Although the Armstrong family is rich, it is still very difficult to come up with so much money at once.
2 billion pounds, which is almost all the amount their family can mobilize at present.
Yang Dangsi was very suspicious that the other party had already done the investigation, otherwise how could he tell such a number so accurately.
Now, even he is beginning to consider whether to do this deal.
2 billion for 5 years of life seems to be a very simple question.
For ordinary people, they may not be able to earn 2 billion in a few lifetimes, let alone just 5 years.
However, Earl Armstrong was obviously not an ordinary person. Faced with such a question, he only hesitated slightly and nodded in agreement.
"Wait, I have one more condition."
Just as the old count was eagerly preparing to drink the golden liquid in the bottle, Ji Xiaoqi spoke again.
"You must pay all this money within three days, otherwise, we will take it all back ourselves."
Adams narrowed his eyes when he heard this. Ji Xiaoqi's threat was very explicit, which made him very uncomfortable.
He could hardly remember when he had suffered such a threat. Forty years? Or fifty years?
At this moment, the old earl exuded a majestic aura involuntarily, like a lion king in his twilight years. Even at the end of his life, he still had his unshakable power.
However, in the next second, an even more terrifying aura burst out from the girl's body.
This aura was different from the majesty of the old earl. It was as real as substance. It instantly made the hearts of several ordinary people present accelerate, and the blood flow in the whole body also increased.
Adams was horrified. Although he already had a high regard for the person in front of him, he never thought that the other person could make him feel suffocated just by looking at him.
Yes, this is really about suffocation, and it is not a psychological effect.
He quickly picked up the oxygen beside him and took a few deep breaths before regaining his composure.
"In three days, I will pay all the money."
This was the first thing the old count said after putting down his oxygen mask.
Ji Xiaoqi nodded with satisfaction and regained control of her aura as an awakened person.
"I hope you can keep your word and don't let us down."
After she finished speaking, she looked at Dean next to her. The two of them activated their teleportation abilities at the same time. A dazzling pattern erupted under their feet, and then their figures disappeared into the room as the light converged. inside.
Looking at the place where the two people were standing in shock, Adams was stunned for a long time before he came back to his senses.
"Master, they've left, please take a look at this matter..."
The old butler Moore came up quickly, but stopped mid-sentence.
Adams stretched out a hand to stop his next words. He knew what this old man who had been with him for decades was going to say, but he had no intention of discussing this issue at the moment. His eyes were all on the hand in his hand. On that bottle of potion.
Carefully opening the bottle cap, he looked at the flowing golden light inside with complicated eyes.
After about ten seconds, the old count raised his hand tremblingly, brought the bottle to his mouth, and drank.
…
On the other side, on the moon, inside the Dawn.
A door panel with strange patterns suddenly lit up with ten stars, and the Star Alliance beacon outlined a huge portal out of thin air. Ji Xiaoqi and Dean's figures immediately walked out of it.
"Uh...well, Xihe, I have always had a question to ask you..."
Dean spoke hesitantly.
"Xi Hehe, our mission is over, you can just call me by my name. If I call me by my code name when I come back, it will sound weird."
Ji Xiaoqi waved her hand.
"Tell me, what's the matter?"
Dean also reacted, and then changed his words and asked:
"Ji Xiaoqi, I was actually a little worried at the beginning. Do you think that Armstrong will default on his debt, or find us through our information?"
Dean expressed all his worries in one breath.
Faced with these questions, Ji Xiaoqi didn't take them to heart at all.
"Dean, you are overthinking. That guy Armstrong is a smart man. After seeing our power, he knows how to choose. Besides, I don't think he can defeat the Covenant."
"As for the investigation you are worried about, there is no need for it. The Star Master has a special ability that can block certain tracking methods to a certain extent. In addition, we now have the technology of the Shuguang and the ancient Leng man. As long as we don’t want to, no one in this world can find us.”
Dean nodded thoughtfully, but there was still some concern on his face.
"But Butler Moore attended my auction last time. He knows where to find us. Will our manor branch be exposed?"
Ji Xiaoqi glanced disdainfully and said:
"Tch, what can he do even if he knows where it is? As long as he doesn't want to completely fall out with us, he can only keep this secret in his stomach. Don't worry, our companions from the Canglan Department will go back and solve the rest of the matter. You Have faith in their abilities.”
While the two were talking, they had already taken the internal elevator and arrived at the Dawn's activity center.
"Eh? Dean, why are you here?"
A woman passed by here, saw them, and immediately said hello happily.
"And Xiaoqi, when did you come here... Oh, could it be the teleportation ability you used? That's really convenient!"
The speaker was Dean's girlfriend Tina, the current head of the biological research department within the Covenant.
Dean walked over and kissed him, and Ji Xiaoqi, who was watching from the side, felt disgusted.
"We were on a mission just now. Ji Xiaoqi told me to use teleportation when leaving instead of walking out, or to use the Star Stone, which would appear more elegant."
Dean explained to his girlfriend what just happened, and then asked:
"Tina, what about you? Don't you have work today? Why are you on the Dawn? By the way, where are we now?"
Tina pushed Dean away. She was a little embarrassed to hand out dog food in front of a big person like Ji Xiaoqi.
"You are all here, and you still don't know where we are. It's really..."
She rolled her eyes at her boyfriend, then walked to a wall nearby, stretched out her hand and pressed a few buttons on it, and the surrounding scene suddenly changed.
The originally bright light suddenly dimmed, and everything around him turned black.
Immediately afterwards, endless starlight began to appear around the three of them. Not far away, a huge sphere with a white halo appeared in front of them.
