**Chapter 2715: The Scheming Monster**
By the time this footage was played, everything was already crystal clear!
The shit pot had been firmly placed on Silicon's head—now they couldn't clear their name even if they jumped into the Styx River!
Silicon was the one who had stolen the Cosmos Seed, and they had tried to use the planet's disappearance to frame Humanity!
Who knew Jiangnan had made multiple preparations, always guarding against Silicon's backstab?
Silicon was the one who had schemed against everyone!
Qian Li could no longer suppress the fury in his heart—he really hadn't beaten the wrong person back then!
When the Cosmos Seed first went missing, it was also Silicon's forces that had discovered it first!
But what worried him even more was whether Jiangnan had actually leaked the secret of the Cosmos Seed!
Once that secret was exposed, the Bose Clan would once again find themselves besieged by all the races of the Starry Sky!
The end of the Qingjie Great Venerable was a precedent that Xun Zu absolutely did not want to see!
In the footage, Jiangnan spoke calmly:
(￢_￢)"Want to know the secret of the Cosmos Seed? This price isn't nearly enough—selling me the Terminal would be closer to the mark!"
"Besides, I don't really want to hand the button to start a war over to Silicon—that would make things uncontrollable and far too dangerous for the Carbon Alliance!"
"Let's keep this conversation to just a transaction. Of course, if you're genuinely considering selling the Terminal, we can talk."
Gang Xiu glared: "You…"
Seeing this, Qian Li inexplicably breathed a sigh of relief. At least Jiangnan hadn't revealed the secret of the Cosmos Seed!
Otherwise, the Bose Clan's situation would have been even more dire!
The follow-up content in the footage showed the two sides reaching a deal: the Carbon Alliance would be the main attackers in this operation, getting paid for the job, while Silicon would harvest the results.
And to prevent betrayal, they had encrypted a data packet!
After the content of the Time Stone Marrow finished playing, everyone's eyes were fixed on Silicon Lord and Gang Xiu!
Silicon had played their hand beautifully!
If Jiangnan hadn't prepared so thoroughly, everyone would have been played by them!
Yet even so, Silicon was still the biggest winner!
At this moment, Silicon Lord fell silent.
This truly was yellow mud in the crotch—not shit, but still shit!
He could only confirm that the Cosmos Seed really hadn't been taken by Silicon. But with this incident and the data packet, even he couldn't be sure whether Gang Xiu had actually done it!
Qian Li narrowed his eyes at Silicon Lord:
(ꐦ°᷄益°᷅)"You take from us, and then try to use us as a weapon? You want all the advantages for yourself, don't you?"
"What else do you have to say?"
Jiangnan said nonchalantly:
╮(•́～•̀)╭"Take someone's money, do someone's job. I'm running a legitimate business here. If it's not my fault, I won't take the blame. Don't try to throw dirty water on me!"
All the races of the Starry Sky twitched their mouths. So your idea of "legitimate business" means crippling a Starry Sky Overlord?
As expected of Jiangnan! His soul was made of ¥!
Give him money, and he truly gets the job done for you!
Silicon Lord narrowed his eyes: [┐≖益≖┌]"I, Silicon, still don't admit it. I can only confirm that the Cosmos Seed matter has nothing to do with me. As for the rest, I'll explain it all when the investigation yields results!"
No matter whether Silicon actually did it or not, just as Jiangnan said, Silicon was still the biggest winner!
The situation on the field remained favorable to Silicon!
Qian Li narrowed his eyes: "Hmph. Is that so? The truth no longer matters. Just wait and see who will be the last one standing!"
Even knowing that the Cosmos Seed was in Silicon's hands, the Bose Clan had no good way to deal with it—they had already tried during the Bose-Silicon War once before!
If they tried again, they'd only fall into the same deadlock!
Once Xun Zu successfully broke through using the Sequence Offensive and Defensive Battle, the first thing he would destroy was Silicon!
But the Matter Alliance, which had been thoroughly sold out, was utterly enraged!
