Chapter 274: The clue of being cautious (asking for monthly votes at the beginning of the month!)
"It's really...refreshing." Li Ming let out a breath, of course it was just what he imagined.
This punch feels so damn good.
Then, he looked up at the human-shaped hole that ran through the entire hull, and a breath came from far away. It was Theo.
Of course he was not dead. He appeared again on the broken metal floor, staring coldly at the pale golden mecha in front of him.
From the front, he seemed to be uninjured, but Ulrich's eye twitched. Theo's back was a bloody mess, with bones and muscles rolled outward.
Even though Theo is proficient in assassination, it does not mean that his physical strength is low. On the contrary, he may be stronger!
If this punch had landed on his head, only blood, flesh and mud would have been left. Ulrich's heart beat wildly a few times.
It is indeed an A-level life form with over 90% development progress.
Li Ming secretly marveled at this. His current development progress has reached 40%. With multiple blessings, [Thunder Frenzy] is enough to push him to an energy level close to 90A for an explosion.
Coupled with the enhancements of [Violent Tiger Fist] and [Silver-Ash Particles], this time, the power is almost catching up with his cannon attack.
But it seemed that although Theo was seriously injured, he still maintained a strong breath of life.
The air was thick with mist and only the sound of sirens could be heard all around. The onlookers were all silent.
Cornett felt a deep sense of horror. His development progress had just exceeded 80%, but not yet 90%. Facing this attack, he would probably be even worse off than Theo.
Qinglong, is he so powerful?
He noticed that the gauntlets on the mecha belonged to Brot's weapons, but that was not the point.
The key point is that Qinglong also has a concealment ability that is almost comparable to Theo, and in the end he even shows an explosive speed that is slightly faster than Theo.
And this kind of terrifying lethality, these three combined are enough to make Qinglong a terrifying assassin who is as threatening as Theo.
This person also has nano energy cannons to assist him, and his various methods are simply unfathomable.
At this moment, the frightened Cornett couldn't help but feel relieved.
Fortunately, the Glowing Saint came to the rescue and provided a legendary assassin like Dark Night.
Otherwise, if you want to kill these two guys and others, you may have to kill the entire Torch Organization.
Coves and Fernando looked at each other and could see the lingering uneasiness in each other's eyes.
This... Where does Connit get the confidence to kill these people?
"This time, it's fast enough." Li Ming said lightly. Theo remained silent, not knowing what to say, and had nothing to say.
"You two..." Cornett said, trying to appear calm and composed. "What conflict happened? Why did it become like this?"
He knew that there was discord among this group of people, but he didn't expect it to escalate to a fight. He really wanted to know why the two were fighting.
Li Ming didn't say anything, just looked at Theo. He spoke with a hoarse voice: "Nothing, just a sparring match."
Sparring? Cornett shook his head, said nothing more, and said with a wry smile: "You two should stop sparring like this. This main ship can't withstand your tossing and turning."
"I'm sorry."
Silver nanoparticles poured out from the gaps in the Tank Guard mecha, and Li Ming's figure emerged.
Theo looked at him deeply, the mecha
"It's nothing, it just takes some time to repair it." Cornett's attitude was very gentle, completely different from the warnings he gave after previous incidents.
Ulrich tried to reduce his presence and stood behind Cornette, fearing that he would be discovered.
"Cough cough..." A dry cough suddenly came from the ruins. Sandro half-knelt on the ground, retching. He fell to the lower level of the corridor, covered in blood.
Then he touched his limbs and head, and a feeling of relief for surviving the disaster surged in his heart, "Haha..."
He couldn't help laughing, but quickly stopped himself, looked up at the two evil stars in front of him, and broke out in a cold sweat again.
He knew very well how terrifying Theo was, but he didn't expect that Qinglong, in addition to those cannons, also had such terrifying means. It was so creepy.
Damn Ulrich!
Sandro suddenly remembered, and murderous intent appeared in his eyes.
This time, Cornett not only did not warn them, but also thoughtfully arranged new living rooms for them before going back to finish the work.
This made Li Ming sigh repeatedly. When the other party suspects that you have the means to threaten them, it is better to really have it.
