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Chapter 767 - 398: Blood Seed, Alchemy Baron - Levinbeck (It’s the beginning of the month again, requesting monthly votes!) _2

Chapter 767: Chapter 398: Blood Seed, Alchemy Baron - Levinbeck (It’s the beginning of the month again, requesting monthly votes!) _2

"That thing seems to have some detection ability. I got discovered just by getting close to it, and there were guards nearby. I could only leave them severely injured."

"They will definitely report periodically. These guys are tough, I’ve been interrogating them for half an hour and they won’t speak."

Li Ming nodded and walked up to this group of people. Only one of them was a B-level life form, looking wilted, barely breathing, but still glaring with open eyes.

Li Ming didn’t say much to him, directly took out a metal helmet and placed it on his head.

[Memory Screening Device - A-level]

This was a controlled object specifically designed and created by Li Ming to retrieve memories, with the ability to screen memories.

Mind power users are relatively rare, especially those loyal to oneself. He had no place to find them, so he developed this item purposefully.

Accompanied by a buzzing sound, the B-level life form let out a mournful wail, and soon grew silent.

Robbin swallowed a mouthful of saliva, while Li Ming said, "Vermilion Bird, search his memory and find the reporting password."

The Vermilion Bird was already connected to the metal helmet, and in two or three seconds it found the reporting password.

They report every hour, with only just over twenty minutes left.

This device causes severe damage to the life form’s brain, crudely extracting memories, causing anything from a vegetative state to death on the spot.

Li Ming casually found a mechanical body and gave it the communicator.

He then followed Robbin into the underground cavity, twisting and turning, even having to pass through a magma lake, arriving at the underground cave area.

Li Ming saw what was called a Blood Seed, more like an egg, with a deep and rich color, resembling coagulated blood.

Its surface had peculiar patterns, seemingly alive, faintly flickering with an eerie light, appearing and disappearing.

Upon closer inspection, these patterns intertwined, forming complex and exquisite designs, some resembling the trajectories of stars, others like outlines of mysterious creatures.

"This thing doesn’t have any energy response. Can it really destroy a planet?" Robbin muttered.

Li Ming looked around, wanting to reach out and touch it, but suddenly stopped.

With the Tank Guard on, and with this assurance, he then went to touch the Blood Seed.

Hm?

He felt a slight movement in his mind, could it actually be controlled?

[Blood Seed—Consumable: Created with painstaking effort by Alchemy Baron Levinbeck.

Control Conditions: Eight million metal energy

Control Ability—Proliferation: Expand the Blood Vine, allowing it to cover an entire planet within half an hour, and extract all life energy to convert into alchemy materials, slightly enhancing one’s life development progress.

Note: Alchemy materials are highly hazardous, capable of genetic pollution, leading to life span decline, genetic mutation, and blocked evolutionary paths.]

Li Ming’s pupils slightly narrowed, the amount of information revealed by these words was not small.

This thing is actually a consumable controlled object, and the manufacturer’s name seemed somewhat familiar, as if seen somewhere before.

And through the Proliferation ability, he deduced that the original ability of the Blood Seed should also be like this, merely serving as a storage device for whatever life material.

"Forcefully enhancing life level?" Li Ming pondered, vaguely guessing Ryan’s purpose, "Ultimate life form? Or increasing development progress?"

He had a detailed understanding of Ryan’s development progress and conjectured based on known information, it should not exceed 30%.

This progress was far from the ultimate life form.

Absorbing all life energy... He suddenly recalled the star massacre in the Sea of Stars not long ago.

Based on subsequent investigations, the reason the life forms on those planets died was due to a massive loss of life energy.

Currently, at the interstellar level, it was basically attributed to some kind of virus.

"Testing ground?" Li Ming speculated, finally focusing on a name in the control description, "Levinbeck."

He remembered, this guy seemed to be a student of the Hammer Divine Craftsman.

But this student had very low presence, almost fleeting in the official introduction of the Mechanic Association, and was said to have died unexpectedly.

