278: artificial sun

Adil frowned, looking at Monliss, who was patiently explaining, and said in disbelief, "Monliss, you're not joking with me, are you?"

"Robbing items from the Dawn Merchant Guild—what a stupid idea."

"At least in this Extremely Cold Universe, it's absolutely impossible for such a daring creature to exist."

Then, Adil seemed to realize something and said, "Monliss, don't be too greedy."

"Although Life Planet No. 4626347 is very important to our Day Tiger Merchant Guild."

"But ten thousand units of Origin Energy is already an extremely reasonable, even highly inflated, price."

"If your Dawn Merchant Guild wants to bully others with its power, our Day Tiger Merchant Guild is not to be trifled with."

"If you truly provoke Day Tiger to act, even your Dawn Merchant Guild will definitely not fare well."

Day Tiger is a newly promoted Domain Lord Level powerhouse.

His race is unknown, his true name is unknown; he has only been known to call himself Day Tiger since his debut, rising to prominence starting a hundred thousand years ago.

The Day Tiger Merchant Guild is the guild he established, primarily selling Talent scrolls.

Speaking of Talent scrolls, one must mention Day Tiger's incredible ability.

He seems to have the ability to plunder the Talents of his enemies.

Everything that doesn't kill him only makes him stronger.

In a way no one could have imagined, Day Tiger relied on this ability to level up by fighting monsters, eventually becoming a Domain Lord Level powerhouse in just a hundred thousand years.

Although Day Tiger is only a first-order Domain Lord Level powerhouse, as the owner of the Day Tiger Merchant Guild, which primarily deals in Talent scrolls...

Coupled with Day Tiger's incredible ability, it's easy to imagine how powerful his Talent must be.

Even ordinary third-order Domain Lord Level powerhouses are unwilling to cross him.

Facing Adil's questioning, Monliss smiled apologetically and said, "Mr. Adil, please don't be angry."

"You know the reputation of our Dawn Merchant Guild; it's absolutely impossible for us to do something like arbitrarily raising prices."

"Furthermore, for a Life Planet provisionally rated A-class, ten thousand units of Origin Energy is already the absolute limit of the price."

"How could we be so insensible as to do something that would affect the reputation of the Dawn Merchant Guild?"

"Although it's somewhat difficult to understand, indeed, some 'ants' have laid hands on Life Planet No. 4626347."

"But don't worry, as long as you are willing to wait for some time, we will absolutely recover Life Planet No. 4626347 at the first opportunity and continue to complete the transaction between our two merchant guilds."

Facing Monliss's explanation, Adil snorted coldly and said, "It is precisely because I trust the reputation of your Dawn Merchant Guild that I raise such a reasonable question."

"However, seeing that you are not such an insensible person, this matter should not be a show you directed yourself to raise the price."

After a moment of thought, Adil said, "Alright, I'll give your Dawn Merchant Guild one year."

"As long as you can deliver Life Planet No. 4626347 to me intact within one year, this transaction can still proceed."

"If more than a year passes and your Dawn Merchant Guild still hasn't recovered Life Planet No. 4626347, then our Day Tiger Merchant Guild will assume Life Planet No. 4626347 is ownerless."

"For ownerless items, our Day Tiger Merchant Guild will naturally take action; at that time, please don't blame us for being unsentimental."

Under normal circumstances, Adil would not be so persistent about an ordinary Life Planet.

But with the blessing of a certain special reason, Adil was willing to give Monliss another chance.

One year is extremely short for cosmic creatures, but it is entirely sufficient for the Dawn Merchant Guild to recover a Life Planet.

After all, this concerns the reputation of the Dawn Merchant Guild.

Even if Monliss didn't have the strength, she could certainly seek help from above.

One year is not only not too little, but ridiculously long.

At least neither Adil nor Monliss would believe that the Dawn Merchant Guild would be unable to recover Life Planet No. 4626347 within a year.

Monliss never expected that Adil would be willing to give her a year's chance.

She immediately fawned, "Thank you, Mr. Adil, for your understanding and support."

"Rest assured, within one year, we will definitely deliver Life Planet No. 4626347 to you and complete our unfinished transaction."

At this point, Monliss gritted her teeth and said, "If, within one year, our Dawn Merchant Guild is unable to recover Life Planet No. 4626347..."

