This is not mechanical ascension.

In the combined fleet, Ford was sweating profusely. Sitting in front of him were Asmara and his father, Prince Baijan.

"Commander, do you really want me to hand over the smart terminal?" He said with difficulty, "There is no provision in the wartime regulations to confiscate officers' smart terminals."

Asmara's face was cold, "Since you know the wartime regulations, you should remember what the first sentence says - unconditionally obey the commander's orders."

Fard's throat rolled, as if sitting on pins and needles. He never expected that the former fleet had just launched a communication blockade yesterday, completely closing off the channels for everyone inside to contact the outside world.

Today, he was asked to hand over the smart terminal directly, which contained all his secrets.

He looked at Prince Baijan hopefully.

"Hand it over." Prince Baijan's voice was very warm.

Fard's face was dejected. His father didn't support him, so this matter was a foregone conclusion.

But... why?

He didn't quite understand. Asmara suspected that he and Li Ming had leaked the information?

He took out his smart terminal hesitantly, and even had the idea of ​​smashing it on the spot, but considering the technical level of logistics, he still handed it to the table.

"Unlock it." Asmara said casually, with her head slightly raised, like a proud queen.

Ford took a deep breath, reached out, and unlocked the screen.

"Log in to your Black Hole Network account."

Ford was slightly stunned, "Commander, there are clear regulations that royal family members are not allowed to..."

"Fred!" Prince Baijan interrupted in a deep voice.

Ford didn't understand what agreement his father and Princess Asmara had reached, but he knew that he could only follow orders and had no choice but to log on to the Black Hole Network.

There were some red dots in the background, and he looked at them eagerly. After Asmara picked it up, she narrowed her eyes and turned the screen to ask, "Is he Li Ming?"

Ford looked at the message "Where did the joint fleet go?"

He was confused and didn't know how to answer.

There was an amazing guess in his heart that the reason why he was able to join the joint fleet and was not rejected by Asmara was because of this.

It is very likely that it is because he can contact Li Ming, and it may come in handy at a critical moment.

This woman is really vicious!

"It should be." Asmara nodded, "Okay, you can go out."

Ford subconsciously looked at Prince Baijan, then quickly retracted his gaze and left with his head down.

Two soldiers wearing purple combat armor stood in front of the door, with a double-tailed scorpion on the chest armor, and quickly followed him.

"Double-tailed scorpion", an elite general under Asmara.

Sensing the movement, Ford looked back and was about to question when he heard one of them say: "We are under the command of the commander to protect you closely for 24 hours."

Ford took a deep breath. Is it really to target Li Ming?

Just because the great mechanic has the ability to defeat Sandro?

Although it is inconsistent with the previous intelligence, there is no need to make such a big fuss, right?

He couldn't figure it out, but he was afraid, afraid that his deal with Li Ming would be discovered, afraid that Li Ming would fall into a trap.

Although the black hole network would not record messages, he felt a chill when he thought that Asmara might pretend to be him and talk to Li Ming.

"You can see it, right? You should be able to... You must see it..." Ford prayed in his heart.

Walking in a trance, his body staggered, and he didn't notice that he bumped into someone head-on. He looked up and seemed a little stunned, "Professor Wu Yanqing?"

Then his pupils contracted, and he saw two double-tailed scorpion soldiers following behind Wu Yanqing.

"You too..." He opened his mouth, wanting to say something but stopping, his mouth dry.

Sensing Ford's reaction, Wu Yanqing didn't speak, but just shook his head. The two of them crossed each other, and Old Wu's heart sank to the bottom of the valley.

When he found that the big mechanic was wearing a complete mecha of the sublimator civilization, he realized that it was not good.

As expected, Asmara took action immediately, took him down directly, and collected all his communication equipment.

Today, Ford's communication equipment was also taken away. It seems that they will start from Li Ming to find out the specific situation of Qinglong.

He was very worried. He knew clearly how terrible it would be for a civilization, an advanced civilization, to focus most of its attention on an individual life.

His expression was gloomy. What was the origin of that great mechanic?

………

Asmara and Prince Baijan, who were holding Ford's communicator, had already arrived at the logistics intelligence room. All the staff looked at the two of them, as if waiting.

