In an instant, Colin entered full-speed flash sale mode!

On the previously spotless silver cube, thirteen red lights lit up, flashing wildly. Eric Thompson could even hear the electromagnetic sounds of various electronic components inside Colin running at full speed.

The atmosphere was so tense, the room fell silent. For the first time, Eric Thompson realized that shopping online could actually be this thrilling!?

Ten seconds wasn’t a long time.

Whoosh~

Suddenly, a blue light flashed, and all thirteen red lights on Colin went out...

Eric Thompson was slightly stunned and nervously asked, “Colin, are you okay?”

“I’m filling in the delivery address and need to sign a test agreement,” Colin replied in a cute voice.

Only then did Eric Thompson breathe a sigh of relief. “As long as you’re fine. Just now, when the indicator lights on your body suddenly went out, I thought something had happened to you.”

Colin smiled again. “You don’t seem to care much about the result of the flash sale, but instead you’re worried about me?”

Eric Thompson shrugged and said, “I’ve never succeeded in a flash sale online before, so I didn’t have much hope. But if something happened to you, that would be a real disaster—I wouldn’t even have the chance to log into the StarNet to look up information.”

“Weird human,” Colin said with a smile. “I’m made of reinforced liquid metal. Even a nuclear explosion couldn’t damage the electronic components inside me, so don’t worry. Just now, to increase the chances of winning the flash sale, I activated sixteen million eight hundred thousand threads at once. The energy consumption was a bit high, so after the flash sale ended, I quickly cooled down the processor. It wasn’t a malfunction.”

“As for this flash sale—success! We got the only test version of the Morningstar System. I told you, flash sales are my specialty! It’s just a pity that, according to StarNet’s fair rules, if an account wins a flash sale, it can’t participate in another for the next thirty days...”

Eric Thompson nodded slightly. Sixteen million eight hundred thousand threads running at once? He wondered just how monstrous Colin’s computing power was.

A quick browse of StarNet would show that even the most basic primary Force cultivation system started at several thousand StarCoins. Eric Thompson had really scored a huge bargain this time.

“Latest news from the Interstellar Express Company: the Morningstar System will be loaded onto the ship in fifteen minutes. It will take twelve to sixteen hours, so it’ll be delivered by this evening,” Colin reported.

……

On the far side of the distant galaxy, on a planet called LC-7731.

A skyscraper with seven hundred and seventy-seven floors was brightly lit. On the very top floor, in an extremely luxurious office, a middle-aged fat man wearing expensive alloy glasses was furiously pounding his desk, raging with anger.

“What? Someone else got it in the flash sale!?”

“What are you useless people even doing! I gathered all the company’s top tech experts to win this item in the flash sale, and you still failed! You’re driving me mad!”

Faced with the middle-aged fat man’s fury, a group of subordinates hung their heads like frightened chicks, not daring to look at his twisted face.

The lead engineer, an elderly man, forced himself to speak, trembling, “Boss, we really did our best this time. All twelve quantum mainframe computers were running at full capacity!”

“Even so, we still didn’t manage to grab this new product from Microdust Company. I think there could be two reasons: StarNet allocates the same bandwidth to every router, and the network speed is the same. It’s very likely the other side’s computing system was even more powerful, or they had an account with higher privileges than ours.”

The middle-aged fat man was suddenly taken aback. Stroking the sparse hairs on his chin, he began to ponder.

A more powerful computing system? An account with higher privileges?

StarNet is a strange company. Their technical methods are beyond imagination—they actually achieved seamless connection across the entire universe!

You know, StarNet has been running for tens of thousands of years. Even with technology from tens of thousands of years in the future, it’s still impossible to achieve seamless universal connectivity like StarNet. This shows just how powerful the most mysterious company in the universe really is!

Owning a higher-level account is everyone’s dream. It’s said that the highest-level account allows you to see the whole universe without ever leaving your home! Whatever you want, you can have!

But StarNet, this bizarre company, has set all sorts of unimaginable restrictions on accounts. You can’t just apply to upgrade your account level. Instead, StarNet observes each account’s daily operations, and when it thinks you’re ready, it will proactively upgrade your account.

Waving his hand helplessly, the middle-aged fat man said, “Dismissed. The tech team will continue searching for the whereabouts of this Morningstar System. As long as you find it, even if it costs a fortune, buy it for me!”

“After all, this is the first time in years that Microdust Machinery has launched a new type of Force cultivation system. They must have made a huge breakthrough in Force development, and the entire star domain is watching.”

……

Little did Eric Thompson know that, across the interstellar network, in the far reaches of the universe, countless people spent sleepless nights staring at their screens, their eyes bloodshot.