Chapter 640: Time To Act!

Translator: Henyee Translations  Editor: Henyee Translations

“Boss, it is the people from Twilight!” Little Four immediately reported.

“They are the enemy of the Federation. They will definitely try to make things difficult for us.” Ling Lan had expected trouble.

After that, a few more people bidded. They were all from different countries. Although the people who bidded were merchants, everyone knew that they represented a certain faction in their country. Some even represented the entire nation.

“Boss, the Yun family is bidding now.”

“Yun family? Seems like Yun Feiyang really wants to gain the heart of Princess Gulibaduo.” Ling Lan guessed the intention of the Yun family.

After a few rounds, Princess Gulibaduo bidded again. She raised the bid of the Babu scepter to a hundred million credits. She wanted to use this amount to show the other countries that the Balaya Kingdom was determined to get the Babu scepter back. The other countries should weigh their choices and see if it was worth offending the Balaya Kingdom.

However, Gulibaduo’s actions didn’t have much effect. A new round of bidding started. As the price got higher, Aobu Ruoya’s smile got brighter. If the price of an item got higher, it showed that he was a good auctioneer.

“Seems like the other party doesn’t want the princess to get the scepter so easily…” Ling Lan observed for a while and understood what the other countries were trying to do. They knew how important the Babu scepter was to the Balaya Kingdom but they still bidded for it. They wanted the Balaya Kingdom to lose a huge fortune.

After some time, a few bidders gave up. There were only five bidders left. Ling Lan looked up and glanced at Li Lanfeng.

As expected, Li Lanfeng was focusing on Ling Lan. Although his eyes were staring at the optical supercomputer, he looked up when Ling Lan glanced at him. Their eyes met.

Li Lanfeng lowered his head casually and said to Li Yingjie, “Ma Rao, do you think that we should act now?”

Li Yingjie looked enlightened. “Yes. The princess allowed us to come in so that we can help her. Thanks for reminding me. If not, I will feel sorry towards the princess.” He added ten million to the current bid without any hesitation. Since he was not using his own money, he didn’t feel any burden when entering all the zeros.

“Booth#239 bidded 580 million credits.” The appearance of a new bidder silenced the crowd.

“Who is inside booth#239?” The businessman from Twilight narrowed his eyes when he saw a new competitor.

His assistant flipped through the information that he received and said, “They are people from Aoqi.”

The businessman pondered. “Is Aoqi trying to interfere in this matter?”

“Ah, boss, I have just received a new message.” The assistant’s communicator beeped.

“What is it?”

“Aoqi says that they will be taking over the bidding from now on,” the assistant replied carefully.

“What is this? Didn’t they ask a few of us to cooperate to bleed the Balaya Kingdom?” The businessman from Twilight was furious. He was unhappy that Aoqi kept changing their mind.

“They explained that it was because the Balaya kingdom will continue to increase the bid. It is okay for us to reveal our bottomline but if we reveal it too often, we will be discovered. The Yun family from the Federation is participating in the bidding too. They even have an ace hacker with them,” His assistant replied.

“I see. Since that is the case, we will stop after we reach the base price Aoqi gave us.” The businessmen from Twilight was shocked. That ace hacker might discover their relationship with Aoqi. The anger in him died down. He decided to give up the bidding. Now, he understood why Aoqi looked for him. It was to maintain the image that Aoqi was a fair country.

The other two parties received a similar messages from Aoqi. After the price hit a billion credits, the three of them stopped bidding. Only the Yun family, Gulibaduo, and Li Yingjie remained.

Drops of cold sweat appeared on Yun Feiyang’s forehead. He had a limited amount of credits but booth#239 seemed to be very wealthy. They didn’t hesitate when bidding. He didn’t even have the chance to gain the favor of the princess.

Yun Feiyang gritted his teeth. Since he was already committed in this, he must not give up. He wanted to increase the bid but at this moment, he felt his communicator vibrating. He glanced at it angrily. Which idiot dares to disturb him at this time…

His eyes lit up with happiness. The person who messaged was Princess Gulibaduo. He opened the message and realized that Gulibaduo was asking him to stop bidding. She said that she was grateful for the help of the Yun family.

