Chapter 128: Dangerous Trading
50 Star Coins, it's like a lion's mouth! This amount of money is enough to pay the annual salary of an elite technician for three years, and the elite technicians have learned a lot of knowledge and are professionally trained!
Pan Wen locked his brows and the corners of his mouth went down, so that the other party could see his dissatisfaction clearly, and then began to bargain:
"If you can't guarantee that more than half of them will get an elite license, I think the price is too high."
Slave soldiers can ignore a lot of expenses, but they don't have a regular high income, and everyone has to pay extra for training and exams. If you spend 50 stars to buy it and get it out of the ordinary rank, even if you hand it over to the state...... After handing over the subsidy, he still has to lose more than seventy percent of the money, otherwise he will have to use it for more than ten years before he can get the difference back from his salary.
The elite level only occupies about 20% of the number of space crews, and if you want to achieve a 50% success rate in training, you must be very good slaves, most of these slaves are consumed in the MR246 circle, even if there are hundreds of thousands of bases in the breeding platform behind the snake head, it is not easy to pick a bunch in a short time. Pan Wen's hand is very clear, either pick a good enough slave to come out and make a deal at the original price, or reduce the price.
The head of the snake listened to Pan Wen's words, his eyes narrowed, and his dull hair moved, as if he was weighing something.
The two were talking, and there were a lot of small movements below, from the back of the lead road, there were ships gradually approaching, and dozens of small things flew out of the hangar isolation area of the Golden Ship, this is not a Segeis who loves each other, and any weakness exposed is enough to kill.
"My pig is the best, it must be worth 50 star coins, just say how much you want to buy." The head of the snake didn't know what decision he had made, and the original price remained unchanged.
Pan Wen didn't reply immediately, and looked at the zoomed-out star map at the side of the dialogue screen to determine the movement route of the oversized mecha before speaking again.
"300, cash payment, right away."
15,000 Star Coins, almost all of Pan Wen's remaining belongings, and after spending, the total number of Star Coin entities and bank deposits is less than 5,000 Star Coins.
The three hundred high-level slaves obviously made the snake head very excited, just look at the speed at which the fleshy hair shakes...... Probably never mentioned to the Aniks that their hairy organs made them look too unicellular to humans.
Of course, only understanding emotions is useless for a single buyer like Pan Wen, because excitement may mean that the other party is happy to make a lot of money by reaching a deal, and it can also be that the other party is happy to realize that Pan Wen is a big fat sheep and may be able to grab a handful, in short, the simple Anike people are not easy to deal with.
"Excellent! As long as you bring enough money, you will be my friend of Popoch in the future. But is your ship going around so far away, isn't it going to inspect the cargo? ”
"I think that payment and inspection in batches are beneficial to both you and me, and you don't want to see me rob the cargo ship and run away." As a human being, it is very dangerous to park a ship on the territory of the Anikes, and Pan Wen is not willing to take the lives of several large ships and the entire fleet to save some crew fees.
"Hahaha! Good! It's been a long time since a human has dared to say anything about robbing and running away in front of Bopoch! I'm sure you're really here to buy the pigs, so keep going around and wait for my next communication. After saying that, the smuggler took the initiative to turn off the communication, he obviously didn't believe that someone in MR246 could play himself without paying the price.
At this stage, the transaction is truly likely to be successful.
The Anikes are less technologically advanced than humans, but they are indeed highly intelligent, and many of them who regard them as mentally handicapped have become what they call "pigs" or simply disappeared.
Pan Wen pursed his lips and said to Nadezhda, "Use the gunboat to give the remaining 100 Star Coins to the guy who leads the way." ”
Nadezhda completed the instructions for the hangar and vault at the vice-captain's stand, and when Pan Wen pressed the vault switch, he turned his head and asked, "BOSS, do you want to continue to expand the size of the fleet?" ”
Three hundred, even with a slightly lower success rate of teaching, can make 120 elite crew members, according to the existing man-machine coordination mechanism, a small number of additional command personnel can equip at least two second lieutenant-level heavy frigates. In Nadezhda's eyes, with two more ensigns, plus four soldier-class ships, one original Cam X-VI and one 00863E class of the D21 orbital fleet, Pan Wen's entire fleet size will definitely run to the top ten in the whole Segeis...... At least in the top fifteen! It seems that there is no big guy in Segeis who has led the fleet outside all day long to fight this and that.
Pan Wen shook his head: "It takes a lot of time for them to learn, and they won't expand the fleet for the time being until there are cadets among them who satisfy me." How? Do you think my fleet is too small compared to the mercenaries? ”
"Huh!? No, I'm just curious. ”
Pan Wen didn't lie, he really didn't plan to continue to increase the size of the fleet in the short term, mainly based on the crew of the Heavy Hammer, and now it has entered the second half of the year, and the annual salary will be gradually paid in a few months. Although the annual salary system is said to be an annual salary, it is actually calculated on a monthly basis, and it is not that the annual salary will be paid in March when recruited in March, and it will be settled on a monthly basis at the end of the year and at the end of the contract, and with the scale of Pan Wen's current fleet, the annual salary expenditure will reach more than 15,000 star coins!
As the demand for MR241's mobile star-based material equipment decreases, the player's vigilance against him increases, and his income shrinks in reverse. Now that D21 has zero profit dividends from production, without new and better revenue channels, blindly increasing the number of ships in the fleet will make him more and more passive, and in the process of saving money, fleet expenses such as supplies and maintenance parts are still not saved, so it is necessary to start restricting the purchase of new ships in advance.
There was no chance for the head of the snake to board the ship, but the other side didn't seem to give up, and after the guy who led the way left, five ships tried to get closer.
