Stronger from Earth-Chapter 110: The Great Thief

Ga Sheng lay leisurely on the bed, with concubines attending to him, one feeding him fruit with delicate hands, another passing him wine with her mouth, prompting his lustful gaze.

As the City Lord, he held supreme power in Golden City, not only because he was the brother-in-law of the Celestial Race Emperor but also due to his own cultivation level. Although he was not at the Eight Arms level, he was still a master among those with Six Arms.

For a hundred years, everything had been calm, and no incidents had occurred in Golden City, allowing him to live carefree.

"My Lord City Lord, I heard that things are quite turbulent in the Central Domain lately. Some alien races have secretly infiltrated the Eight-armed Celestial King Realm and are causing chaos everywhere, making my little heart jump wildly." A concubine coquettishly burrowed into his embrace.

Such tempting actions hardly showed any worry. The well-acquainted Ga Sheng fondled with his six hands while laughing heartily, preparing to strip and indulge: "With me, your master, here, who dares to be reckless? Even if they had the courage of dragons and tigers, they wouldn’t dare!"

Just as he finished speaking, his steward rushed in hurriedly: "M-My Lord, something terrible has happened!"

"What’s causing such a panic? Speak calmly!" Ga Sheng commanded with authority,

The steward steadied himself: "There was a sudden explosion in the treasury. By the time the keepers checked, all the gold in the treasury was gone! Completely gone!"

Ga Sheng stood up abruptly, causing the concubine in his arms to fall, landing on the ground with an "ouch" as she sat down.

"Such audacity, seeking death!" Ga Sheng roared, striding several steps to the courtyard, leaping a hundred meters high and kilometers away.

In midair, his body suddenly grew larger, transforming into a giant 60 to 70 meters tall, as massive as a mountain. When he landed, he created a vast pit several tens of meters wide in diameter, with a physique of unparalleled strength.

With each leap, he covered a hundred miles in just ten breaths, moving at an incredible speed, scaring countless birds along his path.

Boom!

A loud noise erupted as Ga Sheng landed, shouting fiercely: "Come see me!"

The trembling, negligent staff hurriedly appeared, and Ga Sheng stomped one of them into a bloody pulp: "You useless swine, wasting so much food, losing the tributed gold! If you were to be prosecuted, you’d all be demoted to mining slaves."

Walking into the storeroom, a deep hole appeared in the ground, and the gold had vanished without a trace, cleaner than anything else, not even a shadow of the gold bars to be seen.

"Roar!" Ga Sheng was exceedingly furious.

Wang Xuan, who had silently appeared in Golden City, was in high spirits looking at the two tons of gold in the Storage Celestial Treasure. It was indeed an unexpected windfall.

Though, with the advent of the Interstellar Era, the value of gold had gradually declined, nowadays only worth fifty Star Yuan per gram, it remained a precious metal.

The element of gold only forms during the destruction of massive stars, and its total amount is absolutely scarce compared to other elements. Innate constraints limit its reserves. With population growth and increasing demand for tech products, the consumption of gold is imaginable. Additionally, the Federation deliberately controls the influx of gold into the market to maintain its scarcity, so its price remains high.

"If sold, the two tons of gold could fetch a hundred million Star Yuan, which is as much as I used to earn from risky jobs in five or six years."

Wang Xuan couldn’t help but sigh, realizing that many things from the past now seemed insignificant.

With a few military bombs, Wang Xuan easily blew open the treasury, loaded the gold into the Storage Celestial Treasure, all within just a few seconds, and then rushed to Golden City.

"The strategy to lure the tiger away from its lair has already drawn the opponent over, giving me enough time to act." Thinking of the eighty tons of gold in Ga Sheng’s Manor, even Wang Xuan couldn’t help but be tempted. That was a huge asset worth four billion Star Yuan, pure cash, not something even the wealthiest entrepreneurs could readily produce.

Sauntering into Ga Sheng’s luxurious manor, he hypnotized the servants, leaving them all standing there with silly grins, ignoring the happenings around them.

"Oh? There’s actually a Four Arms level one?" Wang Xuan had several hypnotized Celestial Race members entangle him while he himself flashed a few times to Ga Sheng’s main residence, where the gold was hidden right under Ga Sheng’s large bed, serving as its foundation.

Ten Thousand Jins Thunder Dragon struck and removed all disguises, revealing a large gold brick five cubic meters in size in front of him.

"I’ve never seen such a big gold brick; this guy must sleep soundly knowing he’s sleeping on so much gold. He probably dreams in bliss."

Clicking his tongue in wonder, he kicked it, causing a dent to appear, shaking his head: "The purity isn’t enough; it’s not fully pure gold. These five cubic meters would likely still be worth about four billion Star Yuan, not far off from my previous estimate."

With a wave of his sleeve, the massive gold chunk disappeared, stored into his Storage Space, becoming his personal possession.

Casually, Wang Xuan walked out of the manor, not leaving Golden City but hiding in a household to enjoy a feast of alien cuisine, feeling quite leisurely.

Twenty minutes later, a huge mournful roar echoed throughout Golden City: "My gold! Which bastard stole my gold? If I catch you, I’ll cut you into a thousand pieces!"

The city’s residents trembled with fear. They had also heard of the treasury theft, but were unaware that Ga Sheng didn’t care much for the treasury’s lost gold; this roar was solely due to the disappearance of his eighty tons of personal gold.

Yet, this matter couldn’t be publicized and could only be investigated privately, inevitably suffering a dumb loss.

"Your gold? It’s now my gold."

Wang Xuan put down his bowl and chopsticks, leaving behind a piece of silver before departing.

With his gains secured, there was no reason to linger.

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Thousands of miles away, a meteor crashed down with an unstoppable force, heading straight for a snow-capped mountain. The ten-meter-diameter meteorite shattered the entire mountain top, with continuous rumbling sounds.

Several hundred meters underground, Zhang Qingyu and others exclaimed in shock, emerging to see the scene before them in astonishment. Had they chosen a shallower hiding spot, they would have perished.

"The wrath of heaven and man, we truly suffer many calamities," Chen Hong remarked.

"Lucky it didn’t hit us, otherwise, we wouldn’t have survived," Hua Nian shook his head.

But they celebrated too soon as the earthquake caused by the fallen meteor awoke a giant beast that had been slumbering nearby for years, its enormous body emerging from the ground, shaking its wings free of dirt.

With its wings, the giant lizard’s belly grumbled loudly, its vertical eyes staring at the ninety-something people exuding delicious aromas, as it leaped towards them with its nearly hundred-meter-long body.

Zhuang Shuixing, Zhang Qingyu, and the others felt their scalps tingle. How could they deal with such a giant beast that could both burrow and fly?

"Run!"

Long Jiyuan shouted, beams of laser shot out but were almost ineffective against the beast due to its massive body.

Liu Weiyang took out a square foot piece of yellow paper with a large "Suppress" character written on it. As the paper burned, the ink-formed character flew towards the beast.

As the "Suppress" character landed on the beast, it immediately became immobile, seemingly making things easier, but Liu Weiyang shouted: "It won’t hold for long! Run quickly!"

Carrying small flying devices, the group took off, flying far away, only to see the beast breaking free from suppression, flapping its wings to chase after them.

When Wang Xuan returned to the snow-capped mountain, he saw only a meteorite crater and the broken snow mountain.

As for the many Mountain Gate disciples, they had all disappeared without a trace.