This is not mechanical ascension.

As soon as I entered the reception room, I felt a sense of oppression. A figure as burly as a wall stood not far away.

He was casually wearing a custom-made suit, and his muscles were as strong as iron.

The most eye-catching thing was the two thick arms extending from under his ribs and hugging his abdomen. The exposed skin was as black as oil.

He had a short haircut, shiny and wearing black sunglasses.

"Sir Reina." Horndil closed the door and nodded slightly.

"Your Highness Horndil." Reina looked quite casual and took off his sunglasses and put them on the table.

Horndil extended his hand to signal Reina to sit down.

"Forget it, it's not convenient to sit because you are too big." Reina shook his head.

Horndir then said, "I heard that you found the murderer who assassinated my father near the Land of Stars, and fought with him?"

"Yes." Reina sneered, "Dark Night from the Land of Chaos."

"Only his gun is worthy of praise, but it's a pity that it's destroyed."

"Star Killer Spear? Did you catch him?" Horndir asked tentatively.

Reina's eyes wandered, and then he shook his head: "No, after all, he is a rat who is good at assassination, and he is still very good at escaping."

After that, he quickly turned to another topic, "Your Highness, I came here this time mainly because of the core ruins of the Sublimator."

"Your Highness Lionheart said that you have information about the Torch Organization and can provide relevant help."

Horndir's heart palpitated, as if it was grasped, and then a ball of anger rose, and he said in a deep voice: "Brother is really well-informed, I do have someone who can provide relevant information."

Since Reina is here, there is no point in shirking.

Reina grinned, "That's good. Your Highness should have my contact information. Just let me know when the time comes."

Horndir had no expression on his face. When Reina was about to leave, he suddenly said, "I heard that my father has woken up?"

"You asked me?" Reina looked confused. "You are the son of the Grand Duke. Why don't you just go and see him?"

Before Horndir could speak, Reina left.

Before the butler sent him to the door, he heard a dull sound coming from the reception room behind him.

"Ha..." He grinned.

………

On a desolate planet somewhere, a yellow-black storm raged on the surface, and the thin atmosphere was full of holes.

Dead silence is the eternal theme here, but it was broken today.

The void near the surface suddenly twisted, and then a crack was torn out like a difficult birth, and a bloody figure fell from it.

Cornett was lying on the ground gasping for breath. One could clearly see the huge wound on his chest that almost cut open his heart.

There were burn marks on other parts of his body. There was only a black blood hole in his left eye, and his right eye was also covered with cracks.

"Hiss--" Cornett let out a low roar, and the flesh and blood on half of his body was twisted, and finally another figure was split out.

"Ambush! The Ring Star Crown Guards are here, Asmara is here in person, and five A-level life forms are chasing and intercepting us. They knew we were coming!"

Kevis gnashed his teeth, and his physical condition was also very bad, even more miserable than Cornett.

"Traitor, there is a traitor inside!" Kevis' words were full of suppressed crazy anger.

"There are only a handful of people who know the specific goal of the operation." Cornett's voice was cold and silent. "Except for the three of us, almost no one knows."

"No one knows how it was leaked?" Kevis' eyes were gloomy. "Fernand, I have suspected him for a long time."

"Enough!" Cornett scolded angrily, his chest was like a bellows, and the slightly healed wound was torn again.

Kevis was silent for a moment, "The information known by the subordinates is scattered, unless someone is threading the needle and putting together a lot of puzzles."

"It was fine before, was it those big mechanics?"

Cornett was silent, and Kevis sighed, "It's a pity, the sacrifice was not even completed, and it was interrupted. All the materials were wasted, and the loss was too great."

"Ahem..." Cornett couldn't help but get angry in his heart, and he opened the wound again, spitting blood.

"Except for those people, I can't think of any other possibilities. I underestimated them. Even if they are under surveillance, the methods that those great mechanics can use are extraordinary." Connet's voice was cold.

"At any cost, I also want to know who is behind this!"

"What about the sublimation particles?" Ke Weisi asked.

"This time, it's good to be able to save your life." Connet's voice was cold, "Let's talk about it when we go back."

In contrast to the miserable scene here, there is another brilliant starry sky.

Under the black curtain dotted with stars, there is the outermost structural ring of an unconventional warship, with five ring-shaped alloy skeletons that rotate continuously, and a heart-like fortress in the center.

