Chapter 171: Asmara's Shadow Collector Feels at Home in the Land of Stars
Kai seemed genuinely frightened. He took two steps back, took a few deep breaths, and calmed himself. He crossed his arms and said respectfully in a special way, "Thank you both for rescuing me."
Yaluo nodded with satisfaction: "That's pretty good."
Unexpectedly, Kai put down his hand and said, "But I really have to go back."
"What are you going back to find?" Li Ming asked directly.
Kai was startled and looked at Li Ming as if he had seen a ghost. "How did you know?"
"Idiot." Yaluo was speechless. "You're in such a hurry to go back. It's probably not because you're nostalgic for the torture you've endured. It's probably because something on your body was taken away by the looters."
"Exiled nobles like you have a lot of good things on you."
Kai hesitated for a moment, then said helplessly, "Yes, something was indeed taken away by the looters. It's very important to me, so..."
"It's impossible to go back." Yaluo shook his head. "We're extremely lucky to have escaped, with so many fleets and two B-class life forms. If we go back, we really won't be able to get out."
Hearing what he said, Kai felt as if he had been hit hard. He staggered back, his eyes reddened, and he actually shed tears: "Father, Father..."
Could that thing just be some kind of symbolic family heirloom? Li Ming frowned, unable to ask.
Seeing this, Ya Luo also asked curiously: "What did you lose?"
Li Ming raised his eyebrows.
"Nothing..." Kai shook his head without further explanation. After a moment of silence, he said, "Can you turn on the gene inhibitor in my body?"
Yaluo was about to take action when Li Ming shook his head, "No, we know nothing about your background, personality, and purpose. If we turn on the gene inhibitor, what if you do something that is detrimental to us?"
Upon hearing this, Yaluo hesitated. Kai certainly didn't seem mentally stable.
Kai wanted to say something but stopped himself, but in the end he did not force it. His life was not in danger for the time being, so it didn't matter whether he could open it or not.
After jumping for a distance, the spaceship stopped and waited for about half an hour. With the help of the key card, Li Ming obtained the highest authority of the spaceship.
After the spacecraft restarted, he quickly cut off all remote communications and positioning data.
While browsing the spacecraft log, he opened his smart terminal at the same time. When he was on that planet, he never took it out to avoid the signal being detected.
When he opened it, he frowned. A large amount of information was refreshed on the Star Network background, and many people sent him messages.
At the top of the list was Ford, with over ninety-nine unread messages, most of which were communication links and questions interspersed with text.
"What happened?" Li Ming took a quick look, found a small room, and called back.
The call was quickly connected, and Ford started to speak in rapid succession, "What the hell are you doing..."
Li Ming ended the call expressionlessly. A moment later, Ford called back, but Li Ming didn't answer.
After another try, he finally answered and said calmly, "If you keep on talking so sweetly, I'll stop talking."
Ford was obviously very frustrated. After a long silence, he said, "Asmara has gone berserk!"
Even through the screen, Li Ming could feel Ford's gritted teeth.
"What's going on?" Li Ming frowned slightly. Old Wu was still following Asmara.
"I just found out not long ago that the reason Asmara was in such a hurry to leave was because one of her laboratories was attacked. The attacker was also a Torch, and it seems that very critical experimental data was stolen." Ford explained quickly.
"It's really this." Li Ming's heart skipped a beat. He observed a moment of silence for Old Wu and at the same time put Asmara on the kill list.
"Her subordinate, Bazak, rebelled and has not been found yet..."
"Who?" Li Ming was slightly stunned.
"Bazzak, a capable general under Asmara." Ford asked suspiciously, "You seem surprised?"
Isn't it Old Wu? Li Ming wondered.
Seeing that Li Ming didn't respond, Ford continued, "Asmara suspects that the attack on his laboratory is related to Isius's death. So she is taking over this matter and requires everyone present to go to the Itlan civilization."
"If you don't go, you'll be making an enemy of her."
This is too simple and crude, Li Ming couldn't help but sigh.
"Come back quickly," Ford urged, "She specifically called your name."
"Huh?" Li Ming was surprised. Ford explained, "Why did you leave? Anyone with a discerning eye can see that it's not just her, but the higher-ups are also somewhat dissatisfied with you. Are you afraid of being dragged into the vortex, so you ran away?"
"I can't go back." Li Ming shook his head decisively and sent a message. Ford was silent for a while, then he said angrily: "Do you think Asma is a fool? A kidnapping letter?"
