Chapter 68: Procurement and Shadows
The ACG system is located on the outskirts of the Endaro Domain, which is basically part of the three-way zone, so it is not uncommon for there to be all kinds of illegal transactions in this system, and it is said that even the notorious Pirate Group often supplies in this system.
Potter piloted a small frigate with Xia Fei to ACG19, where the Black Market is located.
ACG19 is completely shrouded in desert, with little water and a harsh climate, which is not suitable for human habitation, but that doesn't stop shrewd unscrupulous traders from setting up here.
The ship hovered over a desert, and Potter rhythmically pressed the intercom, as if to pass some kind of code.
Soon, the sand in the desert began to flow slowly, and in a few moments a circular patio opened.
Potter steered the ship straight down, and as soon as the ship docked on the tarmac, the circular patio slowly closed.
Xia Fei and Potter walked out of the fighter plane, only to see two sturdy men standing under the tarmac, with weapons on their shoulders, looking at Potter and Xia Fei with a smile on their faces.
"Old Potter, you're here again?" The two of them said with a grin.
"Hmm." Potter nodded at them, took a few bills from his pocket and stuffed them into their hands, "Help me take care of the boat, and I'll invite you to drink when I get back." ”
With that, Potter led Xia Fei down the narrow and dark corridor to the depths.
"This is the famous black market, whether it is psychedelic drugs, weapons, and even women, you can buy them, and the dozens of galaxies nearby are the most lively here." Potter introduced to Xia Fei.
"Why do I feel like this place is the inside of a warship?" Xia Fei looked around and asked.
"You're right, this was originally an abandoned warship, first someone used this place as a warehouse, and then after many years of development to form the current scale, not only the entire battleship has been developed and utilized, but even the underground of the planet has dug a lot of caves, this is just one of the entrances, there are many entrances like this on the surface of the planet."
After walking along the narrow corridor for a long day, and turning many corners, the front suddenly opened up.
It's like a giant farmer's market, with a wide plaza lit up and flanked by shops one after another.
Hundreds of people gathered around the square, all with obscene expressions, and they all looked at Xia Fei with wary glances.
Potter seemed familiar with all of this, and kept greeting them.
Xia Fei noticed that the shops around the square were all nameless, and some didn't even have goods, and they didn't know what they were selling.
Potter and Xia Fei slipped into one of the small shops, which was littered with empty beer bottles, and walking along felt like wading through a river of bottles.
There was only one shelf in the store, and there was still beer on the shelf, and behind the shelf there was a couch on which a skinny middle-aged man was sleeping, and Potter kicked him off the couch without saying a word.
"Who!"
The thin middle-aged man jumped up from the ground, pulled out a sharp knife from his waist, and said with red eyes: "Who the is looking for death?" ”
As soon as he spoke, his mouth was full of wine, so that Xia Fei couldn't open his eyes.
The middle-aged man saw Potter's face clearly, a flattering smile appeared on his face, and the knife in his hand suddenly disappeared like a trick.
"It's Big Brother Potter, come on, come on, please take a seat." The middle-aged man politely put Potter and Xia Fei on the sofa.
He looked Xia Fei up and down a few times with his eyes, and said to Potter with a smile, "Who is this?" ”
"Less nonsense, where do I want something?" Potter said bruisedly.
"In the warehouse, in the warehouse, it's all ready for you." The middle-aged man rubbed his hands and said.
He ran to the back wall and pressed a button, and the sound of a motor running was heard, and the wall parted to the left and right, revealing the elevator inside.
Potter and Xia Fei followed the middle-aged man down the elevator to a warehouse of about 1,000 square meters.
There were many large and small wooden boxes in the warehouse, and the middle-aged man led Potter and Xia Fei to one of the piles of goods, pointed to three boxes of about one cube and said, "Brother Potter, this is what you want." ”
Potter nodded expressionlessly, and the middle-aged man beckoned two big men to open the three wooden boxes with a crowbar, revealing three sets of very sophisticated equipment inside.
