Chapter 680: Interstellar Concussion Impact
"What's the hurry..." Mikhail frowned at Reynolds's anxious look, "Qinglong may also be paying attention to this matter, and he doesn't have time to deal with you for the time being."
"Even if he is the ultimate life form, he can't kill us directly across the void of the universe. There is no need to rush at this moment."
Reynolds stood still and sneered, "Do you think I'm afraid of death? I just want to see if Qinglong has any countermeasures. Instead of fleeing in embarrassment, why not join forces and fight back?"
"Counterattack?" Mikhail lowered his head, but did not immediately deny the possibility. He pondered, "Qinglong has the Titan Relic in his hands, and the mechanical body he created can actually kill Tandin directly."
"If this method can be applied on a large scale, it might be possible to fight against ultimate life forms."
"That's definitely not a normal method." Reynolds shook his head. "To create that kind of mechanical body, a higher level of metal smelting and mechanical body manufacturing technology is required. I'm afraid it must be specially manufactured using special methods, just like the strange armor worn by Tandin."
"I'm thinking about the Mechanical Holy Spirit now. If we give him all the mechanical bodies we have, can we create the ultimate mechanical body?"
Mikhail slowly shook his head. "The probability is probably low. Back then, the Forge Hammer had quite a few mechanical bodies at his disposal. It wasn't just the number of mechanical bodies that constrained him..."
Reynolds was about to speak again, but as if he sensed something, he suddenly lowered his head, his expression shocked, "Qinglong finally has information."
Mikhail couldn't help but look at the lit screen beside him, "He contacted both of us at the same time."
"This is your territory, you take it." Reynolds put away the smart terminal.
Mikhail nodded. Although he looked much calmer than Reynolds, the pressure he felt in his heart was no less than Reynolds.
With a squeeze of their hands, a virtual screen appeared in front of them. The screen was dark, with only a sound wave line rising and falling.
"Qinglong, you finally have news." Reynolds spoke impatiently.
"I couldn't get away just now..." The sound wave line fluctuated, and a flat voice came out, not giving Reynolds a chance to continue asking questions. "This time, I want to borrow some mechanical bodies from you two."
Both of them were slightly stunned. Qinglong's reaction seemed too calm, and he didn't seem to feel any sense of urgency towards Adam.
This gave Reynolds confidence, and he readily agreed, "No problem, we can give you any mechanical bodies we have."
Then he asked, "How confident are you in fighting Adam? Do you need our help in other areas?"
"Deal with Adam?" The voice coming from the screen became a little strange. "Don't worry about Adam, he's dead. I want these machines to clean up the empire..."
Wha…what?
The voice on the screen was still narrating, but Reynolds and Mikhail could no longer hear it.
They only captured four words - Adam, dead.
Reynolds' virtual projection fragmented violently, his face shattered into a mosaic storm, and a torrent of garbled code rolled wildly in the flying digital fragments. Each string of erroneous code was trying to reconstruct the human form, but collapsed due to the violent fluctuations of the signal.
Mikhail's mechanical pupils were spinning at high speed, and a muffled sound of overclocked melting could be heard from inside his skull, as if two metal hummingbirds were colliding wildly in his eyeballs.
Overloaded plasma sparks burst out from the joints, and these bluish-white plasma spread along the alloy skeleton to the floor.
The shock to consciousness caused the body to overload. Although there was a cooling device inside the body to prevent overload, it was difficult to play any role at this moment, and the data processing center even completely crashed.
"Two, two..."
The voice seemed to come from the sky. Li Ming had guessed it would be like this a long time ago, so he didn't make a video link. Otherwise, there would be more things to explain.
Mikhail struggled to maintain his consciousness and finally calmed down, but he couldn't help but ask, "Adam, isn't he an Ultimate Lifeform?"
"It is indeed the ultimate life form, but what does this have to do with his death?" Li Ming's voice remained calm.
At this moment, Reynolds' signal stabilized slightly, but he fell into disarray again after hearing these words.
Of course it does!
Mikhail shouted in his heart, that was the ultimate life form, how could it die like this?
He even doubted whether the person on the other side of the screen was Qinglong.
