Chapter 104 Problems
Chapter 104 Problems
The streets of the redstone base are a bit like the stands of a football field, which surround the base layer by layer. Sarah and Xia Fei walked out of the warehouse and followed these circular streets to the exchange point to exchange currency. (apex novels hand-beating novels)
The star coins cannot be circulated here. They can only be exchanged with items. The biggest commodities in Xia Fei's hands are white dew and snake eye berries. These two fruits can replenish physical strength at any time during the battle. For a warrior Crucially, Xia Fei always carried a crisper box filled with these two kinds of fruits.
"There are three shops with the best reputation in the base. The bosses are not bad and the prices are fair. I'll take you there," Sarah said.
Xia Fei's candy offensive has played a very good role. Sarah has now begun to put herself in Xia Fei's shoes. The original woman has a very high self-protection mentality, but once this line of defense is opened, it will present a completely different scene.
Xia Fei thought for a while, "I divided the fruit to be sold into three parts, and sold them to these three stores respectively. If the quantity sold at one time is too large, it will inevitably be suspicious."
Sarah nodded hurriedly, "Of course it's good to do this, you have to be careful about everything here, you are thinking more and more like an authentic wilderness person now."
The price of the heart of the elf is extremely high in the Human Alliance, but the price here is much lower. A snake eye berry can be exchanged for ten yuan, and Bailu can also be exchanged for four yuan.
Xia Fei sold 300 pieces of each of the two fruits for 4,200 yuan.
The industry of interstellar smuggling is indeed hugely profitable. Xia Fei estimated that although these elf hearts are small pieces of loose goods, if you really want to get the alliance, you can exchange at least 70 million or 80 million star coins, and the fruits sold are always The price is only 12 million, and there are more than six times the profit in the middle.
In fact, those foods of lower value can also be exchanged for the elf heart, and the exchange rate is astonishingly high. A few pieces of chocolate can be exchanged for one dollar, which is more cost-effective than using snake eye berries.
But Xia Fei had other uses for these foods. Besides, Xia Fei needed a lot of food every day to replenish nutrients, and the repair work on the Eclipse would take some time. These foods were important strategic reserves for Xia Fei.
After exchanging the currency, Xia Fei and Sarah went to the maintenance factory at the bottom of the base. The only repair shop in this base was not small, with six berths and two maintenance workshops, and there were more than 20 workers.
Xia Fei took a look at the factory and found that the equipment here is old and old. Many machines were produced hundreds of years ago and are still in use today.
"Sarah, why are you free to come here? I miss you so much."
"I'll treat you to a kebab tonight and two glasses of wine."
As soon as the workers saw Sarah, they gathered around and joked with her. Sarah beat and kicked these lustful workers with a cold face.
"Go back to work for me." A middle-aged man in his fifties yelled at the workers in a loud voice. The workers hurried back to their posts to do their own business, but their eyes were still full of Sarah's. swept the buttocks.
"Uncle Andy." Sarah said to the middle-aged man.
Andy nodded and led Xia Fei and Sarah into his office. Sarah introduced Xia Fei to Andy and insisted that Xia Fei was Allen's distant nephew.
After taking the maintenance list handed over by Xia Fei, Andy frowned heavily, "The items on the list are all high-end goods. I'm afraid it is difficult to find these accessories in the wilderness."
Xia Fei lit a cigarette and said, "Can you find some from other bases?"
"It's difficult." Andy glanced at Xia Fei and said, "My factory is already quite large in the entire wilderness star field, and many ships that other bases are unable to maintain will also be sent here. I can help you ask. For a moment, but you'd better not get your hopes up."
"If it's possible, I still hope to repair it. If it doesn't work, I will find another way." Xia Fei said.
Andy put the maintenance list on the table, stood up and sent Xia Fei out, "As you know, the communication interference in the star field is very strong, I need two days to find these parts in the whole star field, you can come back the morning after tomorrow. have a look."
Xia Fei nodded, handed him a bag containing 500 yuan as a deposit, and walked back with Sarah along the way they came.
"Is Andy reliable?" Xia Fei asked. As long as he is an expert in maintenance, he can easily infer from Xia Fei's maintenance list that the Eclipse is a high-level warship, a precious naval version of the Kitty Hawk. It is difficult to guarantee that the other party will not see money.
"I heard the old man say that Andy escaped here because of the lover who accidentally killed his wife. He was able to start as a maintenance worker and now owns one of the best factories in the entire star field because of his strict mouth. Knowing how to avoid enmity with others, we permanent residents are no match for those wandering wanderers, and if we don’t know how to keep secrets, we can’t survive in the wilderness at all,” Sarah said.
