Game: Civilization Paradise

At this point, Gu Zhong could also see that the group was only after Gu Yi’s money, and he said with a dark expression,

"Fine, you can have the money. Now all of you, leave!"

"Second Brother, don’t be like that!"

Gu Fei and the others replied with sycophantic smiles.

"Leave!"

Gu Zhong shooed them away impatiently.

Nearby, Gu Yong’s face was twisted with anger, his hands clenched into fists, his heart filled with indignation.

’How could a loser like Gu Yi make such a comeback?’

Just then, Gu Yi excitedly pulled Tao Sisi back to their room.

He closed the door, excitedly picked up Tao Sisi, and spun her around.

"Haha, Sisi, we’re rich!"

"Okay, put me down! You haven’t actually gotten the cash yet. What if they don’t give it to you?"

Tao Sisi said, a little worried.

"They won’t. The Destiny Casino is the second-largest casino in the City of Stars. Fifty million is nothing to them. They’d never ruin their own reputation."

Gu Yi said exuberantly.

"That’s good, but you can’t ever gamble again!"

"I swear, I’ll never gamble again!"

"Good. Still, this all feels like a dream."

"Yeah, it’s unbelievable. I actually won."

"I think it must have been Big Brother Long Ming watching over you. Otherwise, with your crappy luck, how could you possibly have won?"

Tao Sisi said to Gu Yi.

"I think so too. When I was watching Red Ghost, it was like I was seeing Big Brother. When we get married, I’m definitely putting his memorial tablet in the seat of honor!"

Gu Yi replied excitedly.

"Who said anything about marrying you?"

"Come on, forgive me."

"We’ll see how you behave."

...

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「Anska, the City of Machines.」

Long Ming raised his wristband and tried to scan the ten sets of damaged Mechanical God equipment.

To his surprise, they were actually scanned into his secure storage.

’This 3x3x3 is so useful!’

Long Ming looked at the scanned equipment and muttered to himself happily.

Next, he stuffed all the weapons and equipment he had collected into his backpack, tied the rest together with rope, and dragged the bundle toward the extraction platform.

A moment later, Long Ming had piled all the spoils onto the extraction platform. He climbed up himself and strapped everything to his body.

"Extract!"

Long Ming tapped his wristband.

HUMMM~

The entire platform lit up with a white glow, and Long Ming instantly began to float.

When he came to his senses, he had appeared in Starry City.

Long Ming immediately tapped his wristband and sent everything to his warehouse.

BUZZ BUZZ~

Just then, Long Ming’s wristband started displaying continuous notifications.

"Notification: Luo Ye has sent you a friend request. Accept?"

...

Long Ming’s heart sank when he saw so many friend requests.

He used his wristband to block all incoming requests and logged out of Starry City.

「In a room at the Star Wish Cafe.」

PSSH~

The lid of the game pod slowly opened.

Long Ming climbed out and let out a long breath.

In an excellent mood, he walked to his desk, sat down, and opened the Civilization Forum on his wristband.

He began searching for the reactions of the Dawn Guild and the Twilight Guild after his victory.

’It’s not that I’m afraid of them, but I need to know the current situation.’

Half an hour later, as Long Ming browsed the forum posts, his expression grew increasingly strange. ’It seems I’ve stirred up quite a hornet’s nest.’

The Dawn Guild and the Twilight Guild had actually set up a betting pool.

Now, the gamblers who had lost were all railing against the Twilight Guild, cursing them out fiercely on the Civilization Forum.

"The Twilight Guild is trash!"

"All those people couldn’t even beat a single solo player!"

"They made me lose so much money!"

"Refund!"

....

Although the Dawn Guild had also lost, they had lost to the Twilight Guild, so the people who bet on them weren’t as upset.

But the Twilight Guild’s situation was different. They had lost to a solo player wearing second-generation equipment.

Kaber clearly could have won just by being a little more careful, avoiding the sneak attack, and kiting from the air, but he had still managed to lose.

Besides the angry posts, Long Ming also saw a recruitment post from the Dawn Guild. They were actually extending an olive branch to him.

Of course, besides the Dawn Guild, many other factions also wanted to contact him.

But Long Ming wasn’t interested in the slightest. ’There’s no such thing as a free lunch in this world, and I’m not about to get played for a fool.’

Thinking this, Long Ming closed the search results and started looking up the prices for mecha like the Frenzy and Gale, preparing to cash in on his latest haul.

A little over an hour later, Long Ming had a rough idea. The Frenzy and the Gale were both custom-model Mechanical Gods, each priced at 12 million Star Coins. One was geared toward Power, the other toward agility.

Ask’s loss to Kaber was purely due to a slight gap in skill; you couldn’t really blame the Gale.

As for the other Destroyers and Graylights, they were all entry-level, standard V3 series Mechanical Gods, priced at 1 million Star Coins when brand new.

Long Ming thought for a moment and decided to keep the Gale for his own use. Although his Red Demon mecha’s performance was quite good, its drawbacks were also obvious. For one, a biological mecha put a huge strain on the body. It also couldn’t fly, and it was far too conspicuous!

In addition, he also planned to keep the beam sniper rifle and five sets of second-generation agility-type exoskeletal mechanical armor.

With that in mind, Long Ming opened the marketplace.

He listed all eleven Mechanical Gods, including the Gale he planned to keep for himself. As for the price, aside from the two that had self-destructed, which he listed for 300,000, all the others were marked at brand-new prices.

In reality, all eleven Mechanical Gods were damaged, some quite severely.

At this moment, the professional merchants who were monitoring the marketplace saw these listings and all started cursing.

"Fuck, that bastard is starting to sell off his loot!"

"The prices are a total rip-off! He’s scamming people!"

"Selling used, damaged Mechanical Gods at brand-new prices? That’s shameless!"

"Mechanical Gods might be hard to buy, but he can’t treat us like complete suckers!"

"Right, boycott! Don’t buy!"

...

While everyone was cursing,

Seeing that no one was buying, Long Ming delisted the Gale. This created the illusion that it had already been sold and also legitimized the mecha for his own use.

BZZT~

Suddenly, Long Ming’s wristband vibrated and a notification popped up.

"Notification: Your consigned Frenzy has been sold. You have received 12,000,000 Star Coins."

Long Ming was a little surprised to see the notification. ’I can’t believe it actually sold.’

"Holy shit, the Gale and the Frenzy both sold?"

"Which dumbass bought them!"

"Didn’t we agree not to buy?"

"It wasn’t me."

"Who bought it then?!"

...

The merchants all started complaining.

However, the remaining nine Standard Mechanical Gods still hadn’t sold after half a day.

Seeing that no one was making a move, Long Ming lowered the price of each machine by 100,000 to 300,000 Star Coins, depending on the extent of the damage.

Within a few minutes of him adjusting the prices, they were all bought.

A smile immediately appeared on Long Ming’s face. He began to list the other equipment and weapons at low prices.

Several hours later, Long Ming had finished selling all his spoils. His total earnings were 25.5 million Star Coins, bringing his account balance to 33,076,275 Star Coins.

He looked at the balance of over thirty-three million Star Coins, a brilliant smile spreading across his face. It really was true what they say: crime pays. Nothing brought in cash faster than looting.