming pondered in his heart. He had no acquaintances in the Star Alliance's upper echelons, and he had no way of asking.

But the Domination Laboratory and the Flesh and Blood were both stolen, which was a fatal blow to the Covenant. It was impossible for Guterres to remain silent.

Although he was thinking in his mind, his hands did not stop moving. He picked up various medicines with ease and poured them into his mouth.

Sitting on the platform, developing gene seeds.

"It won't be long before we reach the 90% mark." Li Ming thought. On the way back, he also developed the formation in the spare time.

Energy particles gradually overwhelmed him, and at the same time, various problems regarding the path of mechanical evolution continued to ferment.

After the large-scale release of the Mechanical Seed, even if the Machinists Association made various contingency plans, it would be difficult to predict the subsequent direction.

For example, half a month later, someone revealed that a high-interest loan called "renovation loan" was a special plan made by some large machinery renovation companies to deal with the machinery crisis.

Many people cannot afford standard mechanical modification surgery, so they provide certain loans and discounts to enable these people to undergo the modification.

There is nothing wrong with this as long as it complies with local laws and regulations.

But later some people claimed that the modified parts used by these companies did not comply with regulations at all.

Since the purpose of mechanical modification is to meet the requirements of the mechanical species, it does not matter even if some old and non-compliant components are used.

Just fuse the Mechanical Seed as soon as possible, and the special abilities of the Mechanical Seed can repair some hidden problems.

Once the entire body becomes a mechanical body, there will be no rejection reaction, and the cost of transformation is therefore greatly reduced.

However, this repair of the mechanical seeds is not without cost. Many people have gradually discovered that their modified organs will have various short circuits and breakdowns, and require additional metal materials to repair.

But this would require them to spend their own money, so they were naturally unwilling to do so and launched a protest.

At the same time, there have been cases where people have difficulty adapting to their bodies after mechanical modifications, leading to depression and even suicide.

In short, good or bad, true or false news is circulating, and the road of mechanical evolution finally comes to an end with some bumps.

A month later, in the Mechanical Royal Court, in the Heavenly Palace.

The black energy particles surging all over Li Ming's body were boiling and gushing out from deep in his bone marrow.

It suddenly slowed down when leaving the body, and then exploded. In the time distortion domain, even the details of particle fission could be seen clearly.

There was a burning feeling of swelling in the body, scales covered the skin, the pupils turned into pitch-black vertical pupils, and the hair fluttered.

Accompanied by a sudden burst of explosive force, Li Ming changed his development system, instantly suppressing the changes in his body, and all the energy particles were restrained.

His body seemed to have turned into an extremely hard stone. Even if it exploded, it could only happen internally.

It was not until a long time later that he exhaled a breath of gas mixed with particles of various colors.

He slowly stood up, crackling sounds coming from all over his body.

"Finally 90%..." Li Ming's heart was inevitably excited. The physical improvement brought about by the increase in strength was only better than nothing for him now.

More importantly, only the last 10% is left to fuse the X-level gene seed.

After slightly adapting to his body, he switched back to the development system and began to try to reduce the development efficiency.

After a moment, he had a rough idea in his mind.

"At the original rate, it would only take three months to complete the remaining 10%, but now it may take a year."

"One year, it's just around the corner." Li Ming was not disappointed, this was all within his expectations.

I casually opened my smart terminal and glanced at the interstellar news. A month had passed, and the popularity of the Mechanical Seed had not subsided.

This is mainly because of the endless stream of related news generated by it.

The hotly discussed topic in recent days is the "breeding issue".

The reproduction of mechanical life is through the combination of core energy and the "metal proto-bodies" peeled off from both parties to shape the prototype body and thus give birth to offspring.

The offspring that are born grow extremely fast because they are mechanical life forms.

This means that if they are recognized as the offspring of normal reproduction, they will enjoy a series of social benefits.

And because they are too smart, they can easily compete with ordinary lives.

If they don't admit it, would it be considered a crime if they cause fatal harm?

Similar ethical issues arise one after another, posing great challenges to interstellar society.

