Chapter 51: The Pearl and a Stone?

Just as corpses on the grassland always attract hordes of scavengers, the space battlefield also attracts all kinds of visitors, including space scavengers who specialize in making a living, investigation teams sent by surrounding civilizations, and interstellar merchants who pass through here to try to find treasures.

After all, for a top-level force like the Silver Federation, the eldest princess of the royal family drove the Silver Thorn to personally go out to preside, and the three-day all-out search and even the follow-up Second Fleet of the Federation maintained a one-by-one investigation for nearly a month, which is already an exceptional degree of attention for this kind of small battlefield that only maintains a slight intensity between several frigates.

Especially in the remaining month, the Second Fleet was carrying out the secret order of Her Royal Highness the Eldest Princess almost the entire time:

Search for a 'passenger' named David and an artificial intelligence AI suspected to be disguised as a housekeeping robot.

During this time, with their salvage skills, they were able to pack up and take away all the 'important' materials they saw, such as the remains of all the shipwrecked crew members and passengers that were found, the black boxes on the Icarus and even the Sakura Society's capital ship, the ship's mastermind, weapons, warehouses, and the power furnace and engine that were still intact.

As for the remaining ship remnants and some fragments that have no repair value, for a force like the Federation, it is purely a category that outweighs the losses.

Although the Federation has since notified the surrounding civilizations that martial law is prohibited from exploration, this kind of verbal warning can only frighten those fledgling small forces, after all, the Federation will never send a fleet to stay here for a long time, right?

To be precise, considering that the real core event of this incident is the Apostle of War, after more than a month of searching, the Federation has left only a shipload of 'investigators' who really know nothing to continue patrolling and monitoring the area.

It is foreseeable that most of these people are unlucky people who have been 'exiled' here after the failure of the struggle in various systems, and those who can do routine work can be regarded as relatively self-motivated.

In the face of this virtual 'blockade net', some space scavengers that were already old fritters and armed merchant ships passing by released some reconnaissance planes to test them, and after being "gentle" ignored by the federal 'investigators', they swarmed like flies that smelled.

Even the remnants of the ship, which is like a pleasure for the Federation, are rare 'treasures' for these old drivers who are still worried about firewood, rice, oil and salt.

If they are dragged to make a space-time jump, it will naturally be a blood loss to Grandma's house, but this does not prevent them from directly selling them to some primary civilizations in the surrounding star fields that have just entered space, or even primitive civilizations that have not yet entered space.

For these technological fledgling civilizations, they urgently need these 'mature' ship metal and energy supply structures, as long as they can study something through these rags, they can shorten the research time of nearly a hundred years, and even start a new round of industrial revolution to promote the overall technological progress of the entire society.

Although due to the restrictions of the "Regulations on Not Interfering with the Development Process of Primitive Civilizations" in the Star Domain under the rule of the Silver Federation, they did not dare to directly invade and colonize these primitive civilizations at the risk of being wanted by the whole universe, but if it was just a small transaction, and some small filial piety every year, most of the civilization inspectors who were in the corpse position would only turn a blind eye.

And where there are interests, there will naturally be disputes, even if they are also scavengers, there will be strong and weak strengths.

After the first month of searching for each other's 'golden exploration time', more and more scavengers entered the space battlefield and experienced the chaos and even armed fighting in the first few days, these captains spontaneously hugged each other and began to divide the scavenging area according to the unspoken rules of their industry.

In these carnival-like carving-up feasts, Angelina, the captain of the Pearl, is in a state of rage at the moment, angrily accusing those veterans of bullying the weak, relying on the unspoken rules to exploit them as weak newcomers who enter, what she did was simply outrageous.

"Why can't we enter the core of the battlefield, and can only spin around on the edge of the battlefield?! Except for those fragmented landing ships, there is not even a single stone in the vicinity! If this continues, not only will our business contract be delayed, but we will not even be able to make up the fuel bill! ”

On the bridge of the Pearl, which was not much larger than an ordinary bedroom, Angelina, with her red hair, patted the rudder angrily, and a group of poor crew members could only look at each other and smile bitterly, not knowing how to answer.

After all, if their captain could treat outsiders as 'strong' in front of them, they wouldn't have let their Pearl be so miserable.

Although Angelina proudly calls herself a 'red-haired female pirate', she will become a woman in One Piece in the future~ At the beginning, with her good posture and imposing rhetoric, she really fooled these young people with too young, too simple Tucson on the thief ship.

But... The reality is that they have been on the Pearl for six years, and they are still doing the hardest and most tiring business activities...