Because he didn’t stand out much, Li Ming hadn’t delved into it too deeply.

He didn’t expect to see this name here.

This person seemed to have faked their death and even created the Blood Seed.

"Alchemy Baron... being used as a prefix on the control page, this should not be a simple title." Li Ming speculated.

"Have you figured something out?" Robbin asked curiously, seeing Li Ming remain silent.

Li Ming shook his head, disabled the Tank Guard, and turned to leave, running into Feder who hurriedly stepped off a flying device.

"What do you say? What is this thing?" He asked impatiently.

"Hard to say, the basic data has been collected, I’ll let my teacher take a look." Li Ming didn’t explain much, left a few mechanical bodies to act as password reporters, and took the others back to the Sword Shadow.

Quickly opening the Black Hole Network, he searched for the name Levinbeck, numerous pages popped up, payment, payment, payment again.

As Li Ming surrounded by more and more floating virtual pages, up to five billion Star Coins, he finally found some valuable information.

According to this information, Levinbeck was born into an ordinary civilization and did not have a particularly good family.

However, it did not affect him personally, having always been diligent, and by chance was discovered by the Hammer Divine Craftsman, who found the other party possessed an extremely high mechanical talent and accepted him as a student.

There wasn’t much to say about his development history, but later many news revelations showed this Levinbeck actually had significant psychological issues, frequently torturing and killing some wild, even domestic animals.

"...Six hundred years after being accepted as a student by the Hammer Divine Craftsman, the Red River Star Stream experienced a massive upheaval, an ancient civilization’s ruins surfaced, seemingly similar to mechanics..."

"...Many mechanics flocked to it but left unsuccessful. It was rumored that it was Levinbeck who reaped the greatest benefits..."

"Ancient civilization... Alchemy Baron... Alchemy Civilization?" Li Ming’s eyes slightly narrowed, wanting to explore more information about this civilization, but the Black Hole Network did not provide any relevant intelligence.

A thousand years after being accepted by the Hammer Divine Craftsman, this rising star suddenly stopped.

Now all Li Ming could find was the phrase ’died unexpectedly,’ but it caused a huge commotion at the time, with the most prominent conjecture being that Levinbeck might be connected to the "Histerlay Massacre" incident.

Within the Histerlay civilization, 156 life planets and 120 billion life forms all died suddenly in a very short time due to infection from some special virus, moreover giving birth to numerous biological test subjects.

"Psychological distortion, obtained alchemy technology, initiated a massacre to create something, but was discovered by the Hammer Divine Craftsman, who struck ruthlessly, yet through some means, or perhaps the Hammer Divine Craftsman couldn’t bring himself to truly kill him, so he survived." Li Ming speculated.

He had never interacted with the Hammer Divine Craftsman, and was uncertain about the other’s personality; it was hard to say whether Levinbeck was particularly adept or if the Hammer Divine Craftsman couldn’t bear to finish him off.

"And now he is entangled with Ryan." Li Ming estimated, also recalling Feder’s words, frowning, "Wait, to live so many years, in terms of level, even if not equal with Ryan, shouldn’t be too different."

"How could he possibly be at Ryan’s beck and call, unless he’s really not capable anymore, or deliberately hiding his identity."

Li Ming leaned towards the latter and couldn’t help but make a "tsk" sound.

"Helping others to increase power? He shouldn’t be that kind." Li Ming recalled the control page saying that alchemy materials are highly hazardous, with significant side effects, even potentially blocking the evolutionary path, understanding in his heart that this was another ambitious man.

"Things are getting more complicated..." he couldn’t help but frown, beginning to estimate the value of this information.

"Not many should know Levinbeck is still alive, this guy is deeply hidden, not knowing what power base he has."

Li Ming continually searched for relevant derived information, taking more than ten hours to deeply imprint all known information about Levinbeck in his mind.

Until Blackbeard’s communication request interrupted his thoughts, his eyes flashing:

"I wonder, did Blackbeard find any information on this Levinbeck?"