194: Chapter 194 The Illusion Fleet Deal Completed, Trisolaran System as a Bonus

Hollywood Hills, detached villa.

Zhang Yi leaned back against the sofa, and on the system interface before him, a summary notification of incoming emotion points was jumping.

Over on Prince Dao Dun's side, the moment when the Fourth Prince of Zeta Star cried out " It's all silicone! ",

the fear values of the five people—Rockefeller III, Samuel, Isabelle, Jacob, and William—instantly soared to their peak.

They were also human, and Prince Dao Dun's imperial decree of " Total destruction " naturally included themselves as well.

Immediately afterwards, Prince Dao Dun casually added another sentence: " You are agents, you won't die ",

The emotional reversal of the five people from despair to wild joy, superimposed with their yearning to rule Mars as kings, was precisely captured and calculated by the system, netting him five million in one go.

Added to the twenty-one million left over after the previous entries of Gravity Trap and Parameter Overload, he now held twenty-six million emotion points in his hands.

Twenty-six million.

Zhang Yi stared at that number for a moment, gently tapping the sofa armrest with his fingers.

It certainly looked like a lot, but it was still several orders of magnitude away from the grand spectacle of a million Zeta Star fleets invading Earth that he wanted to set up.

And right now, all the ingredients that could be added had already been added.

The Gravity Trap and Parameter Overload plans of the Longevity Faction and Tech Faction had already been handed over to Biden and Prant respectively,

the execution teams on both sides were pushing forward intensively;

over at The Five Great Families, Prince Dao Dun's " Mars Zoo " plan had also been finalized,

Rockefeller III and the others were busy searching the world for natural human samples without silicone modification for the Zeta Star prince.

All the laid plotlines were moving forward along their established tracks,

and if he wanted to add more ingredients, he could only add those truly grand scenes,

while the emotion points required for grand scenes were astronomical figures for every single frame.

Regarding this matter of adding ingredients, he had already been pondering it repeatedly before Prince Dao Dun watched the South Korea girl group.

Sitting on the sofa and watching Prince Dao Dun explain the history of Zeta Star's technological dependence to Rockefeller III and the others,

Zhang Yi's brain had actually been running at high speed on another track:

" Can Gravity Trap and Parameter Overload be directly exposed to the general public? "

At the very beginning, he did have this thought.

But on second thought, Prant would do this for him sooner or later.

Prant currently held the complete blueprints of the " Protocol Deception Broadcast Tower " given by the Tech Faction,

with his personality, at some well-timed campaign node, he would definitely take the initiative to leak these high-tech equipments to the media as his political achievement chips,

at that time, the news headlines across the Lighthouse Country and even the globe would naturally spread the news that " mankind has mastered the key technology to counter alien fleets " to every screen terminal for him for free.

If he spent money to buy props to do this himself right now, not only would he waste a sum of unjust money, but it would also be equivalent to paving the way for Prant for free.

Not cost-effective.

Therefore, if he wanted to deploy and add more ingredients again, he had to use his brains on new grand scenes.

He opened the search interface of the system mall, pulled the filter conditions directly to the " fleet-scale " tier, and then asked into the void:

" System, if I want to set up the scene of a million Zeta Star fleets launching a full-scale attack on the Solar System from the depths of the universe, how many emotion points are required? "

The system replied almost in a second, its tone as calm and precise as ever:

[ Not much, ten billion. ]

Zhang Yi suspended his fingers resting on the sofa armrest in mid-air, falling silent for a moment.

It wasn't that he was scared; he had long expected that this number wouldn't be low,

however, when the magnitude of " ten billion " was uttered from the system's mouth in a flat tone similar to reciting menu prices, it still made the corners of his mouth twitch uncontrollably.

" Ten billion? "

His tone switched from the previous calmness to a half-sarcastic, half-helpless amusement triggered by the outrageous quote:

" Why don't you just go rob someone? "

" With ten billion, I could buy the national debt of the entire Lighthouse Country, and it even comes with a lifetime membership card for the Capitol revolving restaurant. "

" A ten billion fleet, is this fleet of yours welded ship by ship with diamonds? "

[ Diamonds do not possess the thermal control performance required for warp engines. ]

[ The Zeta Star standard fleet configuration provided by this system includes ship-borne warp engines, superconducting energy storage cores, adaptive shield generators, ship-borne attack aircraft formations, crew life support systems, and a complete ship-borne intelligent tactical command chain. ]

[ The cost of a single ship is already... ]

" Stop. "

" You don't need to recite the manual for me. "

Zhang Yi raised one hand and pressed down in the void.

He leaned back against the sofa, closed his eyes, and ran the accounts rapidly in his mind.

The grand finale of the million-fleet had been foreshadowed since a few months ago when he fabricated the first fleet engagement using heaven and earth illusions on the ruins of the Hoover Dam.

Diana, Biden, Prant, Musk, Edward, Rockefeller III...

All the agents, all the factions, all the technological aid, all the fear and hope were paving the way for this endgame.

If the million-fleet didn't appear at the final moment, all the emotion points, script fabrications, bionic humans, and illusion props he had invested previously would be equivalent to burning in vain.

Therefore, this endgame grand show of the million-fleet must be performed.

But he only had twenty-six million in his hands right now, which was several zeros away from ten billion.

Installment payment!

