Chapter 9: The chaotic interstellar black market
To be honest, Wang Bu had only seen these scenes of the future dark trading area in some novels or movies before, but it was the first time he had actually seen it with his own eyes. Compared with the clean and tidy and slightly old futuristic hall and rail elevator at the rail station and port just now, it felt like they had suddenly come from the center of the bustling area of the city to some rancid and gloomy 'corner area to be renovated', and when they came out of the rail elevator, they were shocked by the rancid and dirty environment outside.
"It seems that you can't ask too much of this! I said why did the receptionist just now ask us if we wanted to book the 'private room service line'~~" Wang Bu couldn't help but chatter, especially the unknown shops full of all kinds of metalpunk style on the street and a large number of people covered in tattoos and scantily dressed in tattoos, crowded like livestock on a farm, and kept winking at the newcomers when they came back and forth, just like those rodents who had just woken up from hibernation to find that food was already waiting at the door. It seems that this place really needs to be careful. Especially in the psionic senses, all the crowds around here are like humanoid beasts that are overflowing with evil spirits! It's a little unpleasant, but Wang Bu is not too clean in his heart, otherwise he is afraid that he will turn around and run. But it doesn't matter to him, with his current strength level, he is not afraid of the damage of their conventional weapons, and he can jump out of space if there is any danger. And since you are determined to explore the infinite world in the future, how can you go through this dirty place without passing through this kind of dirty place, and it should be a special experience! However, after sensing the mental fluctuations of Aso around him, which were relatively stable, he sent a signal and stepped directly into the lower ninth-rate area of the interstellar era that was crawling in a narrow pipe like a worm.
I have to say that for those who lived in the era of peace and the rule of law before, it really takes a lot of courage to dare to come to such a place outside the law alone. There is a dirty and ferocious power flowing from the faces of every person around you, as if they are ready to pounce on you as prey in the next moment. It has to be said that even in the interstellar era, there was still this primitive zone where almost beasts gathered. Of course, for Wang Bu, at this time, he had already obtained the strength of the transcendent psionic realm, of course, he was not afraid of this group of lawbreakers who only dared to eat the weak, but he only slightly exuded some kind of suggestive psionic aura. The people around him immediately took the initiative to make way for him in the flow of people as if they were avoiding some anomaly.
"This is the courage to only dare to fight in the law of the jungle!" Wang Bu secretly complained to Aso who was following behind in a secret whisper. Although the surrounding outlaws are all black-hearted and bold lawless, they must have certain precepts to wander in this dark world, otherwise they will become a dead corpse waiting to be recovered. As long as they felt some kind of premonition of danger, they would immediately take the initiative to avoid it, so this kind of psionic move, which was not very high-grade, still ensured the safety of Wang Bu's first entry.
Of course, walking in the crowd like this is also a thing to exercise people, although Wang Bu has already surpassed the ordinary physique after the transformation of the nanomachine and does not care, but Aso, who only has the physical strength of ordinary people behind him, is a little bad, especially the dirty air here makes her a little difficult to breathe, dizzy and weak! Wang Bu, who had to be considerate of his female companion, had to search the crowd for a while and send out a mental signal, and then immediately a semi-suspended tricycle that looked like an Indian style flew over the 90-degree vertical ground against the wall, and asked them in broken English if they wanted to take a taxi!
All right! There seems to be a lot of choice in this kind of location. Fortunately, the inside of the carriage is basically clean, but the smell of some Indian-style spices is too strong. However, the first time I sat in this kind of chartered car that glides vertically against the wall, it is also unique. On the other side of the window, which avoids the crowded crowds on the ground, the air is too foul for ordinary people to breathe, and the distant curved skyline is wrapped in a cloud of vomit-colored industrial filth, obscuring much of the planet's inhabited surface. When the wind blows away obstacles, you can briefly catch a glimpse of the outbuildings that lead directly to the Skyline Rail elevator tower, the ropeway connecting the top and middle floors, and a large number of subsequent remodeled buildings such as marine attachments, spreading around the huge super buildings with flashing lights, and looking down on the crowded streets below, slowly wriggling landscape, there is a real new social sense. If it weren't for the curtain on the top of the car cover, it was slightly shaken by the countless boiling voices around it and the endless electromagnetic noise of the factory~~
Finally, under the price code of Wang Bu's direct light of a small gold bar, the coachman who obviously had Indian blood brought them a small but clean vertical embedded hotel, the layout inside felt inferior to some domestic second-rate modern hotels he had seen on the advertising network before, but it was finally able to keep it basically tidy, and the perfect air purification system in the house made Aso, who had abnormal air problems just now, look a lot better. After asking for two nearby private rooms from the front desk, Wang Bu directly sent Aso into his room to rest on the bed before returning to his room (the relationship between the two is not so close for the time being, so don't guess). Although it is already dinner time around 17:45 local time. However, Wang Bu was not at all interested in the 'ghost cooking' of this place, especially after he called room service just now and learned that the price of pure water here was equivalent to 500 US dollars per cubic meter. However, he still gave a tip happily when he landed for the first time - and then returned to his private room and picked up the VR glasses handed to him by the waiter, an encrypted wearable terminal
