Chapter 336: Influence and Reaction (Seeking monthly tickets at the beginning of the month, thank you all for your support!)
After a long time without any interrogation from Li Ming or any display of power, Reina said in a hoarse voice:
"I'm sorry, Grand Duke Guya, but don't expect to get anything from me. The worst that can happen is you can just kill me."
The shame of being a prisoner was secondary. Reina recalled the battle not long ago and thought that Qinglong and his men were able to escape safely only by relying on mechas.
However, he didn't expect that the other party's hidden means were far more than he imagined.
"Kill you?" Li Ming shook his head and said calmly, "I won't kill you. If you die, Nicholas will be even more excited, and he'll take the opportunity to instigate the imperial high-ranking officials to take action against us."
Hearing what Li Ming said, Reina paused for a moment and said self-deprecatingly, "Yeah, I almost forgot about that mad dog Nicola. He wouldn't let me go, not caring if I was the one who killed his son."
"Now that you've captured me, he'll definitely try every possible means to get the Royal Council to take action. He'll actually be considered to have saved me."
"So, in order to prevent the Xingyuan Empire from really targeting us, I can only let you go." Li Ming said casually, not intending to really slap the Xingyuan Empire in the face.
Unlike Gabriel's ambiguity, all parties tacitly agreed to put the blame on Grand Duke Guya.
It was a foregone conclusion that he had caught Reina, and this news could not be hidden.
There were already many spies outside the galaxy, and the commotion caused at the time was quite large. This news might have already begun to spread outward.
As an S-level life form listed within the Xingyuan Empire, Reina is not a direct descendant, but a later joiner, and is under the jurisdiction of the Higher Life Management Bureau, which is a department directly under the Royal Council.
No matter who his subordinate is, the higher-ups won't sit idly by. If they extract the genetic material, it won't be a waste of their time to capture him. He must be released.
"That's easy for you to say." Reina was silent for a moment, then couldn't help but say, "I came straight for you and almost succeeded in a sneak attack. Qinglong asked you to let me go. Aren't you unwilling to do so?"
"What's the big deal..." Li Ming shook his head, nonchalantly saying, "No one wants to offend the giant Xingyuan Empire, so why bother asking for trouble?"
"Aren't you afraid that if you let me go, I will come back again?" Reina said provocatively.
"You shouldn't have this chance." Li Ming's words were inexplicable. He extracted the other party's genetic essence. When he stumbled all the way back to the Xingyuan Empire, the first decline would come.
Judging from the opponent's development progress, it will happen at most twice, and the first time may be the first time it falls from an S-level life form.
He doesn't mind people finding out that Qinglong has the ability to cause human genes to degenerate. This is the mystery, this is the means.
The means cannot be imagined by others, otherwise there will always be people who are eager to test them, and there must be corresponding demonstrations.
Lei Ting's appearance is one aspect, and this method of genetic degeneration is also another aspect, which is enough to make outsiders increase the threat of Qinglong to many levels.
"Hmph..." Reina sneered, "You're ready to let me go, but you haven't even asked me if I want to leave."
"Tell me, if I die here with you, will the Empire be forced to avenge me?"
Li Ming paused slightly, his eyes flickering, and then he said with emotion: "Your loyalty is truly moving to Xingji."
"If you die here, the Empire will have no choice but to issue a warrant for our arrest, but that won't do any good to Grand Duke Guya."
"If you want to uphold the reputation of Lord Guya and make Nicholas spit out all the benefits he has gained, you must be able to catch my teacher."
Li Ming patiently coaxed him, "It's just a small planet. We can abandon it if we want. At worst, we can hide it somewhere else. What good will your death bring, other than dealing another heavy blow to the already severely weakened Grand Duke Guya?"
"If you really care about Grand Duke Gu Ya, you should think about it carefully. If you really decide to do this, I don't mind helping you." Li Ming said considerately:
"I will send your beheading video to the interstellar space. I'm sure Nicolael will applaud and then further oppress Grand Duke Gua."
"If he can't even protect his own men, who would be willing to work for him loyally?"
Reina remained silent. He just said that because of the shame of losing to Li Ming and his complicated emotions, he said that in an attempt to take the initiative.
As a result, Li Ming blocked his way.
"Well... okay." Li Ming pretended to pick up the metal box beside him.
Reina finally reacted and asked in a deep voice, "What did you do to me?"
"Nothing, the teacher asked me to make some small gadgets." Li Ming smiled warmly, "Don't worry, Master Reina, it's nothing."
