i'm not a cyberpsychopath

Chapter 173 Ceres

After getting rid of the pirates and successfully arriving at the CERES-ORBITPLANT-VIII space station group on Ceres, Li Pan looked out from the bridge, and the first thing that caught his eyes was not the cold Ceres, but the huge hourglass.

It's rows and rows of silver hourglasses covered with liquid solar cells that surround Ceres, charged by the sun, and have strings of shiny pearls around their waists that are tied around the hourglasses.

Of course, that's not an hourglass, but a living PLANT plantation.Those are not pearls, but light strips. They are ice mining ships, mine ships, and cargo ships that shuttle endlessly. Tens of thousands, even tens of millions of miners.

The temporary license and pass were automatically processed online through the intelligent assistance of the customs. Li Pan also put on SBS. Since the use of military-grade weapon damage equipment is prohibited in the space station, he changed to a smart submachine gun and non-lethal bullets to prepare for disembarkation.

HAYABUSA's registered home port is the earth, and Li Pan's pre-purchased ship slot authority has not yet been handed over to him, so he has to park in the outer port area for the time being. Although PONY contacted the seller and paid a three-month deposit, they had to wait for Li Pan to meet in person to see the status of the warehouse and the dock. It wasn't some Chaomeng scam video before completing the transaction.

So he brought a group of veterans as bodyguards and entered the port by shuttle.The process is quite smooth, there are no annoying bureaucratic procedures, and no one stops you to ask for tips, not because most of the process is completed online, nor is it because the universe port is highly automated, unmanned and intelligent.Not to mention how fair and clean the customs are.

In fact, the Customs is even more corrupt than the NCPA. After all, these people are the dogs who collect taxes for the committee. The title of the Customs Administration can basically only be passed down by the blood of mother and child, and has long been monopolized by pure sky people.People still lack the small money for you to enter Hong Kong?If the filial piety is not paid in place every month, a lot of goods in the library will go through the inspection process casually, and you will be stopped for ten days and a half months, so many business orders will be yellowed.

After passing through the airtight gates and biochemical quarantine checkpoints, leaving the port and entering the residential area, Li Pan clearly felt the difference between this place and the earth.

After all, LEOPORT, the home port of the earth, is a facade, everything is neat, clean, spacious and beautiful.Huge stargazing corridors, fully automatic conveyor belts, resplendent check-in halls, shiny smart attendants, even the toilets are fragrant, and the orbital elevator seats are so soft and exaggerated.

But Ceres?

Fuck, it's just a canned meat that has been stuffy for a long time.Literally a gymnasium crowded with tens of thousands of people, canned meat without air conditioning or ventilation.

As soon as the airtight door was opened, there was a bang, and a sour heat wave mixed with the smell of rotten meat, feet, and squid hit his nostrils, and Li Pan was also shocked. After the acid rain, he was soaked in waste water. Rotten dump.

After recovering from his senses, Li Pan realized that this is not the earth after taking two steps. This outdated garbage-inhabited space station does not have any modern gravity simulation system. It basically relies on the rotation of the facilities inside the shell, and the gravity is not high. After the automatic matching was adjusted, Li Pan still felt light all over, and felt empty under his feet, feeling like stepping on shit in the void.

The residents of the space station are also very distinctive in appearance.Even without looking at the facial features, you can feel the obvious difference from the people on Earth.

Basically, living in a low-gravity environment for a long time, eating synthetic nutrient porridge for a living, and lacking ultraviolet rays, vitamins and minerals, the body of interstellar miners is taller, thinner, and weaker than those bound by gravity.Therefore, they also rely more on implanted prosthetic bodies. The SBS with its own metal skeleton almost never leaves the body, so it looks big at first glance, but it is about the same as a stick when the clothes are taken off.

Li Pan is now around two meters tall after the Nine Yin and Four Turns, and he is considered outstanding in the world. Now he is wearing a full set of SBS, and he looks like a warrior in armor.But among these miners, there are many who are similar in size to him, but they are not so eye-catching.

In addition, the miners are basically all Asian.

Well, this is due to Gao Tianyuan’s factor, and another reason is that the first generation of astronauts, even this kind of low-level mining engineer, needs a certain degree of education and experience. The cost of space stations and spacecraft is high, and the company will choose those technical levels people who are up to the mark.And this kind of work of competition, learning and training, of course, other people can't compete with Asians.

This led to the fact that although Li Pan is a native of Earth, his appearance at this time is not like those company dogs with classic cosmic skin, but closer to locals, so all the way through the downtown area, there are no hooligans, anti-earth Molecules came to find a few strong men with guns and live ammunition.

