"You just said ...... You just stepped into the stars of the Empire a few hours ago? ”

Glancing closely at the blue potion in Robin's hand, an older-looking replicant strode over.

Robin wondered why they looked like this, so he cautiously replied, "Yes." ”

"I'm sorry, as far as I know, this new advanced potion was developed just a year ago, and it's only circulating on a small scale in the circle of our free mercenaries." Speaking of which, the older replicant stared at Robin with blazing eyes: "So...... I don't quite understand, how did you get it when you just stepped into the stars of the Empire? ”

"A year ago...... Spread on a small scale in freelance mercenary circles......"

After receiving these two messages from the mouth of the elderly replicant, Robin's face immediately appeared in his mind. Because whether it is the time factor of a year ago, or the identity factor of a free mercenary, it is exactly in line with Leona.

Originally, on the way here, although Robin had also imagined finding Leona who arrived in the empire first, he also knew in his heart that it would be a needle in a haystack to find Leona in the vast sea of people in the empire, so he didn't expect to meet Leona on Brady planet. But he never expected that now he would be able to find a clue to Leona in the process of selling advanced potions, which was undoubtedly an unexpected surprise.

In just a few seconds, Robin had filtered through all the possibilities. Now he was pretty sure that Leona should still be with AO95, and perhaps have formed a free mercenary army, and that the advanced potion she developed still has a certain technological lead in the Hoffman Empire, a country with extremely strong biochemical technology, and that she also has a complete grasp of the patent for the formula of this new advanced potion. In addition, she targeted the sale on these financially distressed free mercenaries, which did not make her immediately gain a large amount of cash, but she should have gained an extremely good reputation and prestige in the free mercenary circle, and faintly formed a force of her own.

"Looks like ...... She's done a great job......"

These thoughts flashed in his heart made Robin smile slightly, and then when he was questioned by the older replicant, he replied confidently: "If my guess is correct, I'm afraid that the researcher of the advanced potion you mentioned was once my companion, and I ...... Her native country. Also, I would like to confirm to you, do you recognize a replicant with the number AO95? ”

“ao95!~”

Hearing Robin say ao95, the suspicious look on the older replicant's face suddenly dissipated, and an extremely enthusiastic smile appeared instead: "It turns out that you are a companion of ao95, no wonder...... I beg your forgiveness for my previous rudeness. ”

The replicant has a strong sense of class, so as a third-class replicant, it is natural for the older replicant to use honorifics to address ao95, and he is also much more enthusiastic about Robin, a natural person who used to be ao95's companion.

In this harmonious atmosphere, the two sides quickly completed the transaction, and Robin and his party finally obtained the first circulating Hoffman Empire currency.

Contrary to Robin's imagination, the currency of Hoffman's empire was not a paper currency like the Federation, but a rather retro metal coin. On the obverse of the coin is embossed the majestic head of Hoffmann the Great, while on the reverse there are different amounts of numerals, the smallest of which is 1 and the largest is 1oo.

In the history of human currency, coins have been replaced by paper money, which is more negotiable, because it is not conducive to carrying, but because of its wear-resistant and non-perishable characteristics, it was also widely circulated in the old era as a currency with small denominations. Now, in the current situation that this kind of electronic money has become a general trend, the Nine Star Republic, which has a central computer, has completely eliminated the pure presence of physical currency and purely uses electronic money for daily transactions. The Raymond Federation, on the other hand, retains the characteristics of paper money in the old era because of its respect for tradition, and only when it comes to large amounts of transactions, it will use more convenient electronic money, but for coins, this kind of currency has been completely eliminated.

In contrast, the monetary policy of the Hoffman Empire was diametrically opposed to that of the Federation. Although the Hoffman Empire also used electronic money in terms of bulk transactions, citizens chose coins as the main currency in their daily lives, and eliminated paper money, which is more convenient to carry.

Robin was very curious about the fact that the Hoffman Empire would use coins as the main currency in circulation, but after only a cursory study of the Hoffman Empire coins in his hand, he understood the real purpose of the Empire's adoption of such coins as the main currency in circulation.

It is hard to believe that the Hoffmann Empire coins were made of the rarest Mycenaean metal in all countries. The difference between the 1oo and 1 coins is actually the difference in the amount of Mycenae metal in the coins.

As the most important strategic resource among all countries, the preciousness of Mycenae metal is no longer comparable to that of diamonds and other high-priced substances of the past. Its reserves can even be directly related to the rise and fall of a country, so at present, the major human countries in the galaxy attach great importance to the mining and reserve of Mycenae metal. The Hoffman Empire's forging of Mycenae metal into coins in an alloy way, on the one hand, proves that the Hoffman Empire's Mycenae metal reserves have been unimaginably large, and on the other hand, it is a disguised way of private reserves, so that the Empire can make the most of this strategic resource, rather than just leaving it idle in warehouses.

Of course, after it becomes currency, there will inevitably be an outflow of McInini metal. However, due to the existence of electronic money, this outflow was effectively controlled, so that the amount of damage caused by becoming currency was kept within the limits of what the empire could bear.

"It's hard to imagine that I only need to collect 10,000 Imperial coins in the 1oo denomination, and the Mycenae metal contained in them is enough to make a Type IV armor." Stroking the coin in his hand with an extremely smooth surface, Robin had mixed emotions and did not know how to describe it.

The older replicant seemed to have long been accustomed to the shock of the citizens of the new empire, and when he heard Robin's muttering to himself, he couldn't help but laugh and said, "If the Type IV armor you mentioned is just standard armor, then you can buy a brand new one for half the front." So I don't think you need to melt the million you earned for a Type IV armor. ”

"Huh...... I'm just kidding. ”

Robin shrugged his shoulders at the older replicant and began to ask about Leona and ao95, and the older replicant had been looking for an opportunity to steer the conversation here, so after hearing Robin's question, he immediately told him everything he knew.

And the fact is just as Robin imagined, after coming to the Hoffman Empire a year ago, Leona did not go under the command of the Marquis of Timos as ao95 persuaded her, but stubbornly pulled ao95 and his team to become a free mercenary. And relying on the low-cost, high-efficiency advanced potion formula she mastered, she quickly opened the market in the poor free mercenary circle, completely solved the problem of funding for her mercenaries, so that her mercenaries had enough funds to buy serum to renew the lives of the replicants in the team.

Of course, during this period, she inevitably led her mercenaries to participate in some battles, and in these battles, her mercenaries showed extremely strong combat effectiveness, and also stayed in the intersection with many mercenaries. [This chapter is not finished, please click on the next page to continue reading!] ］