This is really not mechanical ascension Chapter 63 - 63 63 Qin Xiao's Little Moves - The Lame Return

63: Chapter 63: Qin Xiao’s Little Moves – The La Returns (Please Subscribe for the First Ti!) 63: Chapter 63: Qin Xiao’s Little Moves – The La Returns (Please Subscribe for the First Ti!) Yu Zhili hesitated for a mont, looking around before offering a helpless, bitter smile,

“Little brother, if you had told earlier that you and Minister Qin were so close, I wouldn’t have made those mistakes.

Please forgive , forgive .”

Qin Xiao?

Li Ming suddenly understood, this guy was trying to win people over.

Yu Zhili apologized repeatedly while Li Ming magnanimously indicated it was no issue and saw him off before returning to Old Yang’s shop.

Only to see Old Yang massaging his back and saying, “Every year brings sothing strange, but yesterday, people from Minister Qin ca over, claiming it has been unsafe recently.

They want to move and Yu’er to the dormitories near the Guard Building.”

“And today, this Mr.

Yu suddenly doesn’t want his hundred thousand Star Coin house anymore, quite odd.”

“Is that so…” Li Ming paused mid-action, thinking the old fox was really up to a lot of tricks.

“What do you think?”

Old Yang was indifferent, “What’s this about safety?

I’ve been living here for decades and nothing has happened.

All the neighbors are here.

If I moved, I wouldn’t be used to it.”

After a bit of idle chatter, Yang Yu ntioned sothing, “I heard from a teacher that among the Blue Star personnel accompanying the interstellar inspection team, there is a professor from the Capital University of Science and Technology with high prestige.”

“He has entrusted the Silver Grey Star Education Departnt to et so of us who have already been accepted into the Capital University of Science and Technology.”

“Professor?” Li Ming heard for the first ti about the Blue Star accompanying mbers from Yang Yu; he hadn’t expected that.

“Yes…

Wu Yanqing, Professor Wu,” Yang Yu said with anticipation, “His gene seed purification theories were once included in several interstellar laboratories.

It even started a craze across the stars.”

“However, it seems to have been debunked in the past two years, and his reputation in the stars has waned.

It’s a sha he stopped ntoring students years ago, or it would have been great to be one of his students.”

Yang Yu sighed, clearly not holding out much hope.

Li Ming just listened and didn’t pay much attention as he returned ho.

……

Outside Silver Grey City

Hum!

A silver-white gull-winged spaceship hovered above the sand dunes, the glowing blue antigravity rings stirring up swirls of sand.

The hatch opened, and several figures jumped down.

“Just one month has passed, and the planet has already changed so much,” the old man with the pipe remarked with emotion.

“Although the Sixth Patrol Fleet is a bunch of good-for-nothings, they’re certainly sufficient to suppress this place.”

“Let’s find our target quickly.

If we’re cornered by the Sixth Patrol Fleet here, we’ll be in trouble.”

“Understood.”

……

“Old Li, your son is really sothing else.

You must have been fooling on purpose, afraid he would follow this path,” the limping man muttered as he walked through the silent sewers.

Suddenly, he stopped and looked up, “Hmm, this should be the place.”

The bed was silently pushed aside, and the limping man looked around with a sense of nostalgia.

“Old Li, once again… fuck!”

The limping man shuddered, seeing a figure leaning against the door fra.

Li Ming’s eyes were strange, “Uncle Limp, you really do have a unique way of making an entrance.”

“You little…” the limping man’s face reddened, annoyed by his earlier blunder.

But then a terrifying thought struck him.

The last ti he ca here, Li Ming hadn’t noticed him at all and slept like a log.

But this ti, it was as if Li Ming had been waiting for him, and moreover, he hadn’t detected his presence at all up until now.

This kid…

had improved too quickly.

“You could at least say sothing when you visit,” Li Ming said, almost ready to take action just now.

The limping man eyed Li Ming up and down but didn’t speak.

In a flash, he disappeared from the spot.

Li Ming’s gaze shifted slightly, and he disappeared as well, Bang!

A dull thud echoed through the air, and seconds later, the limping man returned to his original spot, with Li Ming doing the sa.

“Good kid!” the limping man said, eyes full of astonishnt, “How are you an E-Rank Life Form!?”

From a simple test, he had gauged Li Ming’s current strength.

Not only that, he found Li Ming’s martial skills and habits to be very familiar.

It was as if Li Ming was carved from the sa mold as Li Changhai.

Fuck, that bastard Old Li really had been hiding things from , claiming his son was no good at this or that, yet in secret, he had already passed on all his skills.

“To put it simply, I’m a genius,” Li Ming said frankly.

The limping man choked, “Where did you get your E-Rank gene seed from?”

“The Guard Departnt gave it to .”

“You joined the Guard?” the limping man found it even more unbelievable.

“Haven’t you watched the news?” asked Li Ming, puzzled.

“Who pays attention to news from such a backwater place?”

Li Ming brought out his smart device and started playing a video.

“…

My father has always taught …

to be brave, to be strong…”

The limping man watched for a while, then looked up at Li Ming, then down at the device again, and then up again.

“What on earth are you doing?” he asked, puzzled.

The cripple was silent for a long ti before he spoke in a deep voice, “Is Li Changhai really sure that you are his biological son?”

Li Ming’s smile did not reach his eyes, “What kind of question is that?

Why don’t you go down and ask him yourself?”

The cripple sighed, “Li Changhai is honest and silent.