Li Ming said casually, "Just give this to her and tell her I've been kidnapped. If she's willing to spend 1 billion to redeem me, I'll go back."
Ford said tiredly, "It's useless. I know you want to go to the Land of the Stars, but that place is not safe either. The top leaders have organized a joint fleet, and more than twenty civilizations have responded."
"The Torch Organization is so large, and its headquarters is most likely in the Land of the Stars. They have a blood feud this time, and they won't let it go easily. Why are you doing this?"
"We can't really go into interstellar exile, right? Should we continue to evolve?"
Combined Fleet? Li Ming wasn't too surprised and nodded, "Thank you for the reminder. If you have any more information, remember to let me know in advance."
"I'm not sending you any information..." Ford said loudly. Li Ming had already ended the communication.
The Torch of Suffering in Yitlan has been burning for a long time. Whether it is taking advantage of the situation or is really angry, it must want to get rid of this cancer again. Even if it comes back to life, it can always calm down for a while.
He just didn't expect that Asmara still missed him, which made him flattered.
After thinking for a while, he walked out of the room and found Yaluo touching all over like a pervert, extremely excited: "Tsk tsk, worthy of being a member of the royal family, he really knows how to enjoy himself."
"A turbulent massage swimming pool, a fully enclosed luxury bed, all kinds of entertainment facilities, and even the fucking bathtub is surrounded by holographic equipment that can directly connect to the outside world. It's so fucking high-end!"
Li Mingze asked, "How far is it from here to the Land of Stars?"
"This place is relatively close. Enter from the seventh channel, which is the territory of the 'Collector'. It will take at most half a month." Yaluo pondered.
"Half a month..." Li Ming nodded and decided to develop peacefully in the Land of Stars for a while.
Once it develops into a Class B life form, various control objects will advance in parallel, and even the concept of a mechanical army will begin to take shape. Then there will be no need to fear Asmara or even Itlan.
The Land of Stars should not be short of theories of evolution, but his C-level gene seed is composed of wind and thunder elements, and he must contain these two elemental gene seeds before he can use them.
Moreover, he can consume the liberation record and liberate the genetic form without risk, which is a very powerful ability.
However, you can only release one form at a time. If you master too many, it will be useless.
The Lord of Fierce Wind is definitely not as good as the Emperor of Thunder, but it feels a bit wasteful to just leave him like this.
The universe is so vast, isn't it possible to superimpose liberation forms? His thoughts were divergent, and his imagination was truly fantastic.
Yaluo reminded, "Before going in, it's best to slightly change the appearance of this spaceship, otherwise it will be easily recognized."
"Are you familiar with any place?"
"The Guches Shipyard is located in the collector's territory and is very tight-lipped," said Yaluo.
"Let's go there." Li Ming nodded. After assigning the rooms, he took out the nutrient solution from Duke Bai Ye's frozen storage box.
The packaging is extremely exquisite, with green branches and leaves in gold plastic wrapping the entire metal tube.
This is a B-grade nutrient solution. It is too rich in nutrients and has been diluted into ten parts.
After saying hello, Li Ming went to develop the genetic progress.
"Developing gene seeds again, how perverted." Yaluo sighed, and recalled the various dangerous events on the planet, and his heart couldn't help but feel a little excited.
But three minutes later, he was lying in the holographic bathtub, surrounded by the flowing starry sky, and he exhaled freely.
"What a rubbish life we lived before."
Ten days passed in a flash. At first, Yaluo was very curious about it, but after getting used to it, it was just like that.
Kai had little presence on the ship. He could not speak a word for three days. He did not remove the gene inhibitor and was not given a smart terminal. Apart from being more free to move around, he was no different from a prisoner.
One day, Yaluo was watching an interstellar program in his room bored, when his smart terminal suddenly vibrated violently. Yaluo glanced at the code and his expression suddenly became serious.
This is his superior, and they have always had a single line of communication. Only the other party can contact him, and he cannot contact the other party.
However, as soon as the call was connected, the other party asked in a hurried tone he had never heard before: "Yaro, where are you?"
Ya Luo was stunned and asked confusedly, "What's wrong?"
The other party's voice was low: "Two days ago, we received news that Duke Bai Ye of the Sera civilization and Atom, a B-level cadre of the Star Hunters, both died on an unknown planet."
"What!?" Yaluo jumped up from the bed in shock, saying in horror, "They're both dead!?"
