Chapter 52: The White Dwarf Market

"Want to get technology beyond civilization? Want to develop the tech tree in its entirety? Want to get more cosmic information? Come on, as long as you are willing to pay the appropriate technology or materials in exchange, you will be able to get anything you want from here! ”

"White Dwarf Market, nothing is collected, nothing is sold! Protected by super-civilized creations, you will be guaranteed safety and fair trade. ”

"White Dwarf Market is looking forward to welcoming you! The coordinates of the market are located at ......"

The Silver Star is docked at the top of the market dockyard, where you can see a plethora of ships of all kinds.

From the size, shape, quality and other information of these spaceships, Lu Yu can roughly guess the level of the civilization to which these spaceships belong.

In the white dwarf market, most of the civilizations belong to the stellar civilization of the fourth level or so, and most of their spaceships are only the size of the moon.

And now next to the place where the Silver Star is docked, a spaceship is twice the size of Jupiter, it has dozens of orbiting ships, all of which are as large as blue stars, and they are full of dense fortifications, which will undoubtedly contain huge powerful weapons, deterring all foreign forces that dare to disobey the rules.

This is the regular guard force of the White Dwarf Marketplace to maintain order, and it belongs to the sub-civilization that the Rings have split off.

In addition to the steel ship, there are many other space bases in orbit around this massive spaceship. Each of these bases has a diameter of several tens of kilometers. Around these bases, there are constantly various spaceships taking off and landing back and forth, busy shuttling. As with the market below, it presents a busy, bustling atmosphere.

The triangular spacecraft had docked next to the massive spaceship, and seemed to be communicating something. And Lu Yu had the leisure time to explore the white dwarf market.

Because the requirements of each civilization for the living environment are different, the market is always carried out face-to-face trading.

That is, civilized creatures do not come forward, but trade with robots as agents. All deliveries, transshipments, inspections, etc., are completed by robots.

It's understandable.

Otherwise, as soon as the spaceship comes out, there is a slight error in setting the environmental parameters, and the customer dies violently, wouldn't it become the responsibility of the market?

Lu Yu was curious, who would give value to the traded goods?

In the past, when the Alliance of Conscious Life Forms was in the hands of higher civilizations, it was because they could use technology as an equivalent to give value an anchor.

But in this ........ It seems that it is only a market established by a stellar civilization, but it does not have that kind of confidence.

With this curiosity, Lu Yu let No. 7 begin to connect to the market network, and soon a seven- or eight-meter-long unmanned spacecraft came to the Silver Star.

"Next, please submit the goods you use to exchange, and the market host will evaluate the value of your goods, convert them into the common currency in the market - the trading point, and a list of goods will be sent to you later, if you need any goods on the list, you can ask us directly, we will inform you of the price of the information, and you can decide whether to buy it or not."

Well, you have the pricing power yourself?

That's a lucrative business!

After all, the stones that can be found everywhere on a certain planet are scarce minerals for other civilizations.

The market can get these stones at a low price and sell them to other civilizations at a high price.

The price is in the hands of the civilization that forms the market, and the middlemen can pocket this profit.

Other civilizations are not stupid, and the trading behavior in the universe must also follow the maximum interest, and if a civilization wants to take away all the cheap, it is inevitably impossible to expand the market operation.

[The data interface is connected successfully, and the database is successfully logged in]

[The product list has been successfully obtained, and the data is being transferred]

No. 7 has downloaded a lot of information about commodities from the public database of the market, and she doesn't have to worry about what viruses the market will dope with the massive database.

Since getting the seventh, Lu Yu no longer needs to worry about electronic warfare.

Otherwise, as an important part of space warfare, a large part of the combat crushing of high-level civilizations against low-level civilizations is embodied in electronic warfare.

Like Lu Yu, there are very few angular impacts that rely on armor to achieve.

The reason why the Zerg were so frightened before was that they mistakenly thought that the Silver Star had technology that they couldn't understand at all, and even used such a primitive and direct method to deal with them, as if they really treated them like bugs.

Otherwise, wouldn't it be easy to control the spacecraft with good use of electronic warfare?

In the end, it is still a lack of awareness.

