Chapter 496: The Expansion of the Royal Court

After the upgrade, Li Ming was in a good mood, and his strength was increased a lot. He simply contacted the Saint Castle to check out the situation of the peak transcendence trial.

As a result, less than 20 minutes after closing his eyes, he opened his eyes with a lingering fear, and a burst of energy particles burst out of his body.

"This peak transcendence is too fierce..." Li Ming subconsciously touched his head, and the pain of being beaten to death was vivid in his mind.

"The energy level is at least 500X, close to 600X, too abnormal." Li Ming estimated and couldn't help but be amazed.

According to his development progress, it must reach at least 60%, and the conventional energy level must exceed 300X to barely get through.

"Using that ultimate source, it can only reach about 40%, so there is no rush." ​​Li Ming pondered. Originally, he thought that if the gap was not big, he would use it directly and open the Saint Castle in one go.

Ideals are full, but unfortunately reality is very skinny.

Shaking his head, taking a break, and simply continuing to develop gene seeds.

After more than ten days, he finally arrived at the Mechanical King's Court node.

After coming out of the star gate, he looked at the endless team in front of him, and then he used Suzaku's special authority to access the exclusive traction channel.

The audit of the star gate node is becoming more and more stringent. Unregistered cargo ships must go through multiple audits, not to mention unfamiliar warships like him.

After landing, he quickly switched to a small aircraft and headed to the core base.

Since he left the Mechanical King's Court, nearly half a year has passed.

Time passes too fast between stars.

The Mechanical King's Court seems to have expanded a part. There are many giant structures on the gravitational orbit, which seem to be building a small planet, and there is a series of words on the surface-[Superstar Engineering Construction Company]

An engineering company affiliated with the planet collector, mainly contracting the construction of artificial planets outside the earth.

Barbaroer is not just a landlord.

The Mechanical King's Court has also come to this step. Li Ming couldn't help but sigh. Ulrich reported the construction plan to him.

Every large interstellar force will have a similar expansion plan. This artificial planet built on the basis of gravity orbit is not just an expansion of the assembly line.

More importantly, it exists as a defense node. The drawings left by the forging hammer show a large defense array called "Star Barrier".

It is mainly for the detection, search and defense of x-level life forms. If you want to maintain a high-intensity energy barrier, the supporting nodes must also keep up.

Not only that, Li Ming carefully observed and found that there were many giant buildings on the metal shell of the entire star.

This seems to have changed the gravitational structure of the entire galaxy, causing the entire galaxy to completely stop operating, and this late-life star is gradually detaching.

Base expansion is a big project, and Ulrich launched a bidding meeting for this four months ago.

And selected five companies as the main engineering contractors for the next stage of the expansion plan of the main base of the Mechanical King Court.

These five contractors all have experience in building super-large interstellar bases and have participated in many mother star expansion projects of cluster-level civilizations.

In addition, Ulrich learned from the previous experience that many projects were abolished before they started due to the rapid expansion of the Mechanical King Court.

An important requirement put forward is greater scalability.

In the end, the entire project was named "Rebirth", with the desolate star as the main base for in-depth construction.

In the end, at least sixteen conventional life planets and forty-eight satellites must be expanded, and a gravitational system that can almost double its expansion must be left.

Using a star as the main base, even a star in its last years, is a very difficult challenge for the five major contractors.

But the advantage of the Mechanical King's Court is the almost tireless mechanical body.

Normal higher life forms are definitely unwilling to do the work of "moving bricks and plastering", but these mechanical bodies, from the lower D level to the upper S level, will not resist.

This advantage is unparalleled, and it also led to Ulrich's price reduction being very serious.

The entire project is divided into five stages. The first stage is the reconstruction of the gravitational system, which is now approaching its end, and the construction of the planet is in progress.

This information is also the report made by Ulrich after he came out of the Red River Star Stream. Most of the things were decided by himself because he could not contact Li Ming and Qinglong.

But after the whole result, Li Ming was quite satisfied. After all, it was a deposit. When the work was done, the bill would be settled.

Thinking in his heart, he had already landed at the core base without alarming anyone.

It was only after he arrived that he notified Ulrich.

Since he came out of the Red River Star Stream, the two have been in contact and knew that Li Ming was returning.

