Chapter 238: The Correct Use of Hidden Blessings: Circling the Torch Organization Base
Li Ming's eyes flickered slightly, but he remained noncommittal. Jessiah didn't care either, and said with some emotion:
"Lord Monroe was trapped by the nano curse. He was an extremely powerful mechanic himself, but he tried everything he could to stop it."
"I followed in his footsteps, underwent full-body transformation, became an A-class mechanical transformed body, and became a master mechanic. Only then did I clearly understand the despair he faced."
"I didn't expect that..." Jessiah's tone became more and more surprised, and he even used honorifics:
"How long have you been in the Land of Stars? Excluding the time you were lurking under Ulrich's command, you were able to remove the Nano Curse for Lord Monroe in such a short time. I'm afraid only a Forge-level mechanic could do that."
Li Ming pondered for a moment, still not directly answering Jesseia's question. He just shook his head and laughed, "Forging Star Mechanic?"
He neither denied nor admitted it.
Seeing the other party's stubborn attitude, Jessiah didn't care. The other party's vigilance was normal. The nano curse came from the Xingyuan Empire.
If the other party admits it, to some extent, they will be regarded as enemies of the Xingyuan Empire.
Jessiah came here just to express his attitude and show that he is one of them. Even if the other party doesn't believe it for the time being, time will prove everything.
"Forget it, let's not talk about this anymore." After venting his feelings, Jessiah skipped the topic. "There were some things I couldn't say at the banquet, so I came here specially."
The mimetic structure on his face retracted, and he appeared quite cautious. "Deyes is quite unhappy with your joining because Connit once promised that after opening the ruins, he would give him the precious material called 'Dark Matter Stardust'."
"It can be used as the main material for star-casting tools."
"The star-casting tool..." Li Ming was surprised.
The so-called Star-Forging Equipment is the standard equipment for Star-Forging-level mechanics.
The so-called "star casting" refers to casting planets, and it can also be said to be able to create a powerful civilization.
In his hand, perhaps only the completely repaired [Matter Reconstruction Fabricator] can be regarded as a star-forging tool.
"Has his level reached this point?" Li Ming asked.
"No, although Deyes is the most skilled among the three of us, he's still some distance away from being a Casting-star mechanic. He's mainly focused on collecting materials."
Jessiah was a little helpless: "He made a deal with us before. He didn't want anything else but the dark matter stardust."
"But when you come..."
No wonder Deyes was hostile to him, Li Ming thought thoughtfully, this was equivalent to a grudge against someone who blocked his way.
Jessiah then added, "Although his level is not low, the source of the relevant data we learned today is still questionable."
"He's made significant contributions to virtual intelligence research. I personally suspect he has a way to connect to the outside world, otherwise he wouldn't have suddenly learned so much data."
Li Ming seemed to be thinking about something. The others were not stupid either. After what Deyes did, even a fool would suspect that there was something wrong with him.
It seems very risky.
But Li Ming changed his mind and thought, if he didn't recognize that thing, he could still use the [Material Reorganization Fabricator] to build the things on the drawing in batches and parts.
But he couldn't prove this in a short time. Even though Connet and others had doubts about Deyes, they had to listen to him.
It was even said that there was a high possibility that he would be isolated or even expelled from the core laboratory.
He didn't care whether he was valued or not, but there were many things he wanted in this base.
Although the risk is great, it is indeed possible. Unfortunately... Li Ming shook his head. He really recognized that thing.
"Connit will naturally handle Deyes's problem." Li Ning still spoke vaguely. Although he had a good impression of Jessiah, it was impossible for him to trust the other party with just a few words.
Then he asked, "I'm actually concerned about another thing. What's in the Ascendant ruins?"
Jessiah could clearly sense the other party's distrust, and without hesitation, he answered immediately: "[Sublimation Source Crystal]"
"[Sublimation Source Crystal]?"
Jesaya nodded. "It's rumored to be one of the three star-forging instruments possessed by the Ascendant civilization. I'm not entirely sure what it does."
"Of course, the Torch Organisation is not 100% sure and is only making this inference based on the information it has."
He explained, "You might not know that at the peak of the Ascended civilization, its territory covered over thirty star clusters, encompassing almost half of the Corona Borealis ring."
