Chapter 614 Three-Line Plan
The small warship that Li Ming and Sheffield were riding on was borrowed from Mikhail. It had a simple and rustic style and was built strictly according to the design drawings.
Unlike Reynolds, who adds a lot of inexplicable things.
On the console, he was entering coordinate instructions.
"How long will it take to reach your secret base?"
Li Ming hadn't taken off his Azure Dragon vest yet, so Sheffield didn't dare to neglect it and quickly responded:
"The secret base is still in the Chaos Star Gap. Starting from here, we can reach it via the star gate in an estimated month and a half."
Li Ming thought for a moment and realized that the time was not too long. He glanced at Sheffield, who looked a little nervous, and spoke in a rather polite tone.
"Mr. Sheffield, you should have guessed by now that this gene seed has a very high priority with me."
"I understand. I will use all my strength to ensure the successful modulation of the gene seed."
Sheffield's heart tightened. He took the star beast to the secret base on his own initiative. Although it was accidentally avoided from being robbed.
But his original motive made him feel a little guilty, and he vaguely felt that Qinglong had guessed his thoughts.
He originally thought that this thing would only make Qinglong feel a little distressed, but he didn't expect that its importance far exceeded his expectations.
His previous behavior was somewhat challenging Qinglong's bottom line, so he was very nervous.
"Just do your best." Li Ming gave a brief knock and stopped.
At the same time, a notification popped up in Tanwei's internal auxiliary system, indicating that someone was contacting him.
After glancing at the notes, Li Ming asked Sheffield to arrive, notify him, and then returned to the room.
After answering the call, there was still a sound wave line floating on the right side of the tank's internal field of vision, which was the navigator.
"Your Excellency Qinglong." He spoke first, his tone full of respect.
"How is the situation over there now?" Li Ming asked directly as he came up.
Igor didn't waste any words and immediately reported: "The first half of the plan is the same as your Excellency expected."
"However, even after receiving the news of the battle results at the Chaos Star Gap, Gustav and the others did not dare to initiate an attack. Currently, that coordinate location is empty and has been relocated."
Igor was quite helpless. "I have tried my best to induce and even stimulate Tandin to take the initiative, but the group of people from the Higher Life Forms United Organization are only willing to passively defend."
"Normal." Li Ming was not surprised. "No one wants to be cannon fodder. If Tandin and Alves get angry, they will definitely kill a lot of people."
"But... now the coordinates have been moved. It may be difficult to find it again." Igor reminded vaguely.
In the first half, he really admired Qinglong's superb methods, which were to use the Star Alliance to join the battle and indirectly contain the situation in the chaotic star gap.
But when the news of the victory came, he was a little confused.
But according to the battle situation, even if the Star Alliance is not restrained, Qinglong has enough strength to settle the battlefield on the spot, so it seems unnecessary for the coordinates to do so.
Therefore, he wanted to stimulate the joint organization of higher life forms to take action and try his best to stop the other party before the other party moved, but he still failed.
"Okay, I understand." Li Ming just nodded without commenting.
Of course he understood what the navigator meant.
But the other party is now reasoning backwards based on the results, but in fact, he always remained vigilant beforehand.
The Gun of Kashmir is the biggest uncertainty, and very little relevant information has been circulated.
To be on the safe side, he involved the Covenant with the Overlord Laboratory, but it turned out that the Spear of Kashmir was not as powerful as he imagined.
Igor's current conclusion is hindsight.
Of course, it was because he took the "mysterious" Azure Dragon as the main body that he came to the conclusion that "this plan is completely unnecessary."
After all, he didn't think that Qinglong would have any uncertainty beforehand.
As for the relocation of the Dominant Laboratory, Li Ming didn't care.
He, Reynolds and Mikhail had been to the Dominant Laboratory more than once, and he had made preparations long before this plan was implemented.
No matter where the location is, for him it is just a matter of distance, not whether he can find it or not.
Seeing that Qinglong reacted indifferently, Igor did not continue to dwell on the matter.
But I became more and more curious about what secrets that place was hiding.
"Oh, and one more thing. Our respected president should be preparing to hide by now." Igor's words were not without sarcasm. "We were just about to return, and he disappeared with an excuse. I'm afraid he's afraid of being liquidated by you."
"He runs pretty fast." Li Ming was not surprised. These X-level life forms are difficult to find once they decide to hide.
