Purchasing Storm (Part 1)

Proxima Star is a directly administered planet under the command of the Federation's Seventh Lord, Black Lord Sauron. As one of the three major free markets of the Cosmic Federation, its ability to attract wealth is outstanding, bringing tens of trillions of God Coins in tax revenue to Lord Sauron every year!

This planet is the birthplace of the Piltover Civilization. In its early days, it was just a desolate Ninth-Grade Planet. Sauron valued the Piltover Civilization's superior creativity and invested heavily, making the Piltover Civilization one of the best bloodlines in the Cosmic Federation. Its unique Hextech technology accounts for nearly a quarter of the Federation's technology market share.

Here, you can buy the latest and purest Hextech products. Countless lords come here every year to make large purchases, leading to increasingly high barriers to entry.

"Don't just stand there, hurry up and register to get out. There's a line behind you!"

The speaker was a standard Piltover Policewoman, whose advanced Hextech equipment was probably worth nearly ten million God Coins, making Xi Ye envious. Only this planet could equip its guards with such high-end equipment!

"Calculated per person, five hundred million deposit per person!"

"That's so expensive?" Xi Ye was taken aback. "I remember it was only forty million deposit ten thousand years ago?"

"Ten thousand years ago?" The policewoman rolled her eyes at him. "Why don't you bring up the price from the last era? If you can't pay, get lost and don't waste my time!"

Xi Ye silently took out his black card. Anyway, the deposit would be refunded, so he wasn't worried, just surprised by the price standard.

It is said that the Piltover Policewoman is in the same league as the Wood Spirit Clan's doctors and the Flower Spirit Clan's female teachers as potential spouses. The truth proves that the person who said this must be a poor loser who has never been to this planet. This attitude is even more arrogant than the civil servants of Ziyao Star. Dare to marry one back and not make you kneel on your mechanical keyboard until you die?

After filling out the information and paying the deposit, Xi Ye and his party were teleported into the city through the teleportation array. As soon as they came out of the teleportation portal, they were surrounded by a group of people claiming to be guides.

They were of various races, all with very good appearances. There were those claiming to be from the most beautiful Flower Spirit Clan in the universe, those from the most soul-stirring Charm Clan, and those from the most popular Spirit Fox and Azure Phoenix classes in the Vastaya system.

These people were all graduates of language schools, fluent in thousands of mainstream languages of the Federation, and the best even understood many obscure languages.

Faced with so many choices, Xi Ye naturally chose the... cheapest one.

As a great lord, he naturally couldn't be confused by these fancy things. All he needed was a guide. Why did they need to be so beautiful?

Xi Ye hired a Panda Man from a Vastaya branch. Panda Men are typically lazy and gluttonous. Although their average IQ is not low, they rarely enter higher education institutions. Most of them rely on their simple and honest appearance to take on some tourism jobs. Even in the tourism industry, they have much less gray income than those beautiful races, but they don't care. They earn money one day and live one day, making them the most carefree race in the universe.

Of course, there are benefits to hiring Panda Men. Panda Men do not cooperate with any local unscrupulous merchants to solicit customers, and they have always maintained a simple reputation, allowing them to have a place in the guide market.

Generally, lords who know how to use money wisely will hire Panda Men, Xi Ye comforted himself in his heart.

"Wow, Brother, look, look, so many newly replaced mechs, many of them haven't even been released yet!" Little Neeko's blue round face was flushed with excitement, and her pair of already bright blue pupils were even more sparkling!

The players also looked around with curiosity. The various races and the commodities they had never seen before made them realize that the game's worldview was probably far beyond their imagination, which made them even more looking forward to the subsequent content of the game!

Grandpa Lu was taking screenshots so much that his eyes were blurred. When he arrived at the mech market, he even forgot to take screenshots for a while.

What do men love most? The ancients loved horses, modern people love cars, and in science fiction themes, mechs are a topic that will never go out of style!

Why can Transformers and Pacific Rim, which are so bad, be filmed up to one hundred and twenty-eight parts? Isn't it just because you can see live-action mechs on them?

Compared to what they are seeing now, the models in those virtual movies are simply too weak!

The dazzling metallic texture, the ferocious appearance, and the explosive sense of technology made Grandpa Lu almost unable to resist rushing up.

"Hey... what are you doing?" Xi Ye grabbed the excited furball. "The Venom Sting series of mechs uses Valere Steel. You're just a Level 1 Spirit Ball, and you dare to get close? Do you believe that the sharpness alone can poke you to death?"

"Is it that exaggerated? Sharpness..." The hardcore player looked disbelieving.

"Um, Boss... I think I seem to have..." Grandpa Lu suddenly said weakly, "Leaked..."

"Really?" Xi Ye curiously pinched it, and then saw Grandpa Lu visibly shrink from a furball into something like a raisin.

"I went, isn't this several meters away?" Xi Ye was immediately stunned, and then poked it with his finger: "Hey, are you okay?"

Grandpa Lu: "I feel... so cold, ah, so many stars, I see the ancestor, I even saw the Royal Clan win the championship, ah ha ha ha, all you chicken bastards can go die!!"

"What's he saying?" Xi Ye asked curiously.

"Some ancient grudges, not worth mentioning!" The Liver Emperor waved his hand, then pointed to his chest: "Boss, what's going on with this mech? Why does it cut people even from several meters away?"