"Please send someone as soon as possible." Li Ming didn't say much. He just left a sentence and ended the communication.
"Where's the man?" Reynolds restored the connection, with so many questions in his mind that he wanted to ask. He looked at Mikhail, "What happened? How did Adam die? Was it Azure Dragon who killed him?"
"I... don't know." Mikhail shook his head hard.
"How could you ask him to end the communication without asking clearly?" Reynolds couldn't help but complain.
"He wants to end it himself, how can I stop him?" Mikhail frowned, but hesitated and said, "Could this be a trap?"
"Do you suspect that Qinglong and Adam are working together to kill us?" Having been in contact with Mikhail for many years, he guessed the dark thoughts in the other party's mind at the first moment.
In the past, he would have definitely refuted it immediately, but what was happening now was too bizarre.
Adam is the ultimate life form. It has only been more than an hour since Adam emerged from the empire's mother planet, and they are still worried here.
As a result, it was discovered in the blink of an eye that Adam was dead, which was hard to believe for anyone.
The two looked at each other in silence, their hearts in a mess. It was Mikhail who pulled himself together first and said in a deep voice, "Let's see if there's any latest news from the Black Hole Network. Such a big thing can't go unnoticed."
He called up the virtual interface and entered the black hole network. Several messages were immediately pushed to him using the special software built specifically for them.
Mihaly only took a quick glance, and his body almost lost control again -
"Adam revealed Qinglong's true identity. Qinglong is Li Ming, and Li Ming is Qinglong."
What kind of incredible news is this!
Mikhail felt that even with his own sophisticated processing system, it was difficult to understand the meaning of this sentence, let alone the rest of the relevant information -
"A third Ultimate Life Form entered the scene and joined forces with Adam to attack Li Ming. Li Ming resisted and killed Adam, and the third Ultimate Life Form disappeared without a trace."
The following news completely numb him, and his body was temporarily taken over by the intelligent system, so he would no longer be affected by fluctuations in consciousness.
But the amount of information contained in these messages was really difficult for him to understand.
He carefully checked and found that the messages pushed by the black hole network were all from X-level life forms, who were frantically spreading this type of information and a large amount of video materials.
It is now spreading in the black hole network at a crazy speed, and it is estimated that it will affect the interstellar network in the near future.
According to the Black Hole Network's speculation, the reason these X-level life forms did this was probably to prevent Li Ming from killing and silencing them.
He stared blankly at a picture on the screen. A huge metal mechanical body filled with a sense of violence was holding a spear, piercing the head of a burly giant and piercing it into the void.
It was not until a long time later that Mikhail's body moved. Reynolds's shadow had completely disappeared, and it was estimated that it would be difficult to connect again in a short time.
"What on earth is this..." Mikhail couldn't describe his feelings in words.
One second I was still worried about what impact Adam would have, but the next second I learned that Adam was dead.
Beating Adam to death, Qinglong... no, Li Ming, to what extent has he evolved?
The news came from multiple sources, so it was probably true. Mikhail reacted quickly and hurried to prepare the mechanical body.
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At the same time, in the federal capital, in the presidential palace, Malcolm has urgently summoned his cabinet members.
In the most secretive meeting room, everyone present was divided into two sides, with a total of no more than twenty people. They appeared in the form of virtual projections and were all the core decision-makers of the federation.
But at this moment, these powerful figures all had worried expressions on their faces.
"Adam... is he really the ultimate life form?" An old man on the left couldn't help but ask.
"I've repeated this more than a dozen times. In that situation, since he has appeared, there is only this one possibility." Malcolm was also anxious and had lost his usual calmness.
A cabinet member frowned. "But according to our research, the Ultimate Gene Seed is far from being ready for use. Even if the Empire's research progress is fast, it can't be this fast."
"Maybe it's the Eternal Throne..." Malcolm said uncertainly. At the last moment when the signal was cut off, he vaguely saw that the throne under the huge shadow seemed familiar.
"The Eternal Holy See?" Some cabinet members were bewildered and not even aware of the existence of the Alchemist Baron.
Others who knew some inside information were surprised and said, "The Eternal Holy See has this ability. Isn't the Alchemist Baron afraid of being eaten by Adam if he cooperates with him?"
