Chapter 631 Return to the Royal Court
"Morris's death helped us avoid disaster. If we had deployed our core personnel, we would have suffered heavy losses."
"The current situation has simply returned to the time right after the Chaos Star Gap War."
Malcolm's comfort from another direction was somewhat helpful.
Gutierrez's expression softened slightly, and he looked back at Costat.
"Oh right, Eternal Holy Throne..." he said in a deep voice, "Without Morris, the rest of us are just lambs to be slaughtered. This Titan Relic must be in our hands."
As soon as he finished speaking, Costat's expression turned strange, and a voice came from outside the screen.
"President Gutierrez, I have absolutely no objection." Levenbeck's half-bloody and hideous face squeezed into the screen.
Gutierrez's expression wasn't awkward at all, but rather a frown. "This is a top-secret military intelligence report. Why are you here?"
"Because I also need to report," Levenback said, "I suggest that the Overlord Laboratory be divided immediately and not gathered together."
"What the hell are you planning?" Gutierrez stared at him.
"Reason." Adam's eyes flickered slightly, and he spoke concisely.
"Insurance... Qinglong needs insurance." Levenbeck said solemnly:
"The reason I emphasized earlier that Morris must not be exposed to Qinglong unless absolutely necessary is because if he discovers us, we can use the Overmind's corpse to create something that could threaten him."
"This guy will definitely find the body at all costs."
"If Morris were still alive, Qinglong might have been cautious, but now Morris is dead."
"And your use of other forces has made it clear to him that we have almost no way to stop him in the short term, and he will act without scruples."
Levenbeck's analysis makes sense. Dominating the laboratory is of utmost importance and there must not be any more accidents.
"Can you create another Morris?" Adam asked the key question.
The other two looked at each other, and Levenbeck couldn't help but smile bitterly. "It's not just Morris that's important. The fusion medium is now in Qinglong's hands."
The three of them frowned, and Gutierrez quickly asked, "Is it possible for Qinglong to reappear as Morris?"
"Unlikely." Levenback shook his head. "People like Morris are extremely rare. His high-purity Titan bloodline is a key factor in his ability to fuse his limbs. There's probably no one else like him in the current interstellar world."
After hearing him speak so confidently, the three of them relaxed their expressions slightly.
But they were also worried because they had seen impossible things happen to Qinglong too many times.
"I hope the three of you will consider my proposal," Levenbeck said again. "Qinglong found the exact location once, but is there any guarantee he won't find it again?"
In fact, the three of them had made the decision as soon as Levenbeck made the suggestion.
It couldn't be split before because the limbs couldn't be separated.
Now, with the help of Levenbeck's methods, they have already divided the corpse into several parts, and it is no problem for them to study them separately.
They even tend to think that having all the information firmly in their own hands is a familiar feeling to them.
"We will discuss this matter." Adam waved his hand and ended the communication directly.
"Let's split it up," Gutierrez said immediately. "He's right. This is the safest way to share all the existing research data."
"I want the head, and only the head." Adam spoke first.
The other two frowned slightly. The head contained the greatest value, so they naturally didn't want to give it to Adam easily.
After a short and intense debate, the result was soon reached.
The Empire received the head and additionally paid the ransom for the Federation's five Class X lifeforms. The reason they didn't pay the Covenant's ransom was because of Gutierrez's outrageous conditions:
"I joined the game last, so the existing Dominant Laboratory belongs to me."
To this end, he divided a small portion of his remaining limbs and gave them to the Federation, and did not require Adam to bear additional ransom for the Covenant.
The existing Domination Laboratory was also built with the efforts of the Federation and the Covenant, and it consumed a lot of resources.
Gutierrez has his own plans. This time, he suffered a great defeat in the Holy Castle incident, and two X-level life forms were captured. He must give an explanation to the inside, and dominating the laboratory can be considered as a way to recover.
After it was finalized, instructions were quickly issued.
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What happened in the Holy Castle was silent, and no one knew about it except the three major civilizations.
Naturally, they would not publicize such scandals. All soldiers at the Saint Castle base were ordered to keep their mouths shut. After being dispersed, they were transferred to various secret bases that could not communicate with the outside world.
