This is not mechanical ascension.

After returning to the room, Li Ming called Ulrich again and said that Anduin would stay here for a while to avoid misunderstandings.

"Sir Anduin?" Ulrich was surprised, and then he thought of many things and realized that there was something unusual behind this matter.

But he still nodded and trusted Li Ming and Qinglong highly. After all, Qinglong notified them in advance when Ryan blocked the door last time, so there should be no big danger this time.

After listening to Li Ming's instructions, Ulrich left.

When the spaceship prepared by the Mechanical King's Court was ready, he went to say goodbye to Anduin.

Anduin was surprised to hear from Li Ming that he was about to leave, and frowned and said, "You are going too?"

This Li Ming has great potential and a lot of secrets. This time, I wanted to take the opportunity to study him secretly.

Or promote exchanges between students and further bind with Qinglong.

But Qinglong was willing to let Li Ming take risks. He had guessed that Qinglong invited him to come this time to protect Li Ming.

"Your teacher is really confident and bold."

Anduin couldn't help but sigh. After a brief chat, he found that Li Ming was not reluctant at all, but rather looked quite expectant.

If he was not still here and came to say goodbye out of courtesy, he would have set off long ago.

"Not only is the teacher bold, but the student is also bold." Anduin noticed that Li Ming did not seem to have any complaints about his teacher's frequent risk-taking.

It's a pity that Lux was brought here specially.

"I thought I could get something for free." Li Ming muttered to himself as he walked out of the door.

He boarded the prepared advanced spacecraft and connected to the stargate orbit. He naturally took the exclusive channel, which was quite secretive.

"From here to the Kamendar stargate node, it will take more than a month." Li Ming looked at the star map, and Suzaku had already estimated the time.

The chaotic star gap is not too far from the Red River Star Stream, and the spacecraft is fully taken over by Suzaku.

And he was looking through the information provided by Reynolds and Mikhail.

It was about the life forms sent by the three major civilizations in this exploration.

The leaders are basically the core figures of the three major civilizations, Costat of the Empire, Klau of the Star Alliance, and Deus of the Federation.

Their strength is average, but they are the direct descendants of their respective civilizations.

Then they are equipped with very powerful X-level life forms, each of which has embarked on the ultimate path. These people basically come from various affiliated civilizations and belong to the classic configuration.

There are also a large number of warships accompanying them, and their overall strength should not be underestimated.

Looking through the detailed information of these people, their resumes are very good, and their battle records can be listed for several pages.

In addition to some people on the surface, due to the leakage of intelligence information, many life forms with ill intentions have also been attracted.

There are not many people who know the real inside story. Basically, they are like Anduin, who only understand the general situation and know that there is a big move, but the specific information is not clear.

However, there are few wise people like Anduin, and many people want to get involved.

This part of people is more mixed. There are few X-level life forms, and most of them are even S-level life forms. The purpose is not to eat meat, but just to drink soup.

Even so, Li Ming still looked through it for a long time, and remembered several of the more distinctive people in his mind.

The situation of the Red River Star Stream is special, and it may overturn. In the interstellar space, staying alive is the most important thing.

After throwing these materials aside, he continued to develop gene seeds.

Interstellar navigation is quite boring, and there is no news worth paying attention to recently. It is better to develop gene seeds. Although the speed is extremely slow, he has already adapted to it.

Time flows silently, more than half a month later.

Zhuque's voice suddenly sounded in the room, "Master, we received feedback from this star gate node. The star gate for our next jump, Yunyi node, was attacked by an unknown attack and was closed five days ago."

"The route has been recalculated, and the estimated time will be three days later. Do you want to switch the route?"

"The star gate was attacked?" The energy particles surging on the surface of Li Ming's skin dissipated, and he opened his eyes unexpectedly.

On the virtual screen in front of him, a route flashed red.

"Adjust..." Li Ming didn't care. There would always be some unexpected situations when he went out.

Glancing out the porthole, this is a stargate node, and a long queue has formed because one of the docked stargates was attacked.

There were complaints in the wide area channel, and Li Ming heard a few interesting statements, saying that the person who blew up the Yunyi stargate node was a mechanic.

He was investigated before the negotiation, and was found to have committed multiple felonies. He was caught while fleeing, and a fight broke out, and finally the stargate node was blown up.