"Their race's unique sublimation particles allow for the coexistence of superpowers and genetic evolution, making their strength far surpass that of evolutionary entities at the same level."
"Because it was relatively close to the Xingyuan Empire, it aroused their vigilance. After hundreds of years of twists and turns, it was eventually destroyed."
During his time in the Torch Organization, Jessia has gained a relatively clear understanding of the Ascendant civilization.
"The core Ascendant high-level officials created a series of Ascendant relics when they were finally destroyed. The three most important ones are called 'Core Relics'."
"When it was destroyed, the Xingyuan Empire obtained one of them. About 1,500 years ago, the other one appeared and was snatched away by an unknown person."
"The one found now is suspected to be the third one."
Li Ming suddenly realized that it was no wonder that the core ruins were so valued. The Itlan civilization had been planning this for nearly ten years.
It is not an exaggeration to say that Asmara’s current status is to a certain extent due to the advantage of having been there.
Jesaya sighed, "Although I don't know the specific function of that thing, if the Torch Organization gets hold of it, it's possible that it could overthrow the Itlan civilization in a few years."
"It seems that none of you senior mechanics are targeting this thing?" Li Ming couldn't help but ask.
Jesaya was helpless: "This thing is a hot potato. The Xingyuan Empire is high and mighty, and it seems that they don't care much about this relic, but they are constantly making moves behind the scenes."
"The Ethlan civilization is the vanguard, and the Torch Organization has devoted all its efforts to this cause. The advanced civilizations in several nearby star clusters are also ready to take action..."
"For a few of us mere mechanics, trying to steal this thing would be a death trap. Our goal is something else in the ruins..."
Even though Jesseia is already an A-level mechanical modified body and a master mechanic, he can still feel a deep sense of powerlessness when these names are mentioned.
Li Ming did not comment, and the two chatted for a while and exchanged a lot of relevant information.
It was not until Li Ming showed his intention to kick him out for the third time that Jessiah left reluctantly.
"This guy's fanatical worship of Monroe doesn't seem fake. Hmm... let's see later, maybe it will be useful..." Li Ming pondered to himself, his thoughts running, and he glanced at the time.
According to the Blue Star time zone he had always set, it was now eight o'clock in the evening.
He switched to the [Matter Recombination Device] again, and a group of metal particles kept changing shape in his hands, eventually forming a silver-white metal mask.
[Twisted Mask--C-Rank: A mask made using a special method.
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Control effect: Concealment bless 200%
Control Energy - Distortion Field: Gain 400% stealth and block out sound waves.
"It's really amazing..." Li Ming couldn't help but sigh as he watched the process of the mask being created from nothing.
This thing really saved him a lot of effort. He could experiment with any idea he had right away.
He made a total of six similar masks, one of which was a B-level item. Combined with the [Soul Visor] and professional blessing, it could provide a total of 27.5 times the concealment blessing.
The experiments and manufacturing consumed a total of about two million metal energies.
"We'll start the real manufacturing work tomorrow, so today is a good time to give it a try." Li Ming thought.
His main goal was to obtain more dimensional crystals, that is, alienated energy. Of course, as the main base of the Torch Organization, there should be a lot of good things here, but he knew nothing about it for the time being.
We must find a way to find out the general situation.
After a while, Lei Ting went out again, wandered left and right in the corridor, and finally waited for a figure, it was Theo.
After the banquet, Cornette called Theo away alone and only came back now.
Theo lowered his head in thought, his eyes sweeping over Lei Ting. At first he didn't care.
Until the two of them passed each other and their shadows met, Theo suddenly stopped and looked back suspiciously at the blue mechanical body that was going away.
His eyes fell on the other person's shadow, which kept shrinking and lengthening as the downlights in the corridor approached and moved away.
After hesitating for a moment, he appeared silently behind Lei Ting and felt the shadow passing over him.
"Is it an illusion?" Theo frowned, stood there for a long time before turning around.
"This old guy has such a keen sense." Li Ming, who was hiding in the shadow of Thunder, was secretly surprised.
After the experiment, he breathed a sigh of relief. With the help of all the concealment, he restrained his emotions and breath. Before he took action, even Theo could not detect him.