Ulrich was not surprised to receive the notification.

And when he saw him, Ulrich felt completely relieved.

"Anduin puts so much pressure on you." Li Ming raised his eyebrows and said helplessly.

Ulrich's cheeks twitched, the corners of his mouth moved, and he shook his head helplessly: "It has nothing to do with Sir Anduin..."

It seems that he was tortured by Anduin.

Li Ming didn't care and walked towards the base. Ulrich had already notified Anduin.

In the lounge, Anduin was already waiting here, tapping the armrest slowly, and Lux ​​stood behind him with his head lowered.

Click--

The door opened automatically, and Li Ming walked in. He immediately felt Anduin's scrutiny.

He was prepared. If Anduin didn't investigate specifically, he wouldn't be able to detect the surge in development progress.

"I'm back." Anduin smiled and greeted him like a familiar elder.

"Thank you for guarding the Mechanical Royal Court." Li Ming nodded. On the way back, he learned from Ulrich's report that a Class X life form had been captured.

"If I really want to thank you, I'm curious why the Empire cares so much about that kid." Anduin pointed casually, and Robin, who was standing in the corner, trembled.

This damn old man, I don't know what's wrong with him. Since he captured the Class X life form, he has been keeping him by his side.

Although he didn't use any means on him, the pressure was too great, and Robin felt that he had already suffered from nervous breakdown.

"Are you scolding me again?" Anduin glanced at him lightly.

Robin subconsciously tensed his body, and before he spoke, he heard Li Ming say: "Sir Anduin, if Robin has done anything rude, I apologize to you on his behalf."

Robin was stunned and looked at Li Ming dully. For a moment, he felt like tears welled up in his eyes.

Big brother, you are my real big brother!

Anduin looked at him, and for some reason, he felt that Li Ming was a little different.

He shook his head and laughed, "I won't do anything to him, your teacher should come back too."

This is because he was too lazy to talk to him.

"Well, you guys chat first, I'll go out first." Robin hurriedly said goodbye at Li Ming's signal.

After the door of the room was automatically locked, the tank guard possessed him, and the blue dragon slid online and made a dull voice: "Anduin."

Lux couldn't help but look up, and her amber eyes were filled with scrutiny, but she quickly lowered her head.

"It seems that you have gained a lot this time. You didn't even have time to see me." Anduin stood up and said with a smile.

Li Ming shook his head and motioned Anduin to sit down. The two sat down together, and he said: "Something unexpected happened. I need to deal with some things urgently, so I didn't have time to meet you. Please forgive me."

"Oh..." Anduin's eyes flickered slightly, but he didn't ask more questions. He took out a crystal ball from somewhere. There was mist in it, and you could hear the roar faintly.

He said meaningfully: "Your Excellency has a lot of talents under his command. At first, I thought that this group of people didn't know the news of Li Ming's departure and came for him. As a result, they came for the kid named Robin."

"His development potential is also level 43. If nothing unexpected happens, this is another level X evolution."

Anduin was puzzled. Where did Qinglong recruit these talents from?

There is no need to say much about Li Ming. There must be a big secret hidden in him, but this Robin is not simple either.

Even in the Black Hole Hall, with the Black Hole Network as a medium, there are talents everywhere, but few can reach Robin's level.

More importantly, if it is just based on developing potential, it will never make the Empire so coveted.

He has studied it openly and secretly for several days, but has not found any clues. He is just short of searching the memory, but searching the memory will inevitably offend Qinglong.

"Do you really want to know?" Li Ming asked back, which caught Anduin off guard. After hesitating for a moment, he shook his head: "Forget it, I'm afraid I can't help it."

He was also afraid that Qinglong would fool him.

Li Ming looked at the crystal ball in front of him, "This is the Scarlet Wolf."

"The Empire's advanced genetic evolution." Anduin explained: "It comes from a half-orc tribe and has been incorporated into the Empire thousands of years ago."

At this point, he explained helplessly: "I know he is a trouble, but this guy has come to my door, and I can only trap him. It is definitely not intentional."

What does it mean? Li Ming was stunned. Anduin apologized to him for catching the Scarlet Wolf?