"Then the Dawn Merchant Guild will transfer the ownership of Life Planet No. 4626347 to the Day Tiger Merchant Guild."

"At that time, please feel free to take action, Mr. Adil."

"However, our agreement like this is somewhat based on mere words, Mr. Adil, how about we sign a contract?"

How could Monliss let a cooked duck fly away just like that?

One year is neither long nor short.

At least Adil would have countless opportunities to change his mind during that time.

To secure Adil, Monliss had no choice but to throw out the bait of transferring ownership of Life Planet No. 4626347.

In her opinion, this was a completely foolproof situation.

There was a one hundred percent probability that the Dawn Merchant Guild would easily recover its own Life Planet No. 4626347.

In that case, the so-called gift clause would naturally be meaningless.

Even if there was a negative one hundred percent probability that the Dawn Merchant Guild failed to recover Life Planet No. 4626347 within a year...

That would prove that the enemy was incredibly powerful, so powerful that even the Dawn Merchant Guild couldn't contend with them.

In such a situation, the ownership of Life Planet No. 4626347 would already be meaningless.

Giving it away would incur absolutely no loss for the Dawn Merchant Guild.

Evidently, Adil had the same thought and said, without showing any gratitude, "A fancy little trick."

"However, for a contract that is a sure win for me, I naturally cannot refuse."

Thinking this, Adil directly moved his consciousness and used his Mental Power to outline in the void before him.

In a short while, a contract with the terms written out appeared before the two beasts.

Without hesitation, Monliss gleefully affixed the brand belonging to the Dawn Merchant Guild.

This farce concerning Life Planet No. 4626347 was thus concluded.

The subsequent matters also became incredibly simple.

Monliss only needed to recover Life Planet No. 4626347 within one year.

However, Monliss probably never imagined that Lin Tianwei had already made his escape, ball in hand.

He had even directly shifted the blame to the Star Devouring Beast Avatar.

This journey to recover Life Planet No. 4626347 might be even darker than Monliss imagined... Milky Way Galaxy.

A silver-white spaceship was traveling at high speed.

The beast piloting this spaceship was naturally Lin Tianwei.

Under Lin Tianwei's incredibly skilled piloting, Lin Tianwei easily traversed a vast distance, directly leaving the Solar System and arriving in the Milky Way Galaxy.

Cosmic voyages that typically lasted hundreds of years were extremely tedious for Lin Tianwei.

Fortunately.

He had plenty of things to do.

The first thing to deal with was naturally the matter of Blue Star.

How to handle this Blue Star, which he had swallowed into his internal space, was naturally Lin Tianwei's top priority.

Thinking this, Lin Tianwei looked at his inner world.

Although there were boundaries here, due to its immense vastness, the Blue Star creatures couldn't observe them at all.

So, in their eyes, there was only boundless darkness.

That's right.

Having lost the function of the sun, Blue Star also lost its energy source, completely plunging into boundless darkness.

If this problem wasn't solved quickly...

Blue Star might have survived the Dawn Merchant Guild's persecution, but it would definitely not escape the fate of becoming a dead star.

After a moment of thought, Lin Tianwei quickly came up with a method.

Since it had lost the energy emitted by the sun, he only needed to replenish the so-called energy.

So, Lin Tianwei's top priority was to create a sun within his body.

A sun exclusive to Blue Star.

Due to the restrictions of his Talent: Star Devourer (Mythical), Lin Tianwei obviously couldn't swallow the sun again and use it as a charging machine for Blue Star.

Therefore, the only choice he could make was to use Origin Energy to create a sun for Blue Star.

Thinking this, Lin Tianwei looked at his remaining two units and a bit of Origin Energy with a pang of heartache.

Origin Energy was something that diminished with every use.

Furthermore, with his Talent: Star Devourer (Mythical) sealed, Lin Tianwei had temporarily lost his source of Origin Energy.

Most importantly, to maintain an artificial sun, Lin Tianwei would have to continuously consume Origin Energy.

Although, because the Origin Energy was located within his internal world, there was no issue of energy loss...

Over time, however, this would still be a terrifying consumption.

However, in order not to let Blue Star become a dead star, Lin Tianwei ultimately decided to consume Origin Energy.

Origin Energy - 0.1!

As the Origin Energy was consumed, a sun instantly appeared in Lin Tianwei's inner world.