What?What does the classic universe skin for Company Dog look like?

It is a transparent raincoat-like film, like wearing a cover all over the body, cough cough protective film.

Occasionally, due to reasons such as magnetic fields and static electricity, the protective film may expand irregularly, causing the user's body to seem to be wrapped in a bubble, and sometimes the film on the head may bulge like an incandescent light bulb , and the facial features will be out of shape due to the refraction of light, making the head appear extraordinarily large, making the image even more comical.

In addition, the people who use this thing are company dogs. Anyway, the folks call this thing CONXXX, ahem, safety clothing.

Well, the flaws are not hidden, this thing itself is still good, the scientific name is millimeter-scale synthesis polymer membrane, MSPM millimeter-scale synthetic polymer membrane, a very high-tech thing, and also the prototype of AVNDS.

As early as the era of the Legion's great space development, scientists were developing super materials that could replace spacesuits.The space suit was the solution at that time. It could maintain a constant temperature, heat insulation and radiation resistance, prevent bacteria, pollution and viruses, and cooperate with some other equipment systems to achieve short-term spacewalks.

Now MSPM spacesuits can provide emergency protection in different cosmic environments, and are basically a must-have for rich people.

Of course, this thing is very valuable. The most critical synthesis polymer synthetic polymer material formula is the patent of each company.Nanoscale systems like AVNDS are simply invincible shells that are invisible to the naked eye.

The MSPM spacesuit is on the millimeter level, and the material is 100 million times worse in terms of magnitude. Naturally, it does not have that kind of immunity to bulletproof function, and it is easy to be damaged at ordinary times, but it can be stored in belts, bracelets, and ring-sized devices. , released in an emergency when necessary, basically equivalent to a super lightweight spacesuit.

Even so, the MSPM space suit is also a luxury with a price of seven figures. In comparison, although the general SBS battle suit is stuffy, hot and tight, it can also play the role of space travel with a battery pack. , not to mention that it can directly link various exoskeletons and mechanical modules, which is much more cost-effective.

So to say a thousand and ten thousand, a miner is a miner who wears a lot of armor parts and reinstalls a space suit, and a company dog ​​is a man who wears a cover on his bare butt.

Anyway, Li Pan doesn't want to wear a cover on his body, he would rather be warmer...

Follow the navigation and take the elevator to the scheduled warehouse in the port area, and the transaction partner is waiting for them.

This is a bald and strong man in a big leather jacket and leather pants. It is not known whether there was an accident or he was shot black. Half of his face and most of his chest were replaced with metal parts.It is estimated that because most of the body is prosthetic, there is no need to use SBS or condoms.

"Which one is the broom head." He didn't bring any bodyguards, and spread his hands, "I'm in the warehouse, you can see for yourself."

Li Pan nodded, and the veterans around him also dispersed silently to check the warehouse and ship facilities.I went up to say hello,
"Steel bones, right? Brother, what business do you do? It's so difficult to rent a warehouse recently, and the market is hot. How could you think of changing hands?"

The steel bone folded its arms,

"You don't care, the world is so big, I want to go and see it."

Li Pan smiled and said,

"Brother, don't be so aggressive, just communicate. I'm afraid that you will get into some enemies. In the end, you will run away, and people will come to trouble me. Everyone will be unhappy."

The steel bone touched his chin, and glanced at the few bodyguards who were clearly jumping around in the warehouse, checking the circuits and equipment models everywhere, and then saw that these people were covered with millions of military SBS, loaded with live ammunition, probably not good Offended, also softened his tone.

"No one has many enemies when you come out to do business, but don't worry, I won't find what you are looking for. I am just short of money for a while, and I will rent this place to you for a year.

If you inquire, you will know that there is a shortage of cargo space and storage space, but there is no shortage of ship space. Last month, those companies went crazy and broke up so many ships, and the charter space was all vacant.

You have also seen that my warehouse cabin is integrated. If you want to rent my warehouse, even the ship space will be rented together. Anyway, my price is fair. "

What he said was similar to what Li Pan estimated, and Shiba also checked his background, and there were indeed no major charges, just normal fines for tax evasion, bumping, violations, group fights, and damage to public property.

The veterans checked and confirmed that there was no problem, so Li Pan also readily traded with the steel bone for payment.

"2000 million is not a small amount. It seems that my brother has a big business. I wish you a prosperous business. We will have the opportunity to make a fortune together in the future."

Probably because Li Pan is so straightforward, 2000 million is safe, the friendliness of the steel frame has obviously increased by a heart, and his attitude has eased a lot, and he also greeted,
"What kind of business is my friend here for? I know CERES well."