"Are there any traps in the database?"

Although it was coming with the triangular spaceship, it was common sense that this sub-civilization would not dare to have any bad intentions towards the Silver Star, but Lu Yu still asked in the direction.

"The database is independently accessible, and the market has a special key for each civilization, and the information in it is ........"

No. 7's more professional explanation made Lu Yu nod, no longer bothering about these things, and instead looked at the list of goods in front of him.

The first thing I saw was a list of specific science and technology, on which there were many technologies recorded, some of which Lu Yu had mastered, such as [Antimatter Theory] [Great Unification Theory] and so on, but there were more technologies that even Lu Yu had not mastered.

These technologies are very chaotic and cover many aspects, and there are even some completely inexplicable super-engineering and technologies that humans have previously guessed, such as "supernova superheavy element collection and computing", or "faster-than-light communication technology".

In addition to this single technology, there are also a number of technologies that sell the full tech tree.

For example, [Mechanical Civilization Evolution Guide] [Stellar Civilization Technology Full Analysis], which contains a large number of stellar technology data packages.

Their capacity can no longer be measured by Bluestar's data standards, and even the most advanced super quantum computer connected to mankind may occupy its database in an instant.

Lu Yu is very interested in these technologies, but their prices are very impressive at first glance.

【10,000,000 trading points】

[7,000,000 trading points]

【……..】

These technologies are too expensive.

This is also inevitable, eating through the entire technology tree means that the civilization is promoted to a stellar civilization, which is equivalent to how many filters have it passed?

Human beings have only established a fulcrum in the field of stellar technology sporadically with the landing feather looking into the universe, and they don't know how long it will take to erect the cornerstone, let alone when they will be able to establish a complete stellar technology tree.

In this product category, there is not only technology, but also a large number of technological creations.

Warp ships, antimatter bombs, and so on are still regular commodities.

Space bubbles, space gates and other high-civilization creations are also on the trading list, but such commodities can no longer be traded with trading points, and are often designated by a certain aspect of technology to trade things.

Thinking that he didn't seem to be able to get anything that could be exchanged for the trading point, he could only suppress the impulse in his heart for the time being, and Lu Yu began to browse resource commodities.

Resource commodities are much cheaper.

Rare earth elements, known as "industrial vitamins", are indispensable additives in metal smelting, rare earth elements due to their unique magnetic, luminescent properties and catalytic properties, are extremely important in related technical fields, from mobile phones, TVs to LED light bulbs, wind turbines and various catalytic reactions have been widely used.

In particular, the rise of high-strength new materials has seen the value of rare earths skyrocket several times.

But in the white dwarf market, the price of 100 tons of rare earths is only worth a fraction of the value point.

The price of high-purity uranium ore is only a little higher than that of rare earths.

All the substances that can be obtained directly from the universe are not very expensive in the market.

For resource commodities, Lu Yu does not have much demand.

There is indeed any substance in the living quarters, and it can be mined at will by jumping the Silver Star into the star system.

Casually glancing at the resource commodities, Lu Yu was drawn to another commodity category.

The goods offered in the White Dwarf Market are divided into four categories, in addition to technology and resources, as well as intelligence and biology.

Intelligence goods are not so clearly priced, and the market has developed a forum-like platform, on which all the information that wants to be exchanged can be traded by the interacting civilizations themselves.

But most of it is also technology-related information.

[How many big steps does the grand unification theory need to be extended to antimatter-related technologies?] 】

[A few key questions about the generation and storage of antimatter]

Watching these discussions is more like browsing a scientific forum.

Each question has a reward for answering, and if the civilization with the answer thinks the price is right, it will naturally answer the question asked.

However, there are two problems in front of us, which are quickly topped out, and the return price is ridiculously high.

[Seeking the phenomenon of large-scale evaporation of the subject of civilization]

[Seek clues to disguise the remains of advanced civilizations as traps]

Don't even think about it, the eight achievements are a bounty issue for the release of the Triangle spacecraft.

It's just that the mainstream customers of this white dwarf market can really provide such clues?

After all, if it is a tragedy like the Ring Clan, it means that the strength of civilization has plummeted, and the spaceship will hide somewhere to recover quickly under the remnants of stellar civilization.

