This is not mechanical ascension.

Due to the angle, Ford could not see the expression on Asmara's face, but could only hear the other party's voice without any emotion: "I know, I will send you the coordinates later."

Putting away the smart terminal, Asmara opened the door and walked out without saying a word.

Bang!

The door made a tremor and the door frame deformed. Prince Baijan looked dignified and also had no expression. He shook his head and said, "You take care of yourself."

Ford was surprised, and then sighed, a little disappointed. After this incident, his father had already realized that he might be in big trouble and began to deliberately distance himself from him.

However, he murmured: "Okay..."

...

On the other side, in the steel castle, Li Ming returned to the room.

He had already controlled the [Quantum Cluster Cannon], and used the [Matter Reorganization Maker] to make a metal iron rod of the same length and weight and put it in.

He was checking the instructions, [Energy Explosion: Charging Consumption Increases by 100%, Power Increases by 50%]

Simple and rough, he liked it very much.

Half an hour later, the smart terminal placed aside vibrated slightly, and Li Ming's action was like a phantom, and he had already picked it up in his hand, as if he had been waiting for a long time.

When he opened the page, it was indeed a friend request from the Black Hole Network.

After agreeing, the other party immediately popped up a message--

"I am the civilization representative of Bernest-Sisi, can we have a video call?"

Li Ming waited for a while before replying, "Yes."

Almost the second moment the message was sent, the other party popped up a communication request. After the call was connected, a guy who looked similar to Thiago appeared on the screen.

Wearing ethnic clothing, it seemed to be their formal wear, and his attitude was very polite.

"Sir Qinglong." Saixi said, "I'm glad you took the initiative to contact us for this communication."

Li Ming interrupted and said calmly: "There's no need to talk so much. Five billion star coins, Black Hole Network transfer, I'll release you when it arrives."

"If you're worried, you can use the bounty mechanism, which is endorsed by the Black Hole Network."

Saixi's face changed slightly, his eyes were erratic, and then he said in a deep voice:

"Sir, in the more than half an hour since we received the news, we checked all the A-level life forms in the interstellar in recent years, the public transaction redemption records, and the redemption price of A-level life forms with a development progress of less than 30% is mostly 3 billion star coins."

Three billion can buy an A-level life form? Not really.

This is the redemption price. For captive A-level life forms, there is almost no way to ensure that they are obedient or become their own people. Either kill them or let them redeem them.

It is almost a fixed market transaction, otherwise they can only be killed.

"We can add 500 million star coins, how about it?" Saixi said further.

"3.5 billion?" Li Ming shook his head. "Your A-level lifeforms came so far to attack, I'm afraid they got a lot of benefits, so they only gave 3.5 billion?"

The money of the black hole network has to be calculated after depreciation, and this price did not meet Li Ming's expectations at all.

His metal energy has reached the bottom, and he is counting on this big one.

Ceci frowned, "The price you gave is too high."

As an intermediate civilization, Bernest has its own currency system, which does not use star coins.

The advantage of doing this is that it can maintain the economic stability of its own civilization, but the disadvantage is that star coins become foreign exchange reserves.

They don't have unique civilization specialties, which are used for export in exchange for star coins. The reserves are really not too much, and they don't want to be cheated.

"Then there is no room for negotiation." Li Ming looked indifferent.

Ceci also said solemnly, "You can kill him, then there is no value. Three and a half billion is already a lot."

Li Ming glanced at him, "Do you think I dare not kill him?"

Ceci was about to speak, but saw Li Ming raised his hand to stop him, lowering his head to operate something, and then Ceci also looked down, a little stunned.

A prompt popped up on the account, and the other party pulled him into a temporary discussion group.

Then, the huge screen in front of him split from the center and a video window appeared. After seeing the other party's appearance clearly, Ceci's face was ugly.

"Sir Qinglong, what do you mean by this!?"

"Ceci?" The newly added life form looks like an arthropod, with two huge compound eyes on the top of its head, four gray arms, and a sharp voice.

The Duke bugs are very close to the Bernest civilization. They have been rubbing against each other for years and fighting for the newly discovered resource galaxy. The hatred has lasted for more than a thousand years.