Li Ming glanced at the black hole network and found that it was really like this, and was somewhat speechless.

Zhuque had adjusted the coordinates, connected to the management system, submitted the change application, and after paying the fee, it was quickly approved.

Following the guidance of the intelligent system, the space coating was re-performed.

After half a day, they jumped out of another stargate, and in front of their spaceship was a dense queue.

Zhuque reported, "Master, according to the feedback from the Damenles stargate node, our space coating time will be in three days..."

"So slow?" Li Ming was surprised. Zhuque explained, "This stargate node is quite backward. On weekdays, only more than ten spacecraft pass through it. The production capacity is seriously insufficient, plus the waiting time, so the waiting time is very long."

Hearing this, Li Ming couldn't help but stand up and walked to the porthole.

As expected, the stargate node below was quite dilapidated, with mottled paint peeling off on the metal shell, not to mention the docking starport.

Not to mention the closed anchor point, even the backward magnetic lock is not an old-fashioned towing lock.

"Just wait in line..." Li Ming was speechless. He had reserved time in advance, so he was calm.

Unexpectedly, Zhuque said again, "Master, according to the feedback from the Damenles stargate management system, due to technical reasons, it is best not to have anyone on the spacecraft during the space coating and queuing period."

"Can the spacecraft stay?" Li Ming raised his eyebrows, and then reacted, "It's not easy to meet a bunch of fat sheep, I must slaughter them well."

Looking through the porthole, aircraft were being taken to the queuing spacecraft one after another.

When he opened the wide area channel, as expected, he was greeted with a burst of angry curses--

"Is this star gate node crazy because it doesn't allow people to stay on the spacecraft when queuing?"

"Fuck..."

Because there are too few star ports, if you want to enter the star gate node below, you can only use the aircraft to pull you in. The price is calculated per person, 5,000 star coins per person.

Most people who can fly a spacecraft for long-distance navigation don't lack these star coins.

But according to some statements in the wide area channel, this has been modified. Their offer could be as high as 50,000 star coins a few days ago.

Because there are a large number of travel spacecrafts or rented spacecrafts, this price has caused public outrage, and it was reduced out of helplessness.

After paying the fee and finding a B-level mechanical body as a bodyguard, Li Ming took the creaking aircraft and landed in the star gate node below.

The sense of desolation came to his face, and the garbage on the roadside piled up together, and there was a faint smell of rot.

Some of them were obviously locals of the node, gathered in twos and threes, and looked at these incompatible passengers.

Li Ming walked around and found many shops, but some of them had been closed for a long time. They reopened only in the past two days because of the surge in traffic.

Some local specialties were sold, but the prices were extremely expensive. As for the shops selling energy blocks, the prices were even higher, with a premium of four or five times.

The hotel prices were extremely expensive. Almost every traveler Li Ming met on the road was cursing, and all kinds of interstellar dialects merged into a beautiful movement.

Not to mention the places to eat, which were expensive and unpalatable, and the service attitude was very poor.

Li Ming scanned the star network and actually found a place with good reviews.

The reputation has only recently reversed. The sporadic reviews before all said that the boss was arrogant, the prices were extremely high, and the attitude was bad.

But these two days, they all said that the food was good and cheap, and the special dishes, roasted star stream black snakes, were extremely delicious. The boss insisted on the bottom line and never raised the price.

Following the navigation all the way, Li Ming came to this relatively remote area.

Looking at the door, it is out of place with the ones next to it. On the black sign, there are a few big red characters, which are very clean - Lao Fette Grill

Star Stream Black Snake is a special food of the local civilization. There is already a long queue in front of the door. There are all kinds of life races, and there are many people dressed in luxurious clothes.

Li Ming stood at the end. He didn't feel bored, but rather quite novel, with a sense of familiar strangeness.

"Hey, man..." Someone came over, with blue skin, bulging eyes, and outlined body, like some kind of sub-human, quite wretched.

His eyes swept over Li Ming, all of them were handmade high-end goods.

His eyes were shining, and his accent was weird. He introduced himself: "I am Seth, a local, and I have some small connections. Your time is precious. Are you interested in paying some star coins to buy time?"

Scalper? Li Ming looked weird and asked casually: "What's the price?"

"One thousand star coins for each position you cross. There are more than 200 people in front of you. I'll give you a discount of 200,000 star coins." His voice was very low, but several life forms closer to him still cast strange eyes.

