This is not mechanical ascension.

Wang Zhiheng was a little slow to react, but quickly added: "Although the theft is not a big case, after all, Director Chen reported it personally, so we can also take it on."

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The two men's singing made Chen Songnan furious, but their nominal law enforcement power was their biggest reliance.

Even though he had just killed six city guards, there was nothing he could do now.

"Director Chen, now you can tell me what you lost." Li Ming added, and recorded it on the smart terminal in a decent manner.

"The exhibit on display in my office - the silver ash mother mine!" Chen Songnan stared at him closely.

"Well, when was it lost? Did the surveillance cameras pick up any useful clues?" Li Ming asked.

The muscles on both sides of Chen Songnan's teeth were looming. He didn't want to talk nonsense with this guy anymore. He suppressed his inner emotions and said in a calm voice:

"I can confirm that nothing has left this building. Please leave this room. I want to check."

Wang Zhiheng raised his eyebrows and said unceremoniously: "Director Chen, what do you mean? Could it be that you are suspicious of Li Ming?"

"I also want to ask you, why are some of my colleagues missing?"

Wang Zhiheng was a little confused at first, but his service as a city guard in recent years was not in vain, and now he was vaguely aware of something.

"They're gone, you ask me?" Chen Songnan sneered, "I have no right to command them."

"As for doubting him, let alone suspecting him, it's just a routine check."

Li Ming put away the smart terminal and said seriously, "Director Chen, are you charging a city guard now?"

Seeing Li Ming's serious look, Chen Songnan felt uncontrollable anger in his heart. On normal days, he would not be so easily angry.

But just now he suppressed the person behind Li Ming, the boss of the City Guard Department - Qin Xiao, to the point of being unable to move.

But when he turned around, he was choked speechless by such a small character again and again. This gap was the main reason for his dissatisfaction.

He frowned, "Don't mess around here. This is Xingchuang Company. I'm conducting an inspection and it has nothing to do with you."

Due to the emissive nature of the silver ash mother mineral, it can easily spread everywhere if not stored in special containers.

"Wrong..." Li Ming said seriously: "According to the privacy protection regulations-that is, within the property rights in the name of others, within a clear period of use, you can also enjoy privacy protection."

"This room was arranged for me by Xingchuang Company. You have no right to search it during the travel time."

This is Blue Star Law. Li Ming has studied it carefully. Nothing is more important than obeying the law.

Chen Songnan's face twitched, but Li Ming's words changed again: "Of course, according to the security regulations, the security department of Xingchuang Company has a special authorization law, which can carry out searches, detentions and other methods that do not harm human rights."

Wang Zhiheng was stunned, why did Li Ming speak for his opponent?

"However, you also need to take responsibility." Li Ming looked at everyone's faces with a look of confusion and continued to explain:

"It means that it is okay for Director Chen to ask the security department to search or even search me, but if no supporting evidence is found to prove that I am related to this matter, then I will have to bear the loss of my reputation."

There was a sense of astonishment on Xu Wei's face, isn't it? Brother, you have gone through such a big circle and come to the point of compensation?

Chen Songnan's eyes fell on Li Ming. For a moment, he couldn't see through this young man.

He didn't feel this way with Qin Xiao. Although Qin Xiao was also an old fox who knew how to hide his emotions, he had pursuits and desires, but what on earth did this young man want to do?

I didn't get the target item, but turned around and stole the silver-ash mother ore. What kind of operation was this?

Six city guards died in front of him, wasn't he afraid? Qin Xiao was defeated, didn't he know?

What are you doing now, bluffing? Where could he hide his things?

Chen Songnan couldn't figure it out, and he wasn't prepared to think about it, with a cold expression, "I will be responsible for all compensation, search."

The security personnel behind him quickly came forward, rummaged through the room, and even took out a metal detector to detect Li Ming. Even though there was a constant beeping sound, they were all items he carried with him.

No suspicious items were found.

"Director, there is no..." his subordinate whispered in Chen Songnan's ear. He was also surprised that the sensor had clearly disappeared here, but nothing could be found.

"No?" Chen Songnan glanced coldly.

"My StarNet account number is *****..." Li Ming reported a series of numbers, "Generally speaking, this kind of honor case..."

"Fifty thousand, I will transfer the finance to you. If you are not satisfied, find someone to file a lawsuit with me." Chen Songnan interrupted, not wanting to argue with Li Ming anymore, his voice was cold, "You should be lucky, without this skin, you can't even You are not qualified to see me.”

