Su Ming could not be bothered to answer his cousin anymore, because the Exterminators had already begun moving. They knew quality goods when they saw them too, and their targets were the pretty houses in each little town.
They could shrink themselves down to human size, then swagger up to different front doors, kick them open, and form "recovery squads" of three to five units before charging into the darkness beyond.
Before long, Su Ming, standing outside the town, could see those houses begin glowing red as well, as though their anti-theft systems had been activated. Even the rooftops were flashing, which was a bit excessive.
Like ink dropped into water, the color rapidly spread. The Energy Thieves were brimming with motivation, fighting for their long-missed rations.
Now Su Ming only hoped that after being sealed away for so many years, they had not forgotten the tricks of their original trade.
Bald robots filled the streets, descending like a swarm of locusts and launching a full-scale attack without a sound or a change in expression.
More and more rooms lit up with alarms, which meant Beyonders from different Megaverses were being attacked. Perhaps there was a threshold? Once the number of alarmed houses exceeded a certain amount, would the CCU in charge personally appear to solve the problem?
The Beyonders were not dead men, after all. As more and more alarms went off, some of the Beyonders who had spent all their time holed up in their rooms began to come outside.
The moment they looked at the street with dazed eyes, they nearly immediately realized what had happened, and the battle began at once.
The Beyonders were clearly stronger, but their methods of attack were too limited: energy bombardment.
The Exterminators were far weaker in other respects, yet they