The captive ship caused the Hammer to shake unexpectedly as it jumped, but eventually returned unharmed to the Death Rim.

The Kuroshio and the Sweeper converged one step earlier, and the curly-haired Basedo-class Star Destroyer had already retrieved the full-size main guns stored on the Sweeper. Curly belongs to the Segeis Grand League, and he was not in the same area when he returned to Segeis, so he only asked Doris to convey his gratitude and leave first.

The two ships waited for almost a whole day at the predetermined coordinates before the Hammer dragged the captive ship to them and prepared to return to port.

Before approaching Segeis, the fleet was under scrutiny, and the leader was more beautiful than a woman, but his body movements were not girly.

"Lord Pan, according to the port regulations of Segeis, we need to receive your captives and carry out the necessary inspections on them, and the ships of your captives also need to pass through security checks." The pretty man remained in the control room with two clerks, while the engineers and port guards went about their business.

Segeis is very friendly to pirates like Pan Wen who have their own ships, and basically calls them adults, and Pan Wen naturally does not pose as an uncle because of the good attitude of others, and only informs the crew to cooperate with the work.

Seeing that Pan Wen informed the crew and his captain, the person who led the team showed a beautiful smile and explained the reason to Pan Wen further.

"Segeis is a paradise of freedom, there are always those who want to destroy our beautiful life in strange ways, and we must be very careful to maintain it. Your captives have two options, either to join the Segeis system, or to pay enough ransom to be sent back by a regular freighter. If they choose the former, after passing the necessary skill checks, you will receive a certain amount of compensation from the Public Security Administration, which is generally not too much, about thirty to fifty stars per Gabriel federal soldier. In the latter case, because your captives are all military personnel, the Sheriff's Bureau can afford to negotiate with the Federal MR239 Theater Headquarters in Gabri, and if all goes well, you can get a 40% ransom, which is about three times the total according to the cases we have dealt with. ”

What a bonus!

Pan Wen didn't think about what would happen to him when he took in the captives, his predecessor was a cautious miser, and he had no chance to come into contact with the high-grade loot of the captives, and he didn't have any information about this in his memory.

I didn't expect that all the troubles would be handled by the Segeis Security Administration, and I just had to wait for the money! Although the official procedure will certainly not be very fast, these dozens of prisoners only ate for two days and wounded two marines, which is incidental to the capture of the ship, and there is no cost at all. Now, according to the least disposal method, he has an additional income of nine hundred to one thousand star coins, to say the least!

Pan Wen reluctantly maintained a serious expression, and followed the beautiful man's words and asked, "What about the ship." ”

"When Lord Bruckner returned to Hong Kong yesterday we already knew what had happened, and it was entirely due to your strength and successful tactics, that you were the pride of Segeis, and that there was no doubt about its ownership. However, for the safety of Segeis, before you return to the port area, we will neutralize its communication systems, engine systems, and possible self-destruct systems to prevent them from sending automatic signals or accidentally exploding. When you return to port, you will also need to separate the ship, and you can bring the ticket to the security bureau at any time of your choice within seven days, and we will have a professional team to remove the hidden danger, of course, this will require a small fee. ”

The last sentence is the key, how much is the "little cost", for ground personnel such as hotel waiters, maybe a fraction of a star coin is not a small number, and in the eyes of those trenches, one or two thousand star coins can only be counted as a little bit.

Seeing Pan Wen's hesitation, the beautiful man said one more thing:

"Master Pan, although I can't disclose the financial information of other departments, please believe that our fees must be within a reasonable range, and the ship handling process has always been an important service of the Security Bureau in addition to port taxes."

This sentence of the beautiful man contains a lot of information.

The Segeith Security Administration is the only legal and neutral security agency in Segeis, and its top management also includes the Interstellar Trade Friendship Alliance, the Segueis Grand Alliance, the Star Brotherhood, and some absolutely neutral individuals. Its functions are similar to those of the government agencies on the ordinary resident planet, of course, due to the three major pirate forces, the Security Service is of little use at the top, mainly to manage the infrastructure and the basic security needs of Segeis.

Such an institution needs a large amount of money to maintain its operation, and Segeis, as a pirate base, can have a very large amount of port **, not because it is "friendly" enough or there are many places in Fengyue, but its port tax is very low compared to several surrounding countries. Specifically, the tax rate for conventional goods here is only 15% of the commercial port of the Islamic Empire and 25% of the Gabri Federation. There are enough benefits, even if Segeis is a pirate base, in the center of the Sea of Death, and needs to be introduced to enter, there are still many merchants who flock to it.

However, it is impossible for a whole basic management body to trust all sources of funding on one project, and in special times such as economic lockdowns, it will become its own dead end, which will affect the normal operation and even the safety of the whole Segeis. Therefore, the Security Administration will also develop a variety of businesses to expand its own income base.

Mei Nan said that the ship handling procedure is an important service of the Security Bureau, which means that this is a financial source that can be ranked in the composition of the income of the Security Bureau, so it can be used as a reference for port use fees.

There are nearly 1,000 docks in 32 port areas and almost 10,000 docked ports, and at an average utilization rate of 50%, the total monthly income of the Security Bureau on this item is about 50,000 star coins, of which the income of docked ports is equivalent to that of docks, which is 10 percent cheaper.

