This is really not mechanical ascension
Chapter 541 - 284 Black Hole Hall Feder: I thought you were dead_2

"It should be here. The energy spectrum is overly active; there are clear battle traces."

A muffled voice commanded over the channel: "Quickly check this place, and report any anomalies immediately."

"Yes!"

Several warships each went their separate ways, and minutes later, they landed on a broken stellar remnant, all wearing tight combat armor, cautiously moving in pairs.

Ahead lay the ruins of the Torch Organization’s temporary base.

"...There are metal structure debris, appears to be similar to a small base..."

They took various detection devices and collected the residual information.

"...Energy spectrum overly active, according to data model analysis, suspected presence of a Level A life form’s battle."

Some were assigned to explore the ruins of the base thoroughly, but they found nothing.

"It’s been cleaned up very well, whoever was here is clearly not from an ordinary organization."

"Captain! Come quickly!"

Suddenly, a shout rang through the channel, and all soldiers hurried towards the coordinates.

Beneath layers of piled ash, there was a charred corpse, its combat armor nearly melted, a squatting soldier spoke gravely: "Head topped with a swirling single horn, pupils are blue diamond-shaped, blue skin and elongated ears without earlobes, with four fingers, it’s from the Campi Clan."

"Torch!" The captain’s pupils constricted, for special reasons, this tribe had long since been extinct in the Silver Star Cluster, those that remained were almost all in the Torch Organization.

"I’ll go report to Prince!"

The captain quickly stood up and hurried away.

...

After sending Dark Night off, Li Ming finally had time to deal with the messages from the Black Hole Network backend.

Starting with the account under the identity of Li Ming, not many people sent messages.

There were only a few random ones; he briefly replied to Uncle Limp, who seemed well-informed, even knowing that Azure Dragon was his teacher.

The first few messages were all emotional, saying he had returned to Blue Star, chose a remote planet, and planned to retire.

After noticing Li Ming hadn’t replied for a long time, the later messages showed some concern, asking how he really was.

Li Ming copied and pasted the previous messages with slight modifications.

Then it was his senior brother Ya Ro, who sent him a little essay with the gist being, little brother, I was almost scared to death, how are you so amazing.

But it was very cryptic; even in the Black Hole Network conversation, no identities were explicitly mentioned.

In the end, he left a coordinate, mentioning he was temporarily isolated from interstellar contact, and advising Li Ming to find him only when he was sure his presence would cause no trouble.

"Interesting..." Li Ming shook his head, since Ya Ro had destroyed his smart terminal, he couldn’t be bothered to reply.

The last opened was a conversation box from Feder, who had sent him lots of messages.

Every few days there was a message, the frequency suspiciously high at times—coinciding with when Connet was ambushed by Asimara.

"Just right, ask him about the specific situation outside." Li Ming opened the communication link, which remained unanswered for a long time.

He didn’t mind, casually browsed a few forums in the Black Hole Network’s regional section.

Mostly discussing the big movements recently, Land of Stars was no longer the latest big news.

"The Judger’s Judgement Army and United Fleet had just exchanged fire a short time ago... latest firsthand news, video available, private transaction."

This was the hottest topic discussed recently. Li Ming merely glanced over it, many fragmented messages and even fake news, nothing valuable.

Just as he was looking, a message came from the backend, Feder had responded.

"This guy really loves video calls..." Li Ming sighed, choosing to close his own camera before answering.

The next moment, Feder’s familiar face popped up, looking excited, and immediately said: "Li Ming, you... I thought you were dead."

Li Ming was speechless. Seeing that he did not respond immediately, Feder was suspicious and couldn’t help but ask, "Is it Li Ming?"

"Or has someone else stolen his account, Lord Azure Dragon?"

"Your imagination is really rich." Li Ming was speechless.

"So, it is you..." Feder sighed in relief, "What have you been doing all this time? Your mentor has gone to the Torch Organization, you couldn’t possibly have followed him there."

"Some unexpected situations, don’t worry about it." Li Ming was vague, no need to explain to Feder.

"Let it be, I’m glad you contacted me before this matter ended." Feder shook his head, he had too many doubts needing answers lately, and just as he was about to speak he asked, "Do you know what’s going on with Des? What exactly is happening?"

"At first I thought he was swayed by Asimara, but it seems not."

The last three thousand pieces of Boiling Blood Alloy, really left him puzzled, his father seemed to think that it was his doing.

"Wrong, he was indeed swayed by Asimara, but my mentor had calculated it," Li Ming explained.

"What do you mean?" Feder was astonished and asked instinctively, but the next moment he showed a thoughtful expression.

"Asimara is correct, and Lord Azure Dragon just intervened?"

"Exactly." Li Ming nodded, and Feder couldn’t help but exclaim, "Lord Azure Dragon actually discovered that Des was in contact with Asimara!"

"What is the situation inside the Torch Organization now?" Feder quickly followed up with another question.

"Hard to say, it’s quite complex, if I had to summarize it in four words, they would be ’accumulating strength to launch’," Li Ming said thoughtfully, remaining vague.

This involved too many matters, some of which he wasn’t prepared to tell Feder.

"Accumulating strength to launch?" Feder frowned slightly, and asked in more detail, "Did the Torch Organization ask Lord Azure Dragon to create something?"

"A special instrument, it can enhance the concentration of sublimation particles in life forms, you should know why."

The two of them kept asking and answering, and Li Ming answered many of Feder’s questions that were harmless.

"One last question." Feder took a deep breath, "Recently, we detected a nearby super high energy burst, sent someone to investigate, and found a temporary base suspected to belong to the Torch Organization."

"Do you know about this?"

"You really discovered it." Li Ming was not surprised, he pondered and said, "This is not ordinary news; it will cost the favor you owe me from last time when you informed the [Subspace Folding Fortress]."

Feder’s eyes flickered slightly, ordinary information exchange was not so meticulously calculated between him and Li Ming, but this involved a major turn of the intelligence, he could not easily speak out, he nodded and said, "No problem."

"There is infighting in the Torch Organization." Li Ming spoke out a few words, along with which Feder’s expression drastically changed, appearing astonished.

Li Ming continued, "My mentor joined forces with Theo, killed Kewis and Fernand, among the Torch Organization’s three Level A life forms, only Connet remains now."

"What?" Feder was even more shocked, this news was too abrupt.

The Torch Organization’s three Level A life forms, two were killed.

"Why the infighting?" He asked instinctively.

Li Ming shook his head, "The situation inside is very complex, involving many aspects, you don’t need to know, this is the result."

Suddenly, he furrowed his brows, "Stop shaking..."

Feder’s camera had been shaking since the beginning, seemingly agitated by the news, pacing back and forth, his face changing colors.

Upon hearing this, he finally stopped, too impatient to wait, he asked, "So what now?"

This was major intelligence, just throwing out this information alone was a significant achievement.

He was eager to know more.

But all Li Ming did was offer a slight smile, remaining silent.

Feder suddenly understood, just as he was about to speak again, he looked around guiltily, and said in a low voice, "The situation has escalated, a big figure from the Judger Civilization has arrived, Four-Armed Demon King of shattered space, Sky Split—Reina, came."