Wang Zhiheng was stunned, making money...is it so easy?

Chen Songnan suppressed his anger and left, closing the door.

In the elevator, the subordinate beside him hesitated and said: "Director, do you want to put pressure on Qin Xiao?"

Chen Songnan's figure stood still, his face became even more gloomy all the way, "What do you want me to say to ask Qin Xiao to order this guy to return the silver-gray mother ore he stole to me?"

The men lowered their heads and stopped talking.

Chen Songnan had just shown off his power in front of Qin Xiao, but when he turned around, he was blocked by one of his subordinates.

He couldn't afford to lose face.

"It's just an F-level life form, just take care of it if you find an opportunity."

The subordinates responded hurriedly: "I understand."

...

After Chen Songnan left, Wang Zhiheng looked hesitant, hesitated for a moment, and asked Li Ming, "Did something happen?"

Xu Wei also looked over. The sharpness of the reporter made her realize that something was wrong. She frowned and said, "Soon after we left, the company building sounded a level 3 alarm, and the security system was inexplicably restarted."

"Where did Zhao Xiong and the others go?" Wang Zhiheng asked.

The two of them looked at Li Ming at the same time. He thought for a moment and shook his head and said, "I'm not sure. I've been staying here."

Wang Zhiheng sighed, stopped asking, and said, "Tomorrow, we will go to another large mining site with Chen Songnan. You should come with us. Don't stay here."

"No problem." Li Ming nodded.

…

On a sand dune far from the building, the short man took down the telescope, and the original clear logo of Xingchuang Company instantly turned into a small dot. He turned his head and said:

"Captain, I see the transport ship is back. According to the itinerary we got, they will go to another mining site for inspection tomorrow."

The strong wind whistled, rolling up the sand, and the hem of Black Hawk's windbreaker fluttered. He said in a deep voice: "Scorpion, are you ready?"

On the other side, on the sand, lying in all directions, there were huge beasts the size of houses. Their skin was silver-gray, with star-like brilliance between the wrinkles, a single horn on their heads, and their limbs were thick but short.

In the center, there was a small temporary experimental cabin. A slim woman wearing a mask picked up a can of pink liquid, shook it, and uttered a filtered voice: "This gift will definitely satisfy you."

…

Like the day before yesterday, everyone boarded the transport ship early in the morning. The only difference was that this time there was an extra Li Ming.

"Director Chen, your people said that our colleagues left the building, but they couldn't produce surveillance video, only records." Wang Zhiheng frowned. He was busy with this matter all night yesterday.

The disappearance of six city guards is not a trivial matter. He reported it to Qin Xiao in person. The other party was also surprised and asked him to investigate in detail.

But he always felt that Minister Qin's reaction was strange. Xingchuang Company said that they left, but there was no surveillance record.

It was said that the security system was restarted during that period, and all the surveillance probes were broken. Only a few people witnessed the incident.

"What do you mean? Do you doubt our Xingchuang Company? I advise you to have evidence when you speak, otherwise you will have to compensate me for the loss of my reputation." Chen Songnan said casually.

Sandra didn't react at all. She was not interested in their dispute and closed her eyes to rest.

Wang Zhiheng snorted coldly, but there was nothing he could do. He wanted to investigate the entire Xingchuang Company, which was far from his decision, and his father couldn't decide it either.

The city guards all glared at him, and Chen Songnan's eyes swept over Li Ming vaguely.

This kid was very calm at the moment.

………

Two or three hours later, the transport plane landed and everyone arrived at the mining site. In front of them was a huge deep pit. The mining machine on top was running non-stop, and the spiral drill head alternated up and down, with a harsh roar.

Chen Songnan's accompanying assistant distributed noise-isolating headphones and breathing masks, and everyone was in the same channel.

"This is one of the five largest mining sites on Silver Gray Star. Our safety standards strictly comply with the legal requirements of Blue Star..." Chen Songnan's voice kept ringing in the channel, leading the way in front, and everyone went down along the freight elevator.

It can be seen that such a huge mining machine is mostly automated, but it still requires a lot of manpower to watch.

Especially those narrow mines, small mining machines that can only be controlled by manpower.

"This kind of investigation is meaningless. They knew we would come, and I'm afraid they have already made preparations." Wang Zhiheng curled his lips and his voice sounded in the public channel.

