Walking out of the hangar gate, Robin felt as if he had arrived at a collective dormitory of a large company, and the reading hangars with space shuttles were like rooms in the dormitory area, and there were too many to count as far as the eye could see.

After taking out an electronic card from the electronic card slot next to the hangar gate, Robin and the others stood on the automatic belt in front of the hangar, and the automatic belt was taken to the commercial area of the Hermes spaceport.

The electronic card that Robin took out had the hangar number on it, and it was available for Robin and the others to enter and exit the hangar at will within eight hours. In addition, the hangar electronic card is also a temporary identification for freemen like Robin, and must be used to confirm transactions at the Hermes spaceport. On the one hand, when the electronic card confirms the transaction information, the downtime fee can be waived for eight hours. On the other hand, the Hermes spaceport imposed a restriction on the lack of commercial credit of the freedmen in order to protect merchants. After all, before the advent of the Hermes spaceport, many of the freedfolk were interstellar pirates and thugs who lived by robbery. Therefore, out of distrust of the freedman's commercial credit, and to protect the interests of the merchant from being damaged in the transaction, the electronic card that opened the hangar will be frozen before the transaction is completed, and the space shuttle parked in the freeman's hangar will also be considered as a property mortgage. The e-card will only be reactivated when the merchant confirms that the transaction is complete.

Robin had already learned about the transaction process through the electronic screen while waiting in the hangar, so he knew very well how to use this electronic card, and he also used his electronic notes to copy a lot of the purchase information browsed on the electronic screen, and was ready to carefully examine the purchase price of various rare substances before choosing a suitable buyer to sell.

At this moment, as soon as the automatic take-out leaves the hangar area, everyone actually enters the commercial trading area of the Hermes spaceport. Although they were mentally prepared for the bustling city of the Hermes spaceport, they were still startled by the bustle of the spaceport after seeing the array of shops and crowded people in the spaceport.

And what particularly shocked them was the enthusiastic and unrestrained demeanor of a large number of scantily clad bewitching girls in the area where the commercial trading area and the hangar were handed over. They would shamelessly expose their private parts in full view, accosting any man who passed by, and making it clear that they could go back to the hangar with them for some payment.

"They...... Is it a girl? ”

By recalling some of the old-time movies he had seen before, Lee immediately guessed about the old profession they were engaged in with a long history.

In the Nine-Star Republic, since there is no exchange of personal interests between citizens, there may be a large number of one-night stands in the Nine-Star Republic, [***], but there will definitely be no girls.

At the Hermes spaceport, the situation is completely different. In the exchange of naked money, women have regarded ** as the capital they can use to trade, and those free people who have been adrift for a long time in the boring voyage do need women to satisfy their carnal desires. Therefore, the profession of remembering women is quite prosperous in the Hermes spaceport. In addition to the cheap street girls like Robin and others now see, the commercial districts of the Hermes spaceport have a variety of establishments, casinos, gladiatorial arenas, and other entertainment venues. As the merchants who were active in the Hermes spaceport said, they would pay the freedmen to work for them, and then use another way to get the freedmen back the money they earned.

Robin and the others watched from a distance for a while, and after satisfying their curiosity a little, they avoided the girls who were ready to solicit customers, and squeezed into the crowded automatic belt in the commercial area.

There are automatic tracks in all business districts of the Hermes spaceport, and you can walk around the entire business district without even taking a single step. In addition to this free but slow means of transportation, the spaceport also has paid taxi and maglev car rentals. If you want to go to the second and inner rings of the spaceport, where you want to conduct large transactions, you must choose these faster modes of transportation than automatic crawlers.

The third ring of the spaceport where Robin and others are currently located is the largest and most trafficked commercial trading area in the Hermes spaceport. Acquisitions of rare material raw materials are also mainly carried out here. However, due to the fact that the free people generally do not have large spaceships, and the rare substances that can be collected at a time are quite limited, there are almost no blockbuster transactions here, and most of the shops in the Third Ring Road with rare substance acquisition signs are middlemen, and only a small number of them are semi-finished product trading companies that lease space stations in nearby star fields and can purify and process rare substances.

