Chapter 2711: A Thief Never Returns Empty-Handed
The Silicon-based position, although under full defensive mode, was unusually silent!
Because almost all of the mechanical legions had gone to the Bose position to grab base planets!
Despite this, the Silicon-based position's defense was still exceptionally tight, truly watertight!
Obviously, they were afraid that the Bose might counterattack at death's door, or that the Matter Alliance might pull some small tricks during this period.
But on the giant preparation platform behind the position, two figures who should not have existed there had appeared!
They were Zhang San and Li Si!
This preparation platform was not the core position, but located in the inner ring of the position!
Around the preparation platform were placed mechanical wormholes.
This could be said to be a transportation hub, a vital thoroughfare!
The mechanical legions assembled on the preparation platform, then went through the mechanical wormholes to fight in various parts of the Sea of Star Embers.
Even now, this preparation platform was still in operation!
At this moment, Zhang San and Li Si were each riding a guard robot as a mount, both carrying backpack bundles on their backs.
Zhang San was full of stubble, his body in a semi-transparent state, like a ghostly shadow!
As for Li Si, his body was also covered with something like transparent colloid, making his body ethereal and intangible!
The Silicon-based powerful alert system had detected nothing unusual. These two living people had even been wandering around the Silicon-based position for who knows how long!
They had even come right when the Carbon Alliance was holding their celebration banquet!
These two were the special action team of the Mieba Operation!
For this operation, Zhang San had fully activated the No-Self Realm domain, and even taken Strongman Pills to strengthen the domain!
He minimized the domain and wrapped Li Si inside, applying the highest level of Existence Erasure.
It could be said that he was extremely serious!
You know, with Zhang San's passive ability, even if he didn't open his domain or use his ultimate move,
he could run stark naked through the Silicon-based position without any abnormal detection!
Such a level of protection seemed a bit redundant.
But not so. Third Brother usually thought a lot more than ordinary people and always handled things without any loopholes.
Doing this, the defense was not against the Silicon-based, but against Xun Zu, who might be watching the Sea of Star Embers!
Who knew if that old guy was hiding in the fourth dimension and secretly peeping?
Once he discovered what they were doing here, it would be easy to connect the matter of the Cosmic Seed to humans.
Wouldn't that spell doom?
So the necessary preparations still had to be made, and they had to go all out!
Because they didn't know Xun Zu's actual ability, or whether their passive would still work against him.
Thus, Zhang San's heart was also uncertain.
But since Xun Zu hadn't truly achieved the Cosmic realm, he should still be within the Star Devourer category, so it ought to be useful.
The two had been wandering here for so long without any abnormalities.
Moreover, the battle at the Bose position was in full swing, with Nan Shen attracting attention!
They had created excellent conditions for this operation, hadn't they?
Li Si scratched his head helplessly:
(˵•̌～•̑) "Third Brother? We've been wandering until now and still haven't found where the Silicon-based are hiding their base planets. Where on earth did these guys hide the planets?"
"Even if they hide them, they can't be on this preparation platform, right?"
"The battle at the Bose position is almost over. If it doesn't work, let's retreat!"
The two hadn't been wandering aimlessly—the Silicon-based were really good at hiding things.
After Zhang San and Li Si arrived, they first went to the core area.
There were indeed a large number of base planets inside, and all the racial beacons of the Silicon-based and the Matter Alliance were also there.
But when they delved deeper into the planets and observed carefully, they found they were all fakes!
They were not base planets at all, but all disguised deadly forbidden weapons!
The quantity was even enough to destroy the entire Silicon-based position hundreds of times!
It was a god-tier trap; whoever tried to grab them would suffer!
After the two came out from the core area, they set their sights on an inner ring weapons depot restricted zone heavily guarded.
Mechanical soldiers went in for regular checks, which looked very suspicious.
They thought the Silicon-based were pulling the same old trick—using the core area as bait, with the real stuff hidden here.
But when they went in to check, indeed, there were base planets and racial beacons in compressed space.
But on closer inspection, they were fakes again!
They were all weapons like Little Sesame Bombs and Annihilator Star Bombs.
This layer after layer of traps—Zhang San and Li Si had visited over a dozen hiding spots, and none were real.
Even a cunning rabbit has three burrows; the Silicon-based had a hundred burrows, and that was an understatement!
If they had actually triggered all the traps, even a Star Devourer would have to shed a layer of skin before leaving!
Who knew they had designed so many traps just to hide base planets?
As for the terminal, which was most important to the Silicon-based, who knew where they hid it?
But it was certain that, according to the Silicon-based's routine, the one in the Guangke Star Domain was definitely fake!
Zhang San ground his teeth:
(งᵒ̌┏益┓ᵒ̌)ง "Retreat? Pfft! I've taken so many Strongman Pills, and I'll have to be cute for who knows how long later!"
"With all this preparation, we're going home empty-handed? A great hero never returns empty-handed!"
