This is not mechanical ascension.

Chen Jinglong stopped and the two of them were walking under the shade of a tree. The wind blew through the leaves. He turned to look at Li Ming, with some complicated emotions brewing in his eyes.

Even he was speechless at the moment, but what made him even more helpless was that what Li Ming said was right, and there was no need for him to take risks.

"I will watch you, don't worry, unless the A-level life form comes to kill you in person, there will be no risk." Chen Jinglong then emphasized.

"A-level life form came to kill me in person?" Li Ming paused, then frowned and said: "Although the possibility is relatively small, it is not impossible."

Chen Jinglong himself almost laughed out of anger, "You mean, the leader of Torch will come to kill you personally?"

"Don't laugh, this is a reasonable analysis." Li Ming said with a solemn face: "Look, I am a Blue Star person with red roots and upright roots. I have received systematic training from the Polytechnic University and may even go to the Etlan Civilization. , receive better resources and training.”

"To Torch, it will definitely be a big threat in the future. If I were the leader of Torch, I would definitely kill him."

Chen Jinglong looked at Li Ming's serious expression, squinted his eyes, and roughly figured out what this kid meant, and said angrily: "What do you want? Tens of millions of alloy materials are not enough for you to stock up on?"

Hearing this, Li Ming changed his words and said, "Mother Mine, I've been very interested in Mother Mine recently."

Mother lode? Chen Jinglong's expression moved slightly, remembering what Xia Yuanlun had said to him, that Li Ming really loved mechanics and metallurgy.

It has reached the point of collecting the mother lode.

"Okay, I can get you two pieces of mother ore." Chen Jinglong nodded.

Get it? Why did this word sound so strange? Li Ming thought about it, and immediately said: "Ten yuan!"

Chen Jinglong was puzzled and glared at him, "You just go out for a walk, and you may not be able to catch anything, but you dare to ask for ten yuan?"

Li Ming slightly felt guilty, "Aren't you going to make a counter-offer?"

Chen Jinglong was completely speechless. This guy was really a thief.

"I'll give you five yuan at most. Is it too much?" Chen Jinglong said angrily.

"Just five yuan, it's not a lot." Li Ming thought about it and accepted it when he saw fit.

"You still look like you've suffered a loss." Chen Jinglong said in a bad tone and added: "If I can't catch it, I'll give you two yuan at most. If I catch it, I'll make up for the remaining three yuan."

Old fox, Li Ming immediately added: "What if I encounter danger?"

"Impossible." Chen Jinglong said firmly.

"In case, I mean just in case." Li Ming chuckled and said: "Look, there are many people who want to kill me, including Xingchuang Company, Prince Baijiang, Sera Civilization, Torch Organization, Bian Family..."

"Are you counting the Bian family?" Chen Jinglong completely lost his elegance and almost rolled up his sleeves. How on earth did Wu Yanqing teach his students.

"My bait is full of color and fragrance. It's my first time in the water. I don't know what kind of giant crocodile I can catch." Li Ming took two steps back and still said: "In case of danger, as compensation, you can give me another five mother lode.”

I don't know if it was an illusion, but Li Ming could vaguely hear the sound of Chen Jinglong grinding his teeth, and the muscles on both sides of his cheeks twitched.

"Good boy." Chen Jinglong suddenly smiled again: "In that case, I will do as you say."

Did you really agree? Don’t talk anymore?

At this time, Li Ming muttered a little. The old man wanted to catch more than just the Torch Organization, right?

"Isn't there really an A-level life form taking action?" He asked tentatively.

"It's settled, let's do it tomorrow." Chen Jinglong didn't respond, and didn't give Li Ming a chance to speak. He disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye.

"Fishing, hey..." Li Ming shook his head and went back.

In the afternoon, Zhang Huaiyuan arrived in a hurry.

"Brother Li."

In the reception room, Zhang Huaiyuan waited for Li Ming to come, stood up and greeted him.

"Sit." Li Ming asked him to sit down. It was still a holiday and there was no one around, so he poured two glasses of water himself.

Zhang Huaiyuan continued hurriedly, a little embarrassed: "Brother Li, why did you come to see me? Do you need to explain it in person?"

This posture really made him a little uneasy, as if something bad might happen to him next, so Li Ming was so polite.

Li Ming didn't think too much and sat down casually, "There are still a group of people who haven't come. You will know when they come."

Zhang Huaiyuan hesitated to speak and had to sit silently.

The two chatted casually, and after more than half an hour, a group of people hurried over. The leader was Huang Jianzhong, the regional director of Xunying Company.

