Chapter Sixty-Eight: Earth · Beast Tide (Ten)

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“You don’t have many points at the moment, and everyone else has just gone through an exchange opportunity. Theoretically, this round of trading will essentially be bartering. Based on the information I’ve gathered, it seems the other party hasn’t spent a lot of points, and the Pimon civilization may have some valuable data to offer later, so the more points you have, the better.”

Sun Meng blinked at the Earth representative’s deduction. “Did you awaken a super brain too? How did you figure things out so quickly!” He wasn’t skilled in this mode of thinking, but he was still a super brain himself. Yet his own reactions weren’t nearly this fast, nor was his thinking as far-reaching!

“I developed my brain when I broke through to the innate stage, and this time I naturally awakened this constitution. Now I can analyze real-time situations for you much more effectively.”

Sun Meng rolled his eyes. “Alright! Should we reach out to the person we just saw?” To be honest, he was quite interested in gene core weapons, especially since acquiring the Sword Bone had heightened his desire for close combat. However, his best weapon at the moment was a bow—using a bow for close combat?

“We can do that.”

Sun Meng nodded and sent a message to Kokolaru. She soon came over with the materials, since the transaction wasn’t being handled by the system and wouldn’t be automatically converted.

After organizing the information, Sun Meng sent it to the other party.

“You can send over some of the technology names, and I’ll see if they’re what we need,” came the prompt reply.

He sent a list of technologies, and soon received the answer.

“We need thirty-five percent of the listed technologies, and we’ll provide fifteen hundred points, along with mid-tier second-stage energy crystals and metal materials as supplements, totaling thirty-five hundred points in value.” Attached were system evaluations for the energy crystals and metals.

“They seem quite sincere!” Kokolaru remarked.

“That’s not necessarily the case,” Sun Meng replied, feeling as though the other party knew something he didn’t.

“Their valuation is at least a thousand points lower than it should be. You can increase the quantity of metal materials—try probing with an extra five hundred points,” a red message floated by.

Sun Meng said, “This price is a bit low. Add five hundred points and it’s a deal.”

“Five hundred points is too much—I don’t have that many points on hand. Can we substitute with energy crystals of equal value?”

Sun Meng replied, “Our civilization doesn’t lack energy crystals. How about three hundred points?”

“We can’t spare more points on this transaction. We can offer metal materials worth eight hundred points. That’s our best offer; if you’re not satisfied, we’ll have to cancel the deal.”

Sun Meng said, “Five hundred points worth of metal materials, three hundred points in energy crystals. If you agree, it’s a deal.”

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“Deal. I’ll head to the trading area now. What mark should I use?”

“Red star,” Sun Meng answered, then looked at Kokolaru. “Want to come along?” After all, the information involved her civilization as well. Although the other party hadn’t specified which materials they needed, since he had previously teamed up with Kokolaru, he couldn’t exclude her.

“No, you negotiated with them in your own name, so I won’t go. My civilization needs things with more options, so I need to finish my own exchanges quickly,” Kokolaru said. Earlier, while experimenting with the room’s technological products in the lounge, Sun Meng had helped her digest and understand some of the technologies. With his earlier theoretical deductions, Kokolaru’s civilization could progress to late second-stage even by relying solely on itself.

Before this exchange began, she had already decided to supplement the other two development lines of her civilization’s system, preparing for advancement to third-stage.

Arriving at the trading area, Sun Meng immediately spotted the participant from that civilization. It was unavoidable—a five-meter-tall giant stood out among a crowd where the tallest barely reached three meters. The gleaming metallic bald head made any further marking unnecessary!

Sun Meng strode over. “Hello, I’m Sun Meng, representative of Earth civilization.”

“Darlophis, participant of the Kuros civilization. Pleased to meet you. I’ve prepared the trading materials and points. Did you bring the information?” the giant asked, crouching down.

Seeing the other party’s friendly smile, Sun Meng returned it in kind. “Of course, I can transfer part of the information to you right away.”

The exchange went smoothly. Sun Meng looked at the metal materials and energy crystals in his storage and felt he’d made a great deal. For now, Earth civilization couldn’t produce such high-quality metal materials and energy crystals.

But since the other party had agreed to the deal, it couldn’t be said anyone had truly profited or lost—just that each got what they needed.

“Participant, with these energy crystals and metal materials plus the gene core weapon technology, we’ll soon break through our materials technology bottleneck and enter a comprehensive mid-tier second-stage era.”

Sun Meng nodded. “I’ll contact him now.”

Ten minutes later, “What’s going on?” Sun Meng sent another inquiry, but the participant from that civilization still didn’t respond.

He sighed and moved on to other civilizations he’d previously selected. But these were all focused on martial evolution, and all were early second-stage civilizations—Earth’s current level could easily surpass them.

Though each had unique traits, they amounted to little more than offshoots in the context of Earth’s system.

“Participant, you might try looking at technological or magical civilizations. There could be technologies like Kokolaru’s civilization had.”

Sun Meng nodded. That was all he could do now.

In a separate room, Pix was sitting across from a participant who looked ninety percent human.

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“I can accept your deal, but with only our two civilizations, facing a third-stage beast will be very difficult. Many of those civilizations won’t be your cannon fodder—they have the strength to escape your plan. At the very least, we need more partners,” the man said.

“But you must understand, the final advancement resources are limited. I can’t guarantee they’ll follow our plan, but I can guarantee we’ll have enough resources,” Pix responded. “To that mysterious being, this contest may be nothing more than a game, but for us, it’s an unprecedented opportunity. There’s no absolute mercy or kindness along this path—everything is for our own civilization, and I’ve given them their chance.” As he spoke, he waved his hand and a screen appeared in the air.

“This is the contact for the one seeking gene core technology. You can decide whether or not to collaborate. Time is running out, and we both know it.” With that, his body melted into liquid and merged with the wall.

The man glanced at the information source on the screen, and his eyes suddenly lit up. “It’s that civilization!”

Sun Meng closed another civilization’s profile, astonished to discover a magic-based civilization had transformed into a divine faith-based system!

Yes, just like those belief-based divine civilizations he’d read about in fantasy novels. Though the gods were man-made, the system still formed.

“Message incoming!” Sun Meng saw the source, and immediately opened it.

“You intend to trade gene core weapon technology? I’d like to meet with you face to face.”

Then Sun Meng saw the other party’s profile—this civilization’s race was ninety-eight percent similar to Earth humans!

“Aquablue Star civilization—there’s a strange sense of familiarity!” Sun Meng exclaimed.

“Where shall we meet?”

“Room C4.”

Sun Meng looked at the screen. “Any thoughts?”

“Perhaps we’ll gain a reliable ally.”

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