Taking Huang Ji hostage
At the cost of one Star Shell, Huang Ji stripped the black market bare, then made his getaway at the cost of the entire swarm.
They left the black market far behind and began taking stock of their supplies.
In the dark, silent expanse of space, countless supplies were piled into planet-sized masses. This was "every inch worth its weight in gold" in the truest sense.
An enormous camouflage field enveloped the area. Like the membrane outside the black market, it made everything within impossible to observe from beyond the field's boundary.
Bone Fan stared spellbound at the enormous stockpile, so excited she could barely contain herself. Her entire Shell Civilization had never possessed this much wealth!
Vast quantities of warship wreckage, weapon fragments, and mechanical parts floated like garbage, including no shortage of precious materials from the Micro-particle Era.
Nai Di quickly sorted them into categories and tallied them up.
There were 10 to the 22nd power kilograms of micro-particle mechanical materials, equivalent to one-seventh of the Moon's mass. Poor alloy alone accounted for over a trillion tonnes.
There were even more atomic-level materials. All the alloys of various grades together amounted to roughly twenty-five lunar masses! Biological resources accounted for another three lunar masses, and antimatter granules for two.
Ordinary resources such as hydrogen, oxygen, gold, and iron were beyond counting. Together, their mass rivaled six Siriuses, sprawling out like an immense cloud of interstellar dust.
The Saint Ship deployed tens of millions of Aerospace Weapons to weave through the stockpile, enveloping the supplies in force fields and towing them to keep them from collapsing into stars on their own...
Most civilizations could not muster this much material. Even in the Abyss, only a large Marauder Corps could possess such reserves.
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