Yun Feiyang heaved a sigh of relief. If he didn’t need to use his own credits, that would be the best. He felt that he made a good decision to contact the princess at the start of the auction to tell her his booth number. That way, she would know his intentions. Yun Feiyang reached his motive so he happily stopped bidding.

At that moment, Gulibaduo received a message too. She opened the message and was elated. She immediately replied. After Yun Feiyang stopped bidding, Gulibaduo bidded again. Then, Li Yingjie was provoked by Aobu Ruoya’s words and bidded against her.

Just as everyone thought that Gulibaduo would increase her bid but she gave up. The Babu scepter was won by booth#239 at the heavenly price of 1 billion 320 million credits.

Gulibaduo was relieved when she heard that booth#239 got the bid. She was proud of herself. Getting Ling Lan and her friends into this auction was the right decision. As there were many people targeting her…

However, Gulibaduo was curious. Why didn’t the other people find out that booth#239 was from Balaya Kingdom? Why didn’t they stop them?

Gulibaduo was a smart person. She immediately understood what had happened. Her eyes turned cold. “Looks like my siblings doesn’t want me to get the Babu scepter too. How can they ignore the interest of the Balaya Kingdom for the sake of inheriting the throne? Damn…”

Gulibaduo was angry. Her confidant was shocked and instantly said, “Princess, why didn’t you continue bidding? We didn’t reach our bottomline yet…” She knew that the princess was transferred a billion credits from the Balaya Kingdom just in case things got out of hand. However, since she needed to use many channels to transfer the money over, she could only transfer in batches. But, she could ask the organizers for a loan first and repay them when they have the money.

Gulibaduo opened her mouth. Just as she was about to speak, she saw Qian Jialin and stopped.

These people were arranged by the Balaya Kingdom. Were they really loyal to her and the Balaya Kingdom? Or were they loyal to her siblings?

Gulibaduo couldn’t help but smile coldly. If these people were bought over by her siblings, they would definitely leak the information to her siblings. She couldn’t endanger Ling Lan and her friends. Gulibaduo knew that getting the Babu scepter was easy. Bringing it back would be difficult.

Gulibaduo looked like a straight-forward and simple-minded person but she was not. She knew that some people in the Balaya Kingdom wanted her dead. She also knew that there were many assassinations that occured behind her back.

Thus, Gulibaduo swallowed her words and replied coldly, “The Babu scepter is just a symbol of the Balaya royalty. It is not worth so much effort.”

Qian Jialin smiled when he heard what the princess said. Honestly, he didn’t understand why the Balaya Kingdom used so much wealth and effort to get back a useless symbolic item. This wealth could be used to improve the livelihood of their citizens. Compare to the Federation, the commoners of the Balaya Kingdom were extremely poor.

However, since the Balaya Kingdom was a loyal supporter of the Federation, Qian Jialin would not express his opinions openly.

After the Babu scepter, a few more items were sold. There was a super energy storage unit which could automatically gather energy from the universe and use the energy to power up a mecha. Ling Lan was tempted. But, she knew that she couldn’t act now even if she wanted it. She regained her composure.

No mecha master would be able to resist against an energy storage unit that could automatically replenish its energy. Mecha masters knew that if they met an opponent who were as strong as them, the person who had a higher capacity energy storage unit would win.

Unfortunately, it was hard to make a super energy storage unit. Only imperial mechas would be equipped with it. The only ace mechas that could get a super energy storage unit were the mechas used by people like the Sky God and the King of Hell. There was no such items sold on the market. Even in the black market, it rarely appeared. This showed how well the various countries protected this item.

Little Four started searching for a super energy storage unit the moment Ling Lan advanced to an ace operator but to no avail. He didn’t expect it to appear in Aoqi.