In the past, he often used this as a retreat in his mind to deal with various situations, and now it has become a retreat for others.
After a brief exchange, the navigator volunteered to redirect his activities towards the Empire, speculating, "Adam must have already entered the Wandering Imperial Ship."
"Wandering Imperial Ship?" Li Ming was unfamiliar with this term and asked him to explain it in detail.
"This is a plan for dealing with transcendent individuals. If a life form appears in the interstellar space that cannot be temporarily controlled, the Empire will activate a similar plan, immediately hiding and remotely controlling everything." Igor narrated:
"Wandering coordinates are randomly generated, and communication signals are processed through multiple relay stations. Once a Wandering Imperial Ship departs from the Imperial home planet, no one will know its trajectory."
"Until we find an effective contingency plan, many civilizations have similar plans. While decapitation tactics won't destroy them, they can still cause significant damage."
Li Ming couldn't help but nod. What the navigator said was roughly consistent with his previous guess. Adam would definitely not put himself in danger.
Then he asked, "Can you find it?"
Igor paused for a moment. This was almost one of the most secretive contingency plans in the empire. Only a few people were involved in it. How could he possibly find it?
Li Ming also knew that he had misunderstood the other party's intention, and then said: "Then you should keep an eye on the Empire. If there is any abnormality, report it to me immediately."
The navigator responded and ended the communication.
Li Ming's outer defense faded away, and he thought about his next move. The most important thing at the moment was to get the X-level gene seed.
With the help of the complete form of the Eternal Star, it won't take long for his development progress to reach 100%.
But right now, it seems that there is no power in the entire galaxy to check and balance him, but he has not relaxed.
When his relationship with the three major civilizations had not been broken because of the incident in the Holy Castle, the Domination Laboratory extracted something similar to the source material from the corpse.
At present, some time has passed and I don’t know what the latest results are.
"There are mainly two things, the Holy Castle... the corpse..." he murmured softly.
The means Heckler had prepared were probably about to be completed.
After the incident in the Chaos Star Gap, it is estimated that the three major civilizations will close or even destroy the star gate leading to the Holy Castle Base.
If the jump is impossible, it will take at least half a year for the real body to go there, and it will be too late by the time you get there.
However, he can communicate with the Holy Castle and descend to catch the opponent off guard. The only problem is that the mimicry of the Holy Castle cannot leave the Holy Castle and can only wait for the opponent to take action.
As for the Domination Laboratory... Li Ming was a little hesitant.
It is naturally impossible for him to stop evolving at level X life form. Only at the ultimate life form stage can he have the capital to fight against Yongyuan.
Without the power of the three major civilizations, it would be difficult for him to research the evolutionary path to a higher level.
"But letting them research on their own won't work either. Once they make a breakthrough, they'll inevitably become restless again... which only increases the risk." Li Ming pondered.
Once we get his X-level gene seed, we will attack the Overmind Labs, which will take several months.
But he would not waste any time and immediately opened the smart terminal to contact Anduin.
Ask him to send a star gate construction team to the coordinates he specified and build small jump star gates along the way.
The coordinates are near the Overlord Laboratory. Once he gets the seeds here, he can jump there directly.
Act on two fronts and make the best use of time.
After thinking about it, he gave Anduin another coordinate, which was the way to the Holy Castle. Since there were already two lines, it would be better to have a third line to be prepared.
After arranging things here, he entered the long-lost development state.
Without the assistance of a series of medicines, the efficiency is lower, but time cannot be wasted.
By the time he arrived at the secret base in Sheffield, the development progress had reached 69%.
That is to say, when I was with Anduin and the others, it was not easy to use the Star of Eternal Silence for development, otherwise the development progress would have been even higher.
The secret base is located in a rather peculiar star field.
Outside the porthole are two huge meteorites that collided with each other, still maintaining the posture of exploding after the collision. The broken debris formed a dense meteorite ring belt around it, which served as a natural umbrella of protection.
The base is at the deepest part. We move forward and sink into the dock, and the warship is stuck in the electromagnetic berth.
The hatch opened, and Monica, like a black swan, was already waiting there, still wearing a black long dress, with her hands slightly crossed in front of her, quiet and elegant, her neck delicate and slightly raised.
