Chapter 543 "Qinglong, it's cold, put on more clothes."
Thinking of this, he couldn't wait to build it and test his idea.
[Life Power Core] has a complete transformation route, and the original base is the mechanical secondary heart.
Thinking in his mind, Li Ming did not leave immediately, but challenged again to see if he could defeat the peak transcendence level trial.
About an hour and a half later, he ended the challenge and did not pass.
He was trapped in the siege of the last sixteen members of the Yuan Clan. It was pretty much as he expected. He had the advantage against four, but against eight it was not so easy.
He could hit an enemy hard enough to injure them severely, but in that instant, the other fifteen had already crashed down on him, leaving him with nothing to do but wander around and grind down.
He should be able to pass it after grinding it for a dozen times, but he did not waste time. Instead, he prepared to go back and use the source material to upgrade directly, and he would definitely pass it.
When he came out of the trial arena, he saw the expressionless and slightly displeased Supervisor, who seemed to want to say something.
Li Ming could guess what the other party wanted to say with his feet, it was nothing more than cheating or something like that.
He opened his mouth and said, "I'll leave first. We'll talk again when we have time."
As soon as he finished speaking, his figure collapsed on the spot. The Supervisor's words were held back in his stomach, and the buzzing sound in his body became much more rapid.
Slowly opening his eyes, Li Ming stood up and thought about building the [Life Power Core].
However, as he walked, his brain gradually cooled down.
The actual application scenarios may not be as good as he imagined.
"After all, people are not fools. It's not easy to hit someone by just standing still or by attacking like the guys in the King's Trial." Li Ming let out a breath.
Also, there is a big problem, which is "repair time".
S-level [Life Power Core], [Immunity] lasts only three seconds.
However, the repair time is much longer than this time.
When he just repaired the Infinite Hammer, it took several minutes, not to mention three seconds.
There had been no need for this before, and he had not specifically calculated the specific repair time.
But he estimated that each repair took much longer than three seconds, but it was definitely not a one-second repair.
This is the case starting from the low-level E-level and E-level control objects.
"During actual combat, there's no downtime. We can only use a Level X [Life Power Core], and the repair cost increases tenfold..."
He thought that although the cost increased tenfold, this forecast was actually fine.
But he soon came up with a solution: "Hmm... Actually, it can still be done. All we need to do is build a number of S-level [Life Power Cores] in advance and use them as replacements to fill the repair time. That'll be all."
Compared with the increased cost, the little metal energy wasted in creating multiple control objects of the same type is actually nothing.
"At least 110 million metal energies..." Li Ming pondered, "I'll calculate the repair time later and see how many can achieve uninterrupted connection..."
Shaking his head, Li Ming took out his smart terminal and took another look, raising his eyebrows: "It's not over yet?"
He was delayed in the Holy Castle for at least two hours.
"Well, the crafting will take some time to finish. Since it's not finished yet, let's go over there and take a look." Li Ming thought to himself.
Normally, this kind of scene would be over in a few hours if we moved quickly, but it's already been almost a day.
I guess something unexpected happened.
At a fork in the metal corridor ahead, Li Ming turned and came to the virtual projection room, asking Suzaku to connect to the virtual projection interface.
After the Interstellar Alliance verifies the identity, it builds a dedicated link.
…
In the Interstellar Alliance headquarters, in the conference hall of the United Organization of Higher Life Forms, a low noise echoed in the hall.
Even though nearly half an hour had passed since the video ended, people were still discussing it.
"Qinglong is very capable. He didn't even come here himself, but he used Reynolds to get the job done."
"Sir, where on earth did you come from? Could it be..." At this point, the advanced life form that polished the horns to a shiny shine lowered his voice:
"Is it really like the rumors of the Mechanics Association claiming that this is the backup consciousness of the long-dead Hammersmith?"
"I was a bit scornful at first, but now it's hard to say. Such a powerful divine craftsman, whose various technologies are at the forefront of the interstellar space, would definitely not appear out of nowhere."
"This incident may cause quite a stir."
Through virtual projection, Perkins' figure was reduced to normal size. At this moment, her eyes flickered, and she had been challenged by the Covenant.
If nothing unexpected happens, the probability of failure is extremely high.
If that's the case... Perkins glanced at the group of official X-level life forms with a bad look, then don't blame me.
