This is really not mechanical ascension
Chapter 290 - 159: Running Away - The First Mechanical Guard_2

Chapter 290: Chapter 159: Running Away - The First Mechanical Guard_2

As thick as Li Ming’s arm and carved on the surface was a creature with spread wings, soaring through the sky. Through the glass, the blue-green liquid inside was clearly visible.

"Wind Thunder Winged Dragon gene seed," Li Ming’s face lit up with a smile.

Sure enough, this method could circumvent the authorization verification, and it was more convenient, allowing for storage at will.

Thereupon, he took everything from this space.

There were many items. Li Ming checked them one by one, and to his surprise, there was even a D-grade purification potion—something he also had, obtained from an enrollment assessment before, which he had brought with him this time.

"This is..." Li Ming picked out a piece of black metal with golden lettering on the surface, something he was quite familiar with from some ancient civilization relics.

It was even larger than the one Wu Yanqing had experimented with, the size of a human head, and he tried to extract the metal energy.

"One million and sixty thousand metal energy..." Li Ming grinned, having once witnessed the "gold content" of this object.

This was indeed an unexpected find, probably given to him by Princess Asmara.

After rummaging for a while, there wasn’t anything particularly great—mostly miscellaneous items, a few USB drives. Li Ming glanced over them; there were many files, but he hadn’t looked in detail yet.

After sorting these items, he stuffed them all back into that space. Li Ming’s eyes flickered, just about to try the "Space Blink" ability, but he suddenly stopped, breaking out in a cold sweat.

"Damn, I almost forgot, I’m on the transition trajectory now. If I just do a Space Blink, could the speed difference cause me to fall out of the ship? That’d be the end of me."

His heart raced at the thought. The nature of space abilities was special and enigmatic; trying them recklessly was asking for death.

For the moment, he suppressed this idea. He stretched out his hand, and suddenly, a Mecha appeared in front of him, the very "Taipo Combat Mecha" that Prince Bai Jiang had once worn.

He felt a bit of anticipation. His palm made contact with it, and a massive amount of metal energy began to drain away. Light burst out from the titanium heat sinks on its surface.

The limbs, made of high-strength alloys, began to move on their own, each motion accompanied by the soft hissing of the hydraulic system.

The armor plates on its body, like the scales of a living creature, opened and closed, generating a metallic friction sound.

Silicon-based neural fibers grew wildly along the chromium alloy skeleton, interweaving with the internal carbon nanotube muscle fibers, finally forming a mechanical heart in the chamber.

With the continuous outpour of metal energy, the Mecha underwent a profound transformation, igniting the flame of life within the mechanical heart.

Li Ming watched carefully as every component of the Mecha seemed to come to life. Its mechanical eyes, made up of optical arrays, glittered with the light of intelligence.

The mechanical arms, composed of alloys and fibers, were nimble yet powerful. The legs, equipped with magnetic levitation devices, could move freely and quickly on any surface.

"Taipo... Creator..." It produced a mechanical voice, still rather harsh.

This was the first Mechanical Guard he had modified—Taipo.

Taipo, created from a wearable mecha, was a majestic mixture of purple and gold with sharp edges and angles.

Most of its internal structure was made up of metal energy, hence consuming a million metal energy.

However, its combat capability was also quite exceptional, even surpassing Li Ming at present. He estimated it could fight a life form with 90% completion at Grade C.

Moreover, it was especially outstanding in the area of defense.

Li Ming tried to command it and found its intelligence to be extremely high. Moreover, the underlying code logic was locked in a very special way, unchangeable.

Then he tried the "Guardian Armament," and the stately Taipo began to disassemble, its many metallic components rapidly attaching to Li Ming’s body. Its sophisticated structure reassembled, ultimately forming a precision armor structure over him.

"So it’s this form," Li Ming mused thoughtfully.

Then he pushed further and tried equipping Guardian Armament over the Tan Guard Mecha.

"It can actually be done," Li Ming was quite surprised. His height now approached four meters, almost reaching the top of Ya Ro’s dilapidated ship.

The Tan Guard’s outer layer was covered with an additional layer of precision metal armor. The arms and thighs were even more robust, with a large shield hanging on the left arm, elevating its capabilities across the board.

After disassembling, in the blink of an eye, all the equipment on the body’s surface vanished without a trace.