"Let's get started." Asmara handed the communication terminal to the person in charge.

The other party put it on the central operating table and pulled out a line, connected it to the smart terminal, and then projected it on the big screen.

"Collect all the information and data of Earl Ford, and the mimic personality is taking shape..."

"Simulating..."

"Your Highness, what level do you think the relationship between Earl Ford and the target is?" The person in charge asked.

"Best friend." Prince Baijan estimated.

"Best friend input, voice analysis..."

On the big screen, a message popped up on the side belonging to Ford.

"I don't know the exact location, but it seems that they are preparing to attack a certain station and have entered a wartime state. A lot of information is kept secret from me."

"Don't worry, I will definitely notify you when the joint fleet attacks the Land of Stars."

"It's been a long time since I've seen the complete Feros Warrior-level armor. The level of this great mechanic is really unfathomable..." Prince Baijan sighed, and then asked: "Arik, Qinglong is a star-casting machine. What is the probability of division’s feasibility?”

"13%" Arik, who was standing aside, responded quickly, "Every star-casting mechanic has his own star-casting weapon. I haven't seen him show it yet."

"Judging from his current performance, he is at most a highly skilled mechanic."

Prince Baijan nodded, and Asmara said: "I didn't expect such an unexpected gain. He probably knows the Ascended Civilization very well, so he can repair the complete Feros Armor."

"Reply." Arik suddenly said loudly.

I saw on the screen that Li Ming had already replied to the message——

"Has my teacher's battle video been circulated to your side? What should I say?"

Li Ming was holding a smart terminal and wearing Feros armor. There probably weren't many people who knew the product, but everyone was a big shot.

"I saw it yesterday. They were in a meeting. Princess Asmara and my father were mumbling and didn't know what they were doing."

"Is your teacher so fierce? I thought he was just an ordinary mechanic."

Li Ming frowned, "Stop it, find out what they are doing, and then ask about my teacher."

"An abnormal voice has been detected, which does not match the best friend voice. Urgent correction is in progress..."

Prince Baijan frowned.

"Don't worry, with our relationship, I will tell you as soon as anything happens."

Li Ming felt inexplicably awkward looking at this sentence.

Would Ford talk to him like this?

The relationship between the two of them has always been one of using each other, so he said stop it and trade it with something else if he wanted to know more.

Moreover, Ford has always been on the coercion side. Why is he so cooperative this time?

"By the way, I have something here, and I may need your help." Li Ming looked at the next message, and the strange feeling became even stronger.

He didn't respond.

"Error in relationship evaluation, error in data..."

"End conversation..."

Asmara frowned after a series of errors.

"Forget it, it's not that important. I have to go to a meeting. Let's leave it at that."

After these words were sent out, Arik looked unhappy and turned around and said: "Your Highness, the preliminary evaluation results of the mimicry personality are out. The two are by no means close friends. There is a 62% chance that they are not friends."

Not a friend?

Prince Baijiang frowned. He was not a friend. How did he get the last information?

Asmara glanced at him lightly, "Old guy, your son didn't tell the truth."

"How long is the next communication?" she asked.

"According to the evaluation, it is best to wait three days." Arik hesitated, "What voice should I use next time?"

"We'll talk about it then." Asmara shook his head and asked, "Where's Wu Yanqing?"

"Wu Yanqing's mimicry personality indicates that it is best for the other party to initiate the conversation first," Arik said helplessly.

Asmara frowned, "Where is Li Ming's detailed relationship evaluation?"

Arik was helpless, "No one has a relationship rating higher than that of a close relative. There is no one who can truly threaten him. I have never seen such a strange psychological profile."

"Before his father's death and after his death, he had two almost completely opposite personalities. If two psychological profile data were entered, it would only form a mimetic personality suspected of schizophrenia."

"The profiler even speculated that it was precisely because of his father's death that his closed mind completely split into completely opposite personalities and swallowed up his original personality."

Asmara's eyes were slightly cold, "Wu Yanqing can't do it too?"

Arik shook his head: "The relationship between Wu Yanqing and his teacher and student is less than a year, and the two have not been together for more than a month. The relationship is not close, and he is not even ranked in the top five in the relationship evaluation."

Prince Baijan couldn't help but shake his head, "It's tricky."

