Everyone was guessing who the daring person was, but people already mentioned that these few shops had all sent someone to the same new Mechanical Repair shop today.
Ya Ro dropped what he was holding and hurried back to his shop.
"Where’s Li Ming?" he grabbed Kay and asked anxiously.
"Just went upstairs." Kay looked clueless and pointed towards the metal staircase.
He hurried upstairs, found Li Ming, and asked urgently, "Was it you who did it?"
Li Ming glanced at him and shrugged.
Ya Ro hesitated, after confirming the matter, he didn’t know what to say.
The thought crossed his mind that Li Ming seemed to fit into the Land of Stars all too well.
"There won’t be any trouble, right?" In the end, that was all he could ask.
"According to the unwritten rules here, I should be fine." Li Ming said, feeling a bit sentimental inside.
Not having to worry about leaving traces, surveillance probes, or the feeling of the technique was indeed very satisfying.
"As long as there are no bodies, it’s fine." Ya Ro added, having spent a long time in the Land of Stars, he knew there was no truly safe place here.
Collectors wouldn’t bother investigating for a few ordinary life forms as long as one superficially respected their rules.
"What’s that in your hand..." It was only then that Ya Ro saw the purple ring that Li Ming was fiddling with in his hand.
"Just a small gadget." Li Ming casually stuffed it into his pocket.
This was an Intelligent Assistance terminal, which had been upgraded and was now a B-class item.
During the slaughter, he had an additional harvest, discovering two Mother Ore blocks and some precious metal materials in those stores.
One of them, named "Duoweiya Glass Ore," was used to enhance the Intelligent Assistance terminal, which after being strengthened, consumed five hundred thousand metal energy to be upgraded to B-class.
[Smart Star Ring--B-class: A multi-intelligence information processing terminal.
...
Control Effect: Profession--Hacker
Control Ability--Intelligent Assistance: Capable of Mimicry within 50000m of the host environment’s information, assist in processing, and can penetrate same-level disguises.]
The range was greatly increased, and it acquired the ability to see through disguises.
...
Meanwhile, in the center of this area, inside a palace isolated by towering metal walls,
a figure held a broken and shattered mechanical blade, with eyes magnified through custom high-power lenses.
He wore a black and red tailcoat, tall and straight in stature, with a pale red skin tone.
A sharp red tail swayed ceaselessly, and two bent horns on his head resembled the demonic figures from some interstellar native myths,
"Holtli, Element engraving craftsmanship, should be the battle blade of the Knight Legion, a shame it’s broken too severely." He spoke indifferently, "Sixteen million."
"Collector Sir." A Vigo standing below changed expression, all four eyes flickering, "To bring this broken blade here, my team lost two-thirds, sixteen million is too..."
He hadn’t finished speaking when, in a blur, the broken blade was stabbed into the floor right in front of him.
"If you don’t want to sell, take it away. No one in the Land of Stars can offer a higher price than me; if you want to sell it outside in civilization, I won’t stop you."
The Collector folded the high-magnification glasses on his face, quickly shrinking them to the size of a small lens piece and then tucked them into his right pocket.
The Vigo carefully reached his arm toward the broken blade on the ground, the veins in his arm bulging as he seemed to attempt to pull it out, but no matter how hard he tried, the blade wouldn’t budge.
"Eighteen million, final price." The Collector added two million with a slight frown.
The Vigo’s throat moved as he nodded difficultly, covered in cold sweat, "Deal."
He made the transfer payment on the spot, and after the Vigo left, a middle-aged human dressed like a butler standing behind the Collector said in a low voice, "The Vigo are indeed keen calculators, actually thinking of taking it away."
Raising his hand, the Collector had the broken blade back in his grasp, "Now that’s interesting."
"Huo Tan, what’s the matter?" he inquired.
"Sir, three Mechanical Repair shops have been cleaned out," he replied softly.
The Collector’s movements paused slightly, and his gaze took on a fiery intensity, "Who did it?"
"It’s a peer, take a look..." Huo Tan passed over an Intelligent Assistance terminal, "Very clean work."
The Collector appeared slightly surprised as he took the intelligent terminal. The flame in his eyes gradually faded, "An outsider driving a Sela royal ship?"
"Is there any news about this matter?"
"I’ve checked," Huo Tan responded, "Around more than half a month ago, Duke Bai Ye of Sela and an executive of the Star Hunters, Atom, died on the same unnamed planet while they were tracking down a cargo."
"It must have been this guy’s doing as well, but we don’t know the specifics."
"Two B-level life forms?" The Collector was even more astonished as he continued to review the information, "He seems to be quite capable, huh. He spent five million to rent unit 131 in zone B and opened a Mechanical Repair shop?"
The Collector chuckled, "Interesting, eh?"
His smile ceased and became inscrutable as his gaze lingered on an image—the name of Li Ming’s shop, along with a few lines of annotations.
"Only undertakes repair and customization of C-grade or higher weapons, with no upper limit?" The Collector’s eyes flickered.