This is not mechanical ascension.

The next moment, the prince was in front of him and saw the corpse on the ground. He was like a fossil, frozen in place for a long time before he showed any expression.

In order to prevent Asmara from killing him, Ford made two preparations. He not only notified Asmara, but also notified his father.

"It's a big trouble." Prince Baijan uttered a few words, and his dark purple face turned pale.

"How did he do it? Ronan is an A-level life form!"

For a moment, there was silence.

"Go to the cell!" Asmara's eyes were dead, and he raised his hand. Two corpses flew up from the ground. A crack appeared on the edge of the metal floor where blood flowed on the ground. The purple flames rose and gradually decomposed into scattered particles.

Then, Ford stripped off the combat armor of the double-tailed scorpion, stuffed the two corpses in, and carried them on his back.

A few minutes later, the four had arrived at the cell where Li Ming was imprisoned.

After the cell was blasted open, the smell of blood in front of him made Ford's breathing stagnate. He stared blankly at the blood-colored symbols engraved all over the room.

"This is..." He couldn't speak.

"Sacrifice, dimensional creatures..." Asmara looked around the room and frowned: "He sacrificed a dimensional creature with his own blood, and the other party should have given him very powerful power."

"But the span is too big, even allowing him to kill Ronan, can his body hold up?"

"Dimensional creatures..." Prince Baijan nodded, "Then there is an explanation."

"Explanation?" Ford was helpless, "Do you think that the Grand Duke of Thornblood will care about these?"

Prince Baijan stopped talking and sighed.

"We have to think of a way. No one can afford such a big negligence." Ford went on.

Asmara is the future daughter-in-law of the Grand Duke of Thornblood, and she may still be able to save her life, but they are different. Under the anger, her body is gone.

"What do you think?" Prince Baijan glanced at his son.

"In fact, I have thought about it while waiting for the system to restart. The problem is how to get us out." Ford knew the news earlier than the others and calmed down earlier.

"Gabriel died at the hands of Li Ming. It was our absolute negligence. The commander ordered him to be captured. We all watched during the interrogation, and no one saw any clues."

"So, he must not die at the hands of Li Ming, or a B-class life form. He must die at the hands of an enemy that we cannot resist."

"We cannot resist?" Prince Baijan thought, "Then there is only one target, an S-class life form."

"Yes, only death at the hands of an S-class life form can minimize the impact on us." Ford nodded heavily, "At the moment, only the S-class life form under Grand Duke Guya can meet our requirements."

"We still have to help Li Ming cover up?" Asmara felt an indescribable ridiculousness in his heart.

"It's not to help him, it's to help ourselves." Ford was also helpless, "I know him, he is alone and not afraid of anything. If we catch him this time, even if we hand him over to the Grand Duke of Thornblood, can the merits and demerits be offset?"

"And if we can't catch him, even if we issue a wanted order for him, he will follow Qinglong to a corner, who can find him? As for threats..."

Fred scratched his head with both hands, helpless: "Professor Wu is already a close person to him, do you think it's useful to threaten him? Li Ming will only remember this account and come back when he is stronger."

"Even if we tell the truth, what's the difference?"

"His mentality..." Ford paused, and said more helplessly: "Impeccable."

"Ha... cough cough..." Wu Yanqing coughed and laughed twice, "Indecisiveness will backfire."

Prince Baijan sighed more deeply, this is a hedgehog, and it is a hedgehog that is destined to become extremely powerful.

The eyes of the father and son converged on Asmara.

They were naturally in favor of this idea out of consideration for life and death, but Asmara was not necessarily.

"Okay, let's do it." But Asmara did not think too long and gave an answer.

She was indeed not in danger of life and death, but this was enough to make Grand Duke Thornblood no longer support her. After years of hard work, all was lost in one day. For people like her, it was obviously more difficult to accept than death.

And she thought carefully about Ford's proposal, and suddenly realized that if it was handled properly, the subsequent development might not be a bad thing for her.

