Chapter 2652: Battlefield Salesman
The Starlight Alliance owed a mountain of debt and went to work for the Carbon Alliance to pay it off!
With no base to defend, they could flexibly shift positions on the battlefield and go all out in offense!
Completely free of worries, their overall combat effectiveness was actually even stronger than before!
As for the Carbon Alliance, they continued to sweep across the battlefield, aside from the three major powers!
Every race encountered on the battlefield was prey for the Carbon Alliance!
Soon enough, Jiangnan and his group ran into a small coalition called the Crowd Alliance, consisting of several dozen races!
Facing the Carbon Alliance's charge, their faces turned green. There was no need to imagine the outcome!
But what could they do? They had to tough it out!
Searching for a sliver of hope amid despair!
Just then, Jiangnan came charging over with the War Horn and shouted from afar:
Σ(((＞(¯͒口¯͒˵) "You worthless scraps over there! Don't be afraid! The Carbon Alliance isn't here to fight and kill! The Sea of Star Embers is all about human relationships and social graces!"
"We're here to promote our racial beacon deposit service!"
"Deposit your racial beacon with me for 29 days, and I'll guarantee its safety. You just need to hand over all your base planets, plus an extra 30, along with your positions as payment, okay~"
"Opportunity knocks but once! Lost chance never returns! Brother, think it over?"
The Crowd Alliance collectively spat blood!
This is the first time I've seen robbery described so refreshingly, dammit!
What the hell is a racial beacon deposit service?!
Are you not even pretending anymore?!
Why would we buy such a ridiculously unfair service?!
Jiangnan grinned fiercely:
(ꐦ°᷄◠°᷅) "I'll give you ten seconds to think it over! If you don't buy, we can fight and kill a bit first, and then you can buy—that works too!"
"After all, our Carbon Alliance's one-stop funeral service is very professional. The Red Sun Tribe handles cremation, the Apocalypse Tribe scatters atomic ashes, and the Fairy Sound Tribe gives you a grand funeral—all free services!"
"The Starlight Alliance bought it after getting beaten. Don't be ungrateful! Ten! Nine! Eight..."
The Crowd Alliance's faces were blacker than if they'd crawled out of a stove pit!
Looking at the fierce spring-headed bald army and the Underworld Race backing them up—
The Abyss Demon Dragon had already taken shape, the Insect Race artillery division was in position, and the Parasite race had used insect bodies to form a giant Blood God, powered up even more by the Red Gamma injection!
The Child of Destiny stood right beside Jiangnan!
And Jiangnan grabbed a handful of two-dimensional blades, smiling gently...
This made the Crowd Alliance feel like the universe itself was against them!
There was simply no chance of victory!
Since struggling would only lead to the same outcome, why bother struggling at all?
When Jiangnan counted down to three, the other side immediately panicked:
(งథ益థ)ง "We'll buy! We'll buy, alright?!"
"But... since we're being so cooperative, can you... give us a discount? I..."
Jiangnan laughed: (๑⌒◡⌒) "Sure! How about an 11% discount? Each of you gives an extra 33 base planets! Or should I give your skulls a discount? Break your ribs? Pick one!"
The Crowd Alliance was dumbfounded and quickly said:
੧੧(☍﹏⁰。) "No, no... no discount needed! 30 it is!"
So the Crowd Alliance, with long, dragging faces, was kicked out of their bases!
They couldn't take a single thing except the parts they were born with!
Oh wait—they still carried their debts on their backs!
The Carbon Alliance fully took over their positions, and all their base planets were hung on Jiangnan!
From then on, another group of heartbroken people appeared in the Sea of Star Embers!
Yang Jian covered his face watching Jiangnan!
You don't even need to learn—you're a natural at this, aren't you?
This might be what they call subduing the enemy without fighting!
Thus, the Carbon Alliance, dedicated to peaceful dealings, began hawking beacon deposit packages everywhere across the starry sky!
Recycling second-hand, broken-down bases!
For those who didn't cooperate, they offered a free one-stop funeral service—zero negative reviews since opening! The customers were so happy they practically lit up with joy~
Then they'd sell them the beacon deposit package!
The number of heartbroken people in the Sea of Star Embers kept growing. If you looked at the sand table map—
Jiangnan was basically a moving racial icon now!
When he had too many planets hanging on him, he'd go home and drop them off. No need to worry about getting robbed!
Because nobody could rob him!
Since the business launched, the Carbon Alliance's sales performance had risen straight up, their efficiency even faster than the three major powers!
Although they ran into a few hard-headed groups, it was no problem for the Carbon Alliance's strength!
So the Carbon Alliance's total points began to skyrocket at an astonishing rate!
Because it wasn't just the Carbon Alliance doing the grabbing—those they'd robbed were also helping grab!
It snowballed, bigger and bigger!
Their efficiency was even higher than the Matter Alliance's!
In the early stage of harvesting, everyone fought their own battles. There were some minor clashes, but everyone held back, not escalating into direct conflict!
Everyone wanted to scoop up as much as possible while the chance lasted!