That's not right, shouldn't this guy ask for benefits?

Li Ming couldn't help but wonder, and Anduin continued: "You should have the contact information of the Empire, and they will probably give you 500 million or 600 million star coins."

"500 million or 600 million star coins?" Li Ming was surprised: "This redemption price is too low."

Qinglong doesn't know the unspoken rules?

Anduin was quite surprised, and couldn't help but smile bitterly: "X-level life forms, there is no redemption price, if you don't want to tear your face with the Empire, you can only let it go."

Li Ming immediately understood, it was still because of the majesty of the Empire.

Although the other party took action first, the Empire didn't care about these. Every X-level life form is very important and is a sharp weapon.

If you catch it, if you really dare to kill it, a lot of X-level life forms are waiting to come.

But if you want to let people go directly, the offended party is obviously unwilling, so there is a symbolic redemption price.

No matter how unwilling you are, you have to swallow this bitter fruit.

This is also the reason why Anduin and others want to vigorously promote the joint organization of higher life forms.

They are already at the top of the food chain, so they naturally don't want to be suppressed by the three major civilizations.

At the same time, this is also an important reason why the three major civilizations can gather most of the X-level life forms.

Although the joint organization of higher life forms has been established, it is still just an empty shell in the short term and is far from being able to compete.

"I understand." Li Ming thought for a while and nodded: "Then please let him out, sir."

"It's not easy to deal with it if he is released." Anduin shook his head and picked up the crystal ball. Without any movement, the crystal ball suddenly expanded and enveloped the two of them.

This Anduin... is really not simple.

Li Ming was secretly surprised. The combat level of this special evolutionary system is not easy to estimate positively.

Ivan was almost exhausted. This space not only had no edge, but also squeezed his strength all the time, so he could only roar from time to time.

"Qinglong...you..."

Halfway through his words, Ivan suddenly paused, and saw a figure suddenly appear in front of him, a majestic mecha with a pale golden color.

He had seen its pictures and videos, and was very familiar with it.

"Qinglong, it's really you." Ivan's face changed slightly, and his voice quickly lowered.

He couldn't see Anduin?

This guy is really cautious. Li Ming glanced at Anduin standing next to him.

It is understandable that Anduin just came to help and didn't want to get involved.

Anduin was silent. Ivan would definitely be let go, and he didn't want to get into trouble.

"Sir Ivan." Li Ming walked forward, grabbed the scarlet wolf, and began to absorb the gene source without hesitation.

"What are you...doing?" Ivan was timid on the outside, and found that Qinglong only pulled him up and didn't make any follow-up moves, so he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

After all, he was a member of the empire. Qinglong could torture him a little, but it was impossible for him to do anything to him.

"I would like to ask, what do you want to do?" Li Ming said casually, just to delay time for him to absorb the gene source.

"I admit that I am not as skilled as others." Ivan straightened his body and said in a deep voice: "But you will never get any useful information from me."

Anduin saw this, his face turned cold, annoyed, but sighed.

Ivan's first X-level gene seed has not been fully developed, and his combat capability does not exceed 200X.

Qinglong can kill him with one finger, but now he is pretending to be strong.

It's nothing more than relying on the support of the empire, and he is sure that these people dare not kill him.

"It seems that you are still a tough guy." Li Ming's voice could not tell whether he was happy or angry, just conducting a routine interrogation.

Who is the instigator and what is the purpose, he has already known it clearly.

Ivan was really impatient with the questioning. Everyone knows the unspoken rules of the interstellar. If Qinglong is really unhappy, the worst thing is to beat him up and throw him back to the empire.

It's useless to talk about this now. He certainly can't tell who is the mastermind behind it.

And he doesn't dare to really kill him, so why bother to interrogate him in a pretentious manner.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but snorted coldly: "Your Excellency, don't ask. You can kill me or chop me up. I won't answer any questions."

Anduin's face became even uglier. This was clearly a squeeze.

Even if Qinglong is not angry, he will be angry.

When this matter is over, or when the higher life form alliance organization gradually grows stronger, he will definitely instigate Qinglong to settle accounts with this person.

It's not easy to kill him now because the empire knows that this person has fallen into Qinglong's hands.

After more than ten years, who will remember this matter?