"That's good..." Ford breathed a sigh of relief, and Prince Baijan looked at Professor Wu. He smiled lightly: "Don't worry, I won't leak this matter. Although Li Ming can escape, I don't want him to be wanted by the Xingyuan Empire."

"Escape?" Asmara sneered, "He's still here, on this spaceship, and he can't go anywhere!"

Although she was determined to make the murderer of Gabriel someone else.

But she would not let Li Ming go easily. The joint fleet has been gradually restarted, and various detection equipment has been put online again. No one has left this battleship.

This means that Li Ming is still here.

"Well, he doesn't seem to be easy to kill now." Ford shuddered.

Asmara was silent for a moment, and then said coldly: "Don't rush to find him. The power of dimensional life cannot be permanent. Wait."

She will not leave Li Ming alive, at least not on the surface. She will secretly control Li Ming and atone for her actions with future slavery!

The few people reached a tacit understanding. If they want to complete this plan thoroughly, there are still many problems to be dealt with.

The bodies of Gabriel and Ronan were guarded by Prince Baijan and would not leave their sight at any time.

Asmara returned to the command room, where maintenance personnel were repairing the affected facilities.

Everyone tried to see something, but Asmara had no expression on his face. He only strengthened the internal inspection and required all flying objects inside to undergo more than three identity checks.

Then he stood in front of the porthole, looking at the desolate starry sky without saying a word.

Although the Judge Fleet had withdrawn from the formation of the United Fleet, they did not just watch the United Fleet that wanted to reorganize its formation, and occasionally interfered with the outside.

The energy silence position of the Folding Fortress could not be opened all the time. They seemed to be fighting, but they were pulling it like this. The key point was the joint shield occurrence nodes.

It was pulled for 28 hours, and both sides suffered losses. A-level life forms fought several battles, but the shield of the United Fleet was not reorganized.

The first predator warship finally arrived near the battlefield 30 hours after the star stream, and then these interstellar villains came like a surging wave.

Like a group of vicious dogs, staring at the seriously injured tiger, although they were afraid, the smell of blood stimulated them.

"The core ruins may not be for us guys, but those warships, it would be a big harvest if we can grab one."

"Yeah, those guys in the Judge are really powerful. They have not allowed the joint fleet to reorganize for such a long time."

"Is there anyone trying the water?"

In the public channel, there were constant noisy and abusive voices.

No one wanted to be the first bird to stand out, and they were more willing to wait for the situation of two tigers fighting.

"Fuck, this is really big news, the surging star stream dark tide, the rare folding fortress, and the A-level life form melee, it's really worth my risk to come here."

On a small spaceship, this spaceship is out of tune with the surrounding warships.

Baltan was lying on the optical telescope, with the other three eyes closed, leaving only one eye, excitedly scanning the battlefield.

"Brother, we are so deep, there will be no danger, right?" Beside him, the dwarf with slightly yellow skin but only one cross-eye said worriedly.

"Without risk, there is no gain. My over-the-horizon optical telescope cost a full five million star coins, five million!"

Baltan looked excited, "Do you think I came to the Red River Star Stream to take pictures of the scenery? The scenes of the Red River Star Stream have been filmed trillions of times, and those bastard fans are no longer satisfied."

"They want to see something more exciting and bigger."

In addition to the ambitious predators, there are also adventurous interstellar self-media who intend to make a big news.

………

“Admiral, someone suddenly posted an anonymous message on the Black Hole Network, claiming that Asmara will open the core ruins in ten minutes.”

In the command room of the Arbiter main ship, Antonio looked solemn, and asked quickly after hearing the words: “Is it the account that posted the coordinates last time?”

“Not sure, although it is still posted anonymously, it is not in the previous discussion thread.”

Antonio looked at the virtual screen in front of him, and didn’t care much at first, but his expression gradually became solemn,

“The sixteen energy hooks are temporarily down... The barrier of the core ruins is gradually repaired, Asmara can’t wait, and can only let the tool man try to enter it...”

In the Black Hole Network, there are too many anonymous people who stir up trouble. Only when they post in the same anonymous post will there be a special mark to confirm that it is the same person as the main post.