The Ring Star Crown Guard, the unconventional main ship of the Itlan civilization, is named separately as the highest-level main ship, and it has already had some interstellar fortress trends.

Slender frigates can be seen around, forming a loosely structured firepower matrix with this unconventional warship as the center.

The atmosphere in the main ship's command room was warm.

"Commander, we captured 56 people, including 4 apostles, and seized 3,000 pieces of boiling blood alloy, and 16 tons of other materials."

"We didn't suffer any losses." The commander paused, "If a little energy loss is also counted." After he finished speaking, he glanced at Asmara cautiously, and a slight smile appeared on his delicate face.

The others laughed.

"It's a pity that Conit ran away." Prince Baijan shook his head and spoke at an inappropriate time.

Asmara's expression was restrained, "They sacrificed dimensional creatures beforehand. We don't have space-type blockade means, so there is nothing we can do."

"I understand, it's just a pity." Prince Baijan explained, with an ugly smile on his face that he forced out.

Behind him, Ford frowned. Asmara had an insider in the Torch Organization, which really took a lot of advantages.

But he couldn't contact Li Ming for the time being, and he couldn't get in touch with the Qinglong to get the information. He couldn't trade and could only worry.

"Your Excellency, if you had taken action just now, you might have captured the leader of the Torch Organization." A deputy commander said, "Commander Asmara needs to control the overall situation, but why are you just watching?"

Asmara had a clear advantage, and someone immediately jumped out to squeeze Prince Baijan.

"What a pity..." Some people echoed.

Prince Baijan's face remained unchanged. If he was really angry, he would have been tricked by these people.

He just glanced at Ford, who was lowering his head, and couldn't help feeling disappointed.

Last time, he deliberately leaked the information that Asmara had an insider in the Torch Organization, hoping that Ford would pass the news to Li Ming, and then let Li Ming pass it to Qinglong.

As a result, it seems that he did not get what he wanted.

Asmara was very proud, and several people under Prince Baijan looked embarrassed and uneasy.

At this time, an intelligence officer hurriedly came to report, with an ugly face, and carefully passed through the edge, as if he didn't want to attract attention.

But then another person followed closely, looking extremely panicked, making a lot of noise, attracting everyone's attention.

"Commander!" He knelt on one knee, although he was reporting to Asmara, he was facing Prince Baijan.

Asmara frowned, raised his head and glanced at the intelligence officer who was walking carefully against the wall. The other party had an ugly face and shook his head subconsciously.

Prince Baijan's heart moved slightly, and he immediately scolded, "What's the matter with you in such a hurry? Report it quickly."

"Yes!"

The other party lowered his head, deliberately not looking at Asmara, and shouted loudly: "After detailed testing, the seized boiling blood alloys are all specially imitated model blocks, and they have no value!"

In an instant, the entire command room was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop, and most people's smiles froze on their faces.

Ford suddenly raised his head, quite stunned. The most valuable ones were those boiling blood alloys, but they were fake?

Prince Baijan exhaled slowly, as if he was drunk, a blush appeared on his cheeks, and then quickly disappeared. He frowned in a deep voice: "Is it true? If the news is wrong, it is not enough to kill you."

"Multiple material officers of the logistics department have verified that each piece has been re-inspected more than ten times."

Asmara's cheek twitched, and then quickly restrained, with a blank expression. In the silence flowing in the command room, Prince Baijan sighed, "It seems that we have all been fooled by the Torch Organization."

"Huh? What do you mean?" The originally suppressed subordinate quickly took over.

Prince Baijan quickly spoke: "If the commander-in-chief's news is true, since this batch of boiling blood alloy is a model, where is the real boiling blood alloy?"

"Are these people bait? The real plan of the Torch Organization may have been completed elsewhere."

Every word pierced Asmara's heart, erasing all her credit.

In the command room, everyone looked at each other, wanting to speak but stopping.

This time, they mobilized a large army, but ended up being tricked by the Torch Organization?

"But the captives are not wrong, and the leader of the Torch Organization escaped with serious injuries." Someone couldn't help but refute.

"That's exactly what I'm worried about." Prince Baijan looked worried.

"Using so many people as bait, the real purpose of the Torch Organization must be extraordinary."

