This is really not mechanical ascension-Chapter 70 - Strengthening Array Armor I am Li Ming, now undertaking your report

And Li Ming finally understood what the manual meant when it said the explosion-proof shield had “extremely strong impact resistance” after the upgrade.

The metallic layer on its surface popped out, and the magnetic energy structure inside creaked under the intense impact, dispersing it through force transmission.

Li Ming took the opportunity before the next round of shooting to quickly fire his gun and shatter those barrels.

“Coming again?” Li Ming had not yet caught his breath when he felt something was amiss again, as the middle of the walls on both sides cracked open, revealing a row of tiny Energy Gathering Crystal Tubes.

Hum—A deep blue electric arc gathered; it was some kind of electromagnetic device.

On Li Ming’s shoulder emerged a clad back armor, activating [Armor] four arms with a 50% Thunder Element control, his fingers touching the wall.

A particularly bright arc of electricity shot out, rushing into the Energy Gathering Crystal Tubes, and in an instant, the electromagnetism went out of control, crackling while emitting black smoke.

After that, he cleared the machine-gun turrets on the ceiling.

Waiting for a moment, Li Ming stepped out from behind the explosion-proof shield; the entire corridor had turned into a pool of blood, with chunks of charred flesh, and the air was filled with the mixed scent of blood and fire.

Zhao Xiong, covered by many corpses at the very bottom, was still alive, his body drenched in blood—some his own, some that of others.

Cheek riddled with holes, bullets embedded in his skin, the number of charred areas on his skin wasn’t widespread, as the bodies on top of him had reduced the lethality of the attack.

He died among F-level life forms, whose flesh was not weak.

His nerves were torn by pain everywhere on his body, but upon seeing Li Ming approaching, the shock in his eyes faded, and he weakly said, “This damn thing is really a trap, lucky for you, otherwise, we both would have died here.”

As if nothing had happened, he held out his hand, “Come on, give me a hand.”

Li Ming didn’t move, his quiet gaze falling on him, causing Zhao Xiong’s heart to feel hairy.

“You just tried to use me as a human shield?” Li Ming asked.

“No, no…” Cold sweat broke out on Zhao Xiong’s forehead, mixing with the blood, sticky and slippery.

He hurriedly explained, “I was just a little panicked, I never thought of using you as a human shield.”

Li Ming didn’t know whether to believe him or not, just said, “Forget it.”

Zhao Xiong breathed a sigh of relief, thank goodness, the kid after all was young, not daring to have excess thoughts…

However, just as this thought emerged, he was shocked and his eyes widened in horror, Li Ming raised the heavy sniper rifle in his hand, then pulled the trigger without hesitation.

“You…”

Bang!

The bullet pierced Zhao Xiong’s forehead, and Li Ming fired a few more shots.

After confirming his death, Li Ming scanned the surroundings, pulling the safe out from the pool of blood.

Since it was a trap, there probably wasn’t anything they needed in the safe.

Li Ming first corroded a small hole and then looked inside, seeing only a small device flashing a red light.

It seemed to be some kind of sensor device, used for positioning, he thought about it, and decided to take it with him.

Then, he arrived in front of the closed heavy door of Chen Songnan’s office, starting to corrode it.

Although the material was thick, it wasn’t made of precious metal.

Soon he corroded a hole large enough to crawl through it.

His gaze fell on the glass display case; his eyes heated with eagerness, quickly approaching, he lifted the explosion-proof shield folded into a metal disc, and smashed it down hard.

Crack!

The bulletproof glass shattered, Li Ming reached out, took the Silver Grey Mother Ore, and rapidly searched the office but found nothing else of value.

He checked the time; there were five minutes left, although it was a trap.

But the undercover work done by Qin Xiao presumably didn’t slack off, otherwise, it would have been easy to get caught.

Arriving at the escape passage, he repeated the process, corroding a small hole, looking back at the pile of corpses one last time, and quickly leaving the place.

…

Just as the safe left Chen Songnan’s office and a person was crushed by the blasting alloy doors.

Located underground in the mine, surrounded by high-energy lights, brilliantly illuminated, Chen Songnan glanced at the warning sign on the smart terminal with an uptick at the corner of his mouth.

“Director Chen, the pollution coefficient here far exceeds the particle standards set by the Interstellar Alliance,” Xu Wei, next to him, said, wearing a helmet and holding some device.

“Journalist Xu, it seems you have forgotten, Blue Star is still a primitive civilization, and the regional environmental standards are lower than those of the Interstellar Alliance,” Chen Songnan explained with a smile.

…

“Minister, it failed.”

In the rest room, Star Creation Company’s security system had long been rebooted.

To the smart terminal, Li Ming said, “They were prepared, except for me, none can return.”

He insinuated.

The smart terminal did not respond for a long time.

Qin Xiao’s face looked grim, his hands as if to slam down on the table, but in the end, they stopped, forcing himself to keep his tone calm, yet still somewhat hoarse, “I got it, take care of yourself.”

He had many questions, like the specifics of what happened, why Li Ming survived, but now none of those mattered.