Chapter 348 An unexpected gain of a long-awaited upgrade!
Aidas' heart trembled. She could see that Li Ming had made up his mind. This was completely different from their original plan.
The possibility of this plan failing is very low. According to behavioral pattern analysis, Li Ming will most likely send Austin directly to the target location.
But they did not fail to make plans for the failure of the plan. The most likely possibility was that the plan failed because of Qinglong's intervention.
But such a devastating defeat now is almost impossible. The performance of Li Ming's mecha and the mechanical body that follows him can no longer be explained by common sense.
She had never considered the possibility of death.
What was even more unexpected was that Li Ming had such great autonomy that he didn't even have to report to Qinglong and could make decisions directly.
"We can talk..." Aidas said hurriedly, truly panicked. "If you kill me, you'll be at war with the Holy Mother Church, and that doesn't serve your teacher's purpose."
"What is my teacher's purpose?" Li Ming asked back.
"Your teacher is nothing but..." Aidas stopped talking halfway, confused and surprised. She now suspected that the other party was deliberately intimidating her and then trying to trick her.
Li Ming shook his head and was too lazy to ask any more questions. He just absorbed the genetic essence in silence.
"You..." Aidas was puzzled, watching the mecha just holding her arm without moving.
Although she didn't know what the other party was doing, she felt relieved and determined that Li Ming was just trying to scare her.
After all, she is an S-level life form, and the matter is of great importance. It is impossible for Li Ming to kill her without informing Qinglong.
We waited for more than an hour, during which time Aidas spoke several times, expressing his willingness to negotiate in various ways.
This is the true intention of the Holy Mother Church. If they fail this time, they really plan to negotiate with Qinglong.
Suddenly, Li Ming stood up. Aidas was confused, and then his expression changed drastically.
The mecha in front of her raised its right leg and kicked towards her head without saying a word.
Snap!
The skull was shattered, the face collapsed, everything in front of his eyes was dark, the ground was rumbling, and ripples of gray and sand were stirring continuously.
Lift your foot and put it down.
The ground cracked again and again, and Aidas kept wailing. Li Ming actually didn't inform Qinglong!
"No, you can't do this!"
“…How dare you act on your own…”
Accompanied by unwilling roars, Aidas's head turned into a pool of flesh and his body continued to twitch.
Given the activity of S-level life forms, there is a certain probability of rescue in this situation.
Immediately afterwards, Li Ming completely turned the corpse into meat pulp.
"You don't want to talk, you just know you're scared." Li Ming looked coldly at the pool of blood, flesh and mud in front of him and shook his head.
Then he turned his head and looked not far away. The Thunder's finishing work had already been completed.
Among the remaining people, the strongest one is the Earth Mother, who is just an A-level life form.
Then he shook his whole body, and thirty or forty humanoid mechanical bodies were shaken out. These were the ones he brought out from the base, and they were very suitable for use as tools.
Li Ming asked them to organize the various spacecraft and weapons nearby.
His eyes fell on the huge palace embedded in the mountain, but Li Ming did not go there immediately. Instead, he went in another direction.
He soon landed in front of the small base nestled in the brown earth.
This was originally a dimensional secret fortress belonging to the Holy Silver Civilization. It was later occupied by the Xingyuan Empire and now belongs to the Holy Mother Church.
The bodies of imperial soldiers were scattered on the ground, and the nearby guard posts were in ruins.
The people of the Holy Mother Church simply cleaned up and did not take any further control.
After forcing the gate of the base open, the entire base's system fell silent and not even the alarm sounded.
Walking through the corridor, the metal walls on both sides were covered with blood and corpses until we arrived at the control core.
The glass windows were shattered all over the floor and the operating table was riddled with bullet holes, as if there had been a fierce resistance.
Walking to the operating table, Li Ming took a glance at it, and then tried to restart it. The main screen lit up intermittently, and the surrounding lights flickered for a while, and then returned to complete silence.
"The damage here is too severe." Li Ming looked around and asked Lei Ting to pull out a data cable from his palm and plug it into the data interface.
"Master, the management system of this base has been severely damaged. The data has been shattered into pieces and it can no longer be restarted." A soft voice belonging to Suzaku came from Lei Ting's body.
"Can you take over here?" Li Ming asked.
"Please give me some time."
Li Ming waited here. After about ten minutes, the lights in the entire base suddenly lit up.
