The metal bulkhead is full of scratches and holes, and the exposed energy lines are broken, and sparks are constantly sputtering. The cabin of this ship has experienced a fierce battle. The flames are crackling and burning, and the crew is lying on the ground. Fragmented corpse.
A group of Space Marines in full-coverage armor carried blasters around to examine the corpses, finding survivors and firing them up.
The crew members killed in the battle were all rock elves, an ancient mammal race with rough brown skin, an average height of about three meters, and thick hair. Although they were flesh and blood, they were naturally rock-solid and were good at discovering rare ores. With metal resources, it is a relatively powerful galaxy-level civilization of the Sea of Stars.
The uniforms of these crew members all have the logo of the civilization, which proves that the ship is a regular army belonging to the official civilization of the civilization, but it was attacked and the entire army was wiped out.
At the end of this cabin is a huge metal warehouse door, which is a warehouse. At this moment, a guy who looks like the leader of the attackers stands in front of the closed warehouse door and takes out a special purpose for cracking the key. The disc device was pressed on the operation panel of the warehouse door, and a high-frequency beep sounded.
hum! The next moment, the warehouse door slammed, unlocked and slowly opened.
The leader of the attacker strode in, and saw that there were hundreds of evolutionary totems neatly placed in the warehouse.
"Here's the stuff, go check it out and move it back to our boat."
The leader of the attacker nodded with satisfaction, beckoned, and ordered his subordinates to do things.
The rock elves purchased a batch of totem devices from the Black Star Legion, and the news leaked. The attackers ambush in advance, and the goal is to snatch these evolutionary totems.
The accompanying escort fleet was cleared by this group of attackers... A group capable of plundering a regular army of a galaxy-level civilization is obviously not a small person.
This group of attackers are also interstellar mercenaries, but their nature is different. The mercenaries are roughly divided into three types. The first is the regular practitioners reported in the mercenary alliance, such as the Black Star Legion; the second is not in the interstellar mercenary. The stragglers registered in the Soldier Alliance are independent mercenaries without business licenses; and the third type is the black market mercenaries who are active in the black market and are willing to take black jobs.
"Black work" refers to criminal work that violates the general laws of the universe and is generally published on the black market network, such as looting, kidnapping, assassinating civilized officials, slaughtering planets, infiltrating spies, provoking wars, etc. Black mercenaries are also criminals... In fact, most of the people who work in this industry are wanted criminals themselves.
And this group of attackers are black market mercenaries who specialize in black market jobs, and they come from the blood gold organization, one of the best black market mercenary forces in the universe.
The Blood Gold Organization is a black mercenary force operating across star domains. Its main active areas are the Sea of Stars, the Ancient Star Desert, and the Old Star River. The whereabouts of its members, spaceships, and bases are quite secretive, and their behavior is low-key. The exact size of the Blood Gold Organization is a secret, but it is obviously a behemoth to be able to conduct business in three star regions.
At the same time, the Blood Gold Organization is also one of the top executives of the Interstellar Black Market.
Where there are trade controls, there will be a black market, and the black market will continue to breed, gradually forming a huge pattern.
The black market also has different levels, which are distinguished by regional and business scope. From planets to galaxies and then to star fields, as the first level goes up, the black market becomes more and more formal. At the highest level, the business scope covers almost The interstellar black market in all star fields, nominally dominates all black markets.
And this most advanced black market force is well versed in the way of making a fortune in silence, and it will not be idle to give itself an independent name, which is called "Interstellar Black Market". People who don't know it think it is just a noun.
Of course, not all independent black markets are subordinate to the most advanced interstellar black market, just like some inexperienced gangsters who do not know the giants who are involved in the international community.
The interstellar black market is extremely huge, and its business covers the entire universe. There are always some civilizations that want to obtain advanced civilization blocking technologies. They also need the black market, so they turn a blind eye and even act as a protective umbrella. On the other hand, the interstellar black market is still interstellar. The communication platform for criminals is a huge underground society.
Not all criminals exist for the sake of making trouble. A large number of criminals are just seeking profit. They also need order and credibility, and they need someone to formulate rules. Therefore, the managers of the interstellar black market came into being, from black market mercenaries, intelligence organizations, Various gray industries such as smuggling trade and contraband production are among the most powerful organizations.
The Blood Gold Organization is one of the black market managers, equivalent to the overlord of the underground criminal world.
The Ark of the Fallen is not a black market manager. The black market managers are basically lawful and evil, and they also dislike the chaotic and evil Ability God. Although they are both criminal forces, the two sides are not the same. After the Ark of the Fallen fell apart, the Blood Gold Organization took in a large number of criminals and helped them achieve lay-offs and re-employment.