Little Four wanted to create a fake identity to buy the super energy storage unit. Ling Lan stopped him. She knew that even if they managed to buy the super energy storage unit, they would not be able to find someone to collect it. Also, Ling Lan suspected that this super energy storage unit was used to test her since it was not on the initial auction list.

Little Four calmed down after Ling Lan reminded him. This item was indeed not on the initial auction list. Little Four was not prepared for it to show up so he was caught off guard and became extremely excited. In the end, they didn’t bid for the super energy storage unit.

“Am I thinking too much?” Brother Xu started doubting himself. The appearance of the super energy storage unit only caused a commotion in booth#239 but they didn’t bid for it. If they were actually powerful warriors, they would not be able to resist the temptation.

The super energy storage unit caused another uproar in the audience. Many people started bidding for it. It was more expensive that the ace mecha. The starting bid was 5 million credits. It shot up to a few hundred million and crossed the billion mark within a short time.

It was sold to the Li family in the end. The Li family increased the price by a hundred million credit each time they bid, scaring their competitors away.

“The people in booth#11 are wealthy.” Ling Lan suddenly exclaimed. Li Yingjie and Li Lanfeng felt their mouth twitching when they saw the jealous look on her face. Was their captain mocking the Li family?

The Li family had to buy the super energy storage unit but their boss just had to ask his father if he ever wanted one. This was the difference between their power.

The Li family had a strong influence in the political world but their power in the military was weak. This was why the Li family envied the Ye family.

The Ye family didn’t have any political power but they controlled an entire division. The Li family was not able to do this. They had their own people in two divisions but they didn’t have control over the entire divisions. Their faction was suppressed by other factions. If the Li family didn’t have influence in the political world, their position as the first elite family of the Federation would be overtaken by the Ye family.

The two of them pretended that they didn’t hear anything and focused on looking at the next item. Soon, it was time for the ATOMIC BEAM BAZOOKA documents to show up.

Ling Lan just wanted to be a bystander but when she saw the businessman with the surname Jiang, the Li family, and the Ye family bidding for it, she frowned.

As the price climbed higher, Ling Lan made a decision. “Little Four, ask them to stop bidding.”

Little Four got excited immediately. “Yes, boss!” Boss finally allowed him to act. He didn’t have to hide himself anymore. It was time to show you my true power!

A long time ago, Little Four gave himself a nickname. He didn’t have the chance to use it for so long but now, it was finally time for him to make his nickname known to the human world!

Chapter 641: The Son of God!

Translator: Henyee Translations  Editor: Henyee Translations

Ling Lan thought for a second then ordered, “Little Four, you make the decision!”

Was letting Little Four take charge correct? It was the first time Little Four received the power to make a decision. He didn’t hesitate and rushed into the circuitry to help his Boss resolve this issue.

In the Li family’s booth:

The assistant responsible for bidding in the auction saw that the price he bidded was raised by his competitor. He didn’t even think for a second, he entered a new bid and sent it out.

“Sending…” After a while, another round had passed, but it didn’t actually show their bid. The assistant knew something was wrong. He immediately raised his head and yelled, “Boss, I think something malfunctioned.”

The representative from the Li family from who was originally half asleep immediately opened his eyes. He coldly asked, “What happened?”

“The bid I had just entered was not received by the auction house. They didn’t show our bid.” It was clear that his bidding price was the highest in that round.

The representative from the Li family’s expression changed slightly and immediately ordered, “Contact the auction house and have them resolve this issue as soon as possible.” After saying that, he could help but swear under his breath. It he didn’t successfully acquire the data of the ATOMIC BEAM BAZOOKA today, his big boss would not let him live it down.

He knew clearly that his big boss wanted to use this data to his advantage by acquiring another bargaining chip in competing for the position of master in the faction… After thinking about the outcome of his failure, sweat began to drip from his forehead. He had lost the composure he had in the beginning and a hint of anxiousness began to show in his expression.

“Boss, I have already requested for help from the auction house,” the assistant responded immediately.

