It once again shrank and shot into the distance.
In the blink of an eye, it disappeared.
The whole process was smooth and flowing.
"Pretty good."
Chen Mang looked at the scene in front of him, smiling happily in the "Pseudo-Four-dimensional Space," as he controlled the Constant Star Train and Xiaolv to speed along the Dimension Wall side by side until they stopped at a desolate place. Xiaolv then spat out the Auction House it had swallowed.
"..."
Originally full of anticipation, Chen Mang looked at the scene before him, his smile gradually frozen.
The Auction House spat out by Xiaolv had already turned into ruins, with thick smoke rising.
The entire Auction House had been rebuilt with explosives. As soon as Xiaolv swallowed it, it had already exploded. Ai, having completed the scan, said, "Train Captain, all living creatures inside the ruins were killed by the explosion. We detected no valuable items, only brick and rubble."
"It seems weāve been calculated against."
"..."
Chen Mang remained silent without speaking. He originally didnāt plan to do anything, just intended to snatch an Auction House honestly and then leave. But now someone had plotted against him, that was different. If he didnāt do something, he would appear very foolish, falling for such a calculation.
If it werenāt for the information Ai gave him.
He would even suspect that person of deliberately harming him.
"Check which force controls this Auction House and prepare to pay them a visit."
"Since Iām already here, canāt let me leave empty-handed, right?"
"Understood."
...
At this momentāā
In a high-rise office building in Extreme Night City on Gemini Star, several men were gathered around a long table, silently watching the scene projected holographically in the air.
The scene was of Xiaolv devouring the Auction House.
It had been replayed several times.
But each replay brought them a different kind of shock.
"Houmen Auction House" was the largest Auction House on Gemini Star. Days ago, it had been mysteriously uprooted entirely by someone, but this news should have been shocking. In contrast to the news of warehouses in 17 cities on Gemini Star being looted, it was quiet and unnoticed.
No one paid attention.
The government didnāt care either.
Of course, they didnāt want to silently accept this loss. They believed it was certainly an organized and premeditated action and they wanted revenge, so they came up with this idea: loudly telling everyone that Houmen Auction House has been rebuilt and preparing to start an auction again, releasing many attractive items.
They believed that the person would definitely come a second time.
For this reason, a large amount of advanced explosives with extremely terrifying strength were buried in the Auction House.
However...
In the holographic projection.
A massive green furry monster suddenly appeared without warning and swallowed the entire Auction House. In that instant, they saw the firelight, indicating the Auction Houseās explosion.
But that green furry monster shrank again, disappearing from view at a speed the probes couldnāt capture.
From start to finish, the explosion, which should have been terrifying, seemed not to harm the monster at all.
"Itās definitely a Stellar Giant Beast."
The leading man spoke after a long silence: "I have a Stellar Giant Beast at home. I somewhat understand Stellar Giant Beasts, and itās an adult one, just donāt know the exact level."
"Its level must be higher than the one at my home."
"We havenāt provoked anyone recently, have we?"
"Why only raid our place among all Kasha Civilizationās top Auction Houses?"
Things were already weird enough.
Initially, their Auction House was looted simultaneously with the strategic warehouse of 17 cities, which clearly indicated that it was done by a violent group in an organized, premeditated manner. But since, above, it was determined as cashing out by destroying evidence.
They could only reluctantly accept it.
But now itās evident... all those people were caught, yet someone still came to rob them. It showed that back then, it wasnāt just settling the score, Kasha Civilization was truly robbed.
"Could it be... the āArtificial Human Pirate Groupā?"
A man sitting at the side of the table hesitated and said.
Within the Kasha Civilization Federation, the strongest "Pirate Group" is the Artificial Human Pirate Group, with no resources but a high bounty, higher than the combined bounties of second to tenth place.
This Pirate Group emerged from within the Kasha Civilization.
Itās said.
The leader once belonged to Kasha Civilization. One day after work, he found two groups fighting in the alley. For unknown reasons, he was overwhelmed with a sense of justice and shouted, trying to stop it.
But...
After all, he was alone and unarmed, how could he possibly stop two groups.
So this guy pretended to be a policeman to stop the fight. Unfortunately, the legal system of Kasha Civilization wasnāt particularly complete at the time. When the police arrived, those two groups were caught in a downpour.
There werenāt any casualties.
Both sides were just being verbally educated and then released.
And this person... for impersonating a police officer, sentenced to ten years for a serious crime.
Ten years of real sentence, no probation.
Ten years later.
This guy came out, alone, with a knife, found those two groups who fought that night in the rain, and eliminated them all, finding the judge, jurors who convicted him.
One knife each.
All taken care of.
Afterward, he followed the boss he met in prison, directly turning and joining pirates. Over the years, it gradually became the strongest Pirate Group within the Kasha Civilization Federation, although that incident also greatly facilitated the improvement of Kasha Civilizationās legal system.