Even the Yitlan civilization personally came forward, but they couldn't stop them.

"Sir Qinglong, I'm Ronald. I didn't expect you to contact them."

Li Ming smiled, "After all, Thiago is a Class A life form of their civilization. How can we not notify the person concerned?"

"Okay, Sir Ceci, this Ronald seems to be interested in Thiago. Interestingly, they gave me the same offer as you."

"This is embarrassing. There is only one Thiago. We can't split him in half, one half for each of us. So, who of you will take the initiative to withdraw?"

Despicable, shameless!

Cesi's face was livid. This bastard clearly wanted to hold an auction. The Duke Zerg hated them to the core and would definitely offer a high price to disgust them.

"Okay, you two talk first. I'll go talk to Thiago." Li Ming ended the communication directly.

"Ronald, you should be able to see what he means. This person is cunning and shameless. Even if you offer a high price and take Thiago back, it will be useless. He can't work for you." Ceci analyzed clearly.

"If you were faced with a situation like this, I would never engage in hostile bidding."

"What you said makes sense." Leonard nodded, and before Sisi's expression softened, he continued: "However, I just want to bid maliciously."

Seia gritted his teeth, they could not even redeem Thiago, nor could they watch Thiago fall into the hands of the other party.

"And our A-level life forms will not go to a place like the Land of Stars to cause trouble unscrupulously." Ronald inserted his knife, "Or, if you give me 3.5 billion, I will quit."

Sisi ended the communication with smoke coming from his forehead, his chest rising and falling.

After ending the communication, Li Ming went to the third underground floor of the Steel Castle. This was Ulrich's place where disobedient but still valuable beings were imprisoned.

As an A-level life form, Thiago enjoys extremely high treatment and is imprisoned at the end of the corridor. The cells here are all specially made.

After verifying his identity, he walked into the room, and the smell of blood hit his face. Thiago's injuries seemed to be more serious, and there were several slap marks on his face.

Glancing at several surveillance probes in the corner, electromagnetic flashes occurred, and sparks erupted from the surveillance probes.

"Who hit him?" Li Ming frowned and stared for a long time, "It couldn't be Sandro, could it?"

Thiago was expressionless and looked at him coldly.

Li Ming moved a stool, sat in front of him, and asked with interest: "What price did Asmara give you to come and ambush me?"

"I have nothing to say." Thiago's voice was cold and silent.

Li Ming shook his head. Class A lifeforms were all hard-core, and conventional torture would definitely not work.

Moreover, due to its high level of evolution, its brain structure has undergone multiple transformations, making it difficult for ordinary psychics to break through, while high-level psychics are extremely rare.

"Forget it..." Li Ming took out a syringe from his back and walked into Thiago.

"What are you going to do?" Thiago didn't know why, but he had a bad feeling in his heart.

"Pull something." Li Ming walked to his side, compared his body structure, inserted the needle into his artery, placed his fingers on his skin, and activated the ability of [Gene Warrior].

This syringe is just a cover, his real purpose is to extract the genetic essence.

Thiago was confused and said coldly: "What's the use of interrogating me? I'm just following Asma's orders."

"You know exactly why I'm here, even more than I do. Is there any need to interrogate me?"

"You must know what I don't know." Li Ming shook his head. His main purpose was to extract the genetic source and interrogate him, but he just did it casually.

Thiago couldn't help but frown, "You mean, you don't know what I know, but you just think I know some secrets. If I can't tell you an answer that satisfies you, what are you going to do? Kill me?"

Li Ming felt something being pulled out of Tiago's body, as if absorbing metal energy, and at the same time said: "You follow Asma's order to attack me, and I will kill your men."

"To be honest, there is no deep hatred between us. I have already contacted your civilization and am waiting for their quotation."

Thiago was not surprised. This was the choice that maximized profits. Although the opponent had killed several B-level life forms, it was impossible for him to attack and kill him a second time because of this incident.

He twisted his body and felt as if something was being sucked out of his body, not just blood.

This made him extremely uncomfortable.

"However, the transaction has not been established yet. To be honest, I want to squeeze out all your value." Li Ming said warmly, looking very sincere.

