After a conversation with Wagner Civitas, Russell drove the Pot of Greed, laden with the proclamities of slaves and the Emerald Star, to leave Krentarina and prepare to return to Falla.

The unexpectedly pleasant relationship with Marshal Wagner, should he be worthy of the superior nobles of Otrama? This person is very good at studying all kinds of life such as food, entertainment, etc., and even Russell has learned a lot of things like 'You can't use inferior industrial fuel to boil black tea, you must use charcoal, and you must use the jujube kernel of fully ripe high-grade blood agate dates in the Mithril furnace to make high-quality jujube kernel charcoal, in order to maximize the aroma of black tea', which seems to be useless, but it seems to be very forced.

Russell took a sip of the black tea that Evatian had brewed with an alcohol lamp, and thought to himself that the nobles of the Second Empire who were under the blue flag of Old Maculag were really particular about drinking tea.

Much more elaborate than his federal dictatorship.

Coming to Pluto, the shipboard sensors of the pot of greed detected a large number of flying object signals in this galaxy from a distance, and there were three more magnificent orbital starports in the orbit of the giant planet closest to the gate of Pluto.

The three giant orbital ports are docked with many civilian ships waiting in line to go through the stargate to other star sectors, and the big ships are like floating islands in space, and small speedboats and earth-made aircraft are constantly coming and going between the steel-made islands, doing some bartering private transactions.

Yes, even in the interstellar age, humans are still bartering.

Due to the vast territory and inconvenient transportation, the economic system of the human empire is very chaotic, even the Throne Coin issued by Terra on behalf of the emperor's authority cannot be unimpeded in all star regions, and the absence of a unified currency means that some items often do not have real authoritative pricing, so the private transactions in different star regions will have a magical scene of barter.

However, this kind of transaction method is limited to the private activities of small traders and hawkers, and the actual material transactions on the table are generally settled with Throne Coins and 'Spirit Dust'.

'Psionic Dust' is the human empire's abbreviation for psionic dust, and in many cases, psionic dust is far more popular than Throne Coins, and no merchant will refuse to settle a transaction with psionic dust, which is the best of the best.

The only problem is that the fertility rate of the Elves is too low, and the psionic dust is half a non-renewable resource, otherwise it is possible that this thing will one day completely replace the status of the Terra Throne Coin.

"It's very lively in the port, and from afar, it's like a rural bazaar." Russell glanced at the ships coming and going in the harbor, got off the ship in a good mood, and went to the mechanical priest who managed the stargate to line up to get a number.

This time, he did not use the privilege of priority passage for the Starballer, in order to observe the situation of the Stargate after it was openly opened to the public.

There are more people in the orbital harbor, and there are many fish and dragons, and Russell can notice that the best location and the most lit and the closest parking space to the stargate are occupied by gorgeous ships with a background, and some dilapidated and unmaintained civilian ships can only dock at the edge of the starport near the cosmic space, which is a state of barely being driven out.

Some of the low-ranking mechanics of the Mechanics moved among the ships and provided them with paid equipment repair services.

Russell took a brief turn and met many scalpers queuing up.

"Your Excellency Russell is so Yaxing, you actually feel the feelings of the untouchables here."

A slightly hoarse electronic voice interrupted Russell's walk, and he turned his head to speak to a middle-aged man in a wide brown robe, who looked to be about 4-50 years old, and as for his appearance, he was ...... I don't know.

"May I ask who you are?"

"It's just a small merchant ronin, and it's not enough to worry about it in front of you." The other party smiled very kindly and reported his name: "My name is Thale Taler, not a nickname, my real name is Thale Taler." ”

"Oh." Russell had little interest in the somewhat comical name.

"It's been a pleasure to meet you." Thaler said busily.

"Anyone is qualified to know me." Russell pointed to a super-heavy armed merchant ship parked in the distance and said, "I'll ask you a question, and if you can come up, I'll give you a small gift as a reward." ”

"But it doesn't hurt to say it." Thaler is confident.