The three sets of equipment are a jump scrambler, a traction control mechanism, and a jump stabilizer.
When two ships are engaged, if one of them falls behind, it can use the jump engine to make a temporary jump to escape the battlefield.
The Jump Disruptor can interrupt operations at a high frequency to prevent the jump engine from starting, so that the enemy can't run if they want to, just stay where they are and wait to die.
The towing control mechanism releases a traction beam to control the opponent's warship entirely, reducing its speed by more than 90 percent.
The traction control mechanism is particularly important when dealing with high-speed warships, high-speed warships have extremely high propulsion speeds, which can reach close to the speed of light, and this kind of battleship relies on its own mobility to avoid attacks, and then calmly hit the opponent, like a buzzing fly, if you can't kill you, you can also disgust you.
With the traction control mechanism, the buzzing fly can be held down and then punched with ******.
Moreover, traction control equipment also has a strong practical value, which can stabilize the suspended objects in space and drag them to the battleship for salvage.
There are countless floating treasures in space, the wreckage of an ancient spaceship, or a piece of ore of high value.
With this traction control device, it is possible to calmly pull these ships or ores closer to the ship, or even into the cargo compartment and take them for yourself.
If the jump jammer and traction control equipment were to operate together, the enemy ship would be in a situation where it would be completely impossible to escape and could only be beaten passively, which is a vicious method of warfare.
The function of the jump stabilizer is diametrically opposed to that of the scrambler, which can protect the spacecraft from the invasion of the opponent's high-frequency disturbance and short-wave waves, and calmly jump away in case of danger.
This is like the relationship between a spear and a shield, the scrambler is the spear of attack and the stabilizer is the shield of defense, a spear and a shield, that is, to strike the opponent, but also to prevent the opponent from attacking by the same means.
Civilian warships are usually not equipped with these three kinds of perverted electronic weapons, because they are quite expensive, and only a very small number of manufacturers have the ability to produce and manufacture them, and it is difficult to obtain supplies.
Potter examined the three electronic warfare devices one by one, "Well, no problem, get them to my ship, Tarmac 1022." ”
The middle-aged man nodded hurriedly, urging the two big men to load the three boxes onto the ship, and told them to be careful.
"Brother Potter, do you see if this account is settled for me, these things are valuables, and they account for a lot of liquidity." The man said as he carefully gestured with his hand.
Potter nodded and said to Xia Fei: "It's 30 million in total, let's transfer it to him." ”
The middle-aged man was stunned, "Big Brother Potter, these things are a set of twelve million, and they should be thirty-six million." ”
Potter snorted disapprovingly, "Humph! Who doesn't know that your goods are all from Lao K, I don't want to deal with him, if I go to him in person, I won't even need 20 million, and I can't be too greedy. ”
The middle-aged man's eyes rolled a few times, and he said helplessly: "Since you say so, then even if I suffer a loss this time, I will not agree to this if I change someone else." ”
Xia Fei transferred 30 million to the middle-aged man's account, returned to the square with Potter, and the two of them came to an open-air bar, asked for two bottles of beer, sat at the table and drank slowly.
"Uncle Potter, the price of these things is not expensive, I checked it on the Star Network last night, and the official price of the same equipment is about fifteen million, and the three of them together save fifteen million star coins." Xia Fei said with a smile to Potter.
Potter grinned, "If it's not cheap, can it be called the black market, these things are either stolen or robbed, it's strange if it's not cheap." ”
"That's not our main purpose today, we're waiting for someone who will bring something good that you would never guess, boy, just wait for the money, I can't wait to see how you hurt in pain." Potter said mysteriously.
Xia Fei took a sip of beer, "As long as it's a good thing, I'm willing to pay for it." ”
The two chatted for a while, only to see a young man with thick eyebrows and big eyes hurriedly walking over, looking angry and ruined.
The young man sat next to Potter, grabbed a bottle of beer from the table, unscrewed the cap with his hand, and drank it down.
Potter frowned and didn't say a word, and there seemed to be some uneasiness in the air.
