Chapter 460 The unexpected Damen Leth star gate node
After returning to the room, Li Ming called Ulrich over again and stated that Anduin would stay here for the next period of time to avoid misunderstandings.
"Your Excellency Anduin?" Ulrich was surprised. Then he thought about many things and realized that there was something unusual behind this matter.
But he still nodded and had a high degree of trust in Li Ming and Qinglong. After all, Qinglong informed them in advance when Ryan blocked the door last time. There should be no big danger this time.
After hearing some instructions from Li Ming, Ulrich left.
He waited until the spaceship prepared by the Mechanical Royal Court was ready before he went to say goodbye to Anduin.
Anduin was surprised when he learned the news of his upcoming departure from Li Ming. He frowned and said, "Are you going too?"
This Li Ming has huge potential and a lot of secrets. I wanted to take the opportunity to study it secretly this time.
Or promote communication among students and further connect with Qinglong in depth.
But Qinglong was actually willing to let Li Ming take the risk. He originally guessed that Qinglong invited him here this time to protect Li Ming.
"Your teacher is very confident."
Anduin couldn't help but sigh. After a brief chat, he found that Li Ming was not reluctant at all, but rather looking forward to it.
If it weren't for the fact that he was still here and came to say goodbye out of politeness, he would have set off by now.
"Not only teachers are bold, students are also bold." Anduin noticed that Li Ming didn't seem to have any complaints about his teacher often putting him in danger.
It's a pity that Lux was specially brought here.
"I thought I could get something for free." Li Ming muttered to himself as he walked out the door.
After boarding the prepared high-end spacecraft and connecting to the orbit of the star gate, he naturally took the exclusive passage, which was quite secretive.
"It will take more than a month from here to the Kamendar star gate node." Li Ming looked at the star map, and Suzaku had already estimated the time.
In the chaotic star gap, which is not too far from the Red River Star Stream, the spacecraft is fully taken over by Suzaku.
And he was looking through the information, provided by both Reynolds and Mikhail.
It is about the life forms sent by the three major civilizations during this exploration.
The team was led by basically the core figures of the three major civilizations, Costart from the Empire, Crowe from the Covenant, and Dius from the Federation.
Their strength is quite average, but they are direct descendants of their respective civilizations.
Then they are equipped with very powerful X-level life forms, each of which has entered the ultimate path. These people basically come from various affiliated civilizations and belong to the classic configuration.
There are also a large number of warships accompanying them, and their overall strength cannot be underestimated.
Looking through the detailed information of these people, the resumes are very beautiful, and the achievements can be listed for several pages.
In addition to some people on the surface, due to the leakage of intelligence information, many life forms with evil intentions have also been attracted.
Not many people know the real inside story. Basically, they are like Anduin. They only know the general situation and know that there is a big move, but the specific information is not clear.
However, there are very few wise people like Anduin, and many people want to get involved.
This group of people is more mixed. There are very few X-level life forms, and most of them are even S-level life forms. Their purpose is not to eat meat, but to drink soup.
Even so, Li Ming still flipped through it for a long time and kept a few of the more distinctive people in mind.
The Red River star stream is in a special situation, and it may overturn. Among the stars, staying alive is the most important thing.
After putting this information aside, he continued to develop gene seeds.
Interstellar navigation is quite boring, and there has been no news worth paying attention to recently. It is better to develop gene seeds. Although the speed is extremely slow, he has already adapted to it.
Time passed by silently, more than half a month later.
Suzaku's voice suddenly sounded in the room, "Master, after receiving feedback from this star gate node, the star gate for our next jump, the Cloud Wing node, was attacked by an unknown person and was closed five days ago."
"The route has been recalculated and the estimated time will be three days later. Do you want to switch the route?"
"The Star Gate was attacked?" The energy particles surging on the surface of Li Ming's skin collapsed and he opened his eyes unexpectedly.
On the virtual screen in front of him, a waterway flashed in red.
"Adjust it..." Li Ming didn't care. He would always encounter unexpected situations when he went out.
Glancing out the window, this was the first star gate node. Because one of the connected star gates was attacked, there was already a long queue.
Everyone in the wide area channel was complaining, and Li Ming heard some interesting statements, saying that the person who blew up the Yunyi Star Gate node was also a mechanic.
A case was opened for investigation before the negotiation, and multiple felonies were found. He was caught during the escape, a fight broke out, and the star gate node was finally blown up.
Li Ming took a look at the black hole network and found that this was indeed the case, and was somewhat speechless.