Until a month and a half later, when Li Ming and Anduin's stargate construction team reunited, there was still no disturbance in the interstellar space.
The person in charge had received Anduin's news long ago, and seemed extremely excited when he contacted Li Ming.
They don't just rush on the road, but can directly build a two-way star gate when they arrive at the destination.
Only the three major civilizations can build a star gate that can directly cross a journey of half a year.
When Anduin's men arrived, they had already divided into small teams.
After reaching a node, some people will stay behind to build a small star gate.
The rest of the people headed to the next node. Along the way, they had built no less than ten star gate nodes.
Although this method requires a lot of resources, it saves time and the construction of small star gates is also quite convenient.
Li Ming asked how long it would take, and the person in charge replied firmly, "It only takes twelve days for us to build a small two-way stargate."
"Twelve days..." Li Ming was surprised at the speed and signaled them to get to work.
Their modularity has reached a certain level, and they only need to take out various structural modules from the accompanying transport ships and assemble them.
However, this is only possible for small nodes. The material properties required for large stargates are almost several levels higher.
With the legendary Azure Dragon in front of him, the person in charge was so motivated that he patrolled day and night. In just ten days, he built a small connected star gate.
"Not bad..." Li Ming nodded with satisfaction. The small star gate in front of him was indeed not very big. The original Holy Castle would definitely not be able to pass through it, but now only the hall part of the Holy Castle was left, so it could be passed through easily.
"Tataclo?" He turned his head and looked at the uniformed person in charge next to him.
"I'll remember you and mention it to Anduin."
Tataklo's face immediately turned red. "It's my honor to serve you."
Li Ming nodded and didn't stay here for too long. He had already wasted too much time.
Quickly passed through the star gate channel and made more than ten jumps in succession.
Two or three days later, he finally came out of the giant star gate station of the Mechanical Royal Court.
However, there was only one lonely warship, which was Li Ming's real body.
In fact, according to the time, he should have arrived at the Mechanical Royal Court long ago, but he was staring at the Holy Castle and did not log off, so he was delayed until now.
He placed the Holy Castle somewhere else and did not bring it back to the Mechanical King's Court. On the one hand, it was to avoid accidents, and on the other hand, he did not want to bring possible disasters to the Mechanical King's Court.
"Tsk..." Li Ming stood in front of the string window, staring at the giant node station in the distance.
This is the new center of chaos. Nearly half a year has passed since the siege.
Hosted by Anduin and with resource support from Sheffield, Barbaroer and others, the central node was rebuilt in the Mechanical Royal Court.
The construction this time is not complicated. The overall appearance looks like a hollow metal sphere, but it is five times the size of a regular life planet. It seems to have started to operate, with spaceships coming and going crisscrossing.
The Mechanical Royal Court and the central node are in a pincer attack, and the entire boundless starry sky has long been brightly lit, with subsidiary nodes of all sizes increasing all the time.
As Anduin expected, after the siege ended, far more active life forms than before in the chaotic star gap came from all directions of the interstellar space.
And here is the new center of the Chaos Star Gap.
Li Ming still returned to the Mechanical Royal Court quietly, and the "rebirth" construction plan had long been completed.
However, the Mechanical Royal Court has been in a period of rapid expansion recently, and the payments have not yet been settled.
However, several construction companies were very considerate and said there was no need to rush and they would just pay the money for now.
Ulrich and the others were the first to come and greet him. They were extremely excited. Their eyes kept scanning the mechanical body following behind Li Ming, their throats rolling.
The other party held a long spear covered with fine cracks in his hand, which was the legendary Kashmir Spear.
Li Ming just chatted briefly and then let everyone go, leaving only Ulrich to report. He said as he walked:
"...According to your instructions, metal energy accumulation has been suspended, and all efforts are being made to expand. Currently, tens of millions of various mechanical bodies have been accumulated, mainly F-class mechanical bodies..."
"...There are only eight million E-class machines, and the production line is still expanding..."
"Hmm..." Li Ming nodded. "Once we've dealt with these, we'll dispatch the F-class mechanical bodies to various mining nodes. Metal materials will become even more scarce in the interstellar space."
