Creation would definitely be necessary as countless life forms worried about the lateral expansion of the evolutionary path, while he had a handful of extra enhancement methods in his possession.
Being overambitious in combat wasn’t advisable, overpowering was the royal road, but evolution was always a gradual process, and one had to find every possible way to strengthen their power.
The Mechanic’s Certificate certainly hadn’t been acquired in vain, Li Ming envisioned Castelon’s old man hopping madly, and couldn’t help but snicker.
Having dealt with the matter, he found Luo Chuan, but discovered that Wu Yanqing had returned at some unknown time, currently flipping through some materials with furrowed brows, "Everything’s been lost? Not a single one left?"
"How long was I gone, and the lab has turned into this mess?" Wu Yanqing was livid, while Luo Chuan kept his head down, without uttering a word.
Li Ming felt somewhat guilty for no apparent reason, then straightened his chest, "Teacher, this isn’t my senior brother’s fault. Those Torch people were clearly after your things, we really couldn’t stop them."
"So, you know how to cover for each other now." Wu Yanqing scoffed, "Do you know what Luo Chuan just asked me?"
"He questioned me if it was my idea to use you as bait to lure Torch into taking action."
Luo Chuan turned his head away.
Li Ming gave an awkward smile; even Old Wu wasn’t very trust-inspiring anymore.
"Hmph, I’ll take a look at the underground laboratory." Wu Yanqing left with a belly full of fire.
"Actually, the teacher is quite good," Li Ming explained, "He had no choice. It was Princess Asmara’s idea, he sought out Princess Asmara, actually for the C-grade gene seed for me."
Given Old Wu’s personality, he probably wouldn’t bother explaining properly to Luo Chuan and might just point at Luo Chuan’s nose and scold him angrily.
As expected, Luo Chuan’s expression changed slightly, he began to speak but then stopped and said in a muffled voice, "I understand."
Li Ming was speechless; he was stuck mediating a father-son conflict.
"Whoa, everyone’s here. Old Luo, why the long face? The teacher isn’t dead yet." Ya Ro appeared at the door with a wicked sense of humor:
"Just now I saw the teacher walking out with a gloomy face. He didn’t even respond to my greeting. Arent you the teacher’s favorite? Did you have a falling out?"
Seriously poisonous tongue; like master, like disciple, thought Li Ming in admiration.
Instead of getting angry, Luo Chuan appeared indifferent and replied, "Have you spoken to Laisa? Have you told her how many people you’ve killed lately, how many women you’ve slept with, whether you took precautions or not?"
"Luo Chuan, that’s too much," Ya Ro, who had originally been joking, suddenly became incensed, stepped forward quickly, and said in a deep voice.
"Hey, hey..." Li Ming hurriedly intervened, while Luo Chuan was relaxed and unhurried, "Don’t worry, I told her everything you didn’t mention."
"Fuck you, Old Feng!" Ya Ro cursed through gritted teeth as he drew a dagger from his waist and charged.
Three minutes later, all three sat down, and Li Ming also figured out who Laisa was.
Laisa, also a student of Wu Yanqing, was a female student who had since died.
At that time, Wu Yanqing was still an unknown mentor with only three students: Ya Ro, Laisa, and Luo Chuan.
However, Ya Ro and Laisa had been romantically involved, but an accident occurred. Laisa was forcibly taken by an influential person’s son and subsequently committed suicide.
The perpetrator, being a descendant of a significant figure, ultimately got away with it.
Ya Ro was understandably filled with rage, but had no choice but to bide his time, which was also the catalyst for Wu Yanqing’s departure from Blue Star.
Once Wu Yanqing made his name and Ya Ro became capable, he directly caught the guy and tortured him to death, resulting in many casualties.
This caused quite a stir, but by then Wu Yanqing was in his heyday, and Ya Ro ended up merely leaving Jingnan Star.
"I haven’t asked you yet, why did you decide to come back? Couldn’t make it on the outside anymore?" Luo Chuan asked leisurely.
Ya Ro sneered, "Bullshit, I was doing great. If the teacher hadn’t specifically asked me, I wouldn’t have even considered coming back."
"Got into trouble?" Luo Chuan continued nonchalantly.
"I told you, it was the teacher who asked me to come back!" Ya Ro’s brow twitched in irritation.
"Couldn’t make it in the City of Stars anymore?" Luo Chuan turned the virtual screen, displaying a wanted poster—not one issued by an official civilization.
"Star Hunter—a major predatory group. Why would they issue a wanted poster for you?" Luo Chuan continued to press.
Ya Ro fell silent, annoyed, "It’s none of your business. It’s a minor issue. Didn’t you see? They only want me alive, not dead."
"This is exactly what intrigues me: did you steal something from them?"
Ya Ro stopped responding, knowing he’d never win an argument with Luo Chuan. He turned to look at Li Ming, only to see him holding a small robot, roughly the height of a finger, with even finer arms, rotating its head.
"Hey, what’s this thing? A model robot?" he asked curiously, coming closer, "Where’d you buy it?"
"Just a little gadget I made before." Li Ming said casually, but it was something he had created using his Mechanical Construction ability.
It was originally an intelligent terminal, but with about five times the metal energy required for Control, he had constructed it into a mechanical body.
"Right, I heard from the people in the lab that you’re very skilled in mechanics." Ya Ro suddenly remembered, and couldn’t help expressing his admiration, "Amazing, if a guy like you were in the City of Stars, you’d definitely be in great demand."
"Oh? They’re lacking people like me over there?" Li Ming packed away the robot and asked.
"Lacking? It’s a huge shortage!" Ya Ro emphasized, "The City of Stars is located in the Red River Star Stream. To go there alone, you’d encounter numerous troubles along the way, so it’s mostly quite powerful life forms who go there, and they don’t have the time to tinker with these things,"
"Not to mention having to reach a certain level of skill. Mechanical repair, manufacturing, medicine, and so on are all very popular there."