After Qin Shi expressed the doubts in his heart, Lao Pao didn't care. He said: "It's not surprising that this layer of warehousing is deliberately arranged in this way, otherwise how can it avoid inspection?" ”

After listening to Lao Pao's explanation, Qin Shi's doubts slowly disappeared.

In the galaxy world, the Ark is the main mode of transportation. However, in most cases, conventional freight transportation simply cannot bring enough profits to the owners of the ark, so each ark will try its best to entrap things that are not allowed to be imported and exported at the place of transportation, and increase profits in the form of smuggling.

Naturally, it is impossible to place the entrained things in the warehouse in a grand manner, so they can only be confused in places that are not easy to be discovered, or in places that inspectors are usually reluctant to set foot in.

But in this situation, it is obvious that there are prohibited items placed in this utility room, but the shipowner has the ability to buy off the inspection personnel at the entrance and exit ports, and after arriving at the place, someone may board the ark to inspect, but it will only go through the motions, and he will leave after taking some benefits.

"I see...... Qin Shi frowned, lifted a canvas corner at his feet, glanced at the utensils covered by the canvas, frowned, and said, "What is this?" ”

The old cannon bent down, reached in and pulled out a paper bag, a heavy, fist-sized paper bag, which was about ten kilograms.

The old cannon opened the paper package, but saw that there was a pile of metal ore inside. Smelling it, the old cannon looked suspicious, and after a while, he said: "This is cold iron ore, this is strange...... Nanlu doesn't have ores...... Yin Tang's cold iron ore is also pitifully small and has been blocked...... Oh, got it! ”

The old cannon wrapped the ore and stuffed it back into the distance, then walked to a short distance to the side, removed another bag, and after repeating this several times, he finally determined that there were actually piles of cold iron ore hidden under the surrounding debris.

"They also sell cold iron ore?"

Qin Shi asked curiously.

"It's a smuggling ......"

The old cannon smiled bitterly: "The owner of the ark should be a great man......"

Cold iron is the primary metal used to build starships. In the galaxy world, prices have always been high. The proven reserves of Yintang Han ferrite ore are not large, so they have been seeking imports.

In fact, most of the galaxy countries have adopted the same attitude towards Yin Tang: prohibiting the export of cold iron to Yin Tang.

The number of cold iron limited the possibility of Yin Tang building giant starships on a large scale, and limited Yin Tang's power in the Void World to the greatest extent.

In order to obtain the cold iron, Yin Tang could only obtain the cold iron that maintained the safety of the void through smuggling, and even needed to trade with foreign races.

The cold iron ore on the current ark should be a cargo smuggled from a galaxy country.

"That's amazing......"

Lao Pao sighed sincerely, silently thinking in his heart about where this smuggling route should be, where to pass through the Xinghai along the way, and then reach Nanlu, and finally fly to Yin Tang.

The family that has mastered this star path really doesn't know how much money they earn from Yin Tang in a year. The price of cold iron in the galaxy world is sixteen times different from that in Yin Tang! Even if it is large-scale smuggling, there is at least five times more net profit, such a huge profit, it is worth going crazy!

Thinking about it intoxicated, Lao Cannon sighed, such a big business is not something he can touch.

"Someone's coming!"

The old cannon's ears moved, and he suddenly whispered.

Qin Shi's heart froze, and he nodded slightly. Gently patted Xiao Hei under his feet, and motioned for Xiao Hei to drill into the canvas.

Qin Shi and Lao Pao were the same, and they quickly hid in the canvas.

Lao Cannon touched it into his arms, took out a silver shining ring, and put it on his hand.

This is a ring that can hide the aura, and within half an hour, it can shield the aura of the surrounding two meters. Of course, if there is a strong person around you whose strength has exceeded the shielding ability of the ring, this is still not much use.

However, there is cold iron ore all around, which can also distort the strong person's ability to feel, which undoubtedly enhances their safety.

Someone was talking in a whisper in the distance. Qin Shi condensed his delusional vision, but his strength was still not enough to penetrate the surroundings, and his hearing improvement was extremely limited.

But the interlocutor was approaching them. Although he couldn't hear the voice clearly, he could still make out a little bit of his voice, this was not Boss Hu's voice, nor was it the voice of Boss Hu's subordinates, which made Qin Shi feel a lot more at ease.

"This batch of cold iron, we must urge them to deliver it as soon as possible, the owner is in a hurry...... How many shipments are still out of the port? ”

A majestic voice drew closer.

Qin Shi's heart shook, and he slowly dissipated his strength, slowing down his voice as much as possible. He could feel that the master of the voice, the power was unfathomable.

The look of the old cannon next to him was even more unnatural. He had just finished saying that he didn't have to fear anyone on this ark, and in the blink of an eye, he was slapped in the face. The owner of the voice is obviously much stronger than him.

"In the past, thirty percent of the goods have arrived at the Juyang port, more than forty percent of the goods are already on the way, and the rest is estimated to arrive within a month...... It's just that our ark has been coming and going too frequently recently, which has attracted the attention of the Blackwater Division, and in addition, our import and export cooperation is almost running out. ”

The other voice was a little weaker, but Qin Shi could still sense that the other party's strength could still compete with the old cannon.

The old cannon was hit hard. Hearing the other party's conversation, especially when he heard the Black Water Division, his heart sank.

The Heishui Division was Yin Tang's external intelligence department, specializing in spying on all kinds of intelligence information of enemy countries, arresting spies and other affairs, but generally speaking, it paid little attention to economic crimes. In particular, smuggling cold iron into the country from abroad, this kind of behavior should be acquiesced by the official, or even supported by the Blackwater Division. But why did both of them seem to be wary when it came to the Blackwater Division?

This is not a difficult question to answer. Cold iron ore is also a material that is forbidden to be used by private individuals and gate valves in Yintang, and it is necessary to apply for cooperation from Yintang before it can be purchased from official channels.

It's just that the wealthy lords will be so honest, they will definitely look for their own cold iron channels, queue up to apply for that pitiful quota, and I don't know how many years it will take to get enough for a capital ship.

"After you go back, you go to talk to the people of the Black Water Division, go and pick the planetary information in the Rock Star Sea, and ask them to pick one. I have only one condition, they can ensure the safety of our star path for as long as they want to get the profits...... Of course, the scale maintained in front of us will be reduced by two percent at most. ”

"Yes."

After a brief exchange, the two fell silent. Qin Shi was a little stunned when he heard this, he tried to use his home planet to analyze the meaning of the conversation between the two, originally wanting to try his luck, but what he didn't expect was that the keyword Luo Xinghai soon appeared in the light screen, and then a lot of information jumped out.

The Locke Sea is actually a galaxy. According to the estimated range, the diameter is 6,000 light-years, of which there are countless stars and planets. And it is the most numerous of all planets habitable by the Terrans.

Rock Xinghai does not belong to any human race of the Star Sea country, the same way, the alien race has not been able to develop a strong power in this place, this is a free city-state country, there are small forces established by human races and alien races, trade is extremely developed, and it is collectively called the land of freedom.