As he estimated, Reina's development progress is only 4%, which can be classified as low-end S.
Reina twisted his body and said unwillingly, "What about Qinglong? Isn't he going to show up? Or is it that I am no longer qualified for him to look at me seriously?"
"Your Excellency has misunderstood..." Li Ming paused, then laughed, "You have never had such qualifications."
Reina's expression froze, he was both ashamed and annoyed, and then he became dejected. He hadn't even seen Qinglong, and he had ended up like this. What was there to be unwilling about?
………
About half a day later, Albert, who was hiding in the distant orbit, carefully drove the spaceship away. His silver pupils were full of fear and his vigilance was raised to the extreme.
He is not sure whether he has been discovered by Qinglong.
After moving away from Hantian Star and quickly moving away from Yunyan Galaxy, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Not daring to delay, he quickly contacted the Grand Duke of Blood and received a response soon.
"Albert, what's going on over there?" Nicholas saw Albert contacting him and had a premonition that something might have happened, so he came up and asked.
Qinglong is a thorn in his heart. Even though he is now overwhelmed by internal struggles, he still cares about him very much.
"Today, an S-level life form suddenly attacked Hantian Star." Albert said.
Nicholas's expression was slightly shocked. "S-class lifeform? What's their origin? How's the battle going? Did Azure Dragon appear?"
"I'm not sure about her exact origins, I only know she was a woman, and the Azure Dragon didn't appear..."
Before Albert could finish, Nicolael interrupted him, frowning and asking, "Qinglong didn't show up? What about Li Ming? Was he captured?"
"No, there was an S-class mechanical body that defeated that woman." Albert said helplessly.
"S-class mechanical body?" Nicola was stunned, his face turned ugly. "Can Qinglong create an S-class mechanical body?"
The amount of information contained in this is huge. The mechanical body is a culmination of various technical means such as material science, energy engines, and even transmission efficiency.
Although there are many star-casting mechanics in the interstellar space, there are very few who are capable of making this thing.
"Yeah..." Albert also looked helpless. "To have an S-class mechanical body as a bodyguard is really rich and powerful."
"And... halfway through the fight, Reina was also here, and he was trying to attack Li Ming, but Qinglong left his mecha to Li Ming."
Nicolael couldn't help but sneer when he heard this, "Reina... That old bastard Tsathoggua isn't willing to let me eat a piece of his flesh."
"The S-class mechanical body and the S-class mecha were left to Li Ming. Qinglong really values him. Reina can only return empty-handed."
"It's not a complete failure." Albert sighed.
"Did he catch Li Ming?" Nicholas's face changed slightly. Who wouldn't want a treasure with 46-level development potential?
He looked at Albert with some unkindness.
"No." Albert was speechless and explained, "On the contrary, Li Ming, wearing that mecha, severely injured Reina and has been captured."
"Did Reina get seriously injured?" Nicola chewed over the words and said incredulously, "Isn't that mecha incapable of combat?"
"We've all been deceived. It's true, it's just too..." Albert was at a loss for words. "I estimate that if the development progress is less than 30%, there's almost no chance of us being able to carry it through head-on."
Power acceleration, simple and brutal.
"So powerful?" Nicholas' heart suddenly jumped. To reach the level of S-level life forms, every bit of development progress would take dozens or even hundreds of years.
At each development node, the awakened abilities will bring about a huge increase.
Many people are like Reina, who made a great leap to become an S-level life form, but never made any progress in their life.
Nicola's expression was uncertain, but then he suddenly relaxed and said, "It doesn't matter. Since he has captured Reina, it is a direct provocation to the Empire."
"No matter how many tricks he has up his sleeve, since he chose to hide them, it means he's still wary and afraid of something."
Albert nodded. Having the Xingyuan Empire as their backing was the confidence of these people.
Just as he was about to speak, he heard a noise coming from the other side of the screen. It seemed like someone came to report. The voice was familiar, and it seemed to be the intelligence adjutant.
"Grand Duke, I just received urgent news that the S-class life form Reina was captured in the Chaos Star Gap and fell into the hands of Qinglong."
The response over there was quite quick…Albert couldn’t help but nod.
"I already know..." Nicolael said lightly, but the intelligence adjutant hadn't finished reporting yet and continued, "News came from Grand Duke Gu Ya. Qinglong sent a message, asking them to send someone to hand over Reina."
"Hand over Reina?" Nicolaar suddenly stood up and shouted, "He wants to release him?"
"It seems so."
"Have you put forward any conditions?" Nicholas asked.