Asmara's men were so embarrassed that their faces turned red, but what proved Prince Baijan's statement was that the boiling blood alloy was all fake.

This means that the Torch Organization knew they would ambush and played along.

Including Asmara, they all became clowns.

Asmara's face was livid. Although she still had something to refute, it was meaningless. She said in a deep voice: "Enough, integrate the fleet and return to the land of stars!"

Surprisingly, Asmara was actually tricked, Ford muttered.

Feeling a little strange for some reason, he looked up and saw that Prince Baijan was looking at him with a relieved look.

Ford was even more confused.

………

Leaving the core laboratory, Deyes had an expressionless face, walked through the corridor inside the main base, and returned to his room.

Along the way, strange eyes kept falling on him, and he could even hear whispers, but he had gotten used to it. Since Brot's death, this scene often accompanied him.

Returning to the room, closing the door, sitting in the cramped shadow, Deyes exhaled, half of his cheek hidden in the darkness.

The other half of the cheek illuminated by the faint light suddenly twisted, filled with resentment and cruelty, twitching slightly.

"Qinglong, sooner or later..." He gritted his teeth, "Sooner or later... I will kill you, kill you!"

As he expected, after Brot's death, his status plummeted.

Even the good old man Benny's attitude towards him changed slightly, with a bit of arrogance and even command.

He himself was a proud person, how could he endure this humiliation.

But for the sake of his own life, he had no choice but to compromise, and every time he experienced this kind of thing, his resentment towards Qinglong would increase.

This twisted emotion brewed in his heart, becoming more and more resentful.

"It's been half a month since I last contacted Asmara, and I don't know what's going on there." Deyes thought, and couldn't help but try to contact Asmara.

The plan can proceed steadily, which is the only good news that can comfort him.

Soon the call was connected, and he couldn't wait to ask: "Your Highness Asmara, what's going on over there? Have you stopped Connit?"

"Sir Deyes..." Asmara's voice was cold and silent, and he didn't respond. Instead, he asked: "Can you tell me what's going on inside the Torch Organization?"

"What do you mean?" Deyes was slightly stunned, not quite understanding.

"I found the location as you said, waited for Connit, and ambushed them, and seized a large number of items."

"Then..." Deyes was increasingly puzzled, "Why did you..."

"Because the 3,000 pieces of boiling blood alloy seized were all model blocks, all fake!"

Asmara's voice suddenly became high-pitched, and the suppressed emotions were vented. He was furious and said sternly: "What makes you think that deceiving me will not cost anything!"

"Fake?" Deyes was stunned, his eyes trembled slightly, and a bone-chilling coldness suddenly rose in his heart, from the inside out, all over his body.

The next moment, the communication link was interrupted, not hung up, but forced to be interrupted.

Looking down blankly, his smart terminal actually cracked from the center and the screen went out.

A slightly familiar voice suddenly sounded in the room: "Things have turned out like this."

This voice was both familiar and strange, like a nightmare.

In an instant, his hair stood up, his body stiffened, and he turned around suddenly. His cheeks were pale and twisted, his eyes darted left and right, and he roared in fear: "Who, who is here, who is it!?"

The next moment, the invisible gravity fell, and Deyes felt that he was suppressed by a mountain. His pupils gradually became congested, his skin was red, and his cheeks turned liver-colored.

At the same time, with a horrified look, a figure slowly emerged in his shadow, and then gradually became clear.

"Qinglong!?" Deyes could no longer speak, his teeth seemed to be glued together, he just roared in his heart, and a dizziness surged into his brain.

I don't know if it was due to lack of oxygen or too much impact, but my heart was clear, and I even felt a sense of sudden enlightenment.

I was right in my suspicion before, Qinglong had a way to lurk around me, and all my plans were under the other party's observation!

Under the coldness of the whole body, I didn't even bother to think about what this method was.

He could not help but wonder, but Qinglong allowed himself to contact Asmara without exposing him?

A huge fear exploded in his heart, and doubt and shock mixed in his heart, and all this could not be explained.

Li Ming had no desire to talk nonsense with him, and a dagger had already sunk into his head.

The severe pain made Deyes unable to think about anything, and the last thing he saw was Qinglong's eyes as calm as the Dead Sea.