And at the very same time Yang Jian and the others were in their meeting!
At the North Crown Starry Sky Mine, a Starry Chaos Army squad made up of Damon, Taro, Borden, Samo, and Blacksteel had just completed an operation!
During the auction, the silicon-based lifeforms had driven up the prices, and all ten-odd batches of slaves had gone unsold. The prices had been pushed to an outrageous level!
Even having someone with a disguised identity bid on their behalf hadn't worked. The whole gang was furious!
So they'd simply stopped buying!
They were all damn criminals anyway. Why should they follow the rules?
They'd gone back to their old line of work: hijack the shipment and take it by force!
It was a no-cost business, and it even saved them money~
The hijacking had gone pretty smoothly. The escort team had put up a little resistance!
But what did Taro and the others do for a living? They'd all been hardened by years of roughing it in the Netherworld Death Prison!
So they'd dealt with them without much trouble, and even robbed the escort team clean!
That was the operating budget for this mission!
In space, a slave transport ship, battered into a wreck and trailing smoke, flew onward!
It carried the spoils of this operation!
They planned to fly to Begonia Mining and have Boss Pang take custody of the cargo, so they could move on to their next operation!
On the starship's deck, Damon crouched to one side, picking at his fingers. His fierce face was full of guilt...
(?~??メ) "Aah~ Damon did something bad again. We should've left those escorts at least one pair of underwear. I wonder if they're cold out here in space, or if they'll get chewed out for messing up..."
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