If you open another post, you can’t be sure. Since the anonymous person who revealed the coordinates last time posted the information, there have been a lot of false news flying around.

But this time the news is unusual, and there are many details that match the information they collected, which is not comparable to the previous false news.

Antonio looked uncertain, staring at the magnificent folding fortress, and said angrily: "These predators are all waiting for us to take action. Forget it, they are almost here."

"Notify Lord Liekong that it is his turn to play."

………

In the core ruins, the entire hall made of black gold source stone has basically only a thin layer of outer wall left.

In the corner, Li Ming stood up. He absorbed metal energy for thirty hours without sleep, but he did not feel tired at all. Instead, he was very excited, and his eyes were shining with a real light.

Two hundred and thirty million, this is the final balance of metal energy.

Li Ming exhaled slowly. When he absorbed half of it, he had a very clear understanding of the metal energy he could obtain.

But when this number was really fixed, his heart still beat a lot.

"If it is split and sold, the value of these black gold source stones should be far more than 20 billion star coins." Li Ming gathered his thoughts.

These highly refined metal materials not only have their own value, but also technical barriers and time and energy, but the absorbed metal energy does not count these additional values.

As for the black gold source stone, this thing is unusually solid, and it is very inert, and basically does not react to energy.

"These synthetic materials have extremely complex proportions. For me, it is better to absorb those highly refined pure materials." Li Ming thought that developing a mining star and refining basic raw materials would be the most appropriate.

Then, Li Ming smiled again, "Two hundred million, all added up, it is worth my thinking about it for so long."

Not counting the most important [Sublimation Source Crystal], the value of these resources is close to 50 billion star coins, and there are also a large number of weapon blueprints and the value of the core ruins themselves. It is no wonder that so many people are obsessed with it.

In fact, in the eyes of Asmara and others, other things added together are not as important as [Sublimation Source Crystal].

Improving the potential of root development after birth can improve the overall strength of the soldiers under his command and even the race by a large level.

Then he came to the center of the venue. The ground had sunk a layer, revealing the external base material, and a display cabinet was placed.

Li Ming was most concerned about metal materials. At the prompt of the core ruins, he came to the left and pulled out seven or eight glass cabins.

Various irregular metal blocks and even stones floated in it, flashing a strange brilliance.

Basically, they are natural materials that cannot be refined and obtained from the universe by the sublimator civilization.

These materials have some very special properties. Studying them can obtain a series of derivative materials.

Li Ming touched them one by one. He could say that he didn't recognize any of them. He only tried the ones that could absorb metal materials and put them aside.

He didn't know if they had any other value. It was a pity to simply use them as raw materials for absorbing metal energy.

There were also a few that couldn't be absorbed, so they shouldn't be metal materials.

There was a black irregular metal block among them. It felt warm to the touch. Li Ming could clearly feel that it was absorbing some kind of energy, but the metal energy didn't beat at all.

At the same time, it didn't belong to any energy he knew.

"Could it be..." Li Ming's eyes were bright, and he was expecting a lot. He absorbed very slowly. It took more than half an hour to completely absorb it.

On one side of the control page, the various energies arranged in a variety of colors shrank again, and a new name appeared.

[Titan Stone: Special energy that can be used to upgrade A-level control objects]

"Ha..." Li Ming's breathing stagnated slightly, and then he laughed. He finally found it.

"Where did the black stone in my hand come from just now?" Li Ming asked the control core.

"In the data of the Ascendant civilization, there is a stone called Terrax, which they brought with them when they migrated. The specific function is unknown..." The response of the control core made Li Ming frown slightly.

Did the Ascendants bring it with them when they migrated?

That must have been thousands of years ago.

Li Ming frowned. He didn't know the origin, so how could he find it in the future.

Forget it, put this matter aside for the time being. He couldn't help rubbing his hands. The upgrade materials were available, and the metal energy was enough. Who could resist not upgrading?

As for what to upgrade, there is no doubt that it is naturally the Tank Guard!

After the upgrade is completed, through the occupational ability, he can have a "body" comparable to a regular S-level life form.

The upgrade is greater than any other controlled object!