His expression was solemn, until he saw Li Ming, he forced out a smile. The two shook hands and sat down respectively. His assistant Deng Bo drove everyone out.

"How's it going, Director Huang, have you found out?" Li Ming asked casually.

Huang Jianzhong said nothing for the first time, while Deng Bo hesitated to speak and looked at Zhang Huaiyuan.

This little rich man is quite discerning. When he was about to get up and go out, Li Ming waved his hand down and said, "It's okay. I'm one of you. Just tell me."

Zhang Huaiyuan's throat rolled, and he sat down hesitantly, his face turning slightly red.

Deng Bo was obviously hesitant, but Huang Jianzhong said directly, "Based on the clues you gave us, and after our investigation during this period, we can basically confirm it."

"Fu Zongchen indeed collaborated with Xingchuang Company to secretly sell some of Blue Star's arms, as well as forge orders and consume a large amount of military expenses."

What the hell?

When Zhang Huaiyuan, who was feeling excited, heard these words, he was stunned for a moment, then his face turned pale, and his calves began to tremble.

Selling arms? Is this something he can hear?

Li Ming was not surprised. In the past half month, when he was free, he would check the paper materials taken in Fu Zongchen's safe.

He found out about the arms trafficking from those materials, and there were also shares of Prince Baijan.

"With the evidence you investigated, it shouldn't be a problem to attack Xingchuang Company." Li Ming followed up, "Then what we said at the beginning..."

"That's right..." Huang Jianzhong smiled bitterly, "But it's not that simple to drive Xingchuang Company away. In the past two days, we asked the legal department to carefully study the laws of Blue Star and the contract they signed at the beginning."

"It is true that you can try to deprive Xingchuang Company of its operating license in Blue Star by selling out the interests of local civilization."

"But this cannot be done in the short term."

"That's your business." Li Ming said lightly: "After depriving Xingchuang Company of its operating license, I only want one mineral star."

Xingchuang Company controls five or six mineral stars in Blue Star. Once the operating license is deprived, it will be vacant and will inevitably bid again.

Xunying Company is a strong competitor.

"We can't guarantee this." Huang Jianzhong was helpless. "The bidding for mineral resources is handled by the Blue Star Asset Management Bureau."

Li Ming nodded: "I know, I just need your various qualifications."

"You want to borrow our shell?" Huang Jianzhong frowned. If you want to obtain the resource mining rights of a large mineral planet, you need at least a large number of qualifications such as [Resource Exploration and Excavation Certificate] and [Heavy Machinery Permit Operation Certificate].

"I will set up a company and let him connect with you." Li Ming suddenly pointed at Zhang Huaiyuan.

Before Zhang Huaiyuan could react, he backed out in his heart.

He was about to refuse, but when he thought of the outsiders, he swallowed it back and stopped talking.

"No problem." Li Ming looked at Huang Jianzhong.

Huang Jianzhong hesitated. Even if they bid again, they were not sure how many planets they could obtain the mineral rights to, so they just gave Li Ming one.

Moreover, it seemed that they had to provide resources for Li Ming to "train troops".

"Otherwise..." Li Ming said leisurely: "Then forget it, the cooperation ends here, and the clues I provide you will all be regarded as the reward for the mother ore you gave me last time."

After Li Ming finished speaking, he was about to send the guests away. Huang Jianzhong gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice: "Okay, no problem, even if we only get one, we will give it to you."

"Happy cooperation." Li Ming stretched out his hand, and Huang Jianzhong shook his head helplessly. He let a young man take control and regarded it as an investment.

"Lao Zhang, this is the business card of Qi Zhan, the Minister of Central Intelligence, and Wang Xing, the Deputy Minister of the Resource Management Department..."

Li Ming took out a stack of business cards and handed them to Zhang Huaiyuan in front of Huang Jianzhong: "If you have time, contact them, they will take care of you."

Basically, they were the officials who were trapped in the villa on the day of Fu Zongchen's death, some big and some small.

After Qi Zhan brought them here last time, the group further developed and even turned enemies into friends. Some time ago, they even convened several gatherings, and he also went.

Huang Jianzhong's eyes condensed slightly, and then he showed a bitter smile. This Li Ming was pointing at him.

He may not be able to make Xunying Company earn a lot more money, but he can make Xunying Company earn not a penny in Blue Star.

Zhang Huaiyuan was at a loss, these were all big shots in Blue Star, the kind that his father could not get in touch with on weekdays.

A heavy trust hit Zhang Huaiyuan's heart.

