Chapter 658 Erase Switch Cooldown
After a little tidying up, the energy particles fluctuating on Li Ming's body gradually converged, and the sharpness in his eyes gradually faded, and finally became plain and unpretentious.
When we came out of the Heavenly Palace, Ulrich was already waiting at the door.
In the past six months, Li Ming has been going to deal with those mechanical bodies at fixed times, and he naturally would not miss it.
Li Ming was also used to this guy, so he walked straight past him and stepped onto the aircraft hanging on the edge. Ulrich lagged behind by one step and followed him.
The gravity traction system was then activated, and the aircraft sank into orbit silently.
Ulrich did not report any data this time. Li Ming might find it a little novel to report only once in a long time, but anyone would get tired of it because it was the same process every time.
He mentioned another thing, "Old Yang's cell revitalization surgery is complete, and he has also taken the psychotropic fruit from the Potsdam civilization. According to tests, his life expectancy has increased by approximately two hundred years."
Ulrich only looks young, but his age is several times older than Boss Yang, yet he still calls him Boss Yang, which is a bit strange.
Li Mingman didn't care. He nodded and asked, "Master Yang, are you still unwilling to accept mechanical transformation and become a mechanical life form?"
"After all, it's hard to shake an old idea that's been around for nearly a hundred years." Ulrich smiled bitterly, but added:
"However, Yang Peng has come up with a plan. He plans to give him a grandson, thinking that having a large family might encourage Old Yang to accept reform."
Li Ming was speechless. "I think Yang Peng wanted it himself."
"Uh..." Ulrich explained in a low voice, "He's been getting very close to a female employee of the company lately, so..."
"Oh?" Li Ming's eyes flickered slightly. Ulrich had guessed what he had heard and immediately said, "We've already investigated. Behind Yang Peng's back, we used a memory screening device on that woman to confirm that there was no problem. Her background is very clean."
"When they first met, the other party didn't know Yang Peng's true identity and thought he was also an employee of the company."
Ulrich was very capable, and Li Ming nodded, "That's all right. This old tree is actually blooming."
"As for Mr. Yang, don't force him too much. He might want to live on if he keeps living." Li Ming shook his head.
Old Yang's foundation is not very good. He is just a native of Blue Star. After using all the means he can use, the best he can do is to extend his life to more than 500 years.
But once it becomes a mechanical body, it can feed mechanical materials and evolve to a certain level, and its lifespan will more than double.
Ulrich nodded, and then reported: "The two master craftsmen delivered a batch of goods not long ago, and they are currently stored in the warehouse. Take a look..."
"Let someone send it to the Heavenly Palace." Li Ming said casually. That was the artificial mother ore he asked Reynolds and Mikhail to send.
He also remembered that there was still a cooldown for switching his control objects. Except for being forced to fall off after being damaged, under normal circumstances, he still needed to wait seven minutes and thirty seconds before switching.
He has been collecting conventional mother ore, but with the emergence of the path of mechanical evolution, the price has continued to rise, and fewer and fewer people are willing to sell.
Five months ago, after the artificial mother ore technology was fully applied, Reynolds and Mikhail sent him a batch of samples.
Let him take a look at the situation, Li Ming was surprised to find out.
Artificial mother ore also meets the needs of the control system and can extract the energy of the mother ore, which allows him to find another way.
He placed a large order immediately, but it took five months for the goods to be delivered to him.
Ulrich nodded and immediately opened the smart terminal to issue a series of instructions.
Soon after, the two passed through the space channel and arrived at the planet warehouse.
Ulrich was waiting outside as usual, while Li Ming walked in. The array of mechanical bodies stretched as far as the eye could see.
The monthly output is tens of millions of mechanical bodies, of which eight million are E-class mechanical bodies and two million are F-class mechanical bodies.
F-class mechanical bodies are now the low-level service personnel of the Mechanical Royal Court. While the manufacturing costs are suppressed to the extreme, they can work at high intensity 24 hours a day, which saves him a lot of labor costs.
E-class mechanical bodies are mainly used as combat sequences. The raw materials used to produce these two levels of mechanical bodies are basically supplied internally and do not need to be purchased separately.
The production of high-end mechanical bodies has also increased by leaps and bounds compared to the past, with the monthly output of Class B life forms reaching 50,000.
He can use his [Mutation] ability to transform into an S-class mechanical body with a 0.01% chance, but the level cannot exceed his own.
