A streak of light rose from the direction of the Mechanical Serpent constellation, heading toward a mechanical satellite.
In the interstellar age, most satellites were not naturally formed but artificial constructs. There were two reasons for this: first, to protect the planets themselves; second, to ease the conflict between people and land.
However, on this black-market planet, the latter factor was nearly nonexistent. The former was what mattered most.
Anyone acknowledged by the Collector and allowed to settle in a mechanical satellite was undoubtedly an underground channel merchant he trusted.
The Xie family was one such family.
At that moment, Gao Gong was silently studying the information on the 'Xie family.'
The Xie family was a high-orbit industrial clan, a purebred mechanical family. It controlled over ten thousand armed space stations within five light-years of the area, along with 3,131 orbital cannons and 312 patrol ships. It also possessed second-level authorization to use space-floating cannons—the same kind Gao Gong had seen when he first arrived.
That was the armed force controlled by the Xie family.
The Xie family itself was just as powerful.
The Xie family's Second and Fifth Elders were large mechanical bodies modified by an 'interstellar fortress.'
The Xie family's Third Elder was known as the Mechanical Demon Corpse. With the aid of the 'Mechanical Ancestral Hall,' he had completed an electronic-virus transformation and become a Tier Three virus.
The Xie family's Fourth Elder controlled the family's most secretive force, the 'Mechanical Zombie Corps.' These mechanical zombies possessed the power to corrupt mechanical lifeforms. Once the mechanical zombie poison spread, it could not be reversed.
As for the First Elder, who controlled the 'Mechanical Ancestral Hall,' besides possessing authority over the 'ancestral hall,' he also held the family's server access. By manipulating the server's permissions, he could restrain