Being an otaku in the world of American comics

#856 - Tree of Life

Indeed, things unfolded as Liang Yue had anticipated.

Over the next week, following Xiao Wu's guidance, he began a frantic spree of scanning, shopping, and acquiring on online trading platforms.

Various plants, crops, industrial products, popular goods, some technological products that had been phased out by the Xandarians but were quite practical for civilizations with lower technological levels, and even production lines and factories became his targets.

Whether on major official trading platforms or second-hand websites, his whirlwind figure could be seen everywhere.

Tons of transaction shares, various scientific instruments, machines, and authorized plants flowed in like water, with truckload after truckload being transported to Liang Yue's dilapidated building by air freight.

Then, without even a glance, these purchased items were directly thrown into the stronghold world by him.

This kind of wild spending behavior, witnessed by a group of travelers who were meticulously calculating how to maximize the benefits of their activity funds, scouring various shopping recommendation lists from foreign low-level civilizations, and racking their brains to dig out a few items that could be connected with the national power behind them, left them all wide-eyed and hesitant…

Finally, after reviewing the shopping list of the past few days, Liang Yue's spending had directly reached nine figures!

However, the effect produced by such extravagant behavior was also quite astonishing.

In just the second day, this newly rich local tyrant who had come from an alien planet to squander wealth attracted the attention of certain individuals, and then an organization directly sent him an invitation to an auction.

It was an electronic admission type, and the auction was also conducted in a virtual world, without offline services, but the entire process was endorsed by official institutions, and the items auctioned would be directly delivered by logistics companies after the event.

This was certainly not the kind of admission ticket to a contraband auction that Liang Yue had been expecting; it was just an ordinary venue that hardly any local people would attend.

The items auctioned were basically second-hand technology or bundled disposal products from phased-out production lines.

However, they were basically bulk commodities or technological products that were not commonly seen on the market, and some of the auctioned items even involved various technologies and equipment that could be used to develop offensive weapons.

Walking on the edge of what was legally permissible, almost touching the local laws and regulations of Xandar~

Liang Yue also accepted this kind of fishing behavior without refusal, and once again spent hundreds of millions, buying up the entire venue under the breathless silence and flushed faces of the surrounding travelers.

Then, on the fourth day, another auction invitation was sent to him.

This time, the scale involved in the venue and the goods became even larger, because in addition to normal industrial and agricultural products and high-tech production lines, it also involved the auction of some resource planets and rare metal deposits.

At the meeting, someone's performance was still eye-catching~

So soon, the invitation for the third auction was sent to Liang Yue on the sixth day after he and others arrived on Xandar.

In this way, after attending three consecutive auctions, it may have been because he had reached certain conditions that he triggered the entry into the next stage.

So, only two days later, an invitation to this contraband auction was sent to Liang Yue.

… …

"How is it? Are there any life planets for sale in this auction?"

"Good luck, there are indeed two life planets to be auctioned this time, one of which is actually much closer to Earth than Xandar."

"Really? Let me see~"

"Well~ It seems to be indeed much closer, but it doesn't seem to make any difference to you."

"According to the information collected by Xiao Wu, this planet seems to have been auctioned a total of three times in the past ten years, and this is the fourth time it has been auctioned.

The previous few times, the handover procedures were also completed.

Now that it has reappeared, I have reason to suspect that the institution or individual who put it up for auction is an illegitimate force, and they are playing a fishing game."

"It's normal, I'm actually fishing too~"

"According to Xiao Wu's information, the starfield location of that life planet seems to be a bit close to the lair of a group of space pirates, located on the edge of their sphere of influence."

"The starting price is only 100 million, anyone with half a brain knows there's a problem."

"What about the other planet?"

"The starting price… is also 100 million?"

"Xiao Wu shows that there have been four successful auctions in the past seven years. Its geographical location seems to be in a remote area, far from the star field centered on several civilizations in the Milky Way.

However, many cosmic explorers have been exploring there recently, and this planet is probably located at an outpost in a certain direction."

"In this kind of place, there is no legal or regulatory constraint at all."

"So, they are treating you like a fat sheep."

"Security issues don't need to be considered~"

"If you don't consider the security issues, the environment on these two planets seems to be very good.

Basically, they haven't been developed much. According to the data, they are both in a barbaric stage.

The distribution of water and soil is even, and the area of the ocean and land is about six to four, even slightly better than Earth.

The planet's orbit is relatively stable, and the seasonal distribution is similar to that of Earth.

The average annual temperature difference is seven or eight degrees less than Earth, and the atmospheric composition is non-toxic, with a slightly higher oxygen content, but the problem is not too big."

"Are you planning to buy both of them?"

"It seems that there is not enough funds.

Based on the transaction prices of these two planets in previous auctions, the savings I have on hand should be able to buy one of them."

… …

At this moment, after learning that an invitation to a contraband auction had been sent, everyone immediately gathered in a large circle in the rooftop garden.

They checked the various auction items on the virtual network holographic display and discussed them with each other in low voices.

Around Liang Yue, Stark, Meng Xiaoyu, Guna, Tina, and others were also helping to analyze the various advantages and disadvantages of the information on the two life planets on the list.

What security risks, fishing scams, slaughtering fat sheep…

In fact, how could Liang Yue not know about this kind of simple gang routine?

It's just that, with his current strength, he doesn't care about any conspiracies here; it's too low-level.

It's as if, in the entire Marvel universe, the civilizations or pirates that have reached the interstellar stage have never progressed in terms of intelligence.

Perhaps it's because the development stage has arrived, and smart computers are too easy to use, so many things don't require people to use their brains; perhaps it's because interstellar communication only emphasizes hard power, and conspiracies and tricks have mostly become useless.

In short, these routines of fishing, deceiving, setting traps, and honey traps are not necessarily very clever even on Earth.

When the time comes, if someone really treats him as a fat sheep and wants to slaughter him at will, then they will naturally have to be prepared to be retaliated against.

Liang Yue is also planning to use the situation to his advantage and take the opportunity to reap a wave of spoils from those space pirates or other behind-the-scenes figures~

"Eh~ Look, this auction item seems a bit unusual!"

At this moment, Mirawa, who had been shrinking in his arms, suddenly stopped flipping the holographic display screen with her small hand and pointed to an item on the light curtain.

They were three exquisite saplings, full of green vitality from top to bottom, and the branches and leaves looked very tender.

The root area was wrapped in black-brown mud and existed in a glass instrument.

Most importantly, a circle of soft radiance was entwined around the saplings.

In fact, among interstellar civilizations, some unique green plants are not uncommon, and even relatively rare varieties are nothing.

After all, the universe is too big~

Life planets are countless, and a few plants are generally not taken to heart.

However, the three saplings in front of them were obviously unusual.

In addition to the radiance entwined around the saplings, more importantly, the name of this plant was the Tree of Life~

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