This is the correct way to use the Concealment Blessing. He had always wondered that no matter how high the Concealment Blessing was stacked, it would not make him disappear from the real world directly.
What is the use of this thing?
But now he understood that this thing was used to erase the intuition of living beings.
The intuition of higher life forms is quite sharp, and they will feel even the slightest bit of being watched secretly.
Hidden blessings need to be combined with hidden means to be truly effective.
At this time, Lei Ting had walked to the connection of the metal corridor leading to the outside of this area. There were two torch soldiers guarding the end. They looked back at the blue mechanical body. If the other party took another step forward, they would stop it.
But the blue mechanical body just moved sideways, no one knew what it was doing, until a strange lighting angle, Lei Ting's shadow intersected with the shadow of one of the soldiers, and in an instant, it fluctuated slightly.
Lei Ting stopped moving, and the two soldiers looked at each other, confused.
Not long after.
Two staff members passed by the corridor, paused, and looked into the metal corridor curiously.
"Are you from the R&D department? Leave quickly, this is a level one security zone." The guarding soldier shouted in a stern voice.
The two staff members looked embarrassed and hurried away. After walking a distance, they looked back carefully.
One of them had a small mustache and whispered, "I heard that the great mechanic Qinglong has arrived at the base."
"Really?" The other man, who didn't have much hair on his head, looked surprised. "How did you know?"
"I have my own solution." The man with the mustache looked proud. "Not only that, I also heard that this master mechanic Qinglong solved a problem that had troubled several other master mechanics for a long time since his arrival."
The bald man exclaimed: "Is it really that amazing? They are all great mechanics, why is there such a big gap?"
"There are also gaps between great mechanics." The man with a mustache said meaningfully.
The bald man was speechless. "Okay, with your level of mechanics, you can't even forget the classification of alloy hardness values. Stop pretending to evaluate here."
The mustache man looked displeased. The two of them exchanged a few words before skipping over the topic. "Hurry up! The equipment for the warship has arrived, waiting for us to inspect it."
"Battleship supporting equipment?" In the shadows, Li Ming had already put on a [Distorted Mask], and then activated [Intelligent Assistance], outlining the base map in his mind.
He was extremely unfamiliar with the place and had no clear goal, so he simply followed the two men for the time being.
The two men made many twists and turns, passed through the central corridor, and came to the other side of the base. After going through many verifications, they took the elevator to the upper level of the base.
The metal door slowly opened, the sound of metal rubbing against metal came one after another, and the air was filled with a strong smell of rust.
This seems to be a battleship assembly room. Complex structural parts are slowly transported on a huge crawler conveyor equipment. With the help of a nearly 100-meter-long mechanical arm, they are gradually assembled into a rough battleship.
It can be clearly seen that many things are still missing, including ship guns, internal engines, energy lines and the like.
The two were very familiar with this place. They walked through the battleship assembly room and a metal corridor nearly a hundred meters long, and came to a huge open space.
Above is the boundless starry sky, protected by an ecological shield that provides ample oxygen.
In front of me, there are many metal boxes of various sizes. On a giant transport spaceship not far away, a large crane is unloading them.
The two quickly got to work and began to count.
"Parade Crow Cannons - 246 pieces"
"246 quantum shield-generating devices"
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It seems to be the main accessories of the battleship, Li Ming listened.
The engine, shield, and fire control, these three parts require extremely high technical difficulty.
Although the Torch Organization can build basic warship hulls, core components with extremely high technical difficulty still need to be purchased.
"Main ship class - Astartes Spear, electromagnetic cannon..." The man with a mustache stood in front of a metal box that was nearly a hundred meters long. He looked up at the logo on it, then walked in through the gap in the box door. What appeared before his eyes was a giant cannon painted in a bright blue color.
Battleship-class gun barrels?
Li Ming suddenly became alert. The man with a mustache who was taking notes suddenly felt a cold wind on his back. He looked back suspiciously, but there was only darkness.
[Astartes Electromagnetic Cannon--Special Type: Electromagnetic compression ship-borne main gun with extremely strong lethality.
Control conditions: 4 million metal energy
Control effect: electromagnetic concentration effect
Control Ability - Bombing: Materialize the naval gun and bombard a target. (Note: Energy must be stored in advance)
(End of this chapter)
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