"But..." Arik hesitated: "Combined with the appearance of the great mechanic Qinglong, there may be an exchange of interests between the two parties, and perhaps we can start from this aspect."

"Before the next conversation, I need a feasible plan." Asmara ordered directly. Arik looked bitter and said, "Yes, Your Highness."

………

Weird, something wrong, Li Ming was still thinking about this, looking at the last two sentences.

He imagined Ford's face, the expression on his face when he said these two sentences, which was indescribably weird and awkward.

Are you still emotionally abused by me?

This was obviously impossible, and he soon thought that the true identity of his interlocutor was most likely not Ford.

In his previous life, it was precisely because of the screen that he caused many ridiculous things, let alone in the highly developed interstellar era.

Not to mention that he didn't see anyone, even if a video did pop up, it might not be Ford himself.

If it wasn't Ford, then the other party obviously didn't know their secret.

Want to attack me? No, maybe to my "teacher".

Has that mecha been recognized? Li Ming suddenly thought of a lot.

I casually swiped through the background information and replied to many people.

"There are still people paying attention to the death of Isius. Many people have been taken away for questioning. They don't seem to be from the Etlan civilization. They have extremely high-end instruments, similar to lie detectors..." Li Ming's eyes froze, this is News from Luochuan.

The ghost lingers.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

A knock on the door interrupted his thoughts, Cassis came to see him, and Ulrich and others called him to discuss something.

Entering the conference room, the faces of the three people were not very good. Sandro said in a deep voice: "He is here, please repeat it."

Theo shook his head and turned to Li Ming and said: "I talked to Torch and blamed the deaths of those people on the sudden appearance of A-level life forms."

"Because too many details were covered up, they obviously didn't believe it."

"At the same time, they resisted our request to enter the Sublimator Ruins."

Li Ming sat on the chair and listened to Ulrich continue: "The combat power of our four A-level life forms scared them and they dared not accept it easily."

"What is the strength level of Torch?" Li Ming asked.

"At the peak, there were at most eight A-level life forms, and now there should be only two." Ulrich said.

The Torch is also an old resistance organization in the Silver Star Cluster. It has experienced peaks and declines, and is now in a trough period.

"Only two A-level life forms?" This number was beyond Li Ming's expectation. This is a resistance organization that is almost everywhere in the Silver Star Cluster.

"Yes, but the number of B-level life forms should be forty or fifty." Theo added.

"Forty or fifty?" Li Ming was surprised.

Sandro said casually: "This kind of resistance organization is like this. They are all supported by something called faith or goals. During the most decadent period, they didn't even have A-level life forms."

This is completely different from the plunderers. If the boss didn't have the strength to suppress the subordinates, they would have rebelled long ago.

"Besides, they know a lot about dimensional creatures, which is also a tricky problem." Theo explained.

"Don't worry, the initiative is in our hands." Li Ming said lightly, "Since the big mechanics in their hands can't solve the problems they face at the first time, they will never be able to solve them."

The three looked at each other, and Ulrich spoke, "Yes, they will agree sooner or later, but there is a premise. We hope that Your Excellency will not contact them secretly."

Li Ming looked around at the three people. The three people stood on the same front again, fearing that Qinglong would abandon them and he would collude with the Torch Organization.

"Don't worry." Li Ming made a promise, "We are all in the same boat."

Simply making a promise has no effect, but what Ulrich and the other two did was just to show their attitude and let the other party weigh it.

"By the way, have you found the location of the joint fleet?" Li Ming suddenly thought of it and asked.

"It has been found. They destroyed a resistance organization related to the Torch Organization not long ago. Now they should be resting in the Usir civilization." Theo nodded. The sudden disappearance of the joint fleet caused a lot of people to be nervous and looking for it.

It was not until a few hours ago that the news came.

"Usir civilization." Li Ming breathed a sigh of relief and pondered, "If you sail from that place at the fastest speed, how long will it take to reach the Land of Stars?"

"Reach the Land of Stars?" Sandro smiled, "The joint fleet hasn't shown off enough. There are still a few months before the tide. What are they doing here?"

Theo thought for a moment and said, "Each warship has a different sailing speed. The cluster march is at the lowest sailing speed. I estimate that it will take one and a half months to arrive."