After a few hours, the main ship's external hull had been almost repaired, with only a few holes inside that needed to be repaired.
But it can already enter the transition state normally.
On the upper deck of the main ship, there was a gloomy atmosphere, and Connit and the other two gathered together.
"What the hell is going on with this Qinglong!?" Fernande was still in shock and even looked at his own shadow while speaking.
"How can he be so powerful? He is only a B-class life form. Can the Great Mechanic really be so powerful?"
"Master Mechanic..." Cornett shook his head, frowning. "Is Benny a Master Mechanic? Is Deyes a Master Mechanic? Does he have that ability?"
"Other master mechanics wouldn't dare to play around with mechas like this. If there's a problem with the internal shock-absorbing layer, the mecha will be doomed."
“He’s too confident…”
Fernande said solemnly, "His mecha is truly omnipotent. He can even hide in the shadows."
"Letting a wolf into the house." Connit remembered what Deyes had said. Although the other party had his own selfish motives, the current situation also put him in a dilemma.
"If Theo is a suspect in Deyes's case, then he is also a suspect." Fernand suddenly mentioned.
Corvez, who had been silent the whole time, suddenly laughed. "There's no point in considering this now. Even if Deyes's matter was caused by either him or Theo, what can we do?"
"Qinglong plus Theo, even with the two of us in there, it's going to be hard to take them out."
Fernand's expression changed slightly, and he hesitated and said, "Qinglong and Theo are different after all. He can't wear that mecha all the time."
"Yeah, we can't be on guard against them all the time," Keweisi said dimly, "Besides, the sublimator hasn't been built yet."
Fernando said angrily, "This is not allowed, that is not allowed. You are just going to tolerate people stepping on your head and making fun of you?"
"It would be better to use the power of the Eternal Realm to wipe them all out while we're at the main base!"
"What's the point of saying this now?" Cornett understood more and more deeply what it meant to be unable to advance or retreat, and was completely trapped by Qinglong.
He took a deep breath and took out two palm-sized, heart-shaped objects. They were pitch black, twitching slightly and emitting an unsettling aura. "These two are for you."
"Heart of Death? It has come to this..."
Fernand's expression changed slightly, as if he was extremely afraid of the black heart in front of him.
"It's better to be prepared." Cornett stretched out his hand and looked at the two of them.
"One wrong step, all wrong." Keweisi took the black heart, sneered a few times, and pressed it against his chest.
Thin black lines like spider webs extended out, quickly covering the entire chest, swallowing up the black heart, and completely disappearing under the skin.
At the same time, his face turned pale.
"Let's fight!" Fernando gritted his teeth and followed suit.
…
“The atmosphere is becoming increasingly subtle.”
In the new room, Li Ming pondered. This time he showed a lot of new methods. The Torch Organization might think of a lot of things, but the other party was afraid to take action.
"But this is also good. It gives him a sense of threat, so that Cornett won't do something unwise in secret." Li Ming pondered. If you are not strong enough, there are ways to play. If you are strong enough, there are ways to play.
For the next three days, Li Ming stayed indoors. When someone came to see him, he said he was studying key technical problems.
Cornett occasionally sent people to inquire about the progress, but he was never seen.
Ted even suspected that he had disappeared as mysteriously as Deyes. If it weren't for the two mechanical bodies standing at the door and the terrifying strength the other party had shown not long ago, he might have broken in.
But on this day, Li Ming, who had been reluctant to show up, still attracted Cornett.
He stood at the door of Li Ming's room, with people on both sides. He forced an ugly smile on his face:
"After all, with the Deyes incident, it would be better if Your Excellency Qinglong could show up once in a while."
Li Ming said apologetically, "No problem. Isn't this just solving a difficult problem?"
Cornett's face looked even uglier. This was exactly what he wanted to say. It had been several days, and Qinglong hadn't made any moves at all?
But thinking of the recent confrontation between Qinglong and Theo, he could only say, "I hope you can make a breakthrough soon."
After seeing Connit off, Li Ming closed the door with a flickering look in his eyes. He had not been idle at all in the past three days.
With the help of the ability of [Shadow Sting], he was able to get a rough idea of the situation of the entire battleship.
