"Hello, guest, what do you need?"

In the Crebo Enclave Trade Center, two robots are talking at this time. One of them is a synthesizer under Li Wenyuan's control, while the other is a service robot here.

"Can you appraise the value of the goods here?"

"Of course, and we don't charge a fee, so if you wish, you can go to the lab on the 2nd floor."

……

With the help of the service robot, Li Wenyuan quickly found the appraisal room here and successfully got his position.

The so-called identification room is actually a huge automated equipment, and countless people sit in front of their positions and put the samples they need to identify into a large box.

The automated device scans it in a confined space and displays the results on a screen that only the person in front of the location can see.

This also saved Li Wenyuan a lot of effort, and he directly took out the samples of the metal salvaged from the crashed cargo spaceship and put them into the identification room.

And the results of the appraisal were also displayed in an instant.

[Identification item: Morton standard reinforced alloy]

[Introduction: The alloy produced in the Morton galaxy is the inferior metal product]

[Market price (estimated): 0.1 energy coins per ton]

"Sure enough, it's garbage......" Li Wenyuan, who saw the result, couldn't help but complain, this alloy brought by the spaceship now seems to be unaffordable even for an old-fashioned frigate.

Undeterred, he asked the synth to pull out a second item to be identified.

It was a weapon that looked like a gun, but it had the shape of a large horn at the muzzle. This is something that was captured from that pirate leader before, and it seems to be some kind of "second-level civilization weapon"?

[Identification item: Miniature powerful jammer (Level 2)]

[Introduction: A single jamming wave transmitter from a second-level civilization, which is outdated]

[Market Price (estimated): 100 Energy Coins]

“…… As a result, this thing is also garbage......" The props that Li Wenyuan had high hopes for were also identified as garbage, which made him a little uncomfortable.

"Before, any 'second-level civilization technology blueprint' could sell for 600,000 energy coins, and I thought this gun could be about the same...... It seems that I was too naïve. ”

Frustrated, the synth pulls out a third object to be identified, the mysterious metal that has been cut from the wall near his "body".

"Let's hope these pirates have a better eye......" He reluctantly threw a sample of the mysterious metal into the identification box.

And this time, the identification results took a long time.

“…… How did it take so long? It can't be because it's too rubbish to identify, right? Li Wenyuan, who was waiting, suddenly felt half of his heart cold.

In the midst of his apprehension, the identification results slowly appeared in front of his eyes.

[Identification item: living metal]

[Introduction: An extremely precious strategic metal resource, the key parts of some projects have no substitute except for living metal, which was once thought to be naturally generated under extremely harsh conditions, and only a few mysterious civilizations have a fixed outflow channel, and most of the living metals on the market come from the exploration of interstellar adventurers on various abandoned planets]

[Market price: 200,000 energy coins per kilogram]

["Living Metal Refining Technology" buyout price: negotiable]

[Note: Hello friends, I am the person in charge of this trading enclave.] I'm surprised to see real live metal with you, would you like to talk to us in person? We will be happy to offer a price that satisfies you. 】

[If you agree, then please do not leave the laboratory for the time being, we will arrange someone to take you to our VIP room]

This unexpected surprise really made Li Wenyuan happy, he really didn't expect his "clothes" to be worth so much money.

There was a momentary impulse that made him want to take off all his "clothes" and sell them as start-up capital.

However, this idea was quickly dispelled. Judging from the introduction, this "living metal" is an extremely important resource, and if it circulates in large quantities in the market in a short period of time, he, the "escapee", will definitely be found out, and the location of his body will be dangerous at that time.

"But if you only sell a little, it shouldn't be too much of a problem."

He urgently needed a start-up capital to restore his home planet, or he wouldn't have taken the risk.

So according to the explanation on the note, Li Wenyuan let the synthesizer stay where he was, and arranged for other synthetics to start shopping around the exchange, looking for the resources they needed.

It didn't take long for a special group of people to come up on the second floor where the appraisal room was located.

It was a group of robots, with a silvery-white reflective surface, every movement of their metal limbs was uniform and identical, and the eye cameras used to ingest the images were constantly turning, quickly locking on to the synth's location.

Then they walked over and said in a very standard mechanical voice: "The welcome sub-unit is in place, the deviation value is 2.99%, the connection signal is normal, it can be accessed at any time, the target is 125 floors, and the line planning is complete." ”

"......" Their inexplicable words made Li Wenyuan, who was controlling the synthesizer everywhere, stunned, and almost didn't understand what it meant.

"What do you mean by letting me go to the 125th floor?" He figured that this was probably the case, and manipulated the synth to get into the elevator to the 125th floor.

And the behind-the-scenes controllers of that group of robots are also a little confused at this time.

"Huh? Isn't this the tone that is now popular in the civilization of intelligent machines? The robot is not interested in this style? ”

"It's broken, it's broken, I haven't been able to get a good feeling, and I'm going to be deducted from my salary......" The controller lamented that he would have another point deducted from his poor salary.

But none of this had anything to do with Li Wenyuan, and he easily went to the 125th floor through the elevator.

This is a VIP room where only people who are considered "partners" by Crebo Trading Enterprises can come here, and Li Wenyuan is one of them today.

As soon as the elevator door opened, an alien greeted him.

He had large fan-like ears, hair and beard on his convex cheeks, and deep black eyes that shone with a merchant's characteristic sensitivity to goods.

And his body below the chest was replaced by a mechanical prosthetic, covered with part of the bionic skin, although it was modified by clothing, but under the powerful scanning ability of the synthetic, Li Wenyuan still noticed that at least two-thirds of the alien's body in front of him had been replaced with a machine.

"Hello hello, this friend. I'm the person in charge here, just call me Bryning. Still don't know what to call you? ”

The manager greeted Li Wenyuan warmly, and he remembered that it was as if he had never considered the question of the name.

After a little hesitation, Li Wenyuan decided to use the "code name" he had told Lilian before to refer to his current self.

"I'm ...... Guardians. ”

Guardians?

This special word made Bryning stunned, and a sudden look soon appeared in his eyes.

Immediately, his expression immediately became serious, and with a wave of his hand, the surrounding environment actually changed from the VIP room at the beginning to a scene like a conference hall.

Originally, the previous scene was all projections, and the current conference hall is the original appearance of this place.

After that, he changed his previous enthusiastic expression and said in a very formal voice:

"I see, I know that your intelligent civilization has always disliked beating around the bush, so I'll just say it."

"This time, I will be the diplomatic ambassador of Crebo, on behalf of the Coruibo trading enterprises, in the form of transactions between civilizations, to buy all the living metals in your hands, and you can also put forward your requests, and I will try my best to meet them."

After he said this, several vague projections appeared in the conference hall in an instant, and it seemed that the senior personnel of Crebo had come to discuss this transaction.

Seeing such a formal scene, Li Wenyuan in the virtual world also frowned, and after thinking for a while, he controlled the synthesizer and slowly spoke:

“…… The process is scheduled. ”