Chen Mu roared: ꒰▼益▼ꐦ꒱"We don't want explanations or clarifications! We want our Base Planets back!"
"Those are all our blood-and-sweat planets! Return them to us right now! Otherwise, the Matter Alliance's two thousand-plus races aren't just here for show!"
"Who the hell is going to keep playing this game with you? Don't push us too far!"
Silicon Lord narrowed his eyes and turned coldly:
[┐￢_￢┌]"You better think this through carefully. I hold the Race Beacons of all Matter Alliance races in my hand!"
"I can send out a single command, and all Matter Alliance members will be collectively eliminated, losing their competition qualification! Their Sequence ranking will bottom out!"
"Indeed, you can still participate in the subsequent Peak War to earn points, but… how many races in the Matter Alliance have Star Devourers? How many points can they get?"
"Once the Race Beacons are destroyed, for some races, it means complete elimination. With a low ranking, their authority for the next ten thousand years will plummet to freezing point!"
Mai Liushi was so angry he rattled. Sure enough! He was using the Race Beacons to threaten them again!
But Silicon Lord had no choice either. To keep the Matter Alliance and continue using them, he had to resort to threatening with the Race Beacons, forcibly binding them together!
Chen Mu ground his teeth:
꒰ꐦง▼益▼꒱ง"Do you really think we're stupid? Fine! Then we won't play in this competition at all! We'll endure these ten thousand years and fight again next time!"
Silicon Lord said coldly:
[┐ˇ_ˇ┌]"Endure ten thousand years? Once you lose your Top Ten Sequence qualification, do you really think you'll live to see the next Sequence Offensive and Defensive Battle? The Starry Sky is full of tigers and wolves!"
"You have only one choice: continue cooperating with me, Silicon, to ensure our points are sufficient. If there's any surplus when it's over, I can distribute it to the Matter Alliance races to boost their rankings!"
"After all, a higher Matter Alliance ranking also benefits me. Think it over for yourselves!"
All the races of the Matter Alliance were nearly fainting from anger. Could they really just give up? If they could, they wouldn't have participated in the first place!
Now that their Race Beacons were in Silicon's hands, Silicon could say whatever they wanted!
No matter how angry they were, they had to maintain their cooperative relationship with Silicon!
But in reality, Silicon had already lost the Matter Alliance!
Give the surplus to the Matter Alliance? With the Carbon Alliance standing in between, how much surplus could there be?
Mai Liushi and Chen Mu had already decided to coast. No matter what orders Silicon gave, they would just pay lip service and half-heartedly comply!
They had even stopped holding out any hope!
Jiangnan laughed:
(͡°↼͡°)✧"Members of the Matter Alliance, don't be too upset. The Sequence Offensive and Defensive Battle isn't over yet!"
"I told you, the Carbon Alliance's points are already safely in the bag. Grabbing too many Base Planets is useless!"
"When it comes down to it, they're just a bunch of meaningless points! All is uncertain—you're all still cattle and horses!"
"Just wait a bit. I'll prepare something, and you'll hear good news from me!"
The Immortal Kingdom, Ming Sha, and the others ground their teeth. Special meow "cattle and horses"? They were supposed to be oxen and horses for you??
And "just points"? Then why did you snatch them?
They also didn't understand what Jiangnan meant by his last words!
Jiangnan then said loudly:
(˶‾᷄ꇴ‾᷅˵)"Everyone, the Carbon Alliance's job here is done. We won't be staying any longer!"
"Tian Li! Yes, I destroyed the Bose Clan's core Lingxu. If the Bose Clan wants revenge, come to the Carbon Alliance camp. I, Jiangnan, will face it all!"
"But when I work for others, I might slack off. When I work for myself, I put in all the effort I have. So come prepared to never return!"
Tian Li's expression turned extremely ugly. How could they take revenge?
Under the game rules, there was simply no way!
Of the four major faction leaders of the Bose Clan, Jiangnan had captured three!
Jiangnan turned to look at Silicon and said coldly:
(￢～￢ꐦ)"Pleasure doing business with you. But next time, don't come to me. I don't want to have to constantly guard against betrayal when cooperating with anyone!"