Then knowing how many ships the SSA's ship handlers roughly handle each month is almost enough to know how much they charge.

In fact, this number is quite easy to calculate, because in peacetime before players start to expand aggressively, most of the shipyards are these captive ships that are being processed or have just been completed, except for those for sale and one or two ships that need to be overhauled. Even if it is only counted as one batch a month, there are two or three hundred, and each ship is divided into two hundred star coins.

Two hundred star coins is indeed an acceptable price for Pan Wen, if he wants one or two thousand, then maybe he will choose to replace the engine and communication system directly.

The work efficiency of the security service personnel was not bad, and it took about an hour to complete the work of neutralizing the equipment, and by the way, the trophies on the other two ships were checked for anything too dangerous, and then they were released.

As a rule, Pan Wen still docked his fleet in the fourth port area, and when the crew was preparing for the holiday, he called Scardragon again.

Seeing what was hanging beneath the Heavy Hammer through the transparent viewing window of the harbor, it took a while for the boss with the Scardragon's mouth open to recover from his stupor.

"Master Pan, what are you going to do with it?"

"I've repaired it for my own use, but it mainly depends on whether you can deal with other miscellaneous items fast enough, otherwise I don't have enough money on hand to allocate personnel."

The fierce-looking Scar Dragon looked at Pan Wen with a blank look for a while, and suddenly sighed: "Lord Pan, you have changed a lot this month, and with it, you are a real big man." ”

Pan Wen smiled, knowing what Scar Dragon was alluding to, but it didn't matter, because he was indeed Pan Wen, and he was not disguised.

"Because I figured it out, money is a bastard, as long as you have strength in your hands, money is nothing!" Pan Wen still gave Scar Dragon an explanation.

Hearing Pan Wen's theory, Scardragon shook his head and stretched out his right hand to give a thumbs up to show his feelings.

"Awesome!"

received the compliment, Pan Wen was not surprised, and directly settled the previous loot payment with Scar Long.

The second world is a world where players can move extremely freely, and many of the mechanics are for players, and loot is dumped a little faster than the actual market can absorb, on the grounds that some factories like to "stockpile" finished equipment.

This time, Pan Wen went out for almost a week, and the previous batch of loot had all been shipped, and finally Pan Wen's funds rose by 3,120 star coins again, plus the remaining 1,800 star coins, which was close to the 5,000 mark again. It's just that this amount of money can almost buy a light decommissioned frigate, and now it's still a little less.

Scardragon's team dismantled the weld points between the captive ship and the Hammer, and dragged the trophy away from the small cargo ship while the crew had not yet disembarked.

Here Pan Wen rented the dock No. 12 again, and the dock before the 15th was a little larger, and the monthly cost was 60 star coins, and the prisoner ship could be stuffed and the loot could be placed here. Scarsaurus doesn't need to rent additional warehouses when handling loot, and may be able to earn back the dockyard rental fee.

The results of the loot statistics are very encouraging.

This time, the trophy did not include the frigates, but the value was still higher than the last one, mainly because Pan Vin kept more than 20 almost complete gunboats.

Gunboats like these, with tonnage ranging from 1,200 to 1,500 tons, are sold for between 300 and 400 Star Coins through regular channels. The gunboat in the Panvin Trophy, although its electronic system is damaged, is still intact, and it can still be sold for 120 to 200 Star Coins for a second-hand price after replacing it with other parts in the loot or finding a replacement. The total estimated value of the gunboat portion is therefore nearly 4,000 Star Coins.

Repairing the gunboat requires some of the loot to replace the equipment or sell it to find another one, and after removing this part, the remaining estimate is only 1,000 stars. Of course, it does not include pieces of armor that can be sold immediately.

Overall, although the wreckage of the frigate of the curly friend was not hacked, the income this time was higher than the last one. Naturally, if you discount the last laboratory-grade equipment, the Defense Amplification Device Type II, the two revenues are comparable.

Pan Wen's mind now is not on the trophies, but on the repair of the captive ship.

The crew waited for another two hours to unload the loot on the ship, and the final result was a day off and a departure tomorrow afternoon!

It's not how powerful Scardragon's engineering team is, but there is no hope of repairing it in a short period of time, so Pan Wen's last vacation for the crew has become a day.

"The support structure of the bow of the ship has been damaged to a certain extent, and the replacement of these structures must be customized to the factory, and it will take a week for me to leave the relationship, and the repair of other parts can only start after the replacement of the structure is completed, and this time you can't shorten the construction period if you give more money."

Scardragon's integrity is indeed good, there is no easy way to say things for the sake of money, according to his explanation, the prisoner ship will be repaired, as long as it will take eleven days!

Fortunately, the main gun hits on this frigate were concentrated in the bow of the ship, although the construction period was about twice as long as the maintenance of the Kuroshio at that time, the repair price was not much higher, and when the contract was finally signed, Pan Wen's account was less than 3,000 star coins.

To be honest, the 3,000 star coins are more worth it than the 2,800 star coins of the Kuroshio, or that reason, the Kuroshio itself is a retired ship, and it is slightly inferior to the in-service ship in terms of ship, weapons, and equipment performance, not to mention, this is still a special frigate!