"…This matter really has nothing to do with Qinglong?"
The official X-level life forms are now holding smart terminals and reporting this emergency.
In the corner, Mikhail was still questioning Reynolds, "Is this really your idea alone?"
"I've told you countless times that Qinglong doesn't know." Reynolds said impatiently, "Besides, what does it matter whether Qinglong knows or not?"
Mikhail couldn't help feeling more and more melancholy.
Sure enough, this stupid behavior was Reynolds's own decision.
Everyone had their own thoughts. For a moment, the initiation ceremony and the congratulatory letters from the leaders of the three major civilizations no longer mattered.
Until a sudden voice sounded, "Everyone... His Excellency Qinglong is about to arrive."
Suddenly, all the X-level life forms in the entire conference hall looked at the staff member in the corner who spoke with courage.
In an instant, the staff member's face turned red. The urgent pressure from the higher life form almost made his heart burst. Blood rushed to his forehead and his face turned red.
Gustav frowned, and with a raise of his hand, the pressure disappeared.
The staff member staggered backward, bumped into the wall, and fell on his back. Although he was bleeding from all seven orifices, he survived.
However, none of the higher life forms present paid attention to this insignificant figure, and their eyes fell on his side.
Under the virtual projector, multiple rays of bright blue light intertwined, and a virtual projection gradually emerged.
When the virtual projection descended, Li Ming naturally would not use a mechanical body. Instead, he used the appearance he had mimicked in the Land of Stars, which was the original Azure Dragon.
At the same time, in the room where Li Ming was, the scene of a conference hall was outlined around him.
The first person to appear was naturally the staff member with blood coming out of all seven orifices under his feet.
"Huh..." Li Ming raised his eyebrows, "There really was a bloody conflict. No, you seem to be a staff member, right?"
Li Ming became interested and squatted on the staff member. He seemed to have just come back to his senses, breathing heavily. In his blurred consciousness, he saw the virtual projection in front of him again.
After recognizing the formation, his pupils suddenly contracted, his mouth opened, his eyes rolled back, and he fainted again.
"This..." Li Ming was stunned, and then a staff member broke into the virtual scene, ran over quickly, and pulled him away while whispering an apology: No, sorry, Lord Qinglong, I'm disturbing you.
"It's okay." Li Ming didn't care and replied casually.
At the same time, the surrounding virtual scenes outline more figures.
Li Ming then realized that something was wrong. It seemed as if everyone in the hall was looking at him.
Moreover, his expression was very strange, as if he was looking at me secretly, with a look of fear and even terror.
The atmosphere at the scene made him feel vaguely strange.
Especially Gustav, Anatoly, and everyone on the board of directors, they were all looking at him with complicated eyes, and Anduin was even faintly relieved.
What the hell?
Li Ming felt puzzled. His intuition told him that something must have happened, and it was closely related to him.
Before he could say anything, he received a signal connection from Mikhail.
"...Qinglong..." Mikhail said in a complicated tone, "Something just happened..."
"Haha..." Reynolds's channel suddenly connected. "Qinglong, this surprise I gave you is pretty good, isn't it? I showed you the video of you beating up Tandin and Alves."
"Huh?" Li Ming was slightly stunned. "When did I beat up Tandin and Alvis?"
"Almost, almost." Reynolds said nonchalantly.
Mikhail was slightly annoyed and said, "This idiot... This is what happened..."
Mikhail's narration was more concise, and he told what had just happened in just a few sentences.
No wonder these people looked at me like that. After hearing this, Li Ming became more and more stunned. Looking at Reynolds, his emotions were surging in his heart and he couldn't say a word.
This... is too reckless. If something unexpected happens and someone infers something from the video, then a small matter will become a big one.
He didn't really care about this seat.
"Don't worry, I've edited it carefully. There's no chance of a corpse appearing, or of anyone being able to speculate on the presence of a corpse." Reynolds couldn't help but add:
"It's not just because of you. We have to show our attitude to prevent the Imperial Federation from getting too aggressive and forcing us to hand over the path of mechanical evolution."
"That's right." Li Ming said lightly, "It's indeed necessary to intimidate them."
"Ha..." Reynolds patted Mikhail's shoulder, grinning and showing his metal teeth: "I said Qinglong could understand me."
Mikhail was too lazy to pay attention to him. Things had already happened. Qinglong was very smart. How could he blame you for this?