A cadre came to the leader, watching his subordinates carrying the evolutionary totem, he couldn't help but smile.
"The price of evolutionary totems on the black market is now very high. As far as I know, many civilizations are secretly purchasing. If we swallow this batch of goods, how much do you think they can sell?"
"Don't think about it, this is what the employer wants. Our job is to bring the goods back. Do you think it's too long for you to steal it?" The leader shook his head.
After a year and a half of operation, the business of Evolutionary Totem has basically stabilized. Some civilizations that have relied on other glorious and ethereal civilizations cannot have an affair with the empire, they can only move their minds, and some interstellar consortiums have waited and watched for so long. action.
No one has forgotten the record of Black Star a year and a half ago. The operation of robbing the Black Star Legion is too difficult. These forces retreated and chose to snatch the fleet that transported the evolutionary totem, and stared at every purchased civilization.
Because this violated the general laws of Xinghai, the black market mercenaries represented by the Blood Gold Organization came in handy. Now the evolutionary totems are expensive and in short supply on the black market.
After stealing the evolutionary totem of the rock elves, the members of the blood gold organization returned to the spaceship, blew up all the wreckage of the spaceship, and turned around to leave.
In recent months, similar scenes have played out many times in all corners of the universe.
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Broken Starlink, Black Star Legion headquarters.
"Another user who bought the evolutionary totem was robbed halfway?"
In the legion commander's office, Han Xiao closed the player forum and looked at Silvia's remote projection, frowning slightly.
"Yes, including the rock elves, thirteen galaxy-level civilization customers have been plundered, and thousands of evolutionary totems are on the black market."
"Where was it robbed?"
"The sea of star spirit, the identity of the snatcher is unknown, and the preliminary judgment should be the same force as the murderer who committed the previous crimes."
Han Xiao touched his chin, "Pay attention to the black market. If the evolutionary totems are not sold on the black market for a while, it should be done by black market mercenaries, and they will hand over the things to the employer."
"Teacher, do we need to deal with this problem?"
"Don't worry, I'm not responsible for the after-sales service. If you buy something and protect yourself, it has nothing to do with me... Of course, if they hire my mechanical troops, that's another story." Han Xiao waved his hand, "What did the rock elf say? ?"
"They said they wanted the Legion to send them another batch."
"Send a batch? Not to buy?"
"Yes, they said that they knew that the evolutionary totem cost was very low, and they were unwilling to pay a high price to buy it. They thought we should give them another set... You also know that the character of the rock elves is relatively straightforward." Silvia shrugged helplessly.
"Tell them that I don't open an insurance business, I can buy it if I want, and there is no free compensation. This is a matter of principle."
Han Xiao shook his head, if this hole was opened, maybe there would be civilization playing the trick of self-defense and self-stealing to compensate, and he would not do it at a loss.
However, this kind of thing is unavoidable. There may be a civilization that privately reached an agreement with other forces and deliberately pretended to be stolen, thereby indirectly helping other civilizations that are not close to the empire to purchase evolutionary totems.
However, Han Xiao doesn’t mind that the evolutionary totem he sold is robbed. The more he is robbed, the more he sells. The market is bigger, and he can even help him share the pressure. Anyway, the evolutionary totem can only be charged. Use, he is not at a loss.
It is the empire that needs to have a headache, not him. As long as he doesn't directly grab the Black Star Legion's head, he can still accept it.
"Understood, then I'll tell them that."
Silvia turned off the remote projection.
Han Xiao sighed, leaned back, leaned on the chair, and pondered.
In the past year and a half, the Black Star Legion has been operating steadily, gradually digesting the results of rapid expansion, consolidating various businesses, and developing well. His behavior is finally like a mechanic. The body stays at home and concentrates on building machinery and expanding the legion. Scale, mechanical troops are wandering around outside, doing quests and hoarding random rewards, which are used to draw quest settlement cards.
His experience reserve has also accumulated, and he took out some upgrade blueprint skills to accumulate potential points to improve the level of ultimate knowledge. During this period, he used 6000 points of imperial contribution to exchange for the fifth ultimate knowledge, the [Ultimate Mechanical Engineering of the Armament Department]. ].
This knowledge is related to manufacturing machinery, greatly improves manufacturing technology and production line power, unlocks a large number of combinable blueprints, and gives a feat [Ultimate Maker] and a skill [Inspiration Creation].
