"You... may I ask how to address you?" O'Lawrence referred to Zhang Menglong with utmost respect.
What was this situation? Spending ten times the price to buy a Level Two civilization, and if he disagreed, the other party directly sending a Level Five civilization fleet to negotiate with him? Was this really a negotiation?
With such a tone, could he be a big figure from a Level Five civilization? Although O'Lawrence was the Lord of the Milky Way galaxy, in front of those big figures from advanced civilizations, he was nothing. Without confirming the other party's identity, he dared not speak recklessly.
"Just call me Mr. Zhang."
"Mr. Zhang, are you from a Level Five civilization?"
The first half of Zhang Menglong's sentence made O'Lawrence slightly relieved, but the latter half almost scared him to death.
"You've got it backwards."
"Backwards?" It took O'Lawrence several seconds to react, "Level Five civilization is yours... wait, you are the owner of a Level Five civilization?"
"You could say that!" Zhang Menglong didn't actually own any Level Five civilizations, but his assets could easily buy a bunch of them, so calling him the owner of a Level Five civilization wasn't an overstatement.
"Do I need to prove it to you?"
"No... no need!" O'Lawrence quickly replied.
The fact that the other party could obtain his private contact information already showed his remarkable capabilities.
In a cosmic civilization, the security of information is extremely high. For Mr. Zhang to acquire his private contact details, he likely had resources in the Universal Communications Company or Universal Alliance, making it not at all surprising for someone like him to own assets of a Level Five civilization.
If he were to ask Zhang Menglong to prove he owned a Level Five civilization, he had every reason to believe that, before long, a massive fleet of Level Five civilization warships might appear next to his planet, ready to blow up his home planet at any moment.
"Alright, are you selling or not? I'm in a hurry!"
"Selling! Of course selling! It's our Galactic Civilization's honor that you take interest in us!" O'Lawrence quickly flattered, "Could you please provide your information, and I'll have the assets transferred to your name later."
"No need, I never said I bought this civilization for myself," Zhang Menglong said, "I've already sent you the details, help me transfer the planetary assets to his name, I've already transferred the money to your account!"
"Master, you've received a transfer to your account, please acknowledge receipt."
O'Lawrence immediately opened his bank account to find he indeed received a transfer of 600 million Cosmic Coins. He genuinely gave ten times the value of this planet!
After deducting the share for the ruler of the Izek civilization, he could at least earn 400 million Cosmic Coins himself!
As the ruler of the Milky Way galaxy, his total assets were around 10 billion Cosmic Coins, mostly in fixed assets. The Cosmic Bank evaluates account levels based on total assets, and although O'Lawrence had a Level Nine account in the Cosmic Bank, the actual cash in it was less than 1 billion Cosmic Coins!
Those 1 billion Cosmic Coins were accumulated over hundreds of thousands of years!
The 400 million Cosmic Coins are definitely a fortune to him!
"Wait a minute!" As O'Lawrence looked at his account balance, he suddenly noticed something off. With the addition of 600 million Cosmic Coins, the first digit of his balance should still be 1.
But now, the leading digit of his account was 6!
"One, two, three... this isn't 600 million Cosmic Coins, it's 6 billion Cosmic Coins!" O'Lawrence's face started twitching!
This not only indicated that the mysterious young man possessed assets exceeding 6 billion Cosmic Coins, but far more than 6 billion Cosmic Coins.
Can you imagine someone not bothering to count the zeros in a transfer or check their balance afterwards? You overpaid by ten times and didn't even notice?
This only has one explanation – the 6 billion Cosmic Coins in his account were merely a pittance!
"Could he be the owner of a star-level account?" For someone who owns a Level Five civilization, having a star-level account in a Cosmic Bank wouldn't be surprising at all.
But still, treating money as insignificant is excessive, isn't it?
O'Lawrence dared not be vague. If this money had been transferred by an ordinary cosmic citizen, he would have to be out of his mind to return it, but since it was transferred by Zhang Menglong, how could he dare to keep it?
"Mr. Zhang, you... you've transferred me 6 billion Cosmic Coins."
"Huh? Really?" Zhang Menglong looked surprised, "Oh, sorry, added an extra zero, the digits in my account didn't even shift, I'll be more careful next time!"
"Even the decimal point didn't move?" O'Lawrence was stunned.
Even if star-level users use 'stars' as units, in the Cosmic Bank's account interface, it would be precise to four decimal places.
1 star is worth 10 billion Cosmic Coins, and the four digits after the decimal point are still 1 million Cosmic Coins. He just transferred 6 billion Cosmic Coins, how could that number not move?
He just wanted to internally mock Zhang Menglong for showing off, but he suddenly recalled that in the Cosmic Bank's star-level user quick queries, it shows a total of 10 digits, and the latter numbers are not displayed.
In other words, to fully display his balance, there can only be six digits, which is 100,000 stars of savings.
Thanks to a small bug caused by an oversight by the programmer who originally designed the system, but considering there aren't many users exceeding 100,000 stars, and there is a function to check a detailed balance, it hasn't been fixed for tens of billions of years.
If calculated this way, Zhang Menglong's account would at least have 10 digits before the decimal!
Would that be 10 billion stars?
What kind of astronomical figure is this?
1 star equals the total asset of a Level Five civilization, 10 billion stars, that would be 10 billion Level Five civilizations? You claim you're just the owner of a Level Five civilization? Isn't the entire cosmos your asset?
Regardless of whether Zhang Menglong's words were true or not, and setting aside why such a prominent figure is interested in his Level Two civilization, he was about to be scared to death either way.
"I... I'll refund the extra money to you. It's our luck that someone like you is interested in our civilization, so let's go with the original price of 60 million Cosmic Coins!"
"No need," Zhang Menglong said, "I can't be bothered with it as loose change, just expedite the process for me, I need it done quickly! If you really feel guilty about it, you could just throw in a couple of surrounding Level Two civilizations as a bonus, and transfer their assets to my friend's name as well."
"Rest assured, the Universal Alliance handles things very swiftly and efficiently. As long as those civilizations' owners initiate the request and your friend agrees to the civilization asset transfer, it can be done. Every civilization above Level Two has a Universal Alliance asset transfer point, very convenient."
"What if they disagree?"
"Humph, in our Galactic Civilization, everything goes according to my word, not to mention I'm paying for it," O'Lawrence finally regained some of his dominance as the ruler of the Milky Way galaxy.
In the cosmic civilization, many are eager to liquidate their assets to exchange for martial resource allocation. If someone offers market price for a planet, they are more than happy to sell!
That's because the Universal Alliance has a regulation that anyone surpassing Level Five life forms is granted civilization assets by the Universal Alliance for free!
In this universe, respect is accorded to martial strength!
Once you become a Level Six life form, you immediately gain ownership of a Level Five civilization as an asset, and pursuing martial arts requires enormous resources, so everyone badly needs money!
"If necessary, I'll offer them double the price, they'll surely be delighted to sell their civilizations."
"Then have them come directly to the home planet of the Izek civilization, my friend is in the ruler's residence."
"Alright, I'll notify those lords right away!"