Chen Songnan seemed not to hear it.

Everyone descended deeper and deeper, and could only use lighting equipment to provide light.

Boom!

At the bottom of the freight elevator, it seemed like a layer of cement was laid underneath.

However, everyone knew that this was impossible.

"This is the silver-ash ore." Chen Songnan stamped his feet with emotion, "I often feel the wonders of the universe. The feces of wild animals, after the precipitation of time, can form such a special material."

Li Ming leaned over and touched it, his eyes slightly bright. He could absorb metal energy from it, but the metal energy contained in the absorbable area was too little, and the balance on the panel did not jump.

It still takes high-purity refined metal ore, the purity of this raw ore is too low.

"Wild animal feces?" Wang Zhiheng was surprised.

"You don't know?" Zuo Ling glanced at him, "How did you get your education?"

"Silver-ash ore is formed by the feces of silver-ash beasts after countless years of accumulation."

Chen Songnan clapped his hands and said with a smile: "I often hear people say that we mine silver-ash ore here and destroy the environment here, blah blah blah..."

"But haven't the immigrants from Blue Star also destroyed the homes of silver-ash beasts?"

"Swapping the concept!" Xu Wei refuted, "Silver-ash beasts are mostly active underground. If the development of the surface is restrained, they can coexist harmoniously."

Chen Songnan smiled lightly without explaining, and led everyone to move forward and drilled into a narrow passage, "These passages were drilled by silver-ash beasts and are connected in all directions."

After walking with him for a while, it seemed like going downhill, and suddenly it was open. This was another large space. The hanging fluorescent stone pillars brought some faint light, which was quite magnificent.

"Here..." Chen Songnan pointed at the ground, and then pointed to the top of his head, "There... There are silver-ash mines everywhere!"

"However, we didn't mine here, so how can it be considered destructive mining?"

"Destructive mining is not defined by you." The short green-skinned Sandra finally spoke, "This planet has lost its vitality. It may take thousands of years or even longer to repair it."

"If it is confirmed that there is insider trading, you can wait for sanctions."

Chen Songnan's face sank, and he reluctantly said: "This is cooperation, free trade, and the Blue Star civilization agrees."

"Inducing developing civilizations to destroy their own interests in exchange for support is clearly not allowed." Sandra's voice was sonorous and stammered.

Chen Songnan's face was ugly, but he suddenly shook his head: "Sir Sandra, you are too serious. Aren't these things still under investigation?"

Data review, field exploration, the interstellar review team that came to Silver Gray Star is only a part, and more stayed in the capital of Blue Star to conduct a deeper investigation.

Chen Songnan led everyone to go deeper.

Half an hour later, the smart terminal of an accompanying assistant suddenly vibrated wildly. He looked down and his face suddenly became ugly, with panic and haste: "Director, a large number of silver-gray beasts have been detected, and they are coming here."

"Hmm?" Chen Songnan's expression changed slightly, "What's going on? How many?"

Silver-gray beasts rioting?

Li Ming's eyes flickered, and he subconsciously thought that it was Chen Songnan's action.

"No... I don't know..." The accompanying assistant swiped his hands on the virtual screen, his expression becoming more and more panicked: "Director... Director, the system predicts that there are at least 30,000!"

"What!?" Chen Songnan's face changed, he snatched the smart terminal, looked down, and said in a deep voice: "How could this be, isn't there a repellent nearby?"

"I don't understand, they seem to have gone crazy all of a sudden."

Li Ming felt something was wrong, wasn't it Chen Songnan's doing? This is his territory, who dares to mess with it?

Or did he act too well?

Wang Zhiheng immediately asked, "Chen Songnan, what's going on!?"

"Go, go, retreat!" Chen Songnan shouted, a small pit exploded under his feet, and his figure rushed out like an arrow, so fast that it was hard to see with the naked eye.

An uncompromising D-level life form!

"Chen Songnan! Fuck!" Wang Zhiheng shouted angrily, but still issued an order, "Li Ming, Zuo Ling, the five of us will lead the way, and the rest of us will cover the rear!"

With a backbone, the others quickly calmed down and returned the same way.

But less than three minutes after leaving, a figure rushed back. It was Chen Songnan. His face was extremely ugly, the ground roared, the stones rolled, and the sound of galloping came from far away.

"I can't go back, follow me!"