Strictly speaking, this is the biggest confidence to ask for a high price here. As early as when he revealed that this was 'procurement', the front desk manager's eyes lit up and he knew that there was a way here, although this VR glasses with 80s punk style were really bulky and thick compared to Ghost in the Shell products, and the interface after opening was simple and rough enough, but a series of fine and high-data cargo introduction catalogs flashed in it still made Wang Bu calm down a little dissatisfaction
Similar to the interface in an exhibition hall, the latest model of robots, among them is a biochemical robot, as well as a supporting mecha ship, a suspended armored vehicle, etc., and even a small combat spaceship. If you walk into the touch information bar, you will have your own scrolling information introduction, which is really eye-catching. In addition to robots, there are all kinds of high-power bombs in the core area, and even atomic weapons that are strictly controlled by the Earth government, various latest missiles, main guns installed on interstellar battleships and large fortresses, various high-level FTL and sub-light engines, and fusion energy conversion machines that produce special high-level energy. It's really worth the big deal! However, Wang Bu carefully turned around and found that the controlled weapons here, such as nuclear bombs and main guns, can only be purchased with VIP qualifications, and the price is quite expensive, even the hundreds of tons of gold in his family may be lost in an instant, so he turned his attention to those relatively cheap and simple purchase procedures for civilian nuclear fusion furnaces and FTL engines for ordinary small cargo ships. Even the careful analysis and use of second-hand goods, which are now a little backward in this time and space, is enough to bring a huge boost to their future road plans. However, there is no relevant information here about materials and manufacturing equipment, so you may need to find another way to inquire ~~
And just as Wang Bu was immersed in his future procurement plan, a terrible premonition of a terrible storm was happening in a barren corner of the planet, on the edge of the bottom of a huge abandoned mine, on the top of a huge cave, there were some strangely dressed people with breathing apparatus searching for something, they were the descendants of the miners, because they did not have enough assets to get the money to leave here after the abandonment of the planet's mining industry, and were thrown in this barren corner. There is no other way to make a living except mining, but to pick up waste here for a living, but just a few days ago, the wreckage of a spaceship that fell in the sky smashed into this area, and they immediately came out happily to hunt for treasure. For these people, the wreckage of a spaceship, even a few deformed alloy parts, is worth more than a few bits and pieces in the pit. Two of them, codenamed 'Dog Eaters', are exploring a small half-section of the ship's cabin embedded in a cliff
"Damn Hank! This thing stuck itself too tightly with the rock wall when it hit the ground. We can't pry this thing with the tools we have~~" A scavenger shouted to his companion as he searched around for an entry point
"Shall we use explosives or get some help?" The young man, Hank, shuddered in response, and he shuddered as he approached the ship-like wreckage
"Stupid! If this piece of land is not done well, this 'shipment' will have to collapse to the bottom of the pit. How do we get up again! Besides, if we find someone else, we can divide how much is left. I'll find a gap here and drill in to see if there's anything valuable, and you're out there to get the wind on. The lead scavenger shouted directly and got into the wreckage of the cargo compartment leaning on the rock wall
"Hey! Marcos~~ Be careful, in case there are any high-temperature radiation hazards in it, it will be bad! Don't be so greedy! Max~~? The accomplice of the wind couldn't help but remind him, but he suddenly felt that the wreckage of the cargo hold seemed to have some vibration and shouted to his companion anxiously
But there was silence below, and when the young man couldn't help but want to go down and take a look, he suddenly saw that something seemed to be coming out of the hatch. Hurriedly shouted: "Hey! Marcos, did you find anything good?! Ah~~~" The young man instantly saw that the 'thing' with the long head exposed was definitely not human, and there seemed to be some dark red liquid flowing on the pitch-black shell under the mountain wind
"Marcos! What happened to you~~? "Before the young man who was frightened by the strange sight came back to his senses, the alarmed 'ghost thing' jumped directly through the gap below with an agility that surpassed that of any lizard-like animal, and directly jumped over a distance of 5 meters in mid-air from the gap below, and instantly pounced in front of the young man. The young man in the mountains and fields, who lacked knowledge, was so frightened that he fell to the ground in an instant, and then he could only look straight through the goggles at the last picture of his life, the 'eyeless' monster opened its fangs and mouth to him, and then a shadow like a snake flashed. He instantly felt that his helmet and goggles were filled with some red and white dirt, and a viscous and slippery liquid flowed. Then everything fell into darkness