The B-class mechanical body is the most cost-effective for him now.
The scene before him could hardly shock Li Ming. He walked to the center of the array with familiarity, stretched out his hands, and a golden arc burst out from his fingertips.
Immediately afterwards, a massive thunderstorm swept across the entire mechanical array.
Millions of mechanical bodies completed their self-transformation in the storm, from purely mechanical constructs to living beings.
It took a full twenty or thirty hours for this transformation to be completely completed.
At the front, five mutated S-class mechanical bodies were half-kneeling in front of him.
"Including these five, the number of S-class mechanical bodies should have exceeded a hundred..." Li Ming calculated, and then stretched out his palm, and a purple-gold sphere floated out. The surface was not a smooth curved surface, but was made up of 720 equilateral triangles precisely spliced together.
Each facet was embedded with dark patterns resembling living circuits, which were now flickering at different frequencies, and then reflected a purple light. Wherever it passed, large areas of mechanical bodies disappeared.
[Mechanical Warehouse - S-Class: Designed by the Forging Master, this is a fortress facility specifically used to store mechanical bodies.
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Control effect: Mechanical body recovery blessing - 500%
Control Ability - Fortress Storage: Can store 100 million F-class mechanical bodies. The storage capacity is reduced tenfold with each higher level.
This is a high-end mechanical storage device.
There were almost only F-class mechanical bodies left at the scene. After the purple-gold sphere floated back, Li Ming did not put it into the control column.
A slightly larger metal device appeared in his palm. It had a diamond-shaped appearance, and at the seams, dark purple energy flows like lava, but was pulled back to the core just before overflowing the surface.
One of the sides then opened, igniting brief gravitational ripples that spun dust particles in the air into spirals that swirled around it.
Under the metal cover is a honeycomb structure with purple-gold balls placed on it.
Including this one, there are six.
[Mechanical Fortress--X Level: Divine Craftsman--The cutting-edge mechanical storage equipment specially built by Li Ming.
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Control effect: Mechanical body recovery blessing - fifty times
Control Ability - Internal Link: Can store one hundred matching [Mechanical Warehouses]. The mechanical bodies stored inside can be used in conjunction with related abilities and consumed directly in the control column.
This equipment was not restored from the blueprints left by the master hammersmith, but was upgraded bit by bit by Li Ming.
All you need is the ability to [internal link].
The more mechanical bodies there are, the longer it will take to fuse and create mechanical creatures. In a real battlefield, the enemy will not give themselves such time.
After the main combat machines were put away, the remaining F-class machines would need to be dispatched to various locations by Ulrich.
After leaving here, he gave Ulrich a few simple instructions and returned to the Heavenly Palace.
“…There are only five portions of World Blood left. I guess it won’t last much longer…” Li Ming glanced at the control page.
He has built more than one [Mechanical Fortress], and in the past six months, he has built five of them in total, which are used in various aspects.
An X-level artificial intelligence was also added. Its division of labor was different from that of Suzaku, and it mainly managed the overt business.
Suzaku is responsible for dominating the laboratory and managing the secret base.
Forbidden life forms are no longer a problem for him. Even now, he has a certain degree of confidence in killing them, not to mention being promoted to level X life forms.
While thinking in his mind, he had already walked to the inner warehouse. The metal door opened automatically, revealing eleven large silver-white metal boxes neatly arranged in a concentrated manner.
Li Ming walked up to one of them and entered the unlock password. The metal plates around the box fell down at any time, and bright light shone through the cracks.
Standard crystals the size of glass balls, which look almost identical, are neatly placed on the shelves. They are artificial mother ore.
"Tsk..." Li Ming couldn't help rubbing his hands and looked at the other boxes.
To reduce the cooling time again, he would need 100,000 mother ores.
But the number before us is 1.1 million.
That's right, he had gathered the required quantity for the next cooldown reduction.
The cost price of each of these mother ores is over one million star coins.
He wanted so much at one time that even Mikhail was quite surprised. The production line had not yet been put into operation, and it took all the production for five months to meet his needs.
The main character is rich and powerful.
"If we shorten it again, it will only be three minutes and forty-five seconds. Even if we use a million of them, it will only be one minute and fifty-two seconds... and then one minute and fifteen seconds..." Li Ming thought about it and couldn't help but be shocked.
This kind of half-removal is disgusting.
