Chapter 660 What Happened to the Complex Thread Empire?
"Oh?" Li Ming's eyes flashed.
"The succession qualification has been wiped out." Reynolds looked quite surprised. "After all, he was an X-level seed, and he was directly destroyed. So cruel, what did this guy do?"
Li Ming noticed other implications in Reynolds' words and couldn't help but look over.
Reynolds failed to understand Qinglong's gaze and just stared at the black hole network, waiting for his response.
Mikhail said, "Eliminating the inheritance qualification is not just a sentence. It will also eliminate the gene seed he has already integrated, destroying his development potential, and is equivalent to destroying it."
"To prevent them from harboring resentment and causing significant harm to the empire in the future, this is an unwritten rule that will not be written into the law."
Li Ming was quite surprised. The prince of the empire not only had the identity of an heir, but was also a top product of biotechnology.
It has extremely high development potential and is itself an X-level seed.
People like Costat, Ryan, and Heckler, even if they cannot become Holy Emperors, are core figures in the faction and possess great power.
The empire is ruthless enough. It can wipe out an X-level seed without any hesitation, which highlights its wealth and power.
Mikhail then continued, "However, this situation has rarely occurred in the entire history of the Empire. It usually occurs at critical moments when the Holy Emperor of the Empire changes generations."
"Adam is still in his prime, how could this happen?"
From the small to the big picture, for them, it is indeed not worth worrying too much about a prince being deprived of his inheritance qualification.
But the information revealed is unusual. Perhaps huge changes are taking place within the empire.
Mikhail's mechanical pupils flickered, as if he was searching for relevant information, but in the end he frowned, as if he found nothing and could only look at the black hole network.
"As I recall, Yask's maternal family is from a great noble family. They are quite powerful and normally wouldn't do anything stupid."
Li Ming also looked at the black hole network.
“…He was found sleeping with Adam’s twelve concubines…” Black Hole Network was concise and to the point.
Li Ming fell silent with a strange look on his face. He had cuckolded his own father. It was such a familiar plot. It was really intense.
"So amazing?" Reynolds couldn't help but give a thumbs up. "No wonder his heir status was revoked."
Mikhail frowned, "Someone wants to harm him?"
"That's right." The Black Hole Network confirmed Mikhail's thoughts. "Based on the combination of multi-party grid information, he seems to be investigating the disappearance of a large amount of resources from the Imperial Royal Laboratory."
Reynolds suddenly realized, "Dare to touch this kind of shithole, no wonder you've been screwed to this point."
The Imperial Royal Laboratory is a complex organization within the empire.
The staff is extremely complex, with many subordinate institutions, producing a large number of scientific research results, and the annual budget it can obtain is also a terrifying figure.
However, every once in a while, a lot of embarrassing things happen.
For example, they purchase the research results of other civilizations, package them into new research results, and then withdraw a large amount of budget from the empire.
Or perhaps they get a huge budget with groundbreaking research experiments, but end up with nothing.
Every time we have to deal with a large number of people, and then it ends up in nothing.
"Why would he suddenly touch such a taboo?" Li Ming couldn't help but ask. Combining what the navigator said, he realized that something big had really happened inside the empire.
"I don't know about this, and there is no relevant information to support it." Black Hole Network responded.
"Adam recently launched a drastic cleanup of the House of Commons. While the situation seems to be largely resolved on the surface, they may need to go deeper next." Mikhail pondered. "Adam is quite decisive and seems to truly want to rebuild the empire."
"How could it be that simple..." Reynolds sneered. "The empire is in such dire straits that it's hard to reverse. Adam really thinks that just a few words from him can make all these people change their ways and become new people?"
"He's going to cut out the flesh, don't accidentally dig out the heart."
Reynolds was not optimistic about this at all, shaking his head, "Mechanical bodies are still better. They are always loyal and will never betray."
Li Ming suddenly thought, "This Sixth Prince doesn't seem very outstanding. Why would Adam think of sending him to do this?"
Among the princes of the empire, apart from the first prince Arthur, he was only familiar with Abel, and had no impression of the others at all.