"Now is not the time to discuss this," Malcolm said in a high-pitched voice. "Now is the time to discuss how to deal with the threat posed by Adam!"
Everyone was startled, but remained silent. It was the ultimate life form, and it was Adam, their old rival.
How to deal with it? Who knows how to deal with it?
"The situation may not be critical. Even if an individual Ultimate Lifeform is invincible, expanding territory doesn't rely solely on individual strength," someone reassured. "In the short term, the interstellar situation may not change significantly."
The middle-aged man next to him reminded him, "The problem is, no one knows what power the Ultimate Lifeform has, and there's a high probability that the Void Anchor will be lost. With that thing around, the distance will be infinitely shortened..."
A stern-looking man in a general's uniform said firmly, "Then let's fight. It's nothing more than reactivating the Wandering Plan. I don't believe he can split himself into multiple roles and cooperate with the Star Alliance or Azure Dragon!"
"As long as we can hold off until the second Ultimate Life Form appears, the problem will be solved."
Mentioning this name, some people can't help but sigh: "Qinglong, he is really vicious, letting his students go and avoid this trap..."
Malcolm rubbed his brows. The scene was noisy, with people talking about compromise, fighting...all kinds of things.
At this moment, a virtual screen popped up in the center of the conference table.
Alves?
Malcolm looked slightly shocked as he looked at the name on the screen, which was transferred from his office.
Without hesitation, he answered the call immediately. The surrounding noises instantly fell silent, and everyone looked over.
Alves' bust appeared in the center, with an indescribable look on his face. Malcolm didn't know what this expression meant at the moment, so he asked hurriedly, "Did you escape?"
"I guess so." Alves closed his open mouth again and barely uttered three words.
Malcolm followed up with another question: "What are the casualties? Did you bring back the Void Anchor?"
Alvis shook his head: "There were no casualties, but the Void Anchor was not brought back."
Malcolm's expression had softened slightly after hearing the first half of the sentence, but when he heard that the Void Spear still hadn't been brought back, his expression darkened again and he growled:
"Damn Adam! We went there to help the empire, and he's so heartless!"
"When our ultimate life form is born, we must ask him for an explanation!"
Malcolm did feel like he was being backstabbed. Although he sent people to provide support and they had their own ideas, they were also helping the empire after all.
It would have been fine if Adam had just cheated others, but he ended up cheating their own people as well.
The others also looked unhappy.
"That day probably won't come." Alves shook his head, not giving Malcolm a chance to interrupt him again, and said immediately: "Adam is dead."
!!!
The conference room, which was originally filled with mixed emotions such as anger and uneasiness, suddenly became dead silent after these words were spoken.
Malcolm was struck by lightning, his face froze in an instant, and the other cabinet members were also stunned.
For a moment, no one spoke.
Alves felt helpless. He had known this would be the result a long time ago. He was in almost the same state when he witnessed the whole thing.
However, Alves didn't give everyone time to react. He still had a lot to report, so he continued, "Adam was killed by Qinglong... or more accurately, by Li Ming."
"According to Adam's revelation and Qinglong's own confirmation, he and Li Ming are actually two sides of the same person. There is no such person as Qinglong."
Malcolm, whose mind had just begun to become active, was blown to pieces again.
What did he hear? Qinglong didn't exist at all and was the same person as Li Ming?
I... this... what the hell...
In the face of this incident, Adam's murder doesn't seem that important... What the hell.
Malcolm prided himself on having experienced a lot, but these things were indeed beyond his understanding.
Alves ignored the situation and continued to report, "During the battle between the two, a third Ultimate Lifeform appeared and joined forces with Adam to besiege Qinglong, but it was ineffective and they finally left with no choice."
Only Alves' voice echoed in the entire conference room. Malcolm's eyes were dazed. Was this still the StarCraft he was familiar with?
The third ultimate life form?
Where the hell did this third ultimate life form pop up!
Malcolm's mind was in a mess, filled with shock, horror and a hint of despair.
The ultimate life form can only be slaughtered by the Azure Dragon? What's the point of playing then?
After a long moment, he licked his dry lips and asked, "No more?"
(End of this chapter)
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