Li Ming glanced at it briefly and stopped paying attention to it. Instead, he looked at another message from Sheffield.

He traveled around the interstellar space and brought over three guys who had made great achievements in life science and technology, all of whom could independently formulate X-level gene seeds.

"Tsk tsk..." Li Ming smiled meaningfully. Just over half a month ago, the split Dominant Laboratory had arrived at the designated location and completed assembly.

Edmund is still uncooperative and is waiting for various experiments to be carried out.

…

In the sea of ​​stars, a planet that was once extremely brilliant and full of life was now shattered by some extremely strong external force.

The crustal plates floated in the void like broken ceramic fragments, and the floating core magma had cooled and solidified into gray-brown.

Endless metal debris was floating around, even forming a special environment similar to an asteroid belt, with a large number of broken limbs and debris covered with a layer of ice.

"You... who are you?" A faint mental fluctuation appeared in the void.

Hoffman stared in horror at the burly lifeform in front of him holding a trident. He was weak and covered in blood.

He had never seen such a life form before. It came from nowhere and seriously injured him with one blow.

It also exuded an aura that made him feel vaguely frightened, a sense of oppression he had never experienced before, and even gave him an illusion that the other party was the ultimate life form?

But he knew that was impossible.

Tanus said nothing, but stretched out his hand, and an invisible force pulled Hoffman towards him.

Hoffman struggled non-stop, but there was nothing he could do. He could only keep threatening: "If you kill me, the Higher Lifeforms United Organization will not let you go, and His Excellency Qinglong will not let you go!"

Tanus turned a deaf ear and pressed his entire body into the surface of his body. His skin seemed to have opened a bloody mouth and gradually swallowed him up.

After a long time, the cracks on his body seemed to have healed somewhat, but he frowned again, "One is far from enough..."

…

Inside the Stargate, inside a magnificent spaceship, Sheffield received a response. He looked up and said with a gentle smile, "You are quite honored. His Excellency Qinglong will be here to greet you personally."

There are three life forms of different races in front of me, all of which look quite strange.

"We are honored that Lord Qinglong has come here in person..." One of them spoke in an ethereal voice. He had four independently movable compound eyes on his face, and his blue skin was covered with translucent silicon-based scales that displayed environmental parameters in real time.

"However, research on the path to ultimate evolution requires not personal welcome, but resources and plans."

Sheffield's expression changed, and he said helplessly, "Mr. Graham, please rest assured. I am only expressing that Mr. Qinglong attaches great importance to this matter."

Another person also spoke. His body was hunched, his facial skin was piled up, his hair was gray, and his lower body was a spindle energy body. His voice was hoarse:

"Sheffield, if the gene fragments you provided weren't truly powerful, we wouldn't have followed you. But with just those gene fragments, we're still several star systems away from becoming the ultimate life form."

Sheffield smiled bitterly, "Sir Micah, I understand. We are here to find a way."

Sheffield felt helpless. This journey was more difficult than he had imagined.

Researching the ultimate path to evolution sounds tempting, but there is no evidence to support it.

They all clearly understood the pain points in researching the path to ultimate evolution.

No matter how powerful Qinglong is, it will be useless without relevant materials.

Naturally, they had no ability to compete with Qinglong. Rather than being blamed by Qinglong, it would be better not to come.

It was only when he took out the star beast corpse that Qinglong had given him that he barely aroused the interest of these people and got them to follow him.

As for whether Qinglong could keep these people, Sheffield had no idea.

Qinglong's requirements are very strict, and he cannot look for people who have connections with the three major civilizations.

These guys are basically the same as him. They have grudges against the three major civilizations, or because of racial reasons, they have purely eccentric personalities and are all very difficult to deal with.

Research experiments, on the other hand, require great subjective initiative. If these people themselves are unwilling, even threats will be of little use and may even have the opposite effect.

I should have known not to take this job. If things turn out unpleasantly, I will be in trouble both internally and externally.

Sheffield couldn't help but sigh inwardly, hoping that Qinglong could defeat them.

(End of this chapter)