Cornett had obviously increased his vigilance against him. Many key places were protected by the "Boundary of Eternity", making it difficult for him to sneak in.
However, he was just gathering information instead of taking any real action. Through the clues, he could infer a lot of things.
"This Connit actually put the dimensional crystal in his room and checked it two or three times a day. It's really enough." Li Ming said helplessly.
What he was most concerned about were those dimensional crystals, and he had investigated them thoroughly during these three days.
Connit learned his lesson and just ate and slept with the dimensional crystal, leaving no good opportunity for a move.
In addition, Connet still had people checking on Yes's affairs, and especially after the confrontation with Theo, he assigned a lot more people.
Peel was decrypting the data day and night. After Deyes came to the Torch Organization, the data streams transmitted to the outside every day were summarized and then cracked.
Attempting to obtain relevant information about the manufacture of sublimators from it.
"Based on Pierre's working attitude, he will find some clues sooner or later. However, it will take a long time..." Li Ming shook his head and didn't care about this.
The main base has to send and receive a large amount of data every day, which is too much to handle.
But he found nothing about the sublimation particles.
"It can't be said that we gained nothing." Li Ming rubbed his chin.
During these three days, he obtained almost no intelligence information about this matter within the Torch Organization.
But he discovered something unusual. He actually saw the chief mechanic Benny on the upper floor of the main ship.
It happened two days ago. He was lurking in Ted's shadow, trying to find out about the storage location of the dimensional crystals.
Judging from the scene at that time, he probably had just talked to Connit. This unusual situation immediately aroused Li Ming's interest.
This great mechanic is not as simple as he seems.
He was lurking in Benny's shadow at the time, but the old guy actually returned to the manufacturing room and worked silently. Li Ming spent three or four hours without any results.
"According to Benny's work habits, he only takes a break once every five days." Li Ming calculated, recalling some details about Benny in the past in his mind.
And today is Benny's rest time.
He had been preparing for many days and even responded to the torch staff sent by Cornett to urge him on a daily basis.
In this way, no one will come to disturb him in the short term.
In the main ship laboratory
"Sir Benny, it's finally time for you to rest. You've been working non-stop. Although you're a Class B life form, you're not young anymore. You should get some more rest."
Seeing Benny take off his lab coat, several experimenters who were on good terms with him couldn't help but speak.
"Haha, once you die, you can rest forever." Benny shook his head with a gentle attitude, causing a burst of chuckles.
Leaving the production room and walking in the narrow metal corridor, people would occasionally step aside to give way to him, and Benny would respond kindly.
After fingerprint verification, I pushed open the door and a faint scent of perfume hit me in the face.
His student, the snow-white-haired Huber, was standing in a specially constructed gravity chamber, apparently developing gene seeds.
Bare-chested, muscular, and sweating profusely.
"Teacher." Seeing Benny coming back, Huber walked out of the gravity cabin, nodded slightly, his eyes shining with white light, and swept through his shadow.
"Yeah." Benny had a blank expression on his face, which was very different from when he was outside, but Huber seemed used to it and put on his clothes.
At the same time, he asked, "Is there still no movement from His Excellency Qinglong?"
"No." Benny snorted coldly, "Ever since Cornett talked to him, he hasn't even gone to the lab and has been staying in his room all day."
There is indeed a problem... Through these two or three sentences of conversation, Li Ming, who has been hiding in the other party's shadow, can already confirm that Benny, who seems to be a good guy, is hiding very deeply.
"Can't he solve the remaining problems?" Huber couldn't help but say.
"Conquer it, what the hell." Benny sneered. "I'm sure he must have come into contact with the sublimator. There's no need to conquer it. I don't know what he's thinking."
"But if he doesn't solve the crystal coefficient problem, we'll have to wait at least two months."
Two months? Li Ming was slightly surprised. Isn't it half a year?
Is this old guy framing me?
He reacted and his face changed. He suddenly remembered that since Deyes disappeared, Benny had been complaining every time he went to the core laboratory.
Then I kept instilling in him the concept that “80% is left…it will take at least another half a year…”
At that time, had he already started some plans?
How sinister... Li Ming felt murderous.
(End of this chapter)
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