Many thoughts flitted through his mind, and Ulrich spoke indifferently, "I hope you can start as soon as possible."
"No problem," Li Ming immediately agreed but then shook his head, "However, I need to go back and pack some things."
Ulrich slightly frowned but did not refuse, personally following Li Ming back, and never straying far.
Back in the room, Li Ming made a show of packing and soon came out, holding a few pieces of clothing in his hand.
"Is that all?" Ulrich asked suspiciously.
"Actually, there’s nothing much to pack; it’s just that things happened so suddenly, I needed some psychological preparation," Li Ming said frankly. "Also, my mechanical bodies, it must be quite stuffy inside them, they’ll provide some distraction for me."
Ulrich did not know whether to believe him or not and merely nodded faintly, "Then let’s go."
Huo Tan followed behind, not sure if it was arranged or coincidental, but there was not a single person in the entire floor.
Taking the elevator hidden in a secret compartment, they came again to the repair laboratory, where Ulrich added,
"During this time, if there’s anything you need, you can use the silver communicator over there, Huo Tan will serve you specially, and your mechanical bodies will be sent over shortly."
Standing nearby, Huo Tan nodded slightly, and Li Ming glanced at the silver communicator by the door.
"Any more questions?" Ulrich stared intently at him.
"No more," Li Ming appeared indifferent and had not even waited for Ulrich to leave when he eagerly held the broken square metal block in his hands, seemingly unable to let go.
Ulrich frowned and did not leave immediately.
After about half an hour, his Thunder and Taipo Guards were brought over.
Ulrich took a deep look at Li Ming, then turned and left with Huo Tan. With a bang, a faint sound of gears turning arose, and the thick metal door locked.
A gleam flashed in Li Ming’s eyes as Guardian Thunder spoke, "Master, before coming here, someone attempted to hack our base code, but they failed."
"I know," Li Ming shook his head, unsurprised.
"...The people downstairs reported that these two mechanical bodies have exceptionally solid base codes. They tried rewriting the digits, but a ghost program, undetectable to them, covered it again," Huo Tan also reported,
"The hackers were shocked; they had never seen such a ghost program, traceless and elusive."
Ulrich was not surprised; he had seen many mysterious aspects in Li Ming, just a ghost program.
Huo Tan intended to say more, but seeing Ulrich’s uninterested demeanor, he closed his mouth.
Ulrich then instructed, "Keep an eye on him non-stop; I want to know what he is doing and how the repair is progressing at all times."
"Ah, finally locked up in a small dark room," Li Ming remarked in the lab, having anticipated this, yet feeling a sense of novelty.
Looking around, the novelty quickly passed.
Casually picking up a piece of material, it looked only as big as a palm but felt significantly heavy.
This was the main material for the Material Reorganization Machine—Korvana Alloy, known for its astonishing energy conduction and malleability. Apart from empire-level civilizations, only a few advanced civilizations had the methods to smelt it."
Li Ming tried to absorb it, his eyes flickering slightly, the metal energy density was unimaginably high, even higher than the highest Star Core Fragment he had seen before.
From such a small piece, he extracted nearly two million metal energy, and only then did the surface show slight signs of rust.
And here, there were ten pieces, waves rising in Li Ming’s heart; just using his regular metal energy conversion formula, these were worth two billion Star Coins.
And due to the technological barrier premium, the price would definitely be higher; normally, he could hardly access such materials.
After a moment’s consideration, he found an empty spot on the wall and began tentatively absorbing what he called Cold Nuclear Alloy.
The metal energy density of this alloy was not as great as that of Korvana, but it made up for it in quantity. In such a large room, even if keeping it mostly intact, he could extract almost ten million metal energy.
This was no small dark room but a treasure trove for him.
These two items together already approached thirty million metal energy; even if controlling the Material Reorganization Machine consumed ten million, there was plenty remaining.
Of course, this place was just a part; there was also beneath his feet.
Looking down, he seemed to see through the thick metal walls into the Collector’s treasure vault, almost within reach.
"Rob, oh Rob, you better not disappoint me."
Unfortunately, "Space Blink" could only move to places he could see; otherwise, it would be more convenient.
Li Ming pondered, then moved his body, preparing for the big task ahead.
Rob wouldn’t take action for at least another ten days; he had plenty of time to nearly drain this place of its metal energy.
At the same time, he could develop gene seeds without anyone disturbing him, feeling increasingly was a good place.
The Great Mechanician Qinglong had vanished quietly within the castle, and many keenly noticed this.
Especially Rob, who specifically found Huo Tan to inquire where Qinglong had gone.
"Lord Azure Dragon has temporarily left the Land of Stars," Huo Tan said with a smile.
"Left?" Rob exclaimed, "But we had agreed last time; there are still some places in my weapon blueprint that need his help for modification."
Huo Tan shook his head helplessly, "I can take you to the fifth floor to find a few mechanics to help look at it."