After confirming that Wei Xiaoyao was already on his way to Pest, Li Yi returned to the open-air trading market and met Ye Fan again.

In the market, you can see all kinds of free miners, bringing many ore specimens to the market in search of buyers.

The so-called free miners are those who have a simple mining ship, rely on mining all over the universe and sell it to large smelting groups for a living, and some miners are just prospecting, finding high-quality ore veins, and selling the location of the mining area.

Li Yi said curiously: "Now that the Starlink network is so developed, why don't you put these on the network for trading?" ”

Ye Fan said: "You don't know this, Starlink Network Company is the most mysterious organization in the universe, and it is also the most strictly regulated, the vast majority of people can only sell their products within a star field, and the members of the Planetary Mining Alliance are distributed in more than a dozen star fields around. ”

"Besides, it is very difficult to see the ore by relying on the Starlink network, even if the Starlink network can analyze the composition of the ore, but the mining area still has to rely on its own eyes to see it, in short, the Starlink network can only simplify the mining operation to a certain extent, but it cannot completely replace this ancient trading market."

Li Yi nodded slightly, the account level of the Starlink Network is indeed an obstacle, Li Yi has access to ten nearby star fields, so it is quite convenient for him to have the Starlink Network, and the vast majority of people can only use the Starlink Network to do some transactions in the Star Field, so this kind of large-scale cross-star field trade fair has the value of continuing to exist.

Moreover, human beings do business, in addition to price, they also talk about human feelings, and they meet each other to win over each other, and this kind of demand Starlink network cannot be replaced.

The most typical is the high-tech art industry, and a top foundry like Han Feixue has never put his works on the Internet for sale, so he doesn't need it. Han Feixue can't cope with the people who begged him around him, and secondly, Han Feixue only likes to cast, but he never cares about the things that are cast, and he doesn't care if he gives them away, for this kind of strange old guy, he naturally can't be found on the Star Alliance network.

Speaking of these top companies. Li Yi was puzzled again, what kind of Star Alliance Network, Virtual World Realm, Interstellar MRT, Interstellar Project, its huge degree may not even be beyond the reach of the Ten Royal Families, and the way of operation is more and more strange than the other.

Recently, Li Yi has been troubled by the interstellar engineering company that only recognizes money but not people, and the solar system is the hometown of human beings, except for the earth. The idea of human colonization of Mars and Jupiter has been around for a long time, and if you want to achieve your goal, you must find an interstellar engineering company, and the company's asking price is so high that many people will go crazy on the spot.

The gathering of the Planetary Mining Alliance is really big, tent after tent, stall after stall, and people crowded. It took a full four hours to walk from south to north alone. You must know that there are hundreds of streets in the open-air market, and it is estimated that all the companies and individuals related to the ore business in the nearby more than a dozen star fields have come.

Li Yi thought for a while and said to Ye Fan: "Eat something first, and let's walk along the periphery in the afternoon." Try not to go to crowded places. ”

Ye Fan was puzzled: "Why? A lot of people means that business is prosperous and there are good things. ”

Li Yi said with a smile: "Even if there are good things in a crowded place, they have been targeted by others early, how can they fall into your hands?" What about when everyone else is an idiot? If you really want to talk about efficiency, it's still those stalls that are not patronized. Walk slowly, look slowly, buy what you like, no one will grab it from you, and the price doesn't have to be too high. ”

Ye Fan nodded and said, "It does make sense, I will do what you say in the afternoon." ”

……

After a simple lunch, Li Yi and Ye Fan began to walk around the periphery of the big market in the afternoon, as Li Yi said, these peripheral stalls are obviously more polite to Li Yi and Ye Fan because they have no business, and the prices are more affordable.

Li Yi bought some specimens of precious ores and prepared to take them back to the specimen room in the Coke Mining Rich Company, after all, there is still a huge difference between real ores and three-dimensional imaging seen on the Internet.

"It's almost time, it's the top trade show for the members of the core chamber of commerce from tomorrow, why don't we go back and rest, anyway, this market will be open until the end of the fair, if you're interested, we'll see it another day." Ye Fan said.

Li Yi nodded, so the two of them walked along the woods in the outer circle of the market towards the convention and exhibition center, as the core merchants who were invited, the convention and exhibition center provided Li Yi and Ye Fan's food and lodging for free.

He had just walked a short distance when Li Yi was suddenly attracted by an inconspicuous stall, on which there were more than a dozen kinds of ores, most of which were of ordinary texture, but there was a unique ore composed of six colors that was quite interesting, like a condensation of many oil paints mixed together.

Li Yi was slightly stunned, walked over, and said to the owner of the stall, an elderly free miner: "What kind of ore is this?" ”

The old man rubbed his big hands, which had become rough from years of labor, and said: "I won't tell you, I don't know what the name of this ore is, I found it from the vein when I was mining the cold steel of the stars, and that's it." ”

Li Yi nodded slightly, and said to himself: "So you are a free miner prospecting?" ”

The old man smiled: "Now that I am old, I can't do the work of a miner, so with the little experience I accumulated when I was young, I will explore new ore veins in various parts of the universe, and after finding them, I will sell them." ”

"You see, this is the cold steel ore where I found this colored ore, the planetary cold steel is divided into three, six, nine and so on, the reserves of this vein I found are not high, about 170,000 tons of ore, the grade is between six and seven, if you are interested, I will give it to you cheaper."