"I understand." Ulrich naturally knew that the popularity of the Path of Mechanical Evolution had not died down. It was said that the release date of the Seed of the Mechanic was less than two months away.
The price of metal materials changes almost every day, and the price of mineral stars is also soaring. If it weren't for the Mechanical Royal Court taking the Qinglong line, those mineral stars that had been negotiated before would have been gone long ago.
"Also, in recent times..." Ulrich described in detail the expansion process of the royal court.
Li Ming listened carefully. The branch nodes of the Mechanical Royal Court expanded to more than 5,000 civilizations within half a year.
Even in a large part of civilizations, they simply opened a branch with a signboard.
But the capital flow cannot withstand such rapid expansion.
The funds now used for expansion and production line adjustments are all interest-free loans from various civilizations.
But Li Ming didn't care. Once the mechanical seeds went on sale, he would be able to make back all the money within a year.
Afterwards, he went to the mechanical warehouse to perform enlightenment, and the arc storm almost penetrated from the planet warehouse.
It took a whole day to completely deal with the mechanical bodies that had accumulated for such a long time.
A large number of cutting-edge mechanical bodies have naturally mutated. The number of S-class mechanical bodies exceeds twenty, and the number of A-class mechanical bodies exceeds five hundred.
He selected some mechanical bodies and prepared to secretly go to several coordinates of his choice to build a secret base.
"By the way, there is one last thing." Li Ming said again.
Ulrich behind him had already turned on the recording device to avoid missing any requests.
"Wait two or three days, and a guy named Leonidas will come back. Just make arrangements with him."
Ulrich nodded.
After Li Ming finished dealing with these tedious matters, he finally returned to Tiangong and his own development room.
Sitting on the platform in the center, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. He had been delayed for so long and had not properly developed the gene seeds. The current development progress was still stagnant at 75%. Now he finally had time to work on it.
However, there is no need to rush at this moment.
As soon as Li Ming stretched out his hand, the mechanical guard behind him held the Kashmir Spear in front of him.
He grasped the Kashmir Spear in his left hand, while three inconspicuous stone pieces appeared in his right hand.
The reason why the Mechanical Royal Court stopped accumulating was not because there was no shortage of metal energy, but because the gap was very large and they didn't need that little bit, so they might as well focus on other things.
Not to mention repairs, the 40 billion for the Kashmir Gun and the 60 billion for the Trinity Stone add up to 100 billion.
Of course, there was one thing he didn't forget.
The [Holy Spirit Core] is still in a broken state, but this thing requires a large number of elite mechanical bodies as a foundation, and simply repairing it is of no use, so he has put it aside.
He opened the control page and looked through it. To repair this thing, the amount of metal energy needed was not much, only 200 quadrillion.
"Twenty billion can be described as 'talent'..." Li Ming felt a toothache.
The total cost of these things is 120 billion. If the cost of repairing the gun is included, it should not exceed 150 billion. He still has about 8 billion left.
The total amount is almost enough to offset the ransom of the three major civilizations, so he is not too anxious to get metal energy.
However, the ransom for the three major civilizations must be provided in batches.
The first batch will arrive soon, just half a month later.
He has already informed Reynolds and Mikhail to send a batch of prisoners over first, and they are on the way.
Things have their priorities.
The first thing that needs to be controlled is naturally the Gun of Kashmir.
As for the other two items, they have certain limitations in their use and should naturally be placed at the back.
After making up his mind, Li Ming was about to develop the gene seeds, but suddenly he remembered something.
He switched to another controlled object, and his expression suddenly turned surprised. "Why did it change positions again?"
He opened the star map and input a series of coordinates. The star map continued to zoom in and finally stopped at a remote star field.
These are the coordinates of the Dominant Laboratory. Compared with the last location, the coordinates have changed again.
"Could it be that because of the incident at the Holy Castle, the location was changed out of caution?" Li Ming rubbed his chin.
But the changed coordinates this time actually brought them closer to the position of Anduin's men, and it is estimated that it can save at least half a month.
"Tsk...interesting..." Li Ming quickly opened the smart terminal and submitted the new coordinates to Anduin.
(End of this chapter)
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