Suzaku had adjusted the coordinates, connected to the management system, submitted the change application, and after paying the fee, it was approved quickly.
Follow the guidance of the intelligent system and re-carry out space coating.
Most of a day later, they jumped out from another star gate, and there was a dense queue in front of their spaceship.
Suzaku reported, "Master, according to the feedback from the Damenleth star gate node, our space coating time will be in three days..."
"So slow?" Li Ming was surprised, and Suzaku explained: "This star gate node is quite backward. On weekdays, only more than ten spacecraft pass by every day, and the production capacity cannot keep up. Coupled with the queuing time, the waiting time is long. ”
Hearing this, Li Ming couldn't help but get up and walk to the porthole.
As expected, the stargate node below was quite dilapidated, with mottled paint peeling off on the metal shell, not to mention the docking starport.
Not to mention closed anchor points, not even the slightly lagging magnetic energy lock, but an old-fashioned traction lock.
"Just wait in line with peace of mind..." Li Ming was speechless. He had set aside time in advance, but he was calm about it.
Who knows, Suzaku said again, "Master, according to the feedback from the Damenleth stargate management system, due to technical reasons, it is best not to have anyone on the spacecraft during the space coating and queuing period."
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"Are you going to let the spaceship stay?" Li Ming raised his eyebrows, then reacted, "I finally encountered a compost sheep, and I must give it a good slaughter."
Looking through the porthole, one can see aircraft arriving one after another from the queue of spaceships.
When I turned on the wide area channel, as expected, I was greeted by a burst of curses——
"Is this star gate node so poor that they are not even allowed to stay on the spaceship while waiting in line?"
"Fuck..."
Since there are too few starport locations, if you want to enter the stargate node below, you can only use an aircraft to pull it. The price is calculated on a per-person basis, which is 5,000 star coins per person.
Most of those who can pilot a spaceship for long-distance navigation are not short of this few star coins. But according to some reports in the wide area channel, this has already been modified. A few days ago, their asking price could be as high as 50,000 star coins.
Because there were also a large number of travel spaceships or rented spaceships, the price aroused public outrage and was lowered in desperation.
After paying the fee, he randomly found a B-class mechanical body to act as a bodyguard. Li Ming rode the rattling aircraft and fell into the star gate node below,
A sense of dilapidation hit us, garbage piled up on the roadside, and there was a faint smell of rancidity.
Some of them looked like locals from the node, gathering together in twos and threes, looking at these incompatible travelers.
Li Ming walked around. There were quite a few shops of all kinds, but some of them had obviously been closed for a long time. That is to say, the traffic volume had increased sharply in the past two days, and they had only reopened.
They do sell some specialties of the local civilization, but the prices are extremely expensive. As for the shops selling energy blocks, the prices are sky-high, with a premium of four to five times.
The hotel was extremely expensive. Almost every traveler Li Ming met on the road was scolding him, and all kinds of interstellar dialects merged into beautiful music.
Not to mention the places to eat, they are expensive and taste bad, and the service attitude is very poor.
Li Ming scanned the Star Network and found a place with good reviews.
The reputation has only recently reversed. The previous sporadic reviews all said that the boss was arrogant, the prices were extremely high, and the attitude was bad.
But these two days, they were all talking about the high quality and low price. The special dish, grilled starry black snake, was extremely delicious. The boss insisted on the bottom line and would never increase the price.
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Following the navigation all the way, Li Ming came to this relatively remote area.
Looking at the front door, it looks out of place with the side next to it. On the black signboard, there are a few large red characters, which is extremely clean - Old Feite Grill
Starry Black Snake is a special food of the local civilization. There is already a long queue in front of the door. There are all kinds of life races, and there are many people dressed in luxurious clothes.
Li Ming stood at the end. He didn't feel bored. Instead, it was quite novel and had a familiar and strange feeling.
"Hey, man..." Someone came over. His skin was blue, his eyes were bulging, and his body was outlined like some kind of demi-human, quite insignificant.
When I glanced at Li Ming, I saw that they were all handmade and high-end goods.
His eyes were shining, his tone was weird, and he introduced himself: "I'm Seth, a local with some small connections. Your time is precious. Are you interested in paying some star coins to buy time?"
cattle? Li Ming looked strange and asked casually: "What's the price?"
"One thousand star coins for each position you pass. There are more than 200 people in front of you. I'll give you a discount of two hundred thousand star coins." His voice was very low, but several life forms that were relatively close still came to vote. A strange look.