Sarah's words are quite reasonable. The long-term residents of the Wilderness Starfield live by working for those pirates and thugs. None of these people are easy to get along with. If you are not careful, you may lose your life at any time.
Xia Fei is just a stranger here, but who can guarantee that a stranger will definitely be a good person? No one knew the details of Xia Fei, which protected him.
Across the street came a group of soldiers, wearing khaki uniforms, hats crooked, laser guns on their shoulders, and they all looked fierce.
This group of people rampaged on the street. A beggar with no legs was begging on the street. When he saw these soldiers, he hurriedly crawled to the side with both hands. A soldier walked up to him and kicked him. , kicked him to the ground, "old man, can't you crawl faster?"
Pedestrians on the street avoided one after another, daring to be angry with these arrogant guys.
Behind the soldier was a young man who was less than 20 years old. This young man was handsome in appearance and fair-skinned, but it was a pity that he had already been hollowed out by the color of wine at a young age, and he was slightly bent over. , The footsteps are a little vain when walking.
Sarah took Xia Fei to hide in an alley next to the street.
"This is the guard of the Ning family. When I was transporting slaves today, I heard that two more bodyguards of the Ning family were killed last night. They are looking for the murderer. Are you a stranger or hide from them? "Sarah said nervously.
Xia Fei leaned against the darkened corner, pointed at the white-faced boy and asked, "Who is this?"
"Ning Dian, the old man of the Ning family has three sons, but he is the only boy in Ning Dian's generation, so he is very arrogant. People in the Redstone Base avoid him." Sarah's voice trembled slightly. It seems that she is very disgusted with this Ning Gongzi
In the early morning of the day after tomorrow, Xia Fei came to Andy's factory again as agreed.
"Why didn't Sarah come with you?" Andy asked.
"She's been helping people transport slaves for a while now, and she won't be back until noon." Xia Fei said truthfully.
Andy nodded, took out the list from the desk and handed it to Xia Fei.
Xia Fei took a look at the list and saw that each component was marked in detail. Is there any stock of this component in the star field, if any, where is it, when will it be delivered, and what is the price? Wait, the writing is very serious, and it can be seen that Andy has done a lot of work for this.
It's just that the most critical components on the first four pages are still missing 34 types. These components are related to the core performance of the Lunar Eclipse. Without them, the Lunar Eclipse would not have been able to fly out of this star field.
"Thank you," Xia Fei said with a smile. It wasn't Andy's fault that he couldn't find the parts. He had worked hard enough for this, and Xia Fei had no reason to complain about him.
"What are you going to do now?" Andy asked.
"I plan to go to the ancient battlefield to try my luck. If it doesn't work, I will buy an industrial ship and pull the ship to the territory of the Human Alliance for maintenance." Xia Fei said.
Andy shook his head, "Not to mention going to the battlefield to salvage sunken ships, it is absolutely impossible to use industrial ships to pull them into the territory of the Human Alliance."
"Oh, is there anything wrong?" Xia Fei asked curiously.
"The industrial ship itself is clumsy and slow. It takes at least two hours to adjust after each transition. The longer the transition distance, the longer the required charging time will be, and the signal of the industrial ship is also relatively large. will be discovered by those people."
"The natural environment of the wilderness is very harsh. Electromagnetic storms and proton explosions are everywhere. How can a clumsy and fragile industrial ship avoid these crises that may occur at any time." Andy said.
The number of pirates in the Wilderness Starfield is beyond imagination. Many people work on weekdays. Once they have no jobs, they change their clothes and go to robbery in the universe. In the eyes of the residents of the Wilderness Starfield, working and robbery are actually the same thing. It's all a job.
"Do you know why Sarah only goes out one morning every day and comes back?" Andy asked.
Xia Fei shook his head. He never asked about Sarah's work, nor did Sarah mention it.
"That's because Sarah is only responsible for delivering the goods to the nearest safe point. As for how to get out of this star field, that's the buyer's business. In the wild star field, industrial ships are used for transportation between various safe points. , never used for long voyages."
"If you want to transport goods over long distances, you need to use small flexible frigates, and the distance of each jump cannot exceed 100 light-years, because jumps within 100 light-years require the shortest charging time and are the least likely to be destroyed. Long-range radar detection."
Xia Fei frowned. He knew that the moment the transition engine was started, a large amount of energy would be released to create a temporary wormhole. The closer the transition distance, the less energy released, and it was not easy to be captured by the energy radar.
"Isn't it time-consuming to jump a little like this?" Xia Fei asked.
Andy laughed, "This is no way, no one dares to make a large-scale jump here, even if you move carefully, no more than three of every ten ships can pass through the wilderness star field, so Prices here are so expensive.”
Xia Fei lowered his head and thought for a while, then smiled and said, "It seems that I have to go to the ancient battlefield to try my luck."