"That ship should belong to the Imperial merchant fleet, I just observed that when they traded a batch of sulfur glow ore, in addition to psionic dust and throne coins, they also used some light gray mixed powder as a transaction certificate, what is that?"

"Do you mean, 'Turbidity'?" Thaler pondered.

"Turbidity?" Russell was a little interested: "Elaborate." ”

"The appearance of turbid dust is a gray powder mixed with many impurities, and it contains a lot of spiritual energy like psionic dust, but it needs to be purified by a centrifuge and sieved to remove impurities before it can be used." "As you may have guessed by now, Turbid Dust is the final product of igniting humans after a slight modification of the psionic chain reaction formula that could only act on the spirit race......

Russell showed an unsurprising expression, nodded slightly, and motioned for him to continue.

So Taltaler continued.

Under the joint promotion of the Star Marbles, the Expeditionary Fleet, and the dignitaries of the Empire, psionic dust once became an absolute currency that was unimpeded in all star regions connected by the stargate, but the huge demand of human beings was completely disproportionate to the scarce population of the Spirit Race, and the shortage of psionic dust caused its exchange rate to climb steadily.

The high value of the Spirit Race has made bounty hunter groups and nomadic tribes hunting Spirit Race sprung up in the Extreme Star Field, but the crazy hunting of human beings regardless of life and death has made it more difficult to obtain Spirit Energy Dust, further raising the value of Spirit Race, and then attracting more people to take up arms to join this blue ocean.

This is an unsolvable cycle that keeps spiraling, and now, even the emperor's angel of death, the Astarte warband, has begun to meddle in the business of hunting and killing the spirits, and the space wolves alone have destroyed several virgin worlds of the spirits and captured a large number of savage spirits.

"Later, a Psionic Master of the Inquisition, who was unwilling to reveal his identity, modified the chain reaction formula for the Spirit Race so that it had an effect on humans, and So, 'Turbid Dust' was born." Thaler explains the current state of the market for Russell:

The current spiritual energy currency is divided into 4 gears,

Tier 1: Using the Psionic Dust burned by the Ark Spirit Clan or the Savage Spirit Clan, it is the most precious and pure, and can be directly powered or sucked directly without refining. It is called 'clean dust'.

Tier 2: Use psionic dust burned by dark spirits or human psionic people above β, because individual differences usually contain some crystalline impurities that cannot be used, and need to be purified by a centrifuge before it can be used normally. Hence the name 'turbidity'.

Tier 3: Psionic dust made by burning ordinary human psionics, with lower purity and more impurities, can barely be used after multiple purifications. It's called 'miscellaneous dust'.

Gear 4: Using psionic dust burned by mortals, it has the lowest purity, and there are many impurities and sometimes there are few impurities, which is difficult to use. It's called 'embers'.

The general exchange rate is:

1 net dust = 11 turbid dust

1 turbid dust = 23 miscellaneous dust

1 miscellaneous dust = 97 embers

Depending on the specific impurity content of the dust at the time of the transaction, this exchange rate will fluctuate somewhat.

"What a terrible exchange rate." Russell shook his head: "That inquisitor directly announced the formula for burning humans to make dust, aren't you afraid that some people who can't catch the Spirit Race will directly give up hunting the Spirit Race and directly choose to slaughter human civilians?" ”

Taltale smiled: "Why do you have the illusion that they haven't started the slaughter yet?" ”

Russell was stunned.

Yes, how scarce the number of the Spirit Race is, and how strong the combat power of the Spirit Race is, even if there are more human beings who are crazy about money, there are fewer and fewer prey, and they are far stronger than themselves, they will only be unsustainable and slowly die out.

In recent years, however, these groups have not disappeared, but have flourished, with new armed groups rising to join the massacre.

What are they killing?

(End of chapter)