On the screens around them that were barely usable, a lifelike little Vermilion Bird appeared.
"Master, I have successfully taken over the base and am collecting the remaining data. Please go to the internal warehouse. There should be some things that you may be interested in." Zhuque said proactively.
Li Ming raised his eyebrows and followed Suzaku's instructions. He walked through several corridors and came to the internal warehouse.
There are few signs of damage here, and the walls are as smooth as new.
With a hum, the metal door of the warehouse slowly opened. The warehouse was very large, and Li Ming was immediately attracted by the things placed on the huge metal platform in the center.
It was more than ten meters in size. Li Ming was surprised when he took a closer look.
This thing is gray-brown in color, with various sharp spikes growing on its surface. The most important thing is that it has parts that look like limbs and have clear cut marks.
Like the corpse of some special life form.
"This can't be..." Li Ming had already guessed it in his mind.
The next moment, Suzaku explained, "You guessed correctly. This is the main life form of the dimensional world, codenamed the Brown Iron Beast."
"They were previously defeated by the Holy Silver Civilization using magnetic resonance, and before their bodies could be transported back, they were seized by the Xingyuan Empire."
"The Xingyuan Empire wasn't very interested in this, and they didn't study it for long before they were killed by the Holy Mother Church, and their bodies have been left here ever since."
"I didn't expect it to still be there." Li Ming was surprised and said with emotion: "It's still more comfortable to use our own artificial intelligence."
Without him giving any instructions, Suzaku knew what he wanted most.
Suzaku continued, "Master, please look to your left."
Li Ming turned his head and the metal display case on the wall of the warehouse opened automatically, revealing several brown crystals.
"Divine crystal." Li Ming's eyes were filled with ripples. He picked up one and placed it in his hand, drawing some kind of energy from it. He was very familiar with it.
There were ten in total, including the one he had left over.
"Can an S-level dimensional creature drop so much..." Li Ming pondered. There were two brown stones the size of a baby's head on the right, and the base was an anti-gravity device.
Li Ming tried to pick it up, but it was terribly heavy.
"This is the core material dissected from the body of the brown iron beast. It is alienated from ultra-high compressed condensed iron elements and is an unknown material." Zhuque introduced.
Li Ming tried to absorb the metal energy, and it surged in like a torrent.
"The masters of this dimensional world change too quickly, which is not without its benefits. We don't have enough time to deal with anything." Li Ming sighed and couldn't help but ask:
"But, did the Xingyuan Empire take action just to steal these little things?"
He felt something was not right. He had no prejudice against the Xingyuan Empire and did not think that the other party was so poor that they would act rashly just to grab these resources.
Moreover, they didn’t give it away after stealing it.
"There are some fragmented clues about this at the base." Suzaku's voice sounded again, "The Star of Eternal Silence..."
"The Star of Eternal Silence." Li Ming was slightly stunned and repeated the name.
Suzaku responded, "Yes, according to the data I've collected, the Holy Silver Civilization and the Holy Mother Church are inextricably linked. As early as the very beginning, there were records of this base communicating with the Holy Mother Church."
Li Ming was surprised. Are the Holy Silver Civilization and the Sisters Cultivators in the same group?
Zhuque continued to summarize the information: "The Holy Silver Civilization discovered traces of the Star of Eternal Silence in this dimensional world and informed the Holy Mother Church. I don't know why the Xingyuan Empire took action after learning of this news."
"However, the Xingyuan Empire did not obtain relevant information during the subsequent search, so the main force left, leaving only a small number of people behind."
The Star of Eternal Silence... Li Ming pondered, is the Xingyuan Empire looking for this Star of Eternal Silence?
It seems that the Holy Mother Church is also pursuing this Star of Eternal Silence?
Suddenly, a strange idea popped up in Li Ming's mind. Could this Star of Eternal Silence be the thing that was stolen from the Xingyuan Empire by the Holy Mother Church back then?
After this idea came to his mind, his body shook. While absorbing the metal energy and thinking, he felt that the possibility was very high.
A question arises: what is this Star of Eternal Silence?
Weapons? Or what?
He asked Suzaku, but this was the only name in the data that Suzaku had integrated.
Shaking his head, Li Ming's gaze fell on the corpse of the brown iron beast again. It was the Star of Eternal Silence and the remains of the Terrax civilization. No wonder no one cared about this thing.