Robin wasn't in a hurry to trade, so he spent a lot of time watching the other freedmen trade. He found that most of the free people could only come up with a mixture of rare substances in the amount of a few kilograms, and there could be tens of kilograms, which could basically get the attention of the merchants. Moreover, the merchant's high purchase of the mixture of rare substances actually carries a certain amount of gambling quality, because the free people cannot purify and classify the substances extracted from the space dust belt, so they do not know what exactly is in the mixture they collect. If you're lucky, it's not impossible to get rich overnight, but it's not uncommon to buy a lot of scrap at a high price, so there's no uniform price for a mixture of rare substances at the Hermes spaceport, and the price is often very different for each point.

After walking around the business district for more than three hours, Robin and the others found a secluded place to stop and rest, and discussed their opinions with each other by the way.

"I don't think this is the right place for us to trade, each transaction here is only a few tens of kilograms, and we have nearly 2,000 tons on board, and they are semi-finished products that have been preliminarily sorted."

Robin's words at this moment would definitely cause a sensation in the entire trading market if they were to circulate. Because compared to those piecemeal transactions, Robin is obviously going to make a really large transaction. After all, compared to those free people who lacked equipment, Robin not only had a fleet, but also the most advanced gathering equipment, and had spent several months in the dense Kuiper Belt, so the total amount of rare matter in his hands was indeed quite staggering.

"But we don't have federal coins in our hands, so we can't go to the commercial area of the second ring road dedicated to large transactions." Based on what he observed, Angus concluded: "And to complete a large transaction, you have to register a trading company at the Hermes spaceport, but we don't have anything." ”

"Then ......," Li thought for a moment and asked, "Why don't we sell things in batches?" ”

Robin pondered for a while, ready to take Lee's suggestion: "Hmm...... That's the only way, and it's not easy to attract the attention of others when sold in batches. ”

But just when everyone was quietly discussing the trading strategy, Zhuo Luo, who had been leaning back against the wall and closing his eyes tightly, suddenly opened his eyes sharply and shouted coldly: "Someone is spying on us." ”

“……”

As soon as Zhuo Luo's words came out, everyone immediately subconsciously entered the battle state, and the fierce murderous aura that erupted in that moment made the pedestrians passing by around involuntarily jump away like an electric shock, and they all looked back at the murderous five people in horror.

And under Zhuo Luo's knife-sharp gaze, the crowd consciously separated, completely exposing the shivering guy hidden in the crowd to Robin's eyes.

Zolo dragged the guy back and shoved him in front of Robin.

"Don't be impulsive! ~ I have no ill intentions, I swear! ～”

This guy seemed to be frightened by Zhuo Luo's murderous appearance, and his whole body shook like a sieve.

"No malice?" Robin squinted his eyes at him and asked in a cold voice, "Who are you?" Why track us? ”

"My name is Nishizawa, and I'm a salesman at the Byron Heavy Metals Trading Company." The stalker hurriedly explained.

Robin glanced at everyone and asked suspiciously, "Byron Heavy Metals Trading Company?" ”

"Yes."

Perhaps guessing that Robin and the others were visiting Hermes Spaceport for the first time, the fat man named Nishizawa hurriedly introduced his company.

According to his introduction, Robin learned that the Byron Heavy Metal Trading Company is a heavy metal manufacturing company that owns a large space station in the northern star field of Proxima Centauri, and its main business is the purification and processing of extremely common rare substances, and sells the refined products to various machinery manufacturers on Othello. However, due to poor management and monopoly suppression by companies in the same industry, this Byron heavy metal trading company is currently facing the dilemma of lack of supply. To this end, the company disperses a large number of salesmen to the small trading market, hoping to skip the middleman and directly obtain raw materials in the form of scattered acquisitions.

As one of these salesmen, Nishizawa will target Robin and his party because he feels that the temperament of Robin and the others is very different from that of ordinary free people. In Robin and the others, he felt a kind of discipline and organization that other free people did not have, and Robin had been observing the raw material transactions in the market for three hours, so Nishizawa keenly felt that Robin and his party might have plenty of goods in their hands, and he might be able to complete a large transaction that could save the entire company in this small market full of scattered transactions.

At this moment, after listening to Nishizawa's reasons and motives for tracking him, Robin, who was in a state of high vigilance, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. This timid and scared fat man doesn't look like a lie, so what he says should be true.

And a heavy metal trading company that is in a dilemma due to lack of supplies, after learning about the recent situation of Byron Heavy Metal Trading Company from Nishizawa's mouth, Robin's mind immediately pops up with a new idea.

(To be continued)