What Kind of Move Was This?

Memory scene extraction.

One of the paid functions provided by the Reincarnation Space.

Most intelligence sales appeared in this form in their most basic version.

Recently, however, many merchants who specialized in exploiting newcomers had released a "video."

The video showed the destructive power of a gigantic monster made up of countless human bodies.

Some who had experienced it knew that the many figures comprising this monster were creatures called Kabane, but very few knew what the monster itself was.

Even so, with the number of people buying Kabane flesh and becoming Kabaneri having greatly increased recently, many people paid close attention to this suddenly released information.

After all, those unscrupulous merchants had no reason to spend their own Reincarnation Points distributing this kind of video.

Only after the buzz had built up sufficiently did the various distributors announce that this monster was actually one form a female Kabaneri could take!

Male Kabaneri, meanwhile, could use the same item to gain an entirely different combat style.

For a time, the entire Huaxia Zone of the Reincarnation Space was shaken. Aside from some large corps that had long since received hints and leaked intelligence, many ordinary independent Reincarnators went nearly mad asking around for more information.

Judging from the combat power displayed in the footage, its sheer physical strength might even surpass that of an Elite Reincarnator. Though its reactions were somewhat sluggish, once it fully erupted, it was likely to possess the overall capabilities of a Veteran Reincarnator.

But soon afterward, someone exposed the side effects of this drug. In an instant, everyone who had been interested began cursing.

What kind of joke was this? Using it would get people killed!

How many people would be willing to use this to perish together with someone else? Were they supposed to buy it just to scare people?

"What a joke! I knew those profiteers would always be profiteers!"

"Exactly. They don’t take us seriously at all."

"I got scammed by them into buying a set before. Because of that one time, I fell into a vicious cycle and couldn’t recover even after several missions."

For a time, this incident seemed to stir up many people’s bad memories of those newbie-package merchants. The shitty things they had done in the past could not be made up for simply by selling cost-effective bundles for a short while.

The abuse made the distributors’ scalps tingle. Whenever they met, they complained bitterly to one another, utterly unable to understand why the mysterious president of the "Penguin" Chamber of Commerce had demanded this.

That was right. They themselves had released news of the side effects. Originally, they had planned to launch the Black and White Blood Plasma together, but they had no idea what kind of crap had gotten into that chamber president’s head for him to insist on releasing the Black Blood Plasma first, and to demand that the White Blood Plasma only be revealed after the hype had reached its peak.

He had even forced them to sign an agreement, threatening to stop supplying them otherwise.

They were all filled with resentment over it.

"All right, everyone. You can start spreading the news about the White Blood Plasma now."

At that moment, Xu Yue anonymously sent them an email with further instructions, making them all breathe a huge sigh of relief.

"What?! There’s White Blood Plasma too? It can neutralize the side effects of Black Blood Plasma?"

"A miraculous blood plasma."

"Good. Very good!"

Those who had used Kabane flesh and become Kabaneri had first experienced hope, then plunged into the despair of the abyss, only to see hope once again. Their excitement soared to the limit.

This prolonged, repeatedly reversing hype campaign had an extraordinary effect when used in this era, which had yet to experience an information explosion.

The distributors had never expected that promoting the two blood plasmas separately would produce such terrifying results.

Even the infamy they had earned earlier had indirectly turned into publicity for the Black and White Blood Plasma.

Could attracting hate actually be used as advertising?

This item clearly was not all that heaven-defying. At the very least, it was only attractive to low- and mid-tier Reincarnators, or perhaps specialized mission teams within corps. Yet it had somehow been hyped into producing an effect as though an S-Rank item had appeared.

The results left the leaders of those distributors staring at one another.

"H-how did this happen?!"

"Their corps has truly grasped the human heart to the absolute limit."

"Exactly. Although they’re selling the items together, they promoted them separately and in sequence. The effect is unbelievably good."

"If they devoted themselves entirely to business, there probably wouldn’t be any room left for us."

They had first introduced the concept of bundles, then followed it with this current infamy-driven marketing campaign. These unprecedented business methods had given those middlemen quite a lesson.

"Given this, the first fifteen sets of medicine we sell might fetch even more than expected."

"The price is secondary. At most, we can add another B-Rank Plot. But this kind of reputation can’t be bought. The newly established ‘Penguin’ Chamber of Commerce is now even more popular and well-known in the short term than those long-established chambers. For a mere B-Rank item to achieve this effect… there’s nothing more to say."

"This was probably their ultimate purpose…"

The monthly Special Auction House opened as scheduled.

Because of the Black and White Blood Plasma incident that had caused such an uproar recently, this auction drew far more attention than usual, nearly comparable to times when rare special items appeared.

As for the nature of an auction house, once it became popular, sellers holding truly rare items would also be willing to ride the wave and put their goods up for sale at high prices. This cycle would then attract even more buyers.

As a result, the scale of this auction far exceeded previous ones.

Xu Yue entered the plaza of twelve sky-piercing pillars again. Looking at the sea of people and the scene that was far more bustling than when he had last come, the gentle smile on his face remained unchanged.

Black and White Blood Plasma?

Its main function was simply to provide a steady, long-term income. Its output was rather limited when it had to be manually compounded.

At the very least, even if all fifteen bottles sold this time could be exchanged for two B-Rank Plots, it would not have any decisive effect on him.

His primary goal this time was to sell the Titan Marrow Fluid at a good price. Naturally, stirring the auction into a frenzy was the best choice.

At the same time, he could use these relatively unimportant items to draw attention and conceal his true objective to a certain extent.

The Special Auction House was an official auction event entirely organized by the Reincarnation Space. Each time, it randomly selected Reincarnators of varying strength levels to serve as auction staff. Once the auction began, the identities of all participants would be concealed.

Bidding was also subject to the Space’s own review mechanism, effectively preventing the use of shills.

Moreover, auctions were not limited to simply bidding Plot Points and Reincarnation Points. If the seller had special requirements, item exchanges and even negotiations were entirely possible.

Negotiations did not have to be one-on-one either. There could even be competitive negotiations involving multiple parties.

It could no longer be viewed simply as an auction house.

It was more like a combination of an auction and a tender.

Xu Yue casually walked up to one of the sky-piercing pillars and placed his hand on it. The next moment, he vanished from the plaza…

Beneath his feet lay a star-filled cosmos, and his entire body seemed to float in the universe itself. A blazing, surging sun, shooting meteors, and asteroid belts orbiting massive planets.

It was vast and magnificent, grand and breathtaking.

And this was the site of the auction!

Everyone stood separately atop a flat meteor platform.

Each person’s meteor platform varied in size, but every one was large enough to move around on.

Not to mention the sea of people in the plaza—even if everyone on Earth were crammed in here, there would still be more than enough room!

Was this the Reincarnation Space’s true power…?