Literally, because of the lack of a reliable backstage, they don't even dare to ship some decent contraband...

For example, slaves, reading (harmonious vocabulary), arms and other profiteering businesses.

One of their biggest trades is as a food supplier to Planet Garda...

However, due to the high 'protection fee' along the way and the filial piety of various space transit stations, in fact, they can't earn a lot of money in a circle, and sometimes when they meet real 'pirates', it is even more embarrassing.

Our 'red-haired female pirates' were immediately turned into balls, and after delivering half of the goods according to the 'rules of the trade', they were despised by the pirates, and in the face of the shabby 'tribute', the pirates even felt that the cannonballs that had blown this group of poor acid into scum felt a loss of blood.

Over the past few years, the Pearl has become 'famous' in this nearby star field...

And probably the only ship known for being 'honest' and 'sour', and in the end, even the pirates didn't bother to rob it... In their words, it's just not enough to intercept their fuel money ... If you have that time, you might as well do it a few more votes...

However, the more realistic reason should be that their Pearl has maintained a good reputation for its long-term food trade with Planet Garda by relying on the small profit that no one wants to do, so that Garda, who has always been cold, has a rare voice that the Pearl is protected by them...

But being sheltered and having a strong backstage are two different things, and pirates and their peers may not bother to rob this poor gang, but that doesn't mean they're willing to give up their vested interests.

So, as soon as the Pearl wanted to sail into the core of the battlefield, it was 'gifted out' by several large ships... And 'generously' allowed them to salvage wreckage on the edge of the battlefield.

This is why Angelina is getting more and more angry.

"Captain, in fact, we have also fished a lot of things this time, after all, it is the wreckage of the landing ship of the famous Sakura Society, although the technical content is not too high, but we can sell them to the nobles of the Federation who are in urgent need of 'war merits', that is, our warehouse is not enough, but we can completely unload all the food this time and load some more wreckage!" It's definitely profiteering. A young man with glasses suggested with a smile on his eyebrows.

I have to say that this classmate has a very wide brain, and Angelina almost agreed for a moment, but as soon as she heard that the food was going to be unloaded, she slapped the unlucky child's brain.

"Madhakuya! Are you stupid with your braincase caught in the hatch! Also unload food! What do we take to deal with Garda's commercial contract after unloading food? Do you want everyone to be thrown into the 'battlefield' to paint the walls? ”

Angelina's words immediately poured a bucket of cold water on all the crew members who had been beaten with chicken blood.

Yes, their main livelihood, after all, is the bulk food supply for the planet Garda, although there is not much profit, but it can always add up, and the most important thing is that once they break the contract, even if the cold Garda is too lazy to find their trouble, without this layer of protection, those pirates will no longer be 'troublesome', after all, even if it is to kill them to curry favor with Garda, it is a profitable deal.

Sometimes, the power is strong, after all, it needs some Xiaoxiao to kill chickens and monkeys, otherwise, where is the majesty?

Just as the bridge fell into an awkward silence, a little girl with a double ponytail who was the adjutant suddenly reported: "Captain! Captain! Heterometric entropy increase reaction detected ahead! ”

Everyone was beaming.

There is something that can make these old instruments detect abnormal reactions, and this is even if they have encountered some kind of black technology!

After all, in their worldview, black technology = enough small money to smash them to death, even if it is wreckage.

Well, for them poor sours, there's nothing wrong with that.

Especially Angelina, when she heard this noun with an almost zero probability of appearing, her eyes suddenly lit up like a light bulb, and she stomped her feet and shouted: "Quickly enlarge the picture!" ”

And as the resolution became clearer, the expressions of the crowd suddenly froze...

"Can anyone tell me what the hell this is?" Angelina asked, tugging at her fiery hair.

"It's like a stone," the man with glasses, who had previously offered to unload the food, raised his hand faintly.

When Angelina heard this, she slapped the unlucky child's skull, "I'm not blind yet!" ”

She turned, pressed her hands on the rudder, and said in a deep voice, "What the fuck is! It's definitely a good thing, let's catch it first! ”

So the girl made the wisest decision of her life...

PS: First of all, thank you for the reward of the 'It's all very good v' classmates~ Secondly, 'zhengzerrrr' classmates, the dragon set 'Angelina' that you have been shouting about is officially online, well, you said that you want to be a beautiful man in the universe, drive a merchant ship to and from the stars, and enjoy the poetry and the distance~ Since it is all beautiful, the setting of a man seems to be a little redundant... We've got you covered... Don't thank me~ By the way, guess how many chapters can you live in this trick? Or... When did you lose your virginity? (Ill-intentioned laughter~)