Black Hole Network added: "It seems that all the princes have been assigned special missions and have left the imperial capital one after another."
Reynolds was even more shocked. "My goodness, Adam is crazy! How many fronts is this? Or is he letting these princes play as vanguards? Isn't he afraid of having no descendants?"
"How long has this been going on?" Mikhail asked.
Black Hole Network said: "According to my estimation, it won't take more than a month for them to receive the mission."
"One month..." Mikhail frowned slightly.
"I lost a son in less than a month..." Reynolds grinned, feeling quite gloating.
"What mission did Abel accept?" Li Ming asked thoughtfully.
The Black Hole Network's voice remained unchanged. "It should be related to the armed patrol fleet, but I'm not sure about the specific mission..."
"Armed patrol fleet, tsk tsk tsk..." Reynolds couldn't help but shake his head, "Another big pit, I don't know how long he can hold on."
Li Ming calmed down, but asked another question, "How did you know I would be interested in this information?"
Black Hole Network was frank: "The Pioneers are keeping an eye on the Empire. Your students had a deal with Abel a long time ago. There is a 65% chance that you will be interested in this news."
Li Ming narrowed his eyes slightly. The information channels and aggregation capabilities of the Black Hole Network were indeed terrifying.
Li Ming said calmly: "In that case, please continue to keep an eye on the empire."
The Black Hole Network was silent for a moment, and then a voice came out: "Okay."
The next step is to discuss the specific details of the cooperation, starting with the priority of various types of goods and the commission issue.
Mikhail would discuss these matters himself, so Li Ming didn't waste time and went offline directly.
"Empire...Adam..."
The bright blue light around him dissipated, and Li Ming murmured softly.
Originally, he didn't care much about what happened in the empire.
But now it seems that there is a big secret. It is not easy to swallow up a civilization, and the difficulty of swallowing up an empire-level civilization is even more unimaginable.
But he might as well give it a try.
Unfortunately, even with the memory screening device, it is difficult to get people into the upper echelons or even the top levels of this imperial civilization.
Therefore, there is almost no way for relevant information to be circulated.
If it weren't for the black hole network, even the not-so-small matter of a prince being deposed would have been almost impossible for the outside world to know.
"Even if I ask Abel now, I probably won't get anything out of him."
"This guy, although his bottom line has dropped a lot, he is still..." Li Ming shook his head and looked at the time. There were still five days left before the regular meeting of the United Organization of Higher Life Forms convened by Anduin.
He focused his thoughts and simply continued developing the gene seeds.
Five days passed in a flash, and the regular meeting of the Joint Organization of Higher Life Forms was held as scheduled.
When Li Ming arrived, most people had already arrived.
"Your Excellency Qinglong..." Everyone in the board seats greeted him.
Li Ming also responded one by one. While waiting for others to arrive, he had nothing to do, so he opened the contribution list page within the organization.
On the virtual screen that popped up, names were neatly arranged, and at the top of the list was the former vice president, Perkins, with 735 points.
According to the urgency of the situation and the cost required, the contribution tasks within the organization are divided into five levels from high to low: X, S, A, B, and C.
However, even the lowest C-level will inevitably involve X-level life forms, but it may only be basic tasks such as negotiation and mediation, which will only require a few words at most.
The highest S level is basically the killing level.
Li Ming made further adjustments later on. Points were just additional, and any contribution task required the publisher to provide additional compensation.
It is precisely because of the existence of this contribution list that strong subjective initiative has been stimulated, greatly promoting the integration trend within the joint organization of higher life forms.
Most of the troubles members encounter are almost entirely caused by issuing contribution tasks.
Many things that seemed difficult in the past can now be easily accomplished with one or two level X life forms.
The general trend that you are in me and I am in you is inevitable.
Seeing that most people had arrived, Anduin raised his hand, signaling for calm, and then said, "The general reason for calling you all together this time should be known to you all."
"The Blood Knight, Kuzan, recently sacrificed several planets to create the Blood Warship. His crimes are heinous. This kind of advanced life form is useless except for destroying interstellar stability. Therefore, I suggest a joint hunt."
After killing the X-level life form, no one had any special reaction.