"Indeed, there’s huge potential," Li Ming thought, after giving it a try, he even considered creating another Mecha trusted aide.

Unfortunately, the metal energy was depleted again, and he couldn’t help but shake his head.

"Gale Lord Evolution Theory, Mechanical Guard..." Li Ming was calculating in his mind, once he became a C-level Life Form, he would unlock another Control Bar, and advancing to B-level would also need to be scheduled.

He couldn’t help but marvel for a while, the shortage of metal energy seemed to be growing larger and larger.

The Star Creation Company had completely collapsed, the Swift Shadow Company was making a comeback, and Zhang Huaiyuan was also back on track, having started to make contact with mineral stars, but it still needed some time to develop.

Of course, there was no need to rush the upgrade, it was better to progress step by step. Practically everything on him was C-level Controlled Objects, which could still support his use.

He should become a C-level Life Form first, and by the time he reached the Land of Stars, the development progress should reach 100%.

He’d only temporarily left that maelstrom, not having completely escaped from it, and the Land of Stars wasn’t a safe place either, there were also those remnants of civilization...

As Li Ming pondered, the intelligent terminal beside him started flashing, and the spaceship’s speed suddenly decreased, with lights flickering continuously.

"Damn it, give it some power, don’t..." There were shouts from outside, Li Ming poked his head out to have a look, Ya Ro was looking embarrassed, kicking the floor.

"It’s nothing, just an old problem, let me restart it."

"No problem," Li Ming still smiled, and Ya Ro felt even more embarrassed.

Back in his room, Li Ming activated the intelligent terminal, having obtained the highest authority of this old spaceship, there were no surveillance videos, he could only open the navigation log.

Glancing over the trajectory, he raised his eyebrows slightly, noticing the original flight path was quite regular, probably the fuzzy noise points were the original coordinates, likely the Land of Stars.

Then it set off to other places before circling back.

However, recently, after the last part of the journey, Ya Ro didn’t return to the Land of Stars; he must have gone to find Old Wu.

Once the spaceship had restarted, Li Ming went out, pushed aside some cables, "Senior Brother, the reason you took that detour, it has to do with the Star Hunter’s wanted order, right?"

Ya Ro’s expression changed slightly, he said helplessly, "I won’t hide it from you, that’s indeed the case."

"Those Star Hunters, they are a large raider group from the Land of Stars, their leader is an A-level Life Form, extremely powerful."

"Oh," Li Ming’s interest piqued, "if that’s the case, Senior Brother, how did you end up provoking them?"

"Ah..." Ya Ro was helpless, "Actually, I used to be an officer of Star Hunters. Not long ago, we got some information about a secret sale by the Sela Civilization of a batch of goods."

"These goods are worth no less than 1 billion Star Coins, even if they were sold for half the price as stolen goods, it would still be about four or five hundred million. Naturally, we were tempted and we made our move."

"Who knew, the Sela Civilization used an ordinary passenger ship as a cover, after grabbing the goods, there were too many innocent people they needed to silence. I couldn’t bear to do it, so I had to seize the moment when they were unprepared, steal the ship, and escape."

Li Ming’s gaze became intense, "Goods worth a billion? What goods?"

"Seems to be some kind of military-grade material for building large weapons," Ya Ro did not understand it very well.

The light in Li Ming’s eyes grew brighter, the chances were it was metal material, how much metal energy would that be?

"Sigh, I’m somewhat regretful now; I’m not exactly a good person, why bother doing this," Ya Ro sighed, "But at that time, I didn’t think much and just did it."

"Such a huge batch of goods, the Star Hunters will definitely not let it go, I could only avoid their territory and take another route," Ya Ro said, laughing at himself. "You must look down on me, right? A raider doing something decent."

"No," Li Ming said solemnly, "Senior Brother, you did too well, much too well."

Ya Ro was shocked, turning to look, the green light in Li Ming’s eyes startled him, that familiar look made him instantly understand what Li Ming was thinking.

Correct, that transport ship was too obvious, both Sela and the Star Hunters were after it, he had to leave it on a planet.

"No, that thing is a hot potato, the Star Hunters have already put out a notice, no one dares to take that batch of goods," he shook his head repeatedly:

"It’s too risky, forget about it, I can’t lead you into a trap."