"You need to understand: people grow! I, Jiangnan, am no longer the little youth who first stepped into the Starry Sky!"
"Brothers! Time to go home!"
With that, he led the Carbon Alliance into the Dimensional Gap, leaving behind only the mess of the Bose camp and their battered warriors!
Tian Li was filled with bitterness. Although the Sequence Offensive and Defensive Battle wasn't over yet, with only this many points left, how could the Bose Clan turn things around?
The only big houses left were Silicon and the Carbon Alliance!
The Carbon Alliance was too tough for the Bose Clan to crack. It seemed the only option was to grab planets from Silicon!
Sigh…
The Matter Alliance was all full of resentment and indignation!
Gu Qiong said weakly:
꒰◔～◔ิ#꒱"Um… should we still attack the Angels?"
Ming Sha roared: (ง°皿°)ง"Attack my ass! Fight only to make wedding clothes for others?"
"Go back to camp and rest! Silicon is a bunch of bastards!"
The Matter Alliance also withdrew!
Back at their own camp, Silicon Lord immediately gave orders!
"Deprive Gang Xiu of his consciousness body permissions. Confine and seal him until the investigation yields results! Replace him with Shadow Warrior as the leader!"
"Go back and investigate! Don't let any clue slip through! I want the truth!"
Gang Xiu was completely deflated. He didn't even know if he had done it or not!
All records were in the database!
∠[┐'_'┌]"Yes, Silicon Lord!"
Silicon went back to investigate the case, but even if they investigated until flowers bloomed, they wouldn't find anything!
The disappearance of the Base Planets had been silent and without a trace. Third Brother had left no evidence!
And once Ai Jiang's data packet was decoded, it filled in all the transaction records in exhaustive detail. It wasn't just Gang Xiu's mind that had extra data!
Back in the Dimensional Gap, Walter laughed heartily:
٩꒰๑^ꇴ^๑꒱۶"What a huge harvest! This is incredible! We only knew about the Annihilation Plan, but you had already negotiated with Silicon before this?"
Insect Sixth clicked his tongue:
(๑מּ,_מּ)"But Silicon really played this hand smoothly. Good thing the plan didn't succeed, or the Carbon Alliance would have been in trouble. They almost used us as a weapon!"
"Even so, Silicon has won big! Sitting firmly in first place! The betting agreement is solid too!"
Jiangnan put his hands on his hips, smug as hell:
(︶.̮︶〃)ﾉ"Well, what did you expect? When cooperating with Silicon, how could I not have a defense? After all, they've screwed me over once before!"
Yang Jian twitched his mouth as he listened.
What cooperation with Silicon? Jiangnan was the scheming monster who had fooled everyone!
Now, even without any actual cooperation, the world believed Silicon was the one behind it all!
By shifting the blame to Silicon, he had deflected the conflict from his attack on the Bose Clan and cleared Humanity of suspicion regarding the Cosmos Seed!
He had even made a profit off Silicon and driven a wedge between Silicon and the Matter Alliance, isolating Silicon!
Jiangnan was the one who had won the most, wasn't he?
He even fooled his own people!
That old ballista operator!
Olivia's pretty face turned pale. She remembered where that batch of planets had actually come from!
It didn't look like they had been acquired through a transaction at all!
Things were probably not that simple!
She looked at Jiangnan and couldn't help shuddering. With her own intelligence, if Jiangnan sold her, she would probably still be counting the money for him!
Ye Yuwei tilted her head and asked:
(๑•̌～•̑)"Just as you said, the Carbon Alliance is secure. We've got more Base Planets than we can handle. What's our next move? Are you planning to just lie low until the end of the battle?"
Jiangnan shrugged: ╮(•́ω•̀)╭"How could that be? What would we do with so many Base Planets? Once the battle ends, those Base Planets are just worthless junk!"
"Of course, while they still have meaning, we'll make another profit—turn junk into cash!"
Everyone looked at Jiangnan in stunned disbelief. Was he planning to…