Chapter 1176: Chapter 603: Deserter
Anduin and the others quickly agreed on a meeting location and sent the coordinates to him.
“Lanka Star… it’s quite far…” Li Ming pulled out the star map and saw that it was at least a ten-day journey from the Chaos Core, and the star gate nodes couldn’t reach it directly.
“Not much time left.” After calculating the time slightly, he also prepared to set off.
Before leaving, he absorbed all the accumulated metal materials from the Mechanical Court.
Due to the external situation, the Mechanical Court’s basic operations in the Chaotic Star Gap were greatly affected.
Business was less than a tenth of what it used to be, with over sixty or seventy percent of life forms fleeing the Chaotic Star Gap during this time.
Therefore, the accumulated metal energy was reduced, amounting to about six billion, with an overall remaining balance of one hundred and thirty-five billion.
“After this, the Mechanical Court… will bloom everywhere.”
Li Ming walked out of the warehouse and headed straight to the shipyard, where Ulrich had already prepared the spaceship.
His face showed near-uncontrollable worry as the outside world was in an uproar.
The Three Great Civilizations had not conducted a joint operation for a long time, and almost the entire interstellar world was focused here.
The videos of the Three Great Civilizations’ joint fleet’s voyage had been captured more than once, vast and endless, like a river of steel, full of oppressive force.
Some situations in the High-level Life Form Union’s meeting had also leaked to the outside world.
Driven by some interested parties, various analysis videos emerged one after another, with one main theme–
The Azure Dragon had been abandoned by the High-level Life Form Union, with no room for maneuvering.
Voices of decline kept rising one after another.
“You…” He hesitated, not knowing what Li Ming was going to do, and finally just said, “Be careful on your way.”
He didn’t doubt that Li Ming was preparing to escape. The group he had asked to retrieve before was still at the Mechanical Court. If he were really going to flee, he would surely take this group along.
“Don’t worry.” Li Ming left two words before boarding the spaceship. The propulsion engines spewed out crimson energy flows, heading straight for the star gate node.
Inside the spaceship, Li Ming was casually sliding on the smart terminal. The current interstellar network was full of all kinds of bizarre and chaotic things.
The Three Great Civilizations wanted to regain the face lost during the last council seat challenge in the Chaotic Star Gap, proving their might still remained.
Therefore, under deliberate guidance, terrifying stories spread from time to time, such as “female life forms rearing” and “imprisonment and murder” events.
And they hinted subtly at Azure Dragon, accusing it of setting up a base in the Chaotic Star Gap as the Vice Chairman of the High-level Life Form Union and turning a blind eye.
While grabbing attention with yellow, violent, and bloody content to enhance the “justice” of the joint army, it also kept the heat of the Chaotic Star Gap high, attracting countless life forms from various civilizations.
However, this slandering behavior naturally displeased some people, especially the “chief dragon blower” who had accumulated a large following, as well as certain enemies of the Three Great Civilizations, who kept debunking the rumors.
In such chaos, the joint army of the Three Great Civilizations was already majestically approaching the Chaos Core.
And Li Ming also arrived at Lanka Star after more than ten days.
This was a desolate planet, where a mineral vein was discovered deep underground by chance, claimed by Barbaro and later sold to Anduin.
After the deep minerals were mined, it was subleased to a small raiding organization as a base.
But now, there were no life forms left on this planet; all had fled.
“Tsk… Reynolds and Mikhail really are something.” Li Ming looked at the virtual screen, where it displayed information compiled by Reynolds and Mikhail.
The two had truly invested heavily this time, with the number of various mechanical bodies approaching six billion, nearly ten million warships, no less than a hundred fortress-class motherships, and as many as ten X-level mechanical bodies.
“It seems that this isn’t even the limit for these two guys.” Li Ming couldn’t help but click his tongue, “They’re really wealthy.”
The advantage of the assembly line is like this, as long as the resources are sufficient and so is the time, things are virtually limitless.
The only thing they might have to craft by hand is probably the X Level Life Form.
With a roar, the spaceship landed, and Li Ming put away the smart terminal as the cabin door opened.
As soon as he walked out, a cold wind howled over, mixed with black sand. The environment here was extremely harsh, with dried-up ravines all over the ground.
Li Ming glanced around and found himself in an abandoned base, with a twisted and rusty base gate.
“Here…” A familiar voice sounded in his ear, the void rippled, and a familiar figure appeared; it was Anduin.
This guy had come all the way from the Chaos Core, and Li Ming nodded, “Lord Anduin.”
“Your teacher really let you come,” Anduin sighed, looking at Li Ming, realizing that the latter didn’t conceal his information state and was showing it all with abandon.
He had interacted with Li before and determined that he wasn’t a mimic life form, feeling even more emotional.
They entered the center of the abandoned base and found it roughly organized and fairly tidy.
Sheffield was already there, as was Carter.
Li Ming greeted each of them, and Shepherd responded warmly, a flash of green disappearing from his pupils. He exchanged a glance with Anduin before smiling and said:
“It’s been a while since we last met. Monika often talks about you, you young people should chat more.”
Shepherd was not meeting Li Ming for the first time, and due to his genetic seed, he was highly sensitive to information states, also confirming that there was no problem with Li Ming.