Ye Fan frowned and said, "Brother Li Yi, the reserves of 170,000 tons are too small, and they are not high-grade mines, so they don't have much value." ”

The old miner hurriedly said: "It's really not a very valuable deposit, but after all, it's also Star Cold Steel, and the price is cheap, I only charge 500,000 prospecting fees." ”

Li Yi thought for a while and said: "It's a conscience price, the cost of finding the vein and the initial exploration will not be much less than this number, and it will be tens of thousands of star yuan to make a head, okay, the size of a mosquito is also meat, as long as this vein does not involve sovereignty disputes, I will buy it." ”

The old man was overjoyed, and hurriedly took out his Starlink network terminal, and completed the handover with Li Yi, the old man got 500,000 star yuan, and Li Yi got a position mark.

As for how to determine the authenticity of the location mark, it is very simple, here Li Yi gave an order, and the unmanned mining shuttle of Coke Mining will immediately set off and arrive at the location mark for review, and there is no problem with the review, Xingyuan will really be transferred to the name of the old man, and before that, it was kept by Starlink Network Company.

Li Yi put away the sample of the six-colored ore and the cold steel vein of the star, and then quickly returned to the convention and exhibition center, and he didn't even bother to eat, so he locked himself in the room.

Ye Fan had no choice but to go to the restaurant alone, after all, he came this time to have a social mission, and it was also an important purpose to get to know some heavyweight mineral businessmen.

At eleven o'clock in the evening, Ye Fan had already returned from the welcome dinner of the core merchants, and saw that the lights were still on in Li Yi's room, so he knocked on Li Yi's room curiously and walked in.

I saw Li Yi holding the six-colored ore in his hand and was excited, and on the ground were carbon isotope detectors, nano-scale magnifying glasses, material detectors and other equipment, obviously, Li Yi didn't go to dinner, and was testing this strange ore all night.

"Seeing that you are so happy, is this ore a good thing that I don't know how to do?" Ye Fan asked curiously.

Li Yi smiled slightly and said: "You must know, but you haven't seen it, the full name of this ore is called the Colorful Cirrus Sky Gold Mine!" ”

Ye Fan shook his head vigorously and said, "I haven't heard of it..."

Li Yi smiled mysteriously and said, "Then the colorful heavenly river, you should always know the way, right?" ”

"Colorful Tianhe!? That's not..."Ye Fan said in shock.

Li Yidao: "Yes, Colorful Tianhe is the most important metal raw material for the MTU engine, only Colorful Tianhe can ensure that the jump engine will not burn out after the super jump, and Colorful Tianhe is a higher level of existence than Colorful Tianhe." ”

"Look at these Star Cold Steel, the grade is so low, there is almost no mining value, it is because when this vein is generated, it is accompanied by a piece of Six-Colored Tianhe, and the Six-colored Tianhe absorbs the essence of the entire ore vein, making the original high-grade ore vein become a waste mine."

Ye Fan sat on the ground and said in surprise: "It's really a god, I haven't seen you for more than a year, but you have become a mining expert!?" Assuming that it is really as you said, wouldn't this six-colored Tianhe be worth against the sky!? ”

Li Yi shrugged his shoulders and said, "I'm not an expert, I just read some more notes than you." ”

The notes that Li Yi said were naturally Han Feixue's, this great foundry was born in the Ten Emperor Star Domain, and his original element casting was naturally precious.

Han Feixue deep space sword, the sword used is the cold steel of the stars, the cold steel of the stars is steel to put it bluntly, but this is a pure high-grade steel, other high-grade metals such as Crow alloy are alloys, that is, the meaning of smelting a variety of metals, and the cold steel of the stars is pure steel.

Low-grade Star Cold Steel can be found, but high-grade Star Cold Steel is unique to the Ten Emperor Star Domain, and as for the Colorful Heavenly River or Six-Colored Heavenly River that is associated with Star Cold Steel, it can only be found in the core area of the universe.

Li Yi didn't expect that he actually found a piece of colorful Tianhe in Bristol, which is even lower than winning the lottery.

Ye Fan rubbed his hands nervously and said: "This is the metal that only exists in the core of the universe in the legend, since this is the case, quickly send someone to the place where this ore is mined to take a look, in case you find one or two more pieces, it will really be a hair!" ”

Li Yidao: "I have already sent someone, with the ability of the laser-type mining collector, it will not take a day or two to complete the mining of the ore vein, and then we will know if there is a second such legendary-level metal." ”

"But I don't think the probability is big, after all, it's just a small vein, besides, I'm very content to have such a piece of Colorful Tianhe, I have already had the MTU engine blueprint, and now I have the top thermal insulation metal of Sixcolor Tianhe, the next step, I can build an engine with the same performance as the original version!"

PS: Some things are delayed, and the second chapter is estimated to be uploaded around half past ten. (To be continued......)