He turned these four words around several times in his heart, then opened his eyes, his tone returning to his usual shrewdness and calmness:

" I must buy one million ships of the fleet. "

" But I don't have enough money right now. You just said ten billion, so how does installment payment work? "

The system fell silent for a moment, as if calling up an ancient payment template that had never been activated by any host, and then began to broadcast item by item:

[ The installment payment plan is as follows: ten billion emotion points, divided into thirty-six periods, 277,777,778 points per period, annual interest rate... ]

" Wait. "

Zhang Yi raised his hand again to interrupt it.

He sat forward a bit, resting his elbows on his knees,

" I am not going to buy one million real Zeta Star fleets. "

" I only need one thousand, one thousand real ones, and all the rest will be simulated with illusions. "

" Calculate this plan for me. "

The system fell silent again.

This pause was longer than any previous one,

if the system had human emotions, it was probably re-evaluating this host at this moment, wondering whether he was buying things or playing a game of chess whose rules could never be figured out.

[ One thousand real Zeta Star standard fleets, plus 999,000 holographic illusions, total price one hundred million emotion points. ]

[ Installment plan: first period twenty million, the remaining eighty million divided into twenty-four periods, each period... ]

" Deal. "

Zhang Yi tapped the sofa armrest lightly, " First period twenty million, pay it. "

A payment confirmation prompt popped up on the system interface, and the balance plummeted directly from twenty-six million to six million.

Looking at the number that had shrunk by three-quarters, Zhang Yi frowned only very slightly, and then relaxed it.

Turning twenty-six million into six million, if it were before, his heart would definitely ache for a while, but now he had learned to look at the ledger from the perspective of the banker:

This is not consumption, it is investment.

Although six million was small, it was already enough as a seed fund for subsequent operations.

" System. "

He closed the payment interface, leaned back against the sofa again, and his tone suddenly became relaxed, like chatting idly with an old supplier he had cooperated with too many times,

" We've negotiated a big deal of one hundred million, it wouldn't make sense if you don't give away some small gifts or something, right? "

The system replied almost in a second.

Having dealt with Zhang Yi so many times, it knew this person too well:

As long as there was an opportunity, he could squeeze oil out of the cracks in a stone.

Instead of letting him beat around the bush and grind slowly, it was better to directly ask what he wanted clearly, so as to avoid falling into an endless bargaining tug-of-war.

[ Speak your mind, host. ]

[ What small gift do you want me to give you? ]

A very faint smile, one of being seen through and too lazy to cover up anymore, surfaced at the corner of Zhang Yi's mouth:

" It's nothing valuable either; you just need to give me an entire Three-Body Star System. "

The system's response had never experienced emotional fluctuations before this,

but this time, its tone obviously carried a shock that completely refreshed its cognition:

[ What?! ]

[ You want me to give you an entire galaxy?! ]

[ Host, I am notifying you very seriously: ]

[ If you want to buy a complete star system, including all planets, moons, asteroid belts, and the central star itself, its price cannot even be capped at one hundred billion emotion points, and... ]

" It's not a real Three-Body Star System. " Zhang Yi interrupted it again, his tone unhurried,

" Just fabricate it with illusions, as long as it can be detected by various astronomical instruments on Earth. "

" The Webb Telescope can photograph it, radio telescopes can receive it, spectrum analyzers can measure the composition of the atmosphere, and all observation methods can perceive it, but in reality it does not exist. "

" It's the same principle as the heaven and earth illusions I used above the Hoover Dam, except that this time the scale of the illusion is expanded from a fleet to a complete star system. "

The system fell silent for a moment.

[ Even if it is only an illusion-grade galaxy, its coverage and complexity far exceed a single fleet. ]

[ It needs to simulate the gravitational interaction between three stars, planetary orbital perturbations, stellar wind and interstellar medium boundary effects... Starting from a minimum of five million emotion points. ]

" Five million? "

Zhang Yi put the coffee cup on the coffee table, leaned forward slightly, and his tone switched into the vegetable market bargaining mode:

" What did you say when you calculated the fleet with me just now, ' 999,000 holographic illusions ', what was the unit price of those illusion fleets? "

" What I want now is just an illusion galaxy, not an illusion fleet. "

" Most areas inside a galaxy are empty, and a vacuum isn't worth anything. "

" Three stars, several planets, the actual data structure combined is not even one percent as complex as that one thousand real fleets. "

" Two million. "

The system immediately refuted:

[ The illusion simulation of a galaxy and the illusion simulation of a fleet are completely different at the data structure level. ]

[ A fleet only needs to simulate the appearance of the hull and shield interaction, while a galaxy needs to simulate the stellar evolution spectrum lasting billions of years, the chemical composition of planetary atmospheres, and the proper motion trajectory of the entire galaxy against the background of the Milky Way. ]

[ Five million is already the minimum... ]

" Two million, no more. "

Zhang Yi's tone was still steady, but his wording already carried the certainty unique to a seasoned veteran bargain hunter:

" You said it yourself just now, a big deal of one hundred million. "

" Giving away a small gift of two million for a hundred million deal, it's not too much, right? "

The system fell silent.

That duration of silence far exceeded the normal data query response window.

If the system had expressions,

at this moment it was probably that complex static state of wanting to refute but finding no angle to do so, and wanting to refuse but worrying that after refusal, the other party would go even further elsewhere.

[ Deal. ]

[ Two million. ]

[ The Three-Body Star System illusion includes: three stars, twelve planets, and corresponding orbital mechanics simulation data. ]

[ All existing observation methods on Earth can detect its existence. ]

[ Credited instantly! ]