"Father..." She nodded slightly and looked at Li Ming with a strange look in her eyes. Naturally, she had heard the news about the Chaos Star Gap a long time ago.
It is also clearly understood that Li Ming has now become one of the most distinguished people in the entire interstellar space.
Sheffield didn't dare to delay and immediately asked, "How are the manpower resources? I need to start deploying gene seeds."
"It's all arranged," Monica responded. "You can start anytime."
Sheffield didn't dare to be negligent now and asked Monica to look after Li Ming.
He went deeper into the cave, while Monica took Li Ming to the arranged room.
"There is no external communication here?" Li Ming glanced at the smart terminal and looked up and asked.
"In order to maintain secrecy, there is only one external communication device here, and other external signals are blocked." Monica responded in a low voice.
"My teacher can come at any time. There is no need to hide deliberately. Just open everything." Li Ming said casually.
Monica hesitated slightly, but didn't refuse. She nodded and said, "I understand."
When she brought Li Ming to the room, the external communication of the smart terminal had been restored, and several pop-up windows appeared in succession.
"Tsk tsk, you're contacting me now! The internal struggle within the Star Alliance is so fierce." Li Ming took a look at the message alerts and found that they were all negotiators from the Star Alliance.
After sending Monica away, he tidied himself up a bit, and then Tanwei emerged and called back.
In just a moment, a smiling interstellar human wearing gold-rimmed glasses appeared on the virtual screen.
"Sir Qinglong, I am the negotiator of the Star Alliance. You can call me Zhang Hengyu." He introduced himself.
This name… Li Ming's heart moved slightly. As expected, he heard the other party continue: "My grandfather is from Blue Star, and he and your student are from the same civilization."
He emphasized this point but added, "Of course, please don't misunderstand me. I'm not trying to get closer. I just want you to feel more comfortable during the negotiation."
Li Ming's reaction was very calm. "The Federation contacted me ten days after the incident was over, and the Empire also established communication with me half a month ago. It was the Star Alliance... who dragged it out last."
"I didn't even think those captured guys were important to the Covenant."
"You misunderstood." Zhang Hengyu smiled bitterly and whispered, "In fact, Chairman Gutierrez has been dealing with various impeachment cases since his return. Those people are important, but Chairman Gutierrez values his position more."
"You are quite a talent." Li Ming couldn't help but be surprised. He certainly knew about the fierce struggle within the Star Alliance and had paid attention to it on the way here.
Gutierrez endured several rounds of impeachment for losing the Kashmir Spear and capturing a large number of X-level life forms.
It was a very difficult time, but Gutierrez was not exaggerating. He managed to keep his position in the end. This may be partly due to his dominance in the laboratory.
This matter is not a secret anyway, and speaking out so frankly can win some favor.
"Thank you for your kindness. If this negotiation fails and the Star Alliance can't survive, I hope you can give me a small position under your command." Zhang Hengyu said so bluntly, and his speaking style did have some of the charm of Blue Star civilization.
"I admire you more and more." Li Ming said lightly. Zhang Hongyu's smile became more intense, but before he spoke, his expression suddenly changed slightly.
Two communication signals were connected simultaneously, originating from Qinglong.
He probably already had a guess in his mind. After confirming the connection, the screen in front of him was divided into three parts. On both sides of the Azure Dragon were Costat of the Empire and Dius of the Federation.
They are all "old friends" who have had in-depth contact with Qinglong.
This was not Zhang Hengyu's first contact. Before he contacted Qinglong, he had secretly communicated with these two and asked about their price.
The purpose is naturally to form a united front and not give Qinglong the opportunity to raise the price. Negotiation is an art form that requires extreme pulling and finding out each other's cards.
What surprised him was that Qinglong didn't give them the chance to quote a price at all, and insisted on waiting until all the leaders of the three parties arrived before discussing the matter.
Li Ming didn't give the three parties a chance to greet each other, and said directly: "The people from the Star Alliance finally remembered to contact me, Costat, Deus, now we can talk."
This person sat upright, and the large number of think tanks behind him were also ready.
"Oh right..." Li Ming seemed to suddenly remember something. "There's something I need to tell you. One of the three of you has secretly offered me a high price to redeem all the captives."
As soon as these words came out, the three people's expressions changed uncontrollably, with only one thought in their minds -
Who is so dishonest! ?
(End of this chapter)
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