Growing up by his side, how did you beco like this?”

Li Ming did not pursue the topic and instead asked, “Why have you co back?”

“With all the commotion you’ve caused, how could I not co back?” The cripple suddenly realized sothing and asked again, “That’s not right, how did your developnt progress so quickly?”

“Like I said, I’m a genius.”

The cripple was speechless and changed the subject, “The stir you’ve caused is too big.

You’d best keep it small, in case that group of people take notice, it will beco troubleso.”

“You’re late in saying that, I’ve already killed one,” Li Ming said lightly.

“…” The cripple didn’t know what to feel, overwheld by the shock of the day, and then appeared frightened, “They’ve already co?”

“Only one ca, and he seed to think I was an easy target.

The others should be arriving soon,” Li Ming said casually.

“Aren’t you afraid?” The cripple stared at Li Ming but failed to find any sign of fear or unease.

“Would being afraid help?” Li Ming retorted.

The cripple fell silent again, a complicated expression crossing his face—helplessness, sighs, and a hint of despair?

Li Ming shrugged, “Uncle Cripple, just tell —who are you guys, who are they, and what on earth is going on?”

“This matter…” The cripple opened his mouth, then closed it, seemingly at a loss for where to start.

Sighing, he said, “It’s a clichéd story.”

“Your father and I used to be soldiers from Blue Star, then a big shot took notice of us, and we joined a secret squad to carry out so dirty deeds.”

“…”

The cripple recounted slowly that they were not so ace squad nor did they have any earth-shattering, heart-wrenching stories but were an assassination squad nad “Owl Dragon,” specializing in dirty work.

The story ended with a political extermination of a family.

The youngest heir of an old political family on Blue Star survived and, with the aid of an advanced civilization, made a coback.

The ti span was long, and “Owl Dragon” had already been disbanded for five or six years.

“So, all of you retirees need to be wiped out too?” Li Ming frowned.

The cripple sighed, “Yes, he is now a high-ranking official on Blue Star.

With just one word from him, many resources would be mobilized to help him do the job.”

After hearing the story, Li Ming’s emotions hardly fluctuated—it was just a matter of revenge.

“They are called ‘Ash.’ Each squad has about five people, and the squad leader’s strength is certainly no less than the target for elimination.

Your father is an E-level Life Form; they probably won’t exceed him,” the cripple emphasized out of fear that Li Ming might not take it seriously:

“Even E-level Life Forms have their strengths and weaknesses.

An energy level gap couldn’t be bridged even if you threw in 10 F-level Life Forms.”

With a sigh of sorrow, the cripple added, “What’s more important is that even though they act in the shadows, they can still covertly access a lot of official resources.”

“You are in the light, they are in the shadows; this is troubleso.”

“I understand,” Li Ming nodded and said in a low voice, “Actually, I already have a plan.

It’s just a bit difficult to implent on my own.

With you here, it should be much easier.”

“Let’s hear it,” the cripple said, not very concerned as Li Ming was still quite young, and the plan might have many holes.

But as Li Ming went on, the cripple’s face gradually changed, and in the end, he stared wide-eyed at Li Ming, “You…

are ruthless indeed.”

“Just tell if it can be done or not.”

After deep thought, the cripple nodded, “Brutally simple, but indeed feasible.

If it works, it will cause a huge stir, and those people will probably be on pins and needles.”

“In that case, Uncle Cripple, please get ready.”

The two discussed the details late into the night.

They decided to act separately, as it was unsafe to stay here any longer.

To avoid any mishaps, Li Ming decided to head to the City Defense Building first.

But Yang Laoshi and Yang Yu…

“Don’t worry, they have the sa rules as we did back in the day.

They only eliminate the target, avoiding additional trouble.

The more people they kill, the bigger the ss they have to clean up,” the cripple explained:

“They also aren’t recorded.

If they are caught, they are responsible for their own actions.”

Arriving at the City Defense Building, the overall atmosphere was very tense.

The counterattack from the Bounty Hunters had beco increasingly severe.

He chatted with a few mbers of the special operations teams.

In the past two days, over a dozen city guards, all F-level Life Forms, had died.

The Wild Dog Gang and the Rose Society also suffered heavy losses, with many of their officers being claid for bounties.

“Sigh, those Bounty Hunters are truly desperate, doing whatever it takes.

TMD, can you imagine hiding a bomb inside your stomach?” a colleague with a severed arm cursed angrily, tugging at his wound and grimacing in pain.

Bounty Hunters engage in businesses where they lick blood off knife-edges; their desperate asures outnumber anyone else’s.

The next day, bright and early, he couldn’t wait to check the progress of his gene developnt.

“Still at 1%.

As expected, this passive type of developnt is incredibly slow.”

Developing an E-level gene seed requires harsher conditions, at the very least the kind of private training room found in the City Defense Building.

The fact that he could accumulate over ti was already freakish.

By mid-afternoon, Li Ming, with a changed appearance, left the City Defense Building to collect his six tons of Zircon Crystal Alloy.

Along the way, Li Ming was extrely cautious, estimating that the people from “Ash” should have already arrived.

He carefully covered his tracks to avoid ambushes.

Fortunately, nothing unexpected occurred until he absorbed the tal energy and returned to the City Defense Building.

His depleted tal energy was now replenished, reaching 6633 points, which greatly relieved Li Ming, enough to et any unexpected needs.

That evening, Minister Qin delivered an internal speech and called together mbers of the special operations teams.