A rather mini sun.

However, due to its closer proximity to Blue Star, it didn't appear to have changed much.

Making Blue Star rotate had become an impractical matter, and it would even consume Lin Tianwei's excess energy.

So the only option was to make this artificial sun rotate.

Relatively speaking, Blue Star and the artificial sun formed a relative motion trajectory, maintaining their previous operational state.

And so.

Just as the Blue Star creatures were despairing from being plunged into darkness, a brand new sun emerged, bringing light back to them.

America Command Center.

MacArthur felt boundless despair in his heart as he experienced the endless darkness.

After finally risking everything on a gamble, he found that he had lost so completely.

Deprived of the sun's protection, Blue Star quickly plunged into a true winter.

Temperatures began to plummet wildly, like a diver.

In less than half a day, single-digit temperatures had already become the norm.

To conserve energy, MacArthur didn't even dare to turn on the lights.

It seemed he had lost his gamble.

The previous voice was merely a trick by an enemy disguised as Lord Tiger King.

Its purpose was to make the entire Blue Star give up resistance and come to this strange space.

Yes, a strange space.

Freed from the constraints of the ownerless Life Planet marker, the people on Blue Star also gained the ability to observe the outside world.

However, the final observation results filled them with despair.

They discovered with horror that although they were still on Blue Star, Blue Star was no longer in the Solar System.

The emptiness around Blue Star corroborated this point.

Although the universe was quiet, it was absolutely impossible for there to be nothing at all.

They had definitely been captured by some powerful entity, becoming the enemy's prey.

Thinking this, MacArthur gave a self-deprecating smile and said, "I was still too naive."

"Lord Tiger King might have already perished in the universe, so how could he bring hope to us?"

"Everything was just wishful thinking."

"Perhaps we have become the food of some terrifying creature, and it intends to digest us little by little in an incredibly special way."

It wasn't MacArthur's fault for being so desperate; in fact, there were far too many people who held such thoughts.

If it weren't for the fact that Blue Star had suffered too many hardships recently, making them numb, Blue Star would definitely not be so quiet.

The only ones who still held hope for Lin Tianwei were perhaps the people of Tiger King Farm.

As those who had survived countless times under Lin Tianwei's protection, they always had a mysterious confidence in Lin Tianwei.

Confidence that Lin Tianwei would once again lead them out of their predicament.

Even in this time of extreme energy scarcity, they still chose to light the lamps on the Tiger King statue.

Making Lin Tianwei's statue like a guiding light, illuminating the confusion in their hearts.

Prayer.

Pious prayers converged like trickling streams, gradually becoming a mesmerizing divine sound, lingering within Tiger King Farm.

After discovering that Lin Tianwei had saved them again, their faith had become unshakeable.

Their hearts and minds were firmly aligned with Lin Tianwei.

Even with their backs to darkness, they were unwilling to give up the light that Lin Tianwei might bring them.

They had become warriors willing to sacrifice themselves for Lin Tianwei.

However, due to their extremely low strength, it was basically impossible for Lin Tianwei to have any use for them.

Origin Energy.

Strands of Origin Energy began to condense from Barioss's body, and then, as if finding its owner, quickly integrated into Lin Tianwei's body.

"Ding, congratulations to the host for absorbing free Origin Energy, Origin Energy +0.1!"

Lin Tianwei, who was about to ignite the Origin Energy sun, didn't expect such a pleasant surprise.

It was a pity that he hadn't yet figured out the logic behind Barioss providing him with Origin Energy.

Otherwise, Lin Tianwei might be able to find another path to quickly become stronger.

Although countless people were despairing, Lin Tianwei had no intention of abandoning his idea of saving Blue Star.

In a sense, Lin Tianwei simply wanted to save Blue Star.

Saving you, what does it have to do with you?

Snap.

A sound that resonated in everyone's hearts appeared over Blue Star.

Like a match striking a fire starter, it quickly ignited the hope in everyone's hearts.

And that incredibly dark sky.

All Blue Star creatures were pleasantly surprised to find that a sun had risen in the sky once again.

A sun bright enough to protect all of them.

Extremely bright.

Under Lin Tianwei's urging, the newborn sun emitted brilliant light, releasing incredibly scorching warmth towards Blue Star.

Little by little, dispelling the severe cold on this tragic planet.