It took Li Ming more than half a day to absorb the two pieces of metal materials and the corpse of the brown iron beast.
It mainly took some time to absorb the body of the brown iron beast. The two core metal materials absorbed a total of 40 million metal energies.
The remains of the brown iron beast's body finally absorbed 10 million metal energies, totaling 50 million metal energies.
Li Ming was already very satisfied. These metal energies were equivalent to falling from the sky.
"Master, when I was integrating the remaining data, I found some interesting records..." Suzaku spoke at the right time and called up a video.
In the picture, a large number of staff members in silver uniforms are surrounding a huge rectangular block, which is about seven or eight meters high and definitely over a hundred meters long.
Various large-scale equipment around were working together to slowly open a gap, and the fully armed explorer walked in.
Not long after, they returned safely. The man in the lead was holding an irregular black stone in his hand.
"The Stone of Terrax?" Li Ming's eyes narrowed slightly. This was the excavation video.
There is not much record in the Suzaku Unified data, we only know that it came from that ruins.
Li Ming became more and more curious: "Let's go see what's going on over there..."
When coming out of the base, Li Ming was still holding the divine crystal in one hand and was absorbing it.
The mechanical soldiers under his command have almost organized everything, with a total of five shuttle ships, one large and two small ones.
There is also a special communicator they use to communicate with the outside world. It is quite large, as big as a house. Li Ming took a look at it. The principle of this thing is complicated. It can penetrate the dimensional barriers and communicate with the outside world.
Not all dimensional worlds can build a network for external communication, and they cannot be easily moved after being activated.
[Dimensional Communicator--Class A: A communication device specially designed to cope with the special environment of the dimensional world.
Control conditions: 6 million metal energy
Control effect: Perception blessing 1000%
Control Ability - Temporary Communication: Build a connection network to the main universe. This ability needs to be kept open in a stable state and cannot be used in dimensional worlds above S level.
Sure enough, the effect of control is a network of external connections. Although it still has limitations, it is much better than not being able to move freely.
In addition to this thing, there are two main large weapons.
[Space Confinement Device - S-Class: A powerful space confinement device that locks space parameters.
Control conditions: 20 million metal energy
Control effect: Spatial affinity
Control ability - closure: lock the spatial parameters within the area.
[Super-dimensional Charge Penetration Jammer - S-Class: A special jammer that has miraculous effects on mechanical bodies.
Control conditions: 20 million metal energy
Control Effect: Charge Piercing
Control ability - super-dimensional interference: disrupt mechanical creations within the area. 】
Both of these items are S-level control items, but since they only play an auxiliary role, the control requirements are not very high.
"Tsk..." Li Ming stroked his chin, thinking carefully.
These two things are powerful, but they don’t seem to be of much use to him.
It can only be used when fighting against certain specific enemies. If you want to control it, not only will it cost 40 million metal energy, but it will probably take a long time to gather dust.
"Forget it, let's just recycle it directly." Li Ming shook his head and decided to absorb it as metal material.
Another half day was spent, and the two weapons had recovered a total of 28 million metal energies, bringing the total to 150 million metal energies.
The communicator must be controlled. It is very inconvenient to not be able to receive information from the outside world.
"Upgrade the control object!" Li Ming breathed a sigh of relief. This time he did not choose the mechanical guard. One was enough to bluff people and deal with most situations.
If you encounter Thunder, even the Human Cannon cannot defeat the enemy, and having another guard of the same level will not be enough.
The first choice is naturally the core control item [Justice Armguards], the data blessing is naturally top-level, and the characteristic [Armor-breaking True Damage] is also very terrifying, ignoring 25% of the attacker's defense.
It is partly responsible for the powerful power of my human cannon.
One hundred million metal energies were lost, and in the control bar, the [Justice Arm Armor] became more and more skin-fitting, the ferocious appearance became smoother, and the wrapped metal armor became more luxurious, with many more complicated patterns, which was very beautiful.
[Justice Armguards--S-level: The fist of justice only falls on sinners!
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Control Effect: Features - [Armor Breaking True Damage], [Super Charged Attack]
Control Ability——Justice Fighting: Additional 5000% strength.】
[Armor Breaking True Damage: Gain 2000% Strength and ignore 30% of the target's Defense.]
[Super Charged Attack: If you haven't been attacked within three seconds, your next attack will gain all the power added by the controlled object.]
(End of this chapter)
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