Shaking his head, he began to absorb the artificial mother ore. These things could only be absorbed one by one, which really took a lot of time.
Even at his speed, without stopping, it still took him ten days to completely absorb the 1.1 million mother ores.
It was because after he absorbed tens of thousands of them, he used the time distortion stance, otherwise it would have taken even more time.
After absorbing it, Li Ming breathed a sigh of relief. The time distortion stance only shortened the relative time.
The time he spent did not decrease at all. The long, boring and repetitive movements really made him feel sick.
To get rid of this feeling, he began to consume.
[Otherwise, consume 100,000 pieces of mother ore energy to switch controlled objects and reduce the cooldown.]
Naturally, the energy of 100,000 pieces of mother ore dissipated, and the cooling time was further reduced to three minutes and forty-five seconds.
Without blinking, Li Ming continued to upgrade, but the prompt that popped up this time surprised Li Ming.
[Do you want to consume one million portions of the mother ore energy to completely erase the controlled object and switch to cooldown?]
"Erased it directly?" Li Ming was slightly stunned, then he breathed a sigh of relief and grinned, "Not bad, not bad. At least he showed some humanity and didn't let me keep adding more."
This was an unexpected gain. Now he rarely switched controlled objects during battle, but at least it saved him from having to worry about this matter anymore.
In a good mood, Li Ming returned to the development room. He had just poured a few bottles of medicine into his mouth and was about to continue developing the gene seeds to reach 100% as soon as possible when the smart terminal suddenly rang.
Li Ming did not feel annoyed at being disturbed, as such things had happened frequently in the past six months.
He glanced at the virtual screen that popped up next to him, and the note on it surprised him a little -
"Navigator?"
This guy has been keeping an eye on the Empire and only reports to him once a month, mostly in the form of text messages, rarely via communications.
Probably something big happened, Li Ming just gave a look and the communication was automatically connected.
The Navigator rarely uses video communication, basically voice, and Li Ming doesn't even use mimicry.
"Your Excellency Qinglong..." The sound waves on the screen continued to vibrate. Li Ming did not bother to talk to him any more and asked directly, "Is there something wrong with the empire?"
"Adam is back," the navigator said succinctly. "He's already met with a number of high-ranking officials."
"Hmm?" Many thoughts flashed through Li Ming's mind.
This guy Adam has been hiding for so long, how come he suddenly comes back?
Could it be that he is confident that he can deal with me?
The navigator added, "Not only that, the atmosphere on the Empire's home planet has also become subtly strange. External censorship has become stricter, and undercurrents are surging. I feel like something is happening."
He had been watching the empire for who knows how many years and had an unusual intuition.
"What do you mean?" Li Ming asked.
"I can't explain it, but it's definitely not simple." The navigator wasn't just relying on intuition, and added, "I contacted the Bloodfaller."
Li Ming's eyes flickered slightly. Ever since the robbery of the Star of Eternal Silence came to an end, the Blood-Falling Ones had almost disappeared.
Even if they did not have Li Ming's multiple channels, they did not guess that the person who lost blood was Adam's person, or even Adam himself.
But the Pioneers also realized that something was wrong. The Blood-Losing One had behaved strangely in the whole incident.
Regardless of whether they were arrested or had issues with their identities, they could no longer be trusted. An internal purge was then carried out, and the blood-losing individuals disappeared and were no longer active.
"How do you say that?"
"There are no problems within the Empire, as always," the Navigator responded.
Li Ming remained silent, and the navigator continued, "I feel like he's covering up something. Adam couldn't have come back for no reason. Something must have happened."
Having said this, he saw that Qinglong still had no reaction, and could not help but say: "Would you like to check it yourself..."
Li Ming narrowed his eyes and gave a negative answer, "No, I can't get away here. You just keep an eye on it first. Adam just came back, it doesn't mean anything."
Just kidding, in three months at most, his development progress can reach 100%.
Unless the Lord of Eternal Abyss comes directly to kill the Mechanical Royal Court, no one can expect him to expend extra energy.
The navigator couldn't help but feel disappointed. He had thought that Qinglong would be interested in attacking Adam.
Among the three leaders of civilization, Adam has the greatest assassination value.
"I understand." The navigator left a word and the screen went out.
Although he refused to take action for the time being, Li Ming couldn't help but think about it.
She hid before because she was afraid of being assassinated by him. Now that she has appeared, she must no longer be afraid of being assassinated by him.
(End of this chapter)
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