"What are you?" Everyone's gaze shifted from Izek to Zhang Menglong, "How dare you speak to us like that?"
"Is it your place to interfere in our family affairs?"
"Are you Izek's servant? Get lost, you have no right to speak here!"
"My dear brother, your servant doesn't seem very sensible!"
"He is not my servant, he..." Before Izek could finish, Zhang Menglong spoke up.
"Weren't you wondering who Izek got into trouble with?" Zhang Menglong chuckled, "No need to look further, the one who emptied out the Sebosk Factory's goods was me!"
The news spread yesterday through gamblers and upper society's commentary, it was said that a very young Pupil Technique Master appeared at Sebosk Corporation's branch factory yesterday, capable of seeing through ore containing Energy Crystal Stone with absolute accuracy, even discerning the crystal's level with precision.
He almost swept through Sebosk's entire sales building, including their warehouse, then left gracefully with a large sum of galactic credits, rendering almost a century of their inventory worthless.
Eventually, the young son of the Lord's family, Ireel, also showed up, seemingly having a good relationship with this person.
But after scrutinizing him, Zhang Menglong appeared no different from them, except for having slightly different features, and showed nothing remarkably eye-catching, certainly not hinting at such impressive skills.
"Don't you quickly go surrender to Sebosk Corporation? I suppose you don't know their background? Even the Lord of our Milky Way needs to show some respect to them, as they know many big figures of Level Four Civilizations, daring to offend them is as good as seeking death!"
"You'd better not drag our civilization into this; my stupid brother cannot protect you."
"Guards!" The young man who seemed to have the most authority among them shouted, and immediately some Level Three bodyguards rushed into the room, "Ireel, if you won't act, I'll do it on your behalf!"
"Don't get carried away!" Although Ireel didn't have good relations with these people, they shared the same blood, and kinship, no matter how faint, ran thicker than water.
If they provoked Zhang Menglong, he couldn't guarantee what impulsive actions Zhang Menglong might take, whether or not considering Ireel's face was uncertain.
"Get out of the way, or we'll deal with you as well!"
"Father has so many sons, I think having one more or less would not matter much."
"Get out of the way!"
"Alright, Ireel, I don't think they consider you as their brother," Zhang Menglong patted Ireel on the shoulder, like those ancient emperors' sons vying for the Crown Prince position, in this family, talking about kinship was truly laughable.
"Gou Dan, planets can be bought and sold, so can an entire civilization?" Zhang Menglong asked.
"Of course it can, Principal, all you need is to buy up all the planets of the entire civilization." Gou Dan explained.
"Can you buy this?" Zhang Menglong was speechless, doing business couldn't be coercive buying and selling! On Earth, if Zhang Menglong fancied someone's car, no matter how much money he had, could he command someone to sell it to him?
The entire Izek civilization had about 1000 planets, at an average price of 50,000 per civilized planet, Zhang Menglong only needed 50 million Cosmic Coins to buy up an entire Level Two Civilization.
But now the owner of the civilization was Ireel's father, how could he possibly sell his civilization?
"Principal, it's certainly impossible to ask him directly, but some things, even if he doesn't agree, can still be accomplished! Have you forgotten your past methods?"
"My past methods?" Zhang Menglong was taken aback.
"It's actually similar to acquiring a subsidiary of a company, you directly deal with its parent company, pressure from above, and that's it, isn't it?"
"Makes sense!" Zhang Menglong immediately woke up, buying a civilization was indeed no different from acquiring a company, if Ireel's father wouldn't sell, Zhang Menglong could go directly to the Lord of the Milky Way!
"But I don't have the contact information for the Lord of the Milky Way?" Zhang Menglong said sullenly.
"Principal, actually you do, I just saved all the data from bank transfers, and I found that Zhang Kai has a 27% stake exercising power in the Universal Alliance."
"What? The whole Universal Alliance belongs to my family?"
"The Universal Alliance possesses information on all lifeforms in the entire universe, do you think it's hard to find someone's contact info?"
"Interesting!" Zhang Menglong said to Ireel, "You sit for a moment, I'll go to the bathroom and be right back!"
"Will he take the opportunity to escape?" Ireel's brothers and sisters were a bit worried, if Zhang Menglong walked out of here, it wouldn't be easy bringing him back.
"Don't worry, I've already had the house surrounded, he can't escape," Ireel's eldest brother said, "I want to see what tricks he can play!"
"Ireel, you'd better reflect on your mistakes!"
Zhang Menglong had several ways to contact the Lord of the Milky Way, but he eventually found his most private communication channel, the Lord of the Milky Way was named O'Lawrence, and he was currently 200,000 years old, also being a Level Five lifeform!
O'Lawrence was dealing with some internal war matters within his palace.
"Master, there is an unidentified person initiating contact with you."
"Ignore him!" O'Lawrence received this kind of "nuisance call" thousands of times a day, if he responded to every one, he'd do nothing else.
"Master, this is your most private contact line, which you usually use for communication and reports with the city lord of Star City."
"What?" Now O'Lawrence dared not ignore this contact request anymore, those who knew this contact method were people of very high status and even other galaxy lords within their Star City weren't privileged to be in this contact account.
A holographic avatar appeared right in front of O'Lawrence, it was a very young person, dark-skinned, with black eyes and black hair, a race he had never seen before.
"Mr. O'Lawrence, sorry to disturb you so abruptly."
"Who are you? How do you have my communication method?" O'Lawrence asked directly.
"You don't need to know my identity," Zhang Menglong said, "Today I want to do some business with you, I want to buy the Izek civilization under your name."
"The Izek civilization?" O'Lawrence was stunned, this mysterious young man sought him out to buy a civilization under his name?
But O'Lawrence quickly caught on, after all, in the universe, the trade of planets and civilizations was quite normal, for civilizations and planets that already had owners, if their owners were unwilling to sell, it was common to seek pressure from a superior civilization.
O'Lawrence immediately summoned information on the Izek civilization, the Izek civilization had 1127 Level One civilized planets, valued approximately close to 60 million Cosmic Coins.
"How much are you offering?" Just a Level Two civilization under a Level Three Civilization like the Milky Way had hundreds of such Level Two civilizations, as long as the price was right, O'Lawrence didn't mind selling it.
Usually, selling a civilization doubles its price, as part of it needs to be given to the civilization's lord, you can't just directly rob the man's planets, right? Even the Universal Alliance wouldn't allow such a thing to happen.
However, if the price offered was right, and preferably higher, those lords were even willing to directly sell their civilization.
"I'm offering ten times the price!" Zhang Menglong said without hesitation, "If you agree, I'll transfer the money immediately, if not, I'll send a Level Five civilization fleet to negotiate with you!"