Li Ming couldn't help but shook his head and laughed, "Forget it, I can't afford this price."

"Stupid, he is rich, not stupid." Someone muttered loudly.

Seth didn't feel embarrassed, and whispered: "How about this, I'll give you another discount, 20,000 star coins..."

200,000 to 20,000, this discount is really not low.

Li Ming was about to speak, ding--

The two doors of the store were pushed open, and two figures walked out from the front and back, one tall and one short, with only one eye in the middle of the cheek.

He muttered something in his mouth, holding two metal needles for teeth.

For some reason, all the life forms on the whole street felt a chill all over their bodies, looking at the two people in front of them in awe.

It was like a row of sheep meeting a well-fed lion.

Li Ming's eyes suddenly condensed slightly, S-level life forms, or two?

After a moment of vigilance, he relaxed again. There was really nothing he could do about it.

He himself was an S-level life form, and it didn't prevent other S-level life forms.

The scalper next to him didn't dare to speak. He watched the two people leave, then he cleared his throat, lowered his head and took out a pocket watch from his worn-out clothes, and slapped his thigh, "Damn, the challenge is about to start so soon."

Looking up, he saw Li Ming and curled his lips and said, "Boss, it's too late now. Even if you give me 200,000 star coins, I can't take you in."

He turned and walked away, tiptoeing, as if chasing after the two people.

Challenge?

Li Ming narrowed his eyes slightly, but heard people talking in front and behind, in interstellar dialect. Silently, he had switched the control object--

[Advanced Translator-Class A:

Control ability - Language proficiency: You can understand all the interstellar languages ​​included in the official Interstellar Alliance, and can quickly learn unknown languages. 】

"The team is so long, do you want to go and see the challenger competition?"

"It is said that as long as you can win, you will get 100 million star coins!"

"100 million star coins? What's the situation?" Someone turned around and showed a curious look.

"New here? A few guys held a challenge competition here, saying that they are selecting potential talents, preparing to spend resources to train them, and offering a sky-high price of 100 million star coins..."

"What level of evolution is the opponent?" A fierce orc asked, obviously interested.

The tone of the few people who were discussing paused, and they said cautiously, "It is to fight with your own virtual copies, but the difficulty is not low. First fight one virtual copy, and then fight two. It is said that you have to beat eight in the end."

Hmm? Li Ming was slightly shocked?

Why does it sound so similar to the Saint Castle Trial, but the difficulty is much lower. Is it a coincidence?

But since it was held by two S-level life forms, it shouldn't be that simple. With a slight thought, the black-clothed bodyguard standing next to him joined the team, and he turned and left.

………

The central area of ​​the node was originally a wide square, but now it is occupied by a metal fortress, with walls more than ten meters high. The eight passages in front and back are all guarded by one-eyed life forms with strong life breath.

Inside the castle, the two returning life forms came all the way to the deepest part and knocked on the door with awe.

"Come in." A vicissitudes of life came from the room. The two pushed the door in, not daring to look up, and said in a deep voice: "Master Lingshou, the new group of people are in place, and we can start."

The man called Lingshou, with his back to them, had a head full of white hair and held a crystal ball in his hand.

The spirit leader was silent for a long time after hearing this, and then he let out a long sigh, "The guidance of this Terax Holy Crystal is always vague, and we don't know when the target will arrive. If this movement cannot attract the other party's attention."

The short one hesitated and said, "My lord, I have never understood. Is the Holy Crystal guiding the bloodline of Saint King Terax, or the person who is undergoing the trial of becoming a king?"

The spirit leader said indifferently, "The trial of becoming a king is extremely difficult. Only the bloodline of Saint King Terax can pass it. Two people are one."

The tall life form behind him said, "Don't worry, the guidance of the Holy Crystal must be correct. Since it has led us to find the civilization of this star field, it will definitely find the bloodline of Saint King Terax."

"It's hard to say. This star field is affected by the River of Eternal Silence. The power of the Holy Crystal has been greatly weakened..." The spirit leader frowned, and the crystal ball in his hand slowly lit up.

In a dazzling light, the Damenles Star Gate node gradually emerged and continued to expand.

However, after reaching a certain extent, it suddenly exploded and returned to a haze.

The spirit leader sighed helplessly, "All we can confirm is that the target hasn't left yet."