Syllable!
The young man put down the wine bottle and said angrily, "Old K came to me today and took away what you wanted." ”
Potter tapped his hand on the table and asked with concern, "Are you alright?" ”
The young man shook his head and smiled wryly, "I'm fine, he asked me to bring you a message." ”
"What?"
"The cemetery is still my graveyard." The young man said with his eyes deliberately looking away, as if he felt a little guilty for not bringing what Potter had asked for.
Potter patted the young man on the shoulder with his hand and said meaningfully: "Xiaotian, you can find things again, and the most important thing is that you are fine." ”
The young man called Xiao Tian looked a little excited, forced a smile and said: "Master, although I am not competitive enough to be your apprentice, but don't you know me, I will keep one hand in everything, Lao K only took the engine, and he didn't find the neutron cannon and missile launcher you wanted." ”
The weapon system requires a lot of energy and ship space, and the Navy Kitty Hawk class has a total of four energy interfaces to install weapons, and Xia Fei decided to install two small neutron cannons, and two small missile launchers.
The neutron cannon is one of the most powerful of all artillery guns at the moment, its rate of fire is not very fast, it can fire about 120 shells per minute, but it is extremely penetrating, can penetrate the opponent's heavy armor, and its energy consumption is much smaller than that of thermal weapons.
It is impossible for a frigate to be equipped with large-scale energy equipment, so strict control of energy consumption has become very important.
The advantages of the missile system are that it can actively track those nimble enemies, and it is also very powerful, and more importantly, the missile system requires almost no energy, and its power is completed by the jet system of the missile itself.
Neutron cannons and missiles complement each other to provide not only high firepower output, but also to deal with a variety of different enemies.
The energy saved can fully enhance the maneuverability and defense performance of the warship, and the high-grade electronic equipment itself is also a big eater of energy.
"Master, I suspect that Lao K has snooped on your phone system, so he will know what you need, I have a military encrypted phone here, you should use this in the future."
With that, Xiao Tian shoved a matchbox-sized satellite phone into Potter's hand.
The two neutron cannons and two missile launchers cost Xia Fei a total of 24 million star coins, Xia Fei transferred the money, and the little **** Potter and Xia Fei nodded, stood up and walked away like a gust of wind.
Lighting a cigarette and taking a few puffs, Xia Fei couldn't help but ask, "Xiaotian is your apprentice?" ”
"Well, one of my youngest apprentices, and the most talented, was in a hurry to use money to cure his sister's eyes that year, so he left my factory and started an arms business here."
"I only found out afterwards, I scolded him the day he left, now I think about it, I really regret it, this kid, his personality is too stubborn, if he had told me earlier, I would have given him even if I smashed the pot and sold iron, but he just didn't say it."
Old Potter rubbed his temples as he spoke, the wrinkles on his face deepened, Xia Fei wanted to comfort him, but he didn't know how to speak.
"Who is that old K?" Xia Fei asked.
Potter picked up a Hongta Mountain from Xia Fei's cigarette case and lit it in Xia Fei's example.
"Ahem! What is this thing? Why is it so hard to smoke? Potter coughed twice and said with a bitter face, almost choking on tears.
Xia Fei smiled slightly and did not speak, there were no smokers among the aliens Xia Fei came into contact with, and tobacco seemed to be only the patent of earthlings.
After pouring a burst of beer, Potter said, "Old K was a pirate when he was younger, and when he got older, he washed his hands and stopped robbing houses, and began to assemble ships. ”
"Recently he wanted to buy something from me, but I didn't sell it to him, so I didn't have a good time with him. Actually, I don't have anything, it's just a pity that I helped you set the Black Snake engine. ”
Xia Fei's figure was stunned suddenly, and he asked anxiously, "What kind of engine did you say was that?" ”
"Black Snake engine, model 130." Potter said with a sigh.
PS: Today is 7,000+ again, Jiu'er is looking for a state, hoping to increase the number of daily updates to about 10,000.