#123 - Check for rust
In the virtual universe, inside a luxurious villa on Black Dragon Mountain Island's Nine Star Bay, Yang Wu casually reclined in a chair, a glass of amber tea in his hand, as he examined a special invitation.
The invitation before him was from the Virtual Universe Company, inviting Yang Wu to attend the Ganwu Auction a year from now.
The Ganwu Auction, held every three years, is the highest-level auction within the Ganwu Universe Country. The minimum requirement to participate is being a three-star customer of the Universe First Bank or the Universe Star River Bank.
Within the human race, many precious treasures are internally sold among the five giants, but the auction hosted by the Virtual Universe Company offers outsiders a chance to purchase restricted items.
"Ganwu Auction!"
Although this is only an elementary auction held by the Virtual Universe Company, many of the precious items auctioned are not available for purchase outside.
"To go, or not to go?"
After a moment of contemplation, Yang Wu decided to go anyway, not to mention that this auction would feature a strand of Starry Sky Behemoth hair.
More importantly, he wanted to bring Luo Feng along to broaden his horizons and see if there were any treasures they needed.
Time flows like water, never to return.
In the blink of an eye, it was June 28, 2062.
The annual Future Draw arrived as scheduled, and the new round of simulation didn't change much.
The soul defense secret technique, Void Tower, successfully broke through to the second level.
His body's power amplification reached 33 times, and his understanding of the spatial origin law progressed extremely slowly, but fortunately, he reached the level of Nine Phantom Bodies.
In this round of simulation, he still chose the Nine Universe Chaos Tablet, following the path of researching the essence of spatial laws, and remained in Chaos City for 18 years.
November 22nd.
In the vast expanse of the universe, a saucer-shaped, silver-gray spacecraft was gradually approaching the solar system.
Inside the spacecraft's control room, it was extremely quiet. Nine cosmic humans were each lying in their seats, their minds wandering in the virtual universe.
"Captain!"
Suddenly, a small boy's head appeared on the control room screen, accompanied by a crisp voice.
"The spacecraft is about to enter the target life planet's star system."
"Oh! We're here?"
The crew members, who had been half-asleep in their seats, excitedly withdrew from the virtual universe.
The captain, wearing a silver combat suit, excitedly activated the external view simulation, looking at the blue planet on the large screen.
"What a beautiful color, what a beautiful planet!"
"It's intoxicating, it's captivating."
The captain expressed his emotions, and the other crew members joined in with excited howls.
An unowned life planet! For adventurers like them, who dance on the edge of a knife, it was a huge fortune.
"Atuka, upon reaching the target planet, immediately initiate a full-scale scan. I want to obtain all the information about this planet as soon as possible."
"Yes, Captain!"
"Captain, the family fleet is requesting communication!" The spacecraft's AI, Atuka, suddenly announced.
"Hmph, decline it!"
In the vast starry sky, the silver-gray spacecraft entered the solar system at sub-light speed.
"Beep beep beep—"
Suddenly, the warning lights in the spacecraft's command room flashed red.
Captain Bro and the eight crew members woke up instantly, forced to exit the virtual universe.
"Not good, Captain, we're surrounded!"
On the command room's large screen, Atuka's childlike face was filled with horror.
"Oh god, th-this..."
The captain looked at the external view simulation screen and collapsed into his seat in despair. The other crew members also fell into despair upon seeing this.
On the external view simulation screen, dozens of D-level cosmic warships emerged, surrounding their silver-gray spacecraft.
"Surr..."
Captain Bro wanted to shout surrender, but in the next moment, a vast mental force swept through everyone present through the spacecraft.
Before losing consciousness, the captain only had one depressed thought.
"They really think highly of us..."
Sky Castle, third-floor quiet room.
Yang Wu sat cross-legged, a dozen or so Mu Ya crystals floating around him. With each breath, the life energy within the Mu Ya crystals was rapidly absorbed.
Before long, the milky-white Mu Ya crystals began to turn gray and then turned into a pile of powder, falling onto the smooth floor.
"Huff..."
Yang Wu opened his eyes. As if a breeze had blown, the Mu Ya crystal powder on the ground was blown to the corner, neatly piled into a heap.
"Mu Ya crystals are a bit slow. It's time to switch to some higher-grade goods."
Although the life energy within the Mu Ya crystals was pure enough, the quantity was ultimately too small to keep up with Yang Wu's body's absorption rate.
He needed to switch to a nutrient bath.
Only by soaking in a nutrient bath, where the nutrient solution would enter the body from all parts, would Yang Wu's evolution efficiency be faster.
An E-grade nutrient bath, considered the pinnacle of nutrient baths for the human race, cost around 860 billion universe dollars.
Even with the consumable nutrient solution,
it was just a drop in the bucket.
"Master!"
As soon as Yang Wu left the training room, Soqi Long, who was guarding outside, greeted him and bowed to report.
"A few days ago, a group of cosmic adventurers intruded into our solar system. According to your instructions, they have all been captured."
"This is the information extracted from the interrogation."
With that, Soqi Long handed over a chip.
Since the information had been obtained, they should all be buried to avoid wasting air.
Yang Wu waved his hand dismissively. The cosmic fleet he had built with "huge sums" would not be threatened by this adventurer team, even if the entire Nolan Mountain family came.
Even if Nolan Mountain went crazy and leaked the information about Earth's location to his backers at White Tiger Tower, attracting the attention of White Tiger Tower,
Yang Wu would not be afraid.
At worst, he would pull out the mechanical race's spacecraft and take a stroll around White Tiger Tower or the Nolan Mountain family to check if the planet-destroying cannons, which hadn't been used for a long time,
had rusted.
"Hong Ling!"
Yang Wu called out Hong Ling, the forgotten intelligent assistant. Although Babata was useful, he was sometimes disobedient.
Although Hong Ling wasn't as useful, she was obedient. Yang Wu could tell her to do anything.
"Master, I'm here!"
A little girl in a pink dress appeared on Yang Wu's shoulder, with a red ribbon tied in her hair, like a cute little elf.
"Notify Luo Feng and the others of this information, and also copy this data and send it to them!"
"Yes, Master!" Hong Ling replied.
"In addition, dispatch a slave fleet to the wormhole coordinates provided by the adventurer team and immediately station there. If they encounter the Nolan Mountain family fleet, destroy them directly!"
"Yes, Master!"
Also, order a top-notch defense system for me and transport it to the wormhole area.
Yang Wu quickly made arrangements, directly ordering his intelligent assistant to purchase a wormhole defense system in the virtual universe.
To firmly guard the wormhole.
