Because a shipment worth five billion had been hijacked and apparently destroyed, a furious Thundersun pursued Old Third relentlessly.
He even chased him through a wormhole into another Star System.
Their fierce pursuit gradually drew in more and more reinforcements from both sides.
Huang Ji, meanwhile, returned to Natuolo, where the Revival Society was celebrating the rich rewards of the operation.
The most valuable prize was the huge shipment of Void Lifeforms worth five billion.
They had not been destroyed or lost. Cypher and the others had taken them away safely. Old Third had merely guessed that the ship carried Void Lifeforms from its apparent mass. In reality, that mass had been faked with a gravitational distortion field.
Huang Ji had stayed behind to cover their retreat while Cypher and the others moved the cargo containers. They had gone their separate ways.
While Huang Ji bought them time, Cypher and the others circled the icy debris cloud around the Sirius Star System, took a detour, and found Nifita waiting there to meet them.
Nifita was a Void Lifeform researcher and a renowned trainer. She was skilled at caring for Void Lifeforms and had the right connections.
She secured the permits to transport them legally, then divided them among dozens of prepared merchant ships. The ships carried small batches to other Star Systems and even other civilizations for sale.
A few at a time were easy to unload. They could sell them to any shop, just as Huang Ji had done before, and no one would care where they came from.
A five-billion shipment was too conspicuous. Selling it right on the Homeworld, just after the Anunnaki had lost a shipment, would let even a fool trace it back to them! Breaking it into small batches and selling them in distant