The effect of [Ultimate Maker] is simple and practical. The basic performance of the mechanical creations produced is increased by 25%~30%, and the production speed is increased by 300%~500%. Obviously, this is a speciality used for violent soldiers.
And [Creation of Inspiration] is an inactive skill. The activation condition is that [Ultimate Mechanical Engineering] reaches the full level of lv5. The effect is to randomly combine an unlimited number of blueprints, and randomly synthesize one or more improved or fused new blueprints. You can also perform advanced settings, choose the tendency of synthetic drawings (attack, defense, etc.), demand functions, etc., which are more stable than free creation and can definitely be shipped.
Skills consume experience... a lot of experience.
For players who cannot change the blueprints on their own, this skill is a magical skill, but Han Xiao can improve the blueprints by himself. This skill is not very useful... But it is not tasteless, and it also has an irreplaceable effect:
[Creation of Inspiration] There is a small chance to synthesize the blueprint of the cosmic treasure-level machinery, which is the only way for mechanic to create golden equipment independently!
Now that Han Xiao holds two Cosmic Treasures in his hands, he does not dislike one more, but it is not so easy to synthesize Cosmic Treasure-level mechanical blueprints. This is not like gambling blueprints. There is no fixed combination. Even if the combination is the same, the synthesized blueprint is still the same. There is a high degree of randomness.
In the past life, there were players who happened to synthesize the mechanical blueprints of the cosmic treasure level, but there were two problems. First, only the information of the blueprints was released, and no one publicly combined and matched. Second... Even if there were blueprints, there were no mechanical players in the previous life. Really makes gold-level machinery.
The prerequisites for the blueprints are too harsh, and there is basically no possibility of manufacturing below the Transcendent A Grade, so players naturally cannot meet the conditions.
[Creation of Inspiration] was temporarily left behind by Han Xiao. First, to reach the full level of [Ultimate Mechanical Engineering], there are too many potential points. Second, although he has a lot of experience, he tries to synthesize Cosmic Treasures. blueprints, but he lacked experience in other areas. He had to leave a huge reserve for the version update period, so he didn’t dare to waste it. For him, as long as he didn’t bet on a Cosmic Treasure-level blueprint, the experience invested in this skill would be a waste.
In the past year and a half, the overall situation of the Gural Civil War has been determined, and the process has been advanced step by step. There is no accident in the process. The Pioneer Party is about to win the victory, but the players' attention is currently focused on the upcoming third professional league.
Because of the surge in the number of players, the popularity of this year's professional league has also increased, and it has attracted much attention. The division is the same as the second one, which is the nine major divisions, and the schedule has been fine-tuned.
For example, the secondary league and the qualifiers started early, which started half a year ago, so as to make the time for the qualifiers more generous, fully mobilize the enthusiasm of more players to focus on participating, and at the same time, in order to determine the number of wild cards and Regular season roster.
Han Xiao just watched the video of the qualifiers on the forum, and admired some players' sassy operations, and reaps the joy of sand sculpture today.
In the official competition, in addition to the ring battle, group battle, individual battle and team survival battle, three new special battle forms will be added.
The first is the capture of the flag competition, in which multiple teams participate in a big melee, each player can be resurrected infinitely, and finally wins with points.
The second is the team dungeon competition. Multiple teams enter the same dungeon and compete to complete the mission goals set by the event party to obtain points.
The third is the dungeon survival battle. As the name suggests, the competition is about the life (suffering) and survival (suffering) time of the two sides in the dungeon. The previous life was also called the "urinating contest" by players.
The competition forms of this league have been enriched a lot. The goal of the event side is to enhance the competitiveness and fun, adding two forms of dungeon battles to attract more pve players.
The preseason for the team’s running-in has also been advanced. After the secondary league and qualifiers are completed, the regular season will be the league opening, followed by the division regular season, international star game, division finals, international regular season, and international finals. , the gap between the international competition and the regional competition is as short as the previous one, and the schedule is close.
The rules of this league are also many times more detailed than the previous two sessions, and a "list of prohibited items" has also been added. As expected by Great Technician Han, [Black Star Legion Badge Evolution] is directly ranked at the top of the list!
Legion players don't feel it, because everyone can use it, so they don't feel special, but the clubs in other star fields are greatly relieved. This equipment is too strong. If there is one Broken Starlink player, they will just admit defeat. !
However, Han Xiao believes that the reason is more than that. I am afraid it is because the distortion is too bloody and ugly, and it is easy to scare flowers and grasses, which is not in line with the original intention of the competition party to attract popularity...
Ugly looks have no human rights, it really is the truth.
(This was yesterday, and it's still there tonight). m.