This is not the first time. The targets are basically those who have committed serious interstellar crimes and are not qualified to join the united organization of higher life forms.
Gaining fame from outside is one thing, but these guys do have quite a bit of wealth.
"The Blood Knights are quite powerful, their energy level is said to be close to 1000X. Their Mad Blood Fleet is quite special. They are not physical warships, and they come and go without a trace..."
"It's no use. Dozens of people surrounded him and beat him to death with one punch each."
“…”
The discussion was very casual. This was Anduin's proposal and needed to be voted on.
The votes were all red and green, but in the final count, the majority were in favor.
Anduin nodded without surprise. "The proposal is approved. According to previous practice, killing an X-level lifeform will contribute to the mission and be rated as S-level. Upon success, participants will receive 100 points."
"If you're willing to go, please contact me as soon as possible. If there are no additional proposals, please feel free to discuss."
Li Ming never said a word, just watched quietly.
The free discussion time is because after the previous meetings, some people did not leave immediately, but stayed in the conference hall to exchange information with each other.
Information that you don’t care much about may be useful in the eyes of others.
Over time, this discussion time was created to exchange information.
Upon hearing these words, the sounds around suddenly became noisy. All X-level life forms were able to multitask, capturing all sounds and filtering out those that were useful to them.
However, this time, Li Ming did not log off early. Instead, he continued to sit in the chairman's position, which made many people look at him in surprise.
“…”
“…”
Voices passed by his ears.
Soon, Li Ming filtered out the information he wanted to hear.
"...I recently acquired a batch of high-quality assets from the Empire from high-ranking nobles who had fled the Empire, and made a small profit..."
"Did you also meet a fugitive noble official?" someone looked at him in surprise.
“…I have a few contacts here…”
As if finding a common ground, more and more people joined in. As everyone exchanged information, everyone realized a fact -
The empire's nobles and high-ranking officials were fleeing on a large scale.
"...The scale of this time seems even larger than when Adam took down the House of Commons. This is going to be a big move..."
Most people have stopped talking about other information and are focusing on internal affairs of the empire.
"Adam is truly ruthless. He's been making massive moves one after another. Isn't he afraid of causing major unrest..."
"You are wrong. Adam is not planning a big move. He is selecting the next Holy Emperor."
Suddenly, a somewhat nonchalant voice sounded, instantly overwhelming the others.
The entire conference hall gradually fell silent, and everyone looked at the person who spoke.
Is there really anyone who knows the inside story?
Li Ming couldn't help but look up. It was an inconspicuous X-level life form.
For X-level life forms, the word "inconspicuous" is slightly insulting, but it is indeed the case for the more than 200 X-level life forms present.
His position in the top row of the membership benches proved that he had joined recently.
Ettore, a Class X life form cultivated by a civilization in the Sea of Stars, has not yet embarked on the ultimate path and his energy level is less than 200. It seems that he should not know this.
Without Li Ming saying anything, someone asked the question he wanted to know, and with suspicion, "Ettore, where did you get this information from?"
"Did Adam call you?" someone added, causing a faint laugh.
"Don't disbelieve me." Ettore didn't mind. He was an X-class lifeform after all, so he didn't care. "My information is over 80% accurate. I don't know what Adam has gotten into, but he's inexplicably choosing a successor."
"It is said that the difficulty of the mission is terrifyingly high."
Someone muttered, "The Holy Emperor of the Empire usually starts choosing a successor at the end of his life. What is Adam doing? Is he about to die?"
"He won't die even if you die. Maybe he's preparing for a rainy day." Someone added.
"That's too early. It won't be good for the heir. It will definitely make him a target of public criticism."
"Maybe he's afraid of being killed suddenly..."
"Kill Adam? The entire universe..." Someone said half of it and couldn't continue, and the surrounding voices suddenly fell silent.
Everyone knew what he was trying to say, "There's no one in the entire universe who could kill Adam."
But everyone knew why he stopped, because the only one was sitting right below.
Everyone's eyes swept over Qinglong, and no one bothered about this topic, and they tacitly passed it over.
(End of this chapter)
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