The representative from the Li family nodded his head. He endured the anxiousness and waited for the auction house to resolve this issue.

In the booth of the Ye family:

“Boss, our bid wasn’t received by the auction house.” Similarly, the assistant responsible for bidding saw that the new round of bids did not have the one he had sent in. He immediately reported this to his Boss.

The representative of Ye family frowned. He knew the underground auction house on Aoqi very well. Although it seemed like a black market on the outside, it was actually controlled by government officials. It was just that the items being auctioned were considered smuggled goods and the auction house could not explain their origin to the countries bidding for it. Thus, it went from public to private and changed these items into black market goods.

However, the auction house’s defense system and military force was top tier on Aoqi. It was impossible for a malfunction like bids not being received to happen… The representative from the Ye family’s first thought was that the auction house was being attacked?

“Major Lu, the anti-hacker barrier we borrowed doesn’t have any issues right?” The representative from the Ye family asked the astute young man standing beside him with an imposing look. The representative was thinking whether if the attack was by a group that was hostile towards the Federation, the military and the Ye family.

“There won’t be any issues. Even imperial level hackers wouldn’t be able to find an opening.” Major Lu said without hesitation. The anti-hacker barrier was something that was created by a group of imperial level hackers from the military. It wasn’t something that one or two imperial hackers could easily crack.

The representative from the Ye family had a grasp of the situation. He turned around and spoke to the bidding assistant, “Contact the auction house and ask them to resolve this issue immediately.” Since the situation was playing out like this, they could force the auction house to give them an explanation. Secretly, the representative even hoped that this problem would persist and continue until the auction ended. This way he would be able to have the auction house to give him a copy of the weapon data for a lower price. Using the least amount of money to get what they wanted was something he very much wanted to do.

The merchant with the surname Jiang had also discovered this problem. He showed a faint smile on his face. Similarly with the Ye family, he also patiently waited for the auction house to give them an explanation.

Although the top three competitors were out, the other competitors didn’t care. These other competitors were enthusiastically bidding for the data of this weapon that used a new energy source. Aobu Ruoya had said that this weapon could change the fate of the entire universe. The price of the data rose to a shocking sky-high price…

“They’re all crazy!” Ling Lan saw the auction and speculated that the only reason this universe constantly had wars was completely because humans were too selfish and didn’t want to give up on their own agendas. This was what caused the universe to be tainted by war.

However, waiting would not give them any results. Little Four had cut off all communications from all three booths and Brother Xu, who was responsible for monitoring the booths, only saw what Little Four allowed him to see on his screens. In the auction house, everything was perfectly fine. It showed that there were no bids coming from the three booths.

Although the auction house felt something was off, they didn’t suspect any foul play. After all, not bidding was a right the client had and the auction house had no right to intervene.

Of course, if they had suspected a little bit more and compared the images in all three booths, the auction house could have found a flaw in the surveillance footage. That was because the surveillance footage were actually on a loop. However, Little Four had split the video clips apart. If the person watching wasn’t a top expert, they wouldn’t be able to tell the difference.

“How come they’re still not here?” Seeing that the amount of people bidding decreasing, the auction house did not notify them and didn’t even send a staff member to their booth, the representative from the Li family couldn’t wait any longer.

The guard standing at the door turned to the keypad after his Boss gave him the order. He inputted a string of numbers and was getting ready to open the door of the booth.

However, the door didn’t open. Now, everyone knew something had happened.

They first used their communicators to contact the people outside, but discovered that their communicators didn’t not work too. They were like a rat in a hole, unable to contact the outside world. Everyone’s expressions changed instantly and suspected this act was the auction house purposefully going against them.

After the Li family’s representative gave the signal, the guard was ready to take out his beam gun to take the door down by force. Right when he was about to do that, the assistant who was staring at the screen the entire time shouted, “Boss, take a look at this.”

The representative from the Li family immediately jumped over. The screen showed a savage skull. The skull’s mouth cracked open and a string of words flew out, “The data of the ATOMIC BEAM