At a young age, when he was studying the history of Blue Star, it was always difficult for him to understand the ministers and followers who swore to die by the side of the ancient emperors.

Just say a few words and pat on the shoulder and you will die for it?

But he understood it now.

Huang Jianzhong did not stay for long, and left in a hurry, preparing to start the Xingchuang Company in a hurry. This was not a short-term victory.

"Brother Li, don't worry, I will definitely live up to your trust." Zhang Huaiyuan promised at the same time.

"Don't be so stressed, we will use the staff of Xunying Company in the early stage, you just need to watch there and learn from their experience." Li Ming said, a large-scale mining and smelting team is far from what he or Zhang Huaiyuan can pull out in a short time.

It is better to use the staff of Xunying Company directly.

"Understood." Zhang Huaiyuan looked solemn, thinking whether to pull his old man over. The business of one acre and three points of land on Silver Gray Star was nothing.

After handling this matter, Li Ming found Chen Yan again. She had nowhere to go during the holidays and stayed in the laboratory.

Pulled to his room as usual, Li Ming asked Chen Yan to shut down the computer.

"Can Torch find a few people to kill me?"

"Ah?" It took her a long time to react, with confusion in her eyes, and even took two steps back. Li Ming seemed to be crazy again.

"Are you okay?" She asked hesitantly.

"Seriously." Li Ming certainly wouldn't say that he was too cunning and wanted to take advantage of Chen Jinglong, but he said nonsense:

"It's hard to explain why Torch didn't kill me. Yuko, such an important person, was killed just like that. I seem to be more important than Yuko. There was no assassination at all. This doesn't make sense."

"Today, some people are doubting whether I am the seed of Torch."

Chen Yan's face changed slightly: "Did those people come to investigate this matter this morning?"

"Part of it." Li Ming continued to fool: "Fortunately, there is no problem with my information, but we have to dispel their suspicions. Let Torch find a few cannon fodders, the kind that I can kill back."

Find a few cannon fodders at random? Chen Yan was speechless. Can this be found at random?

Can you ask the Torch executives to name a few people and tell them that you are going to die, so don’t resist?

"Are you sure?" Chen Yan felt that this matter was weird: "You are not a Torch Seed, why are you afraid of being investigated?"

"But you are. I must not be able to explain why I didn't kill you in the first place." Li Ming said immediately.

Chen Yan was immediately speechless and said in a low voice: "I will report, but the specific actions have to be decided by the superiors."

"Do you know how to report it?"

"I know!" Chen Yan said coldly: "I only found out the news carefully. You don't know anything."

Li Ming nodded with satisfaction. In Torch's understanding, he didn't know Chen Yan's origin yet, so he couldn't make any mistakes.

Early the next morning, Li Ming received an urging from Chen Jinglong.

"Are you afraid that you won't be able to retreat in the face of battle?" Li Ming muttered, went to Chen Yan and asked, and the report was given, but she didn't know yet how Torch would react.

When I was about to go out, I received another message from Zhang Huaiyuan. This guy looked very excited. When he saw Li Ming, he couldn't wait to say:

"Brother Li, I studied all night yesterday and conducted a detailed investigation of several mineral stars controlled by Xingchuang Company."

He took out a piece of information, and after Li Ming took it, he motioned for him to get in the car: "Don't worry, I'll read it on the way."

"Oh..." Zhang Huaiyuan was in high spirits and got into the car without asking where he was going.

In the car, Li Ming took a closer look. Most of them were data, densely packed and dazzling.

"Well...this last market research..." Li Ming pointed and said.

Zhang Huaiyuan hurriedly explained: "Brother Li, Xingchuang Company is a cross-civilization consortium. Their sales channels are very wide and they can sell to other civilizations."

"But within our civilized territory, we cannot digest so many mineral resources. If we use the channels of Xunying Company, we will definitely be deducted by them. I am still thinking about this."

"Don't worry about this." Li Ming shook his head, "When the time comes, all the refined metal ores will be sent to me. I want to build something."

Sell? He never thought about selling.

"Ah?" Zhang Huaiyuan was confused, but seeing Li Ming's determined look, he had no choice but to nod.

After getting the information back and calming down, Zhang Huaiyuan looked out the window and then asked: "Where are we going?"

"Shopping." Li Ming's answer made Zhang Huaiyuan stunned, and he said with difficulty: "Why don't you call Yang Yu and the others?"

"No." Li Ming shook his head. Who knows what kind of attack the torch will do. It would be too dangerous for Yang Yu to follow him.

Zhang Huaiyuan hesitated to speak, scratching his head and not knowing what to say.