Although he was very unhappy, what Reynolds said did make some sense, but he would never choose to intimidate in this way.
Because of his secret communication with the two people, the entire conference hall remained silent for a few minutes after he appeared.
It seemed that everyone was waiting for him to speak first.
Li Ming came back to his senses and glanced around. His gaze paused on those official X-level life forms, especially Alta.
According to Mikhail, this guy is his challenger.
After a moment's thought, he uttered his first words, "Good day, everyone."
As soon as the words fell, the silent atmosphere suddenly became lively, "Your Excellency Qinglong, good day..."
“…”
Everyone was greeting him and seemed to want to come up and chat with him. Li Ming responded with a smile.
In the corner, Gustav watched with a gloomy gaze, while Anatoly beside him couldn't help but sigh, "It's really, shocking."
"What's so surprising? Didn't you see it in the Desolate Channel?" Gustav said lightly.
"It's different." Anatoly shook his head, as if he wanted to say something, but due to the virtual projection, he couldn't use mental fluctuations to communicate secretly. In the end, he just repeated: "It's different..."
Li Ming greeted everyone enthusiastically until the end, then he said, "I heard that the challenge for the board seat has begun?"
The already heated atmosphere in the hall sank again, and many people looked vaguely at the group of official X-level life forms.
Arta frowned. He didn't believe that Qinglong could really beat Tandin and Alvis, but he definitely couldn't defeat them either.
Since he couldn't figure out what the situation was, he naturally wouldn't speak rashly.
"Your Excellency Arta."
Qinglong came and looked at him by name.
"I'm here. What do you have to say?" Li Ming asked in a calm tone.
It was just a virtual projection, not the real person, but it carried a vague sense of real oppression.
The official X-level life forms were silent. The Empire and the Federation naturally did not speak, and several people from the Covenant frowned.
Yalta's expression changed, but he quickly regained composure. "No, Your Excellency Qinglong, you are worthy of your name."
Anduin couldn't help but sneer, these guys are bullies who only care about the strong.
The expressions of the other directors also relaxed a lot.
At least, I got some face back in the end.
As soon as Arta finished speaking, a sudden voice came, "I have something to announce..."
Perkins' virtual projection passed straight through the crowd and came to the center. The proportionally shrunken blood giant looked a little weird.
Her gaze fell on Qinglong, and without hesitation, she said bluntly: "I want to give the position of Vice Chairman to Qinglong."
Everyone was stunned, and their expressions became amused. Tsk tsk... why did he give up his position?
Li Ming was speechless. Why did he get another surprise?
Next time something like this happens, can you please notify him in advance?
"No!" Knox interrupted immediately, "This is too ridiculous. There are no such rules."
Now, the Star Alliance has only lost Qinglong's seat on the board of directors, but if Qinglong becomes the vice-chairman, they will suffer a great loss.
"I don't think I'm as good as Qinglong, is that okay?" Perkins said firmly, "Also, you're just ordinary members now. You have no right to make demands on me."
"Or, we can hold a vote on the board of directors on the spot. I am in favor of that."
"I agree!" Anduin was still the first to agree.
"I agree."
“Agree!”
“…”
"I refuse." Li Ming frowned.
Everyone was stunned, but no one cared. Qinglong would definitely vote against it. Voting for himself was not a good look.
Except for Gustav, Anatoly, and Qinglong who refused, everyone voted in favor.
Perkins had two votes, which added up to eight, a majority.
Their opposition was meaningless, and Gustav and Anatoly had no choice but to vote in favor.
"Fortunately, the board of directors has been reshuffled." Anatoly watched coldly while Gustav remained silent.
Although the current situation is a revenge vote caused by a special situation, this reputation is extremely terrifying.
If the board seats are not reshuffled, Qinglong will almost have the final say in the future.
Everyone was stunned. This... completed the replacement of the vice president?
Only Reynolds grinned and laughed.
Mikhail frowned. He had almost never experienced this feeling before, as he was unanimously elected and had the support of the people.
"But... this may not be a good thing." He sighed to himself.
Perkins looked at him calmly, "Qinglong, you are now the vice president."
Li Ming's expression was complicated, and he seemed a little helpless.
How come no one asked for his opinion during the entire process, and he voted against it?
(End of this chapter)
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