Mr. Kuang loves wine and drinks every day. No one knows how he can survive and still look like a man in his seventies or eighties, but as long as he stands there, no one dares to say "I don't accept it".
Because Old Kuang himself is a practitioner of ancient martial arts, although he is over a hundred years old, he can still easily knock down a strong man with one move. Even the middle-aged man who has been standing next to him is no match for him.
This middle-aged man was no ordinary person. All the Star Pirates were moved when they heard his other title. Even Xie Annan did not dare to act rashly in front of him.
Du Yu——the Starry Sky Pirate King, the current ruler of the Starry Sky Pirates’ headquarters! But even such a Starry Sky Pirate King did not dare to act presumptuously in front of Old Kuang, and lowered his head, showing great respect.
However, this time the Star Pirates suffered a lot of losses in the Mingyuan Star Region. Not to mention the Flying Dragon Star Pirates, almost all the Star Pirates hired by the eight major families were also killed. Those Star Pirates who were lucky enough to come back all came back in disgrace, which dealt a great blow to the Star Pirates' reputation.
"Mr. Kuang, this time the three great families have gathered their forces and are obviously able to wipe out Mingyuan Star's forces in one fell swoop. They are planning to divide the results. If we also participate, we might be able to grab something. The great families will at most turn a blind eye to us Star Pirates. We..."
Without waiting for Du Yu to finish, Kuang Lao stretched out his wrinkled, bone-like palm and gently waved it a few times: "Du Yu, Mingyuan Star is not a place we can get in."
Mr. Kuang's voice was a little hoarse, as if he was short of breath, but it was absolutely persuasive.
However, Du Yu frowned slightly.
"Du Yu, you are my most outstanding disciple. If you continue to be so impulsive, how can you lead the Star Pirates Base well after a hundred years?" Old Kuang said with a chuckle.
A hundred years? You have already reached the age of a hundred years. Du Yu raised his eyebrows, but swallowed the words back and dared not speak them out.
"We asked you to attack Mineral Planet No. 5 because it is unique. If we can capture it, it will definitely put some pressure on the Interstellar Federation. But now, we should not get involved to avoid any accidents."
Speaking of the word "accident", Mr. Kuang narrowed his eyes again, with a fierce look in his eyes.
Du Yu opened his mouth but ultimately could not say anything. He could only stand beside Mr. Kuang and said nothing else.
The two of them regained their composure.
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As for the wealthy families, the other five were surprisingly unanimous and did not take any unusual actions. Even the Lin family did not raise any objections, as if they had not heard any news and watched the battle between the three wealthy families and the Mingyuan Star Region quietly.
As soon as the giant starry sky ship from Mingyuan Star arrived, Zheng Cheng immediately took charge of everything and took most of the K223 mechas and mecha pilots back to Mingyuan Star on the giant starry sky ship.
At the same time, Zheng Cheng also asked Bai Fan to start building the virtual Skynet.
However, at this time, Zheng Cheng received a more difficult question from Zheng Tuo.
"What did you say? The money in the account of Sixiang Mecha Company was frozen?" Lin Tao blinked in surprise.
Zheng Cheng smiled bitterly: "Some time ago, our money was obtained from the pre-sale of K223 mechas, but after such a long time, we have not been prepared to ship them, so the money in the company account was frozen by Skynet. Now we can't even pay the salaries of our company members."
The pre-sale price of one thousand K223s was not high at the time, but it added up to a lot, hundreds of billions of funds. Now the profits from Mingyuan Star have not yet fallen into the hands of Lin Tao and others, and their current funds rely on the ransom received by the Four Elephants Mecha Company and the Blood Wolf Gang.
As efforts have been intensified to manufacture K223, there is not much ransom money left and it can only be transferred from the Four Elephants Mecha Company. But now this incident has completely cut off Lin Tao's funds.
"Strange." Lin Tao thought to himself, what does Skynet mean by this? If Skynet really wants to deal with him, can't they just communicate with him through their watch? He has received the communication from Skynet's top brass, and the other party has his watch signal.
"Lin Tao, Skynet is not just the Interstellar Federation, it also has shareholders from wealthy families." Zheng Cheng suddenly reminded.
When Lin Tao heard this, he immediately understood. It seemed that once the news of the three powerful families gathering giant starry sky warships spread, they implemented this strategy to prevent Lin Tao from gathering enough mecha forces.
Since there was no direct contact from Skynet's top brass, it was obvious that Skynet's top brass themselves were unwilling to intervene in the matter.
"Hmm~" Lin Tao pondered for a while and asked, "How many K223s have we produced now?"
"There are probably more than 700 of them now." Zheng Cheng answered. After answering, he was startled again: "Lin Tao, you can't be..."