"My reputation as an Outlaw must never be tarnished. We've almost wandered through the entire Silicon-based position, and only this preparation platform hasn't been searched!"
"If it's not here either, I'll report that second-place boss! They probably hid the base planets back at their Guangke Star Domain home, right?"
As he spoke, Zhang San angrily jumped off his mount, pulled Li Si, and sank directly through the alloy floor of the preparation platform!
Enter through the door? A true Outlaw never goes through the door, okay?
Even Li Si could pass through walls under the No-Self Realm domain, showing how much the Strongman Pills had strengthened Zhang San's domain!
Li Si hurriedly said:
(٥ﾟ口ﾟ)ﾂ "Hey hey hey! Don't get carried away, will you? Even using your toes, you can't think base planets would be hidden on the preparation platform, right?"
"There are people coming and going here, it's just a platform. How could it possibly hide base plan... (*ﾟﾛﾟ) Hiss! Damn! They are really here?"
The two passed through the shield of the preparation platform, and at the very center was a huge compressed space!
All the Silicon-based base planets and racial beacons were stored here, including those of the Matter Alliance!
And all the base planets had been transformed into mechanical planets by the Silicon-based, meaning these things themselves were weapons!
They came with functions like jump, warp speed, transfer, positioning, self-destruction, particle transmission, etc.
It could be said to be the crystallization of Silicon-based technology!
And the protection inside the space was even more terrifying. Many Silicon-based weapons that Zhang San didn't recognize were on standby at all times.
Once someone invaded this space, the weapons would activate immediately, and the base planets would also directly transfer.
Zhang San watched with a grin:
(￢┏益┓￢) "Tsk tsk tsk—they really know how to hide. We're not sure if these are real yet, let's go check!"
The two naturally entered the compressed space as if entering an empty room.
After a careful inspection, they finally found the genuine goods!
Now Zhang San and Li Si got excited. Without a word, they directly got to work!
They took out star cages, compressed the planets, and stuffed them into dull sacks without sealing the opening.
That wasn't considered cheating, and they learned this from the Bose clan!
Such a large operation, and the Silicon-based alert system still had no reaction!
As if nothing had happened here all along!
The two didn't take everything. They were very particular about which base planets they took!
First, they took all the remaining base planets of the Matter Alliance, not a single one left!
Leaving only the more than two thousand main planets of the Matter Alliance that held racial beacons, making them commanders without soldiers!
Then they took a portion of the Silicon-based planets, but not too many!
So that the Silicon-based's total points would still remain in first place after the change!
Having done all this, Zhang San and Li Si exchanged glances and let out a sinister laugh:
(΄◞ิ↼◟ิ) Hehehe (◞ิ෴◟ิ‵)
Li Si said slyly: "Enough, enough! Nan Shen is about done over there, we should retreat!"
"Let's ship the loot back to our place first!"
Zhang San chuckled:
(՞┏ʖ̫┓՞) "Don't rush! There's still one more thing to do~"
After speaking, he pulled out a silicon crystal source storage device from his pocket!
He randomly found a guard robot, inserted the storage device into it, and wrote in the data!
After the data transfer was complete, the storage device self-destructed immediately, dissipating into nothing!
This was given by Ai Jiang. It only needed to be written into the database of any mechanical soldier!
And this data packet would naturally play its role when it was time to take effect!
It was also a guarantee for this secret home-strike operation!
After doing all this, Zhang San clapped his hands!
"All set! Let's go!"
So he carried the sack, pulled Li Si, and ran off, heading straight for the Carbon Alliance position!
Come without a trace, go without a shadow, leaving not a single mark!
And the stolen base planets in the sack were all subjected to Existence Erasure by Zhang San!
So even the racial points leaderboard didn't change because of this!
Only when Zhang San lifted the Existence Erasure on these base planets, and the Star Ember Tower recalculated the planet ownership,
would the points leaderboard change!
The two ran all the way back to the Carbon Alliance position. Of course, they immediately found Olivia of the Apocalypse race!
They clattered and poured all the stolen base planets out of the sack, removed the star cages, and restored the planets to normal size!
Olivia's eyes widened, looking in disbelief at the huge pile of base planets in front of her:
Σ(っ°口°;)っ "Th-this... where did you get these? Did Nan Shen and the others bring them back?"
"No? Nan Shen and the others never planned to grab a single intact base planet from the Bose side?"
Li Si chuckled: "Don't worry about that. Just decompose and reassemble all these planets!"
"Especially the Silicon-based ones. There are quite a few fragments, remember to clean them out thoroughly!"
Olivia: ???
Silicon-based?
She was a bit confused. Nan Shen and the others had gone to fight the Bose, right? Where did these Silicon-based base planets come from?
But she didn't bother with that anymore. These were points!
She immediately had people decompose and reassemble these planets, turning them into Carbon Alliance assets!
And the total racial points leaderboard on the Star Ember Tower silently began to change!