The other three major powers saw Jiangnan's clever trick and started copying it!
The Bose Clan, as the overlords of the starry sky, had accumulated enough prestige—this method worked fairly well for them. But the Silicon Clan wasn't as successful; everyone in the starry sky knew about their short-term victory tactics!
They were after maximum profit, so in the end, they'd collect the planets and destroy the beacons anyway—the Silicon Clan was notorious for betraying teammates!
The Matter Alliance wasn't great either. First, they couldn't guarantee the beacon's safety—they might end up with nothing after all that effort!
Unlike the Carbon Alliance, which had Jiangnan and the moat as guarantees!
Worth noting: when the Silicon Clan couldn't negotiate, they'd destroy the beacon on the spot to eliminate future trouble. As for the Bose Clan, since the war began, aside from accidentally destroying some racial beacons, they almost never wiped out other races' beacons!
This meant that although base planets had changed hands many times since the war started,
not many races had been eliminated!
Jiangnan narrowed his eyes. Knowing the full story of the Cosmos Grand Hunt, he instinctively sensed a hint of a scheme!
If they couldn't pull off the Cosmos Grand Hunt, they'd try the Sequence Offensive and Defensive War instead?
How impressive!
As the number of harvestable base planets on the field dwindled, the battlefield situation grew more intense!
Above the Sacred Law Star Capital, on the Sequence Throne—
Noah, Manty, and the others always had smiles on their faces!
At least for now, the Carbon Alliance was on a strong momentum, with Jiangnan holding the line—nothing to worry about!
But the major powers hadn't really clashed head-on with their true strength yet. The subsequent situation was still unknown!
Qian Li narrowed his eyes and sneered. Kill! Kill!
No matter how dazzling your Jiangnan's light is, once Ancestor Xun achieves enlightenment, you Jiangnan will only be a flash in the pan!
And when that time comes, things like Sequence War, racial rankings—none of it will matter!
The Bose Clan will be the undisputed king!
But at this moment, the Silicon Lord was deep in thought. Humanity's technological level was off!
Given the Silicon Clan's level of technology, there's no reason they couldn't probe the structure of humanity's defense zone!
Yet the current situation was that all of the Silicon Clan's probes and intelligence gathering were completely blocked by humanity's defense zone!
Apart from mechanical eye observation, the signal data showed nothing but a black domain!
Also, the weapons and equipment used by the Carbon Alliance were definitely not something humanity's technology or productivity could manufacture!
Even if the Carbon Alliance united and shared deep technological exchanges with other races like the Dark Cosmos Entity and the Apocalypse Race, it still wasn't enough to reach such heights!
Those star cages, thousand-barreled guns, jump belts, and recall buttons were all high-end goods!
Especially the star cages!
Although the Silicon Clan had lost a lot of data when their terminal was hit back then, some records from the Eternal Era remained!
The star cages were a product of the Eternal Era!
Different from the current Silicon Clan's planet compression technology, it was another technological route—the product of the Silicon Clan's Wisdom Sect!
How did humanity get it? And those conventional weapons were also inseparable from the Wisdom Sect's technology...
At this moment, the Silicon Lord's mechanical eyes blazed with intensity!
Could they have found the Wisdom Sect's terminal? The probability was low—the Silicon Clan had searched for an entire era without finding anything!
So maybe humanity obtained some technological heritage of the Wisdom Sect from ancient ruins of the era?
With the Child of Destiny around, it wasn't impossible!
In an instant, the Silicon Lord deduced countless possibilities!
But no matter what, it was worth digging into and testing!
The Silicon Lord would never let go of anything related to the Wisdom Sect. Finding the other half of the Silicon Clan was his lifelong wish!
Only by merging with the Wisdom Sect's terminal data could the Silicon Clan be complete!
Even if there was just a single clue, they had to pursue it!
Clearly, the Silicon Clan, through various clues, had set their sights on humanity, whose technological level had abnormally risen!
But Jiangnan hadn't tried to hide it. As humanity's Lingxiao Plan unfolded, exposing their secrets was inevitable!
What's the point of hiding a treasure mountain and never using it?
The reason they started deploying it in the Sequence Offensive and Defensive War was partly to consolidate the Carbon Alliance's trust!
And at the same time, it meant Jiangnan was ready to have a direct confrontation with the Silicon Clan!
After all, now that the Carbon Alliance was established as a major power in the starry sky, it feared no challenge!
Beneath the smoke-filled battlefield, fierce undercurrents of rivalry and scheming flowed among the major powers!
As the number of harvestable planets dwindled, conflicts between the four major powers grew increasingly intense!
The Carbon Alliance was exceptionally aggressive, sweeping through with extreme efficiency!
They had already started encroaching on the other three sides' territory!
The Silicon Clan and the Bose Clan naturally didn't want to be disturbed, so they sent the Matter Alliance and the Angel Race to have a friendly exchange with the Carbon Alliance!
If both sides fought and got bogged down, it would leave them time to clean up the battlefield!
The miserable Matter Alliance and Angel Race were pushed out as roadblocks!