"Haha~" Lin Tao smiled and said, "Since they want K223, why don't we just supply it to them directly?"
"Lin Tao, but we are now..." Zheng Cheng screamed.
"K223 is just a machine made of double alloy. Its defense can withstand ordinary weapons, but once it encounters more powerful thermal weapons or large-caliber laser cannons, it will also be powerless to resist."
Lin Tao waved his hand and said, "Moreover, as for the energy blocks, if we replace them with ordinary energy blocks, their endurance will only last about ten hours, which is not very useful for us at all."
"Lin Tao, the K223 is our main mecha right now. If we sell it off, then we will..."
"I have asked Xie Annan to hand over the master design drawings of K223 and the improved version of Tianjia Shenjiang to the Interstellar Federation. Otherwise, why do you think the Interstellar Federation would provide us with 200mm laser cannons?" Lin Tao chuckled, "I'm afraid it won't be long before K223 and the improved version of Tianjia Shenjiang will be all over the Interstellar Federation."
"We might as well take advantage of this opportunity to make some more money." Lin Tao's eyes flashed.
"What you mean is..." Zheng Cheng looked stunned.
"One thousand K223s, we delivered as promised, and..."
At this point, Lin Tao sneered again: "We will continue to increase the pre-sale of K223. For the next pre-sale of K223, we will require the other party to provide metal resources. We will only accept the order if the metal resources are delivered to us by aerospace spacecraft in Mingyuan Star Region."
Lin Tao learned from the federal high-ranking officials that most of the one thousand K223s were purchased by various wealthy forces. If they were sold as promised, with the current reputation of K223, there would definitely be a lot of people who would want to grab them.
As for the next step of pre-sale, Lin Tao knew it very well in his heart. This would definitely attract more wealthy families to take orders. On the one hand, they would secretly hand over the resources to them, and on the other hand, when K223 was not yet in hand, it would delay the speed of the three major wealthy families to gather.
After all, the three giant families gathered the starry sky warships basically because they wanted to grab the design plans of the two mechas.
Now, Lin Tao took the initiative to offer K223, which allows those wealthy families who have not assembled giant starry sky ships to also obtain this aircraft. How could the other party miss this opportunity?
As long as the first batch of K223 delivered does not have any hidden dangers, all the wealthy forces will not only increase their orders, but will also help them proactively slow down the time for the three major wealthy forces to take action.
Zheng Cheng nodded, knowing in his heart that Lin Tao should have already made a plan for the next step, so he stopped talking, returned to the aerospace spacecraft, returned to the starry sky, and contacted Mingyuanxing.
It has to be said that Lin Tao's move immediately caused shock to the Interstellar Federation and various major wealthy families.
"What? He wants to deliver K223?" On the capital star of the Interstellar Federation, the old man who had been feeding the pigeons dropped the bag of flour crumbs in his hand, scattering the crumbs all over the ground, attracting many brave pigeons to fly to his feet and quickly snatch the flour crumbs.
"This Lin Tao, what on earth does he want to do?" The old man narrowed his eyes slightly, his gaze flickering.
After a while, he laughed out loud again.
A hearty laugh scared the pigeons that were snatching bread crumbs at foot and made them flutter in panic. Fortunately, when they saw that the old man had no hostility, they calmed down and continued to snatch food with other pigeons.
"Lin Tao, Lin Tao, let me see if you are really crazy or a lunatic."
As he spoke, the old man's expression changed, making it impossible to tell whether he was laughing sincerely or if there was something hidden beneath his smile.
Star Pirates Headquarters.
"Mr. Kuang, Mingyuan Star is about to deliver K223. It seems that we have also robbed nearly a hundred aircraft before. Look..."
Du Yu heard the news and was puzzled.
Mr. Kuang frowned, his face looked strange, and he said nothing.
He was the one who arranged for people to rush to buy K223, and at that time he was very optimistic about the performance of K223 in Skynet.
However, under such circumstances, Mingyuan Star has decided to deliver K223 as promised. Is it because the three major giants have assembled a giant starry sky warship, or...
The wrinkles on Kuang Lao’s forehead looked like clothes that had not been washed for years.
Of the eight giants, there is still no news released by the other five, as if they had not received any news.
As for the Liu family, the Davis family, and the three heads of the Zhao family, they gathered together again.
"What's going on?" The head of the Liu family had the gloomiest expression, because what he wanted to get was the overall design drawings of the two mechas. If Lin Tao delivered the K223 as promised, then with the strength of other wealthy families, they would be able to disassemble the design plan of K223 at the fastest speed.
As a result, the Liu family immediately lost a machine with good performance.
In other words, this time the Liu family has completely lost out on any results from the gathering of giant starships.
"Hehe~" The head of the Zhao family sneered and said nothing.
The head of the Davis family also frowned and said nothing.