Yang Jian covered his face:
(?)﹏(ヾ) "An auction? You really..."
The Carbon Alliance already had enough points to secure victory, so the reason Jiangnan had gone to all this trouble...
Was to resell Base Planets and make a killing!
By this point in the Sequence Defense Battle, humanity was already far richer than before it began. And that was only the small change?
Was the real money-making operation only just beginning?
Jiangnan snapped his fingers, a devilish smile spreading across his face!
?(?っ???c) "That's right! We're holding an auction! Our Carbon Alliance has basically taken over the battlefield by now. The only ones besides us still sitting on a pile of Base Planets are the Silicon-based."
"The other races have pitifully few points. The gap is so huge that there's no way they can catch up!"
"So what's the use of us holding on to all these Base Planets? We might as well auction them off and make a fortune!"
"As long as we allocate the Base Planets sensibly and ensure that the Carbon Alliance member races improve their rankings, we can sell the surplus to the other races. We just have to make sure they don't end up with more than us!"
"In other words, aside from the Silicon-based, who are already in first place and beyond our control, we can decide exactly where every race in the Myriad Races of the Starry Sky ranks!"
Night Iris gaped:
∑(°口°?) "Y-You're not selling Base Planets! You're selling spots in the Sequence rankings!"
Pfft—
What had started as a fair competition between the races had turned into a massive rigged tournament where you could buy your ranking just because Jiangnan was participating this time!
This was what it truly meant to dominate the competition!
As long as you were willing to