Thiago felt chills in his heart, and the awkward feeling in his body made him more and more uneasy. He said in a deep voice: "I just followed orders, I really don't know anything."

"Maybe." Li Ming was noncommittal.

Thiago couldn't help but ask, "What on earth are you doing?"

"How do you feel now?" Li Ming asked, turning his head.

Thiago was stunned for a moment. Is there something wrong with this great mechanic?

Now draw his blood and ask him how he feels?

"This is really a problem." Li Ming emphasized.

"It's very uncomfortable. Although you are just drawing blood, it seems like you are drawing blood from all over my body." Thiago said with a dark face.

Li Ming thought thoughtfully. This feeling of extraction was very obvious, and it took a long time. I'm afraid it would be difficult to steal it secretly.

"By the way, I actually contacted the Duke bug people, and they seem to be very interested in you, so in the end, you may not necessarily fall into someone's hands." Li Ming added.

"What!?" Tiago paused slightly, then twitched his body, full of anger: "You...you...how could you do this?"

"Why can't this be done? Are there any hidden rules?" Li Ming wondered.

Tiago was breathing heavily, and his eyes were red and bloodshot. The Duke bug people would definitely disgust them on purpose. If he fell into their hands, he would probably end up very miserable.

While he was gritting his teeth and cursing in his heart, a heartbreaking pain suddenly hit all parts of his body, as if someone had knocked off his bones inch by inch, extracted the bone marrow, and mixed it with his flesh and blood.

"ah--"

Thiago wailed, black blood vessels tightened on his red skin, blood overflowed from the depths of his gums, and the wounds that had healed slightly on the surface of his body were torn apart.

"ah!"

The pain seemed to be getting deeper. Li Ming frowned slightly and his fingers had already left Thiago's skin. Seeing the other party's miserable appearance, he was a little surprised and even more curious.

"What on earth is gene source?"

Tiago was in so much pain because the extraction of gene source had ended.

His eyes were sluggish, and he opened the control page. In addition to the neatly arranged energy, there was something new.

[Gene source (A): extracted from A-level life forms, mixed with some of its genetic characteristics and development potential. ]

Li Ming raised his eyebrows slightly, and was quite surprised. How did he mix genetic characteristics and development potential?

In addition to the explanation, more relevant information emerged in his mind.

Gene source can be used as energy to upgrade genetic control objects, abilities, and professions.

For example, [Gene Warrior] requires one hundred A-level gene source to be promoted.

He was secretly shocked, and quite excited. In this way, the theory of evolution and the secret record of liberation can be upgraded with gene source without wasting precious alienation energy.

As for the two A-level evolution theories that he just controlled, he didn't feel it wasted. It would be difficult to get more gene source in a short time.

At the same time, Tiago's wailing gradually stopped. He gasped for air, his body still twitched from time to time, and his eyes looked at Li Ming with a hint of fear and horror.

"You, what did you do to me? I... why do I feel, feel..." He opened his mouth, but couldn't tell the specific feeling coming from his body.

It just felt like something was missing from the body, as if... as if...

"It seems that the road to evolution is blocked." Li Ming added the second half of the sentence for him.

In an instant, the horror in Tiago's expression became more obvious.

In fact, not only that, according to the description of the gene source, he essentially extracted all the evolutionary potential of a life form.

Although it will not damage the current strength of the life form, it will prevent it from making any progress and lock the possibility of evolution.

Li Ming even suspected that Tiago would degenerate in the long years to come, but he didn't know whether he would fall from a-level life form.

Tiago's heart was filled with unspeakable hesitation. The desire for evolution is deeply rooted in the genes of every life form.

Even when he was defeated before, he did not have such hesitation.

He was a life form specially cultivated by the top of the civilization, with extremely high genetic potential.

It is even possible to reach the S-level life form. Although the process is extremely difficult, it is still a hope.

Now, this hope is blocked, and what makes Tiago even more frightened is that he has never heard of such a terrible method.

This made Tiago grit his teeth and said with a stiff face: "I... have important news. If you kick Duke Zerg out, I will tell you."

He no longer dared to stay under the opponent's hands, for fear that there would be other terrible methods.