Temptations like this are something that pirates often do, and if their target chooses to flee, they will not hesitate to bite into it. Pan Wen himself was a pirate, and the fleet, of course, did not react at all, the direction of inertia remained the same, and the bow of the ship was still facing the artificial biosphere. Before firing, if you don't get close enough, the opponent will not know the specific situation of the Gold, but the propulsion reaction can clearly let the opponent know his posture, and this is enough.
Probably seeing that there was no good opportunity to make a deal, the smuggler's fleet retracted a little, and after a while, a transport ship flew out of the bottom of the biosphere.
Transport ships, especially those for personnel transportation, do not have a stealth structure, that is, they are afraid that they will be mistaken for a battleship and killed with one shot, so it will be known to everyone immediately when it appears. The ship did not come directly, but first approached with the fleet of the snakehead, and this time it directly entered the physical imaging range.
At this time, the distance is the most dangerous, the reason why the blue pirates of MR246 are not cared for, because they live on the ship all year round, in order not to produce a large ship that is used to degenerate, there may be two or more cruisers in the five ships, once the head of the snake fires first, it is inevitable that the golden will break the shield.
It is no longer a temptation, if Pan Wen does not have enough strength, it is inevitable to fight.
Battleships have their own way of shining light on each other - just open the hangar completely.
The results soon came out, and the metal reaction produced by the Golden Hangar not only caused the snakehead to release the transport, but even the distance between the fleets slowly increased.
The actions of the smuggler's fleet are not necessarily completely inferior to Pan Wen's fleet, in fact, they are just comparing gains and losses, and which is more cost-effective between making a sum of money and starting a conflict, the Anik people can still distinguish clearly.
"Hey, human, there are a hundred pigs on board, and you can put down as much as you want. It's better to be quick, Popoch's patience is not good. ”
At this point, Pan Wen can be regarded as meeting the standard of a snake's customer, rather than a "human" who may be swallowed at any time.
"The ship is parked outside the blast area, we'll take care of the rest, and you'll get your shiny Star Coins in no time."
Nothing has to be guarded against here, and the Anikes can't be judged by human morality at all, and if the transport ship is connected to the Gold, there may be some kind of biological bomb or even weapon-grade nuclear weapon.
The head of the snake, named Bopoch, knew what the reputation of the Anike pirates on the human scale was, and readily agreed to a deal to make the ship relatively stationary thousands of kilometers away from the Gold.
The transfer of personnel was carried out by the Vesss IV multi-purpose gunboat, which had several more seats than ordinary gunboats and could transport twenty people per sortie.
Vis IV carried the slaves back to the Gold, where the Marines, with the help of vigilant robots, completed the initial body searches and scans, escorting them to the Third Infirmary. The first infirmary of the Gold is the major operating room, the second infirmary is the recuperation area, and the third infirmary is the spiritual counseling area, and only on the cruiser can there be such a fine classification, and the spiritual counseling of lightweight ships is mostly done in the doctor's office.
Using the equipment of the psychiatric counseling area and a series of questions, the captives' intelligence and personality tendencies can be quickly known, and according to the instructions issued by Pan Wen, the doctors divided the slaves into three groups within half an hour, or underwent further personality and intelligence tests, or went to the physical training room under the custody of the Marine Corps to collect data. It was about an hour before Pan Wen got the spreadsheets for all the slaves.
There were seventy-two people who decided to pay for Panvin, but it has to be said that the quality of the slaves cultivated by the Anikes was indeed quite high, and only eight of the twenty-eight who were eliminated were really unqualified. Half of the remaining 20 are on the edge of the elite training benchmark, and in order to ensure the success rate of the training, Pan Wen has to return them as if they did not meet the standard; The other half is a combat crew, which is partly because he and Margarita had agreed that there would be no male marines on the Gold, so the male marines must be assigned to other ships, and the proportion of strong women among the slaves is very low, and the number of people who can be selected is greatly limited by referring to the ratio of basic crew and marines.
Send back the part that didn't make the cut, and by the way, take the Star Coin to the transport, and the transaction will be completed.
Popoch is worthy of being a professional snakehead, getting the money and returning the slaves, he seems to have understood Pan Wen's selection criteria, the second batch of slaves sent, there are fewer strong ones, and the proportion of women has increased slightly.
According to the human test standards, the scores of this group of people have improved significantly, and only 11 people have returned after completing the test.
It should be noted that this is not Pan Wen's preference for female crews, women who can be taken out as high-quality slaves do have higher intelligence than the average male ** subordinate. After all, there is no concept of equality between men and women in the environment in which slaves grew up, and if they can't defeat each other with their fists, they definitely need a better mind or some kind of "service" ability to live well in that group.
By the time the third batch arrived, and after completing the test, Pan Wen was already wondering if the smuggler named Bopoch would adjust his slave training requirements according to the needs of his employer, and only three of the slaves in this batch were sent back!
After excluding some people, there were some shortages from the 300 people mentioned at the beginning, and on the premise that Pan Wen promised to pay the full amount and never return the previously selected ones, the last batch was still 100 people.
The physical star coins on the gold ship were taken out specifically for the purpose of buying slaves, and there was only a surplus of less than two thousand star coins, and it was impossible to buy too many more at the price of 50 star coins per person, and the last hundred people definitely couldn't follow the previous standards.
After raising the requirements slightly, only fifty-two people remained in the last batch, and the total number was just 310. Pan Wen didn't look for an interface or talk about inferior goods, so he simply took out an extra 520 star coins and sent it back to the transport ship, which means that the value of this group of people has increased by 10 star coins per person, and everyone is happy!
"Although you are very slow to pick goods, but you are not as stingy as those guys, if you come to buy pigs in the future, you can report Popoqi's name at the door!" The blue-skinned guy seems to be very bold, but he didn't say that he could avoid repeated charges if he reported his name, and the money that should be paid still had to be paid.