CHAPTER 984: CHAPTER 982: CENTRAL CONTROL SYSTEM

"Are you guys going to hand over what you should or should I follow the standard procedure to force it out of you?" Zhang Menglong stored away the Divine Crystal and looked at the remaining treasure hunters from those two civilizations with a friendly gaze.

They were naturally familiar with what "following procedure" meant. According to the word on the street from other treasure hunters, people from the Ritian Sect rob for wealth and lust but not lives, and if they resist, they are in for a beating.

Anyway, the end result is always them being robbed to their underwear, so why bother getting beaten up? Since there’s no resisting, they might as well enjoy it.

"Mr. Zhang, we are willing to hand over all our gains from the Treasure Hunting Space." After some discussion, they decided to just give in. At worst, they could just find another place to develop, as the Treasure Hunting Space is vast and there must be somewhere they can make a living.

"Not enough!" Zhang Menglong said, "I want everything from you, except your underwear, nothing can be left!"

"You guys, collect the money, use our Ritian Sect’s payment code!" Zhang Menglong commanded, "Make sure to properly account for all the loot!"

"Yes~~," said the students from the Super God Academy, lackluster.

"The Dean is really a dog, what Ritian Sect payment code, it’s clearly his private Cosmic Bank account.

"Exactly, he’s just a heartless capitalist, every day exploiting our labor for free."

"There are over ten thousand people, how long is it going to take to count the money?"

"Shouldn’t we at least get a year-end bonus or something?"

"What are you guys dragging on about?" Zhang Menglong kicked each of them on the butt, "Don’t think I don’t know, each of you is rolling in money now, have robbed quite a few people already, right?"

"Heh heh, not much, just a few hundred trillion Cosmic Coins is all."

"Just a little, just a little, can’t compare with you, Dean!"

...

"Ah, such a nice city, destroyed like this, it’s really a bit of a pity!" Zhang Menglong looked at the ruins, "There is still a need to clean up the battlefield."

However, at this time the students from the Super God Academy were all busy robbing, so this was something he could only personally take care of.

"Come out, Phantom Star Beast!"

With a roar, the body of the Phantom Star Beast emerged from the void again.

"The Phantom Star Beast is out again!"

"What... what is he going to do now?" Seeing this, all the treasure hunters turned ashen-faced.

"Look, why hasn’t his life force depleted at all?" A treasure hunter from the Noah Civilization looked at Zhang Menglong puzzled. Earlier, when Qi Ya summoned it for just two seconds, he seemed to instantly transform into an old man, but Zhang Menglong still looked youthful and vibrant.

"Either he has endless life force, or his body’s life force generates faster than the Phantom Star Beast depletes it!" Whatever the case, it was beyond their comprehension.

"Majin Buu’s abilities are really useful!" Zhang Menglong felt the nearly undiminished life force in his body, knowing that the Phantom Star Beast would be his free henchman from now on.

The Phantom Star Beast’s head turned left and right, as if looking for who summoned it this time, but the moment it saw Zhang Menglong, an expression of terror appeared in its eyes.

But because Zhang Menglong was the Summoner this time, it couldn’t defy his summon, otherwise, it would have fled back immediately.

"Don’t be afraid, good boy, not going to beat you this time!" Zhang Menglong pointed at the ruins and said, "Help me clean up those things!"

"Wow! He’s using the Phantom Star Beast to do cleaning? Is this real?"

"Sorry, our horizons were too narrow."

"I was not thinking big enough."

...

There’s no denying it, treasure hunters from the two most powerful civilizations in the entire universe really rake it in compared to others. Over these past few months, more than half of people’s Fire of Fate have upgraded from yellow to orange, especially those Level Six Life Forms whose Fire of Fate even reached red.

Clearly, the materials and wealth they plundered from other civilizations and their gains in the Treasure Hunting Space were immense.

Not only that, due to their strong backgrounds, everyone carried substantial fortunes, the least being tens of trillions of Cosmic Coins, and the most being Qi Ya who had amassed 12 stars, even richer than their Twin Whales Cosmic Empire’s King.

After tallying it all up, there were just tens of thousands of stars in cash, over 21 million Level Five Energy Barytes, and thousands of Star Cores as well as a large quantity of other resources.

"Ah, perfect!" Zhang Menglong patted the dust off his hands.

The previously exquisite "Xino City" letters on the city wall had now transformed into the flamboyant "Ritian Franchise-Chain Hotel No. 3", with brand-new price tags hanging on the walls as well.

"Line up if you want to enter the city, those wanting to get a card, this way, today is store No. 3’s anniversary, 20% extra on recharges! Usable across all branches!"

"Damn! They are robbing us? Even darker than those from the Xilo Cosmic Empire and the Noah Cosmic Empire?"

"Shh, keep it down, don’t let them hear, they have the upper hand, do we have a choice?"

...

"This activity isn’t interesting, no challenge at all!" Zhang Menglong strolled through a grassland.

Unknowingly, two Cosmic Years had passed in the Treasure Hunting Space, and his Ritian Franchise-Chain Hotel now had 27 branches, having occupied virtually all the large cities in the Treasure Hunting Space.

Even without deliberate training, over the two years, Zhang Menglong’s life form level had also advanced to the peak of a Level Five Life Form, one more step, and he too would gain eternal life like those ancient beings.

This year, he was still not even 30 years old.

The Gotsumon on his shoulder was still in its original form but following Zhang Menglong it was living the high life, its daily fare being the meat of Level Seven or even Level Eight Life Form beasts, just kidding? Now it could evolve into a full-fledged Mechanical Tyrannosaurus Beast, even be able to battle some ordinary Level Seven Life Form Beasts.

"Dean, someone’s looking for you!"

"Moshi moshi?" Zhang Menglong answered the communication request.

"Dean, it’s me, Liu Yunyi."

As the second student of the Super God Academy, Liu Yunyi was now also a Level Five Peak Life Form, and even because of his rigorous training, his genetic level was somewhat higher than Zhang Menglong’s.

Of course, without Zhang Menglong’s cheat of directly copying skills, he had to rely on hard training for everything, ten of him wouldn’t be a match for Zhang Menglong.

"Oh, what’s up?"

"We found an underwater giant tower!"

"Okay, I’ll call people to set up the 28th branch!" Zhang Menglong thought they found another new city.

"Dean, this tower is a bit different, I suspect it is the central control system of the entire Treasure Hunting Space."

"Oh?" Upon hearing this news, Zhang Menglong suddenly took a great interest.

If it truly is the central control system of the entire Treasure Hunting Space, then if he could grasp it, wouldn’t everything in the Zuda Cosmic Empire belong to him?

"Tell me more!"

"This tower has nine floors in total, and the Artificial Intelligence controlling it will test every entrant on each floor, you need to defeat a beast it arranges for you, and upon defeating it, you can proceed to the next floor and also receive generous rewards."

"Did you go inside?"

"Yes, went in," Liu Yunyi replied, "I made it to the seventh floor, and according to this Artificial Intelligence, if you reach the ninth floor, you have the chance to become the heir of the Zuda Civilization, so I believe it must be controlling the entire Treasure Hunting Space."

"I understand, share the location with me, I’ll be there right away!"