"That's right. Do you know something? They both came to that planet to track down that shipment. According to the information we know, there are two people on that planet." The other party couldn't stop asking:
"One of them is a Class B life form, very powerful. He should be the one who killed Bai Ye and Atom. The other one has vague information."
Yaluo's heart was in turmoil. Until just now, he thought that Li Ming had escaped from Bai Ye and Atom by luck.
Several times he was thankful for his good luck, but he didn't expect that Li Ming would kill both of them. No wonder he had Duke Bai Ye's key card.
For a moment, he was very confused.
"Yaro, who are those two people? Is one of them you?" the other party continued to ask.
"I..." Yaluo hesitated, then shook his head: "I don't know."
"You don't know?" the other party asked suspiciously, "Yaro, knowing something and not reporting it is a serious crime."
"Fuck, I risked my life to complete that emergency mission, and you still threaten me?" Yaluo said dissatisfiedly.
The other party's tone softened. "It's not a threat. Don't worry. Many people are tracking him down. Kai may have been taken away by him. If you have any news about him, remember to report it."
After ending the communication, Yaluo frowned and felt an inexplicable toothache.
He originally wanted to report the discovery of Kai, but now he couldn't report it. A C-level life form killing two B-level life forms sounded scary.
"They were all killed. This is horrible." Yaluo pondered, but was secretly shocked in the end. The sudden knowledge of the truth made it impossible for him to concentrate on thinking, and he couldn't calm down for a long time.
Another five or six days passed, and outside the porthole, a red ribbon that almost penetrated the universe and had no end in sight was getting closer and closer.
This is the Red River Stream, a cosmic wonder of unknown origin that runs through a large number of star clusters.
They carefully crossed a meteorite belt, followed the traces and turned left and right, and came to a machinery factory built on several meteorites.
The workers here don't ask any unnecessary questions. They just assess the difficulty of the renovation, give you a quote, and you just pay.
This transformation requires a full 3.56 million star coins, and only transactions on the Black Hole Network are accepted. No one cares about their identities and backgrounds, and they just pay money to get the job done.
As Yaluo said, this group of people are indeed experts. They made a big change to the spacecraft in just two or three days.
Many conspicuous features have been removed, and many accessories have been added, and the color has become a combination of black and red.
The Land of Stars is right in front of them. The place they are going to is called "Collector's Cabinet", commonly known as the Trading Island.
It is a small land mass that has been transformed, loaded with a large amount of equipment, and even formed a regionalized atmospheric environment.
There are many such interstellar islands, large and small, scattered throughout this area, with no end in sight, together forming the Land of Stars.
The architectural style of the Trading Island is rough, forming a city. Looking down from the air, it is staggered and wild.
There was no sun or moon in the sky, only colorful neon lights illuminating the place. Countless hideous-looking modified spaceships were docked at the pier, and there was no platform for warships to dock.
After completing the docking procedures, we found out that there are very few safe areas here, and the pier is one of them. It is protected by A-level life forms and collectors, so the docking fee is ridiculously high.
Failure to renew the lease upon expiration will not result in eviction but direct confiscation.
When they stepped onto the island, Li Ming's development progress had reached 10%. In addition to the three of them, there were two figures, one big and one small, wearing black robes.
Life forms of all races can be seen everywhere on the streets, but humans are not common.
The air was filled with murderous intent and the smell of blood, making people's hair stand on end.
"The Collector is an A-level life form, not a predator, so this area is mainly a trading area with all kinds of goods."
“Collectors love to collect all kinds of strange and bizarre things. Compared to other places, this place is relatively safe and you can stay for a while.”
Yaluo introduced to him that the land of stars was a mixed crowd of good and bad people, and they wanted to monopolize a floating island and have their own territory.
At least he had to be a senior B-class life form, with a development progress of more than 90%, and he had to have someone to support him and a big tree to lean on in order to be able to withstand it.
If you really want to have prestige and set rules, you have to become an A-level life form.
A-level life forms have a very high status in any civilization. The vast majority of A-level life forms here are not stranded here, but are their own choice.
Here, as long as you don't break the rules, or in other words, have the power to go against the rules.
They can vent violence to their heart's content, rob, kill or be killed, it's not a big deal.
Yaluo introduced them in a low voice. There were many malicious eyes around them looking at them. Li Ming suddenly pulled his mouth open and said, "Why do I feel like I'm at home?"
(End of this chapter)
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