"It doesn't seem so."
"Coward!" Nicholas gritted his teeth. "They've already reached the door, and you're just going to let them go? Without even mentioning any conditions?"
Albert was also a little stunned, but he quickly reacted.
Qinglong didn't want to provoke the Xingyuan Empire, and he was extremely rational. He sent someone to deliver a message only half a day after the attack, obviously not wanting to be beaten by time.
The conditions are not mentioned to avoid any excuse for being caught.
The communication ended with Nicolael's roar. Albert's face changed and he didn't know whether he should leave or stay.
With the support of the Xingyuan Empire, even someone like Reina would not be in danger of his life. This is an advantage, but it also comes at a corresponding price.
………
In the room, Li Ming felt the surging and extremely active cells in his body, as if he was soaking in a hot spring. All the cells in his body were wriggling, and he could clearly feel that he was getting stronger every moment, even if it was just a little bit.
The changes brought about by the gene seeds permeate the entire body.
He has used the genetic material extracted from Reina to improve one of the remaining three evolutionary theories in the evolutionary system, the [Flame Thunder Emperor Evolutionary Theory].
Turn it into S-level [Emperor Yan Evolution Essence].
"The gene source material has been upgraded from A-level to S-level, and the development speed has increased from 16 times to 32 times. After the blessing of the [Sublimation Source Crystal], the overall speed has reached 256 times."
Li Ming pondered, every improvement, with the blessing of [Sublimation Source Crystal], was a huge increase.
Perhaps because the upgrade only used one S-level gene source, there was no special change in the evolution source, only an improvement in the data.
A glance at the smart terminal showed that Grand Duke Gu Ya had responded, agreeing to place the handover point at the Twin Peaks node.
Li Ming replied "OK", agreed on a time, and opened the Black Hole Network again.
As expected, the battle that took place half a day ago had already begun to spread in the chaotic star gap, along with blurry video footage of the battle.
Li Ming went in and took a look. Lei Ting's figure was clearly visible. He was also very clear when he was carrying Reina back.
"An S-class mechanical body! This Lord Qinglong is truly amazing. He didn't even show his face, and with just his students, he managed to capture two S-class life forms, one of which was captured and the other escaped."
"I don't know where this person came from. He even came to Chaos Star Gap and still didn't stop."
"It is said that the captured S-class lifeform is from the Xingyuan Empire. Tsk tsk... This is going to be exciting..."
Li Ming took a quick look and saw all kinds of opinions, but his basic understanding of Qinglong's strength and methods had been greatly improved.
Alas... the more you brag, the bigger the bullshit becomes... I don't know when I can finally make up for it.
For now, as long as those major forces are not forced to fight him, his bragging cannot be exposed for the time being.
Leaving the room, I found Robin, who was very kind: "Are you ready? It's time to go."
"Okay, okay..." Robin nodded repeatedly, having already packed everything up.
They were on Robin's spaceship.
Ulrich and the others saw them off. Robin cautiously glanced at Lei Ting, who was following Li Ming, and asked, "Is he following too?"
"Of course, he is my bodyguard, of course he will follow." Li Ming said as a matter of course.
While Robin was envious, he also wondered, "What about this planet?"
"I'm not here, and my teacher isn't here either. Who would take action here?" Li Ming smiled.
This planet is not really a big threat in the eyes of others, and neither are the people on it.
"After yesterday's battle, the situation should be much better. I'll leave the matters here to you." Li Ming said to Ulrich.
"I understand." Ulrich nodded. Unconsciously, he also had a great deal of respect for Li Ming. "Those small arms dealers mostly follow the big arms dealers and wave their flags and shout slogans. After yesterday's battle, many people placed orders today."
"If we can be more aggressive, we should be able to expand our market share."
The name of a person, the shadow of a tree, the Chaos Star Gap is rumored to be an extremely chaotic place in the outside world, but that is only the middle and lower levels.
It has been a while since higher life forms fought, and yesterday's battle caused quite a stir, which was equivalent to Qinglong speaking for himself.
"Yeah." Li Ming nodded, still very confident in Ulrich and his team's ability to do things.
"He's going with us too?" Robin shuddered, and swallowed his saliva as he looked at Reina who was being restrained by the Tank Guard.
"I will hand them over to the people of Xingyuan Empire and hand them over at the Twin Peaks node." Li Ming said casually. The two of them boarded the spaceship, the engine roared, and under the gaze of everyone, it broke through the atmosphere and disappeared into the sky.
(End of this chapter)
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