Civilizations that have been able to break away from the star system are no longer so easy to annihilate.

Even if the Ring Clan only has a triangular spaceship left, it can quickly restore the strength of civilization by itself.

Perhaps it was with this in mind that the civilization that arranged the wreckage trap came up with the method of blocking technology.

But then again.........

How boring is it to be idle to do such a detrimental thing to others?

Lu Yu casually swept through the major categories of intelligence commodities, then crossed over, and focused on the last category.

Biological commodities are all kinds of creatures, including ordinary creatures and even intelligent civilization creatures.

Mainly sell genes and thinking modules.

Originally, Lu Yu thought that there would be an individual like [Scientist], but after thinking about it, according to the knowledge and thinking logic he mastered, the scientist would be able to contribute the civilization technology he mastered once it was sold.

Although it is not to the level of a tech tree, it will also expose the thinking logic, culture and limitations of the entire civilization.

The result of evolution is very likely to be a famous science fiction work, which sent the human brain to the invading civilization's intelligent extinguishing operation, which made the invading civilization experience a liberation, and then triggered a technological explosion.

And if they do this, will the technology products in the market still be sold?

But the biological genes alone opened Lu Yu's eyes, especially when paired with the No. 7 database, he retrieved a free piece of information.

A stellar civilization that began to decline, after the hopelessness of promotion, began a period of behavior that can be called civilized art.

They call themselves sowing civilizations, and after incorporating their own race genes into the genes of a certain life planet, the adjusted race can adapt to the environment of this life planet.

But the sowing civilization did not leave any technology for the modified races at all, leaving them to survive on the primitive life planet.

These modified races are not much different from the members of the sowing civilization, but they will become bigger or smaller in order to adapt to the environment, and they will have more organs.

But the sowing civilization did not leave them with any technology, and they were left to the free development of these reformed people of the same race.

A planet.

Two planets.

……..

Even when the civilization declined to the point that the spaceship could not be repaired, the sowing civilization spread the modified races containing its own genes all over the living planet within a radius of 100,000 light years.

When the Seeding Civilization sells the genes they collect in the White Dwarf Market for the cost of repairing the ship, they release their stories for free in the Intelligence Commodity section.

"We failed, and civilization embarked on a scientific and technological path that we could not break through."

"But, we leave the fire behind."

"They may be drowned in the universe like us, but at least there is hope for us who are about to die."

This is similar to the special method of civilization cultivation, and perhaps it is this sowing civilization that leaves the only trace of the great universe.

This civilization has embarked on a different path from conventional civilizations, with genetic engineering as the main body of science and technology, and the way of development is very similar to that of the Zerg in science fiction works.

There are countless paths to the development of science and technology, and each one has infinite possibilities. No one can deny that the path of genetic technology is wrong, and perhaps there is a race in a corner of the universe that has been promoted to a higher civilization.

In human cognition, there is a certain law in the development of civilization, such as the development of computers, which follows the process of electronic computing to quantum computers. In this process, with each level of advancement, the computing power of the computer will be greatly improved.

Civilization has gained a lot of benefits from such progress, so it is believed that this is the only way for civilization to develop.

But perhaps the genetically modified race will be able to reach the level of a super quantum computer in its own brain, and wouldn't it also have an irreplaceable role in promoting civilization?

As long as civilization can continue to develop, perhaps the path of science and technology chosen will no longer matter.

Lu Yu silently put down the list of genetic commodities and looked at the blue flowers falling in the living area.

In fact, these jacaranda trees that have dotted the living area for many years are themselves genetically engineered creations.

Genetic technology has too many constraints when it comes to the members of civilization itself, but there are no such obstacles in other organisms or plants.

If the method of sowing civilization to perpetuate civilization for itself is really successful, then those newly rising civilizations are still new sowing civilizations, or are they just science and technology and ruthless work like these blue flower trees?

Lu Yu couldn't tell the difference, and neither could other civilizations.

Only those reformed races who had pinned their hopes on came here and saw this story, and it was up to them to comment on the civilization of the sowers who had done all this.