Everyone looked over and saw several deep, bone-exposing wounds on the Liver Emperor's chest, looking somewhat horrifying.

Xi Ye: "Good steel has a sharp edge. You are all Tier 1 lifeforms, so it's easy to be injured by this kind of sharp steel. However, I haven't seen many mechs that can injure people from several meters away."

"This is the latest Dragon Steel model from Venom Sting." Little Neeko said excitedly, "I heard it's used to compete with the Wolf Fang Black Gold version in the market."

Xi Ye was taken aback, then looked at Little Neeko with amusement: "If you know so much about mechs, do you want to become an Overcontroller in the future?"

Little Neeko blushed slightly and twirled her fingers, muttering, "Overcontroller tuition is too expensive, and Arcane Overcontrollers have very high bloodline requirements..."

"It's okay..." Xi Ye felt a pang of heartache seeing the little girl like this, squatted down and scratched the tip of her nose, saying, "Focus on your studies, bro will find you good genes, and will buy you the best Arcane Mech!"

"Really?" The little girl's eyes lit up, then she excitedly waved at the helmet, making Xi Ye so happy that he almost danced.

"Boss, can we have mechs in the future?" The Little Fairy looked at the mechs, her eyes sparkling like Little Neeko's.

Being stared at by a Green Titan with muscles all over his body instantly erased the feeling of being melted by cuteness. Xi Ye rolled his eyes at him and said, "Of course not. You Green Titans can only follow the warrior path. Overcontroller is a mental-type profession. Although different mechs have corresponding characteristics for different races, to control such a huge amount of data, you must specialize in mental-type professions. Among you, only she has a chance to become an Overcontroller..." Xi Ye said, pointing to Yu Nv Wu Gua.

"What??" All the players were shocked. Yu Nv Wu Gua smiled foolishly, looking like she had been hit on the head by happiness. The remaining Titans looked envious and jealous. Even the half-dead Grandpa Lu in Xi Ye's hand couldn't help but jump down: "I was wondering why there would be such a miserable profession as a Developer. So there are such benefits in the later stages? This game planner is too misleading, didn't leak any information before?"

Xi Ye was speechless, not understanding the thought processes of these D-Earthlings. Why do they think a desk job is more miserable than manual labor? I clearly gave you the opportunity to choose freely, okay? It's your fault for liking manual labor, is it my fault?

"Um... Xi Ye ah..." Old Dad, who hadn't spoken, suddenly said.

"What's wrong?"

"Do you feel like your subordinates have gotten bigger?"

"Huh?" Xi Ye was stunned, then looked carefully and found that it seemed to be true. Whether it was the Liver Emperor or Grandpa Lu, who was a Wood Elf, they both seemed to have gained weight.

"No way..." Xi Ye immediately angrily rang the stall owner's bell.

"Respected guest, is there anything I can help you with?" A simple-minded Panda Man trotted over, panting.

Xi Ye looked at him curiously. Usually, very few people would hire Panda Men to watch stalls. In most cases, the stall owners here would hire either shrewd Golden Goblins or Charm Clan who could stir people's emotions. How could hiring a simple-minded Panda Man pleasantly scam customers?

But even though the other party looked simple-minded, Xi Ye was still annoyed and said, "What's going on with your exhibits? Are they coated with poison?"

The Panda Man scratched his fat head embarrassedly and said, "I'm sorry, guest. This is the latest Dragon Steel Venom Fang model. The poison mixed by top Zaun alchemists is also one of the selling points. We also set up a protective net, but we didn't expect anyone to bring Tier 1 lifeforms to Proxima Star. You are truly a rich big shot!"

Xi Ye narrowed his eyes slightly upon hearing this. He believed that the other party's last sentence was from the bottom of his heart, after all, Panda Men never lie.

So his anger subsided a lot, and he waved his hand and said, "Quickly bring the antidote."

"Okay!" The Panda Man hurriedly trotted back into the house, and after about a quarter of an hour, he crawled out again looking like he was about to die, and smiled embarrassedly: "There's only one antidote left, I'm sorry, guest..."

"But I have two subordinates who are poisoned!"

"We will give compensation..." The Panda Man still rubbed his fat palms embarrassedly.

"Compensation?" Xi Ye's eyes lit up, then he turned around and looked at the two poisoned people, considering who would bring in more money if they died.

"What are they discussing?" Although they couldn't understand what Xi Ye and the Panda Man were saying, the two of them still keenly sensed the lord's malicious gaze when disaster was imminent.

Suddenly, the AI prompted: "Temporary mission 'When Narrow Paths Meet, the Brave Win' has been released!"

Mission content: Both are poisoned, but there's only one bottle of antidote. What to do? It's time for a real duel between men. If you want to live and continue traveling the prosperous starry sky with the lord, then show your bravery!

Winner: Reward of 500 points!

Damn, 500 points!!

The Grinding Emperor was instantly excited. He hadn't earned 500 points even after mining day and night for a month. This random mission actually offered so much. Indeed... a horse doesn't get fat without night grazing!

Thinking of this, he grinned fiercely at Grandpa Lu. Grandpa Lu's scalp tingled from the other's stare, and he quickly shouted, "This isn't fair! How can I, with just a Poké Ball, possibly beat this beast?"

How could the Grinding Emperor let him struggle? Without waiting for the AI to continue speaking, he immediately pounced like a tiger: "Hey, you little rascal, don't say any more! Be a man and let's have a decisive battle!!"