Li Ming couldn't help but shook his head and laughed, "Forget it, I can't afford this price."
"Idiot, if you have money, you are not stupid." Someone muttered loudly.
Seth didn't feel embarrassed and whispered: "Otherwise, I will give you another discount, twenty thousand star coins..."
Two hundred thousand turned into twenty thousand, this discount is really not low.
Li Ming was about to speak when the bell dinged--
Two shop doors were pushed open, and two figures walked out, one tall and one short, with a single eye in the center of the cheek.
He was muttering something unknown, holding two molar metal needles in his mouth.
For some reason, all the living beings on the street felt chilled and looked at the two people in front of them in awe.
It's like a row of sheep meeting a well-fed lion.
Li Ming's eyes suddenly narrowed slightly. S-class life form, or two?
After being vigilant for a moment, he relaxed and jumped to take a detour. There was really nothing he could do about it.
He himself is an S-class life form, which does not prevent there being other S-class life forms.
The scalper next to him didn't dare to speak anymore. He watched the two people leave before rolling his throat. He lowered his head and took out a pocket watch from his somewhat worn clothes. He patted his thigh and said, "Damn, the challenge is about to start so soon."
When he looked up and saw Li Ming, he curled his lips and said, "Boss, it's too late now. Even if you give me 200,000 star coins, I can't take you in."
He turned around and walked away, tiptoeing, seemingly chasing the two people.
Challenge?
Li Ming's eyes narrowed slightly, but he heard someone speaking in interstellar dialect behind and behind him. Quietly, he had switched control objects--
【Advanced Translator - Level A:
Control ability - Language proficiency: You can understand all official interstellar languages included in the interstellar alliance, and can quickly learn unknown languages. 】
"The team is so long, do you want to go watch the Challenger?"
"It is said that as long as we can win, we will give 100 million star coins!"
"One hundred million star coins? What's going on?" Someone turned around with a curious expression.
"You're new here, right? A few guys held an arena challenge here. They said they were selecting potential talents, prepared to spend resources on training them, and offered a sky-high price of 100 million star coins..."
"What level of evolution is the opponent?" asked a half-orc with a fierce aura, obviously interested.
The tone of the people who were discussing was stagnant, and they said cautiously, "We are fighting against virtual copies of ourselves, but the difficulty is not low. We fight one virtual copy first, and then two more. It is said that in the end, we have to fight eight to win." OK.”
Um? Li Ming was slightly shaken?
Why does it sound so similar to the Holy Castle Trial, but the difficulty is much lower? Is it a coincidence?
But since it was held by two S-class life forms, it shouldn't be that simple. With a slight thought in his mind, the black-clothed bodyguard standing next to him inserted himself into the team, and he turned and left.
………
The central area of the node was originally a wide square, but now it is occupied by a metal fortress. The walls are more than ten meters high, and the eight passages in front and back are guarded by one-eyed life forms with powerful life auras.
Inside the castle, the two returning life forms went all the way to the deepest part and knocked on the door with awe-inspiring expressions.
"Come in." A vicissitudes of voice came from the room. The two pushed the door open and went in. They didn't dare to raise their heads and said in a deep voice: "Lord Lingshou, the new batch of people are already in place and we can start."
The person who was called the spiritual leader had his back to them, with white hair, and held a crystal ball in his hand.
The spirit leader was silent for a long time after hearing the words, and then let out a sudden sigh, "The guidance of the sacred crystal of Terrax is always vague, and I don't know when the target will arrive. If this movement occurs, it will not attract the other party's attention."
The short man hesitated and said: "Sir, I have never understood. Is the sacred crystal guiding the blood of Holy King Terrax, or is it someone who is undergoing the trial of becoming a king?"
Lingshou said indifferently: "The trial of becoming a king is extremely difficult. Only the blood of Holy King Tyrax can pass it. Two people are one."
The tall life form behind him said: "Don't worry, the guidance of the sacred crystal must be correct. Since it has led us to find this civilization in the star field, we will also find the bloodline of Holy King Terrax."
"It's hard to say, this star field is affected by the River of Eternal Silence, and the ability of the sacred crystal is greatly weakened..." The spirit leader frowned, and the crystal ball in his hand slowly lit up.
In the brilliance, the nodes of the Damen Leth Star Gate gradually emerged and continued to enlarge.
However, after reaching a certain level, it suddenly exploded and returned to a dense state.
Lingshou sighed helplessly, "I can only be sure that the target has not left yet."
(End of chapter)