"Is this...the moon?"
Ji Xiaoqi was fascinated by the beautiful sight in front of her and murmured its name.
Tina's eyes shone with excitement.
"Yes, we are on the back side of the moon now. The star master asked us to participate in this lunar base postgraduate examination mission. We can land in thirty minutes."
As she spoke, she flashed a stack of documents in her hand and continued:
"I have just sorted out the information about the moon tree. I will test it myself after landing. What do you think? Are you interested in coming together? The star master said that the moon's shield has been perfected, and the ecological environment inside the shield is as good as We are all the same on Aquamarine Planet, this is really unbelievable!"
When Ji Xiaoqi and Dean heard what she said, they also remembered that their boss had indeed said these words two days ago, but they had forgotten about it later because of their mission. Now that they met, they naturally wanted to go and have a look. watch.
The three of them chatted and waited for a while, and it didn't take long for others to arrive one after another.
Ji Xiaoqi looked around and found that the people who came were all big bosses in the research department of the organization, Zhao Liang from the aviation department, Richard and Pascal from the astronomy research department, Sun Mingsheng from the scientific research department...
"It seems that this moon landing operation is quite large-scale. It seems that everyone from our organization research department is here."
Ji Xiaoqi looked at the crowd around her with some emotion, and greeted a few people she knew from time to time.
There are many people in the hall, almost fifty in total. These are researchers recruited by the Star Alliance in recent times, and each of them is an elite in the industry.
This can be said to be the core of the Star Alliance. With these researchers, the organization's construction and development will become faster.
Ji Xiaoqi and Dean are both awakened ones and belong to the three major temples. They have taken off their brown robes at this moment, revealing their fearless uniforms.
When the researchers saw that there were two awakened people among themselves and others, they all came over to say hello to them, and even performed a star-touching ceremony.
Although there is no explicit rule, everyone respects the members of the three major temples very much. In their opinion, it would be an extremely glorious thing to be able to wear the fearless uniform.
During the conversation, the planned time had come, and the spacecraft slowly sailed towards the moon under the expectant eyes of everyone.
As the distance gets closer, the moon, which originally exuded beautiful light, gradually showed its true side. Looking from this position, you can clearly see the chaotic craters on its surface.
"Huh? What is that?"
Someone suddenly pointed in front of the holographic image and shouted.
Everyone also noticed the situation there.
"World Tree! It's World Tree! We also have a World Tree on the moon!"
One researcher recognized what was in front of him.
On the surface of the moon, a large emerald tree nearly 100 meters high stood there. Its branches and leaves were extremely lush, and it seemed incompatible with the bare environment around it.
"That's a branch of the World Tree. The mother tree in our base is on the island in the middle of Qixing Lake. I've always wanted to take a closer look, but I never found the chance. Unexpectedly, I saw the moon first today. This is the one I got."
Sun Mingsheng sighed.
As the director of the scientific research department, he usually presides over scientific research work in the outside company Danlan Starry Sky Company. He rarely returns to the main base, so he has never had the opportunity to get in touch with the legendary World Tree.
Although other people have seen it more or less, everyone hopes to have more contact with this legendary thing. Now that they have the opportunity, everyone seems very excited.
In this way, the Dawn carried everyone, slowly approached the moon, and then passed through the shield and entered the base.
But at this time, some small accidents happened.
I saw many small black dots suddenly flying densely on the horizon not far away. They were extremely fast and arrived in front of everyone in a short while.
"This is? The Desolate Zerg Clan!?"
Ji Xiaoqi immediately recognized the monster in front of her. As a qualified temple member, not only must she have strong combat power, but she must also be familiar with the alien species.
When the others were reminded by her, they also understood the identities of those things, and immediately began to feel nervous.
There were too many bugs, hundreds of them, flying over in great force, covering a small area of the sky.
The Dawn had already entered the shield at this time. Those bugs wanted to pounce, but they all hit the wall. Some of the unlucky ones fell directly to their death.
"Isn't this the moon? There is no air, so why can they fly? And the gravity here is so small, how can they fall to death?"
An old researcher's eyes widened and he asked his question.
Tina adjusted her glasses and explained:
"I have studied the corpses of these wild insects. Their ability to fly does not rely purely on air, but on dark energy. And I found that they seem to be able to secrete a special substance in their bodies, which allows them to adjust themselves , adaptable to various space environments.”
Ji Xiaoqi also nodded and added:
"Yes, I have also seen this information in alien materials. Although their special adaptability allows them to move freely in space, the disadvantages are also obvious, that is, it is too mediocre. For them, , there is no away advantage, and there is no home advantage.”
After everyone listened to their answers, they also had a new understanding of these bugs.
"Then, they are attacking the shield here now. Doesn't it matter...?"
Ji Xiaoqi smiled.
"Don't underestimate this shield. With this number of bugs, they won't be able to get in here for the rest of their lives, and..."
She paused here, pointed her finger in the direction of the earth, and reminded:
"Look there, these guys are going to be in trouble soon..."
Everyone looked over and saw that a patch of emerald green vines had sprouted on the ground. In just a few breaths, the green vines had grown exponentially.
The next moment, as countless shadows passed by, those vines opened their mouths like a giant beast from ancient times, attacking the wild insects in the sky with overwhelming momentum.
PS: Regarding the price of a bottle of potion, I wrote it as 10 billion in the last chapter, but later I found out that it was in pounds. After thinking about it, this was a bit too exaggerated, so I changed it back to 2 billion here. Please forgive me, readers.