"Commodity trading, logistics and freight forwarding, construction contracting, I have channels on the earth. Recently, I mainly collect ships and guns. There is still a batch of goods coming in. My brother has a reliable way to contact me."

Li Pan also casually sent him the business card of Panlong Construction.

"Do you want to take the ship?"

I didn't expect the steel frame to have a way,

"Would you like a package with tax?"

Li Pan is also interested. "Do you really have a boat? What is a package with a license and tax?"

A video came from Steel Bone,
"It is a ship that has registered a license in the transportation system, and paid the purchase tax, inspection fee, and registration fee to the tax bureau. It is equivalent to a ship that has been sold, and you can drive away as long as you go through the transfer procedures. It is also a second-hand ship.
But in fact, they are all new from the factory, and have not been modified at all. The jump engine has not been skipped, and the membrane of the ecological cabin has not been torn.And compared with the new ship, it can be [-]% to [-]% cheaper.

If friends are interested, let's go to the scene to see?It's just parked at the Outer Harbor, I'm not trying to bluff you. "

Li Pan was also interested, so he asked others to arrange for HAYABUSA to enter the port first, and then he followed the steel frame to take his shuttle and went to the port area outside the space station to watch the ship.

Hey, there really are. From a distance, there are densely packed small dots, arranged in a matrix and suspended outside the space station.

Of course, these ships are not high-end ships like TSC, but they are models developed by Gao Tianyuan himself, and the blueprints were authorized to be produced by local private shipyards during the war.

There are all kinds of escort and expulsion cruisers, three-tier four, retired active-duty ships, all empty ships, and they are all relatively popular models.For example, various assault ships with a certain combat power and relatively high comprehensiveness of armor, large broadband drone cruisers, professional logistics supply ships, electronic support ships, and civilian ships with large cargo compartments.

Although they are all obsolete in terms of WARP speed and armor shield capacitance, they are still usable. The fleet, mercenary group, security company, and personal captain will all purchase consumables for replenishment.

"But why are there so many? And new ships can't be bought?"

Steel Gu also took Li Pan to watch the boat and explained to him,
"In fact, new ships are built very quickly, but the shortage of raw materials makes it impossible to arrange production for a while.

Some of these labels and tax packages are surpluses from large-scale mass production in factories, some are safety stocks required by Starfleet for production and placement, some are sample ships from 4S stores, inventories for remodeling, and others to meet sales targets Eat into the card by yourself.Of course, most of them are tax deductible by large companies.

Because 0791 has a policy to support local industries, those big companies can use the cost price to buy ships to deduct tax rebates.For example, for a ship worth 1000 million yuan, you can get back up to 400 million yuan, so the cost is only 600 million yuan.Then use the packaged price including tax to get a 900% discount, sell it to you for 100 million, you save 300 million, and he earns [-] million.Even if the middlemen of the two dealers are allowed to intervene, everyone still has room for profit, so why not do it.

Of course, there are still some people who are a little more dirty, and they use the mortgage fraud routine, that is, to buy a ship with a loan, and then bankrupt the company, mortgage the ship, and run away with the money.In this way, when the tax bureau investigates next month's settlement, those who accept the order may be out of money.

But don't worry, that kind of situation is relatively rare, and we are all old boats, with tens of millions of boats, so there is no need to risk being hunted down by the tax bureau for such a small amount of money.Still money laundering most of the time.

However, in recent years, the general environment has been unfavorable, business has been sluggish, many ships cannot be sold, and there is no room for inventory ships.

So the boat is not a problem, you can choose whichever boat you want, and drive away if you like it.We still have a lot of leasing companies that lend these boats on loan. It is not impossible to use the boat first and pay later. "

Heh, there is also this kind of second-hand ship market, no wonder the local pirates can form a full crew... Wait, then the asking price of Starfleet at the beginning of 1000 billion is too high - it's so high!

Forget it, it's none of his business, anyway, he's not taking over now...

Considering that HAYABUSA is really not clean, I don’t know when it will turn against the Security Bureau and may be detained. Now because of renting warehouses and ship spaces, there are three ship licenses on Ceres.

So Li Pan and Steel Gu added a friend, opened a group, linked Shiba and Nana into the group conversation, asked them to advise, carefully selected, and finally chose a KAWAU-class cruiser.

This is an old-fashioned cruiser, but it has not been retired yet. It is a widely used basic logistics cruiser. The highest super-light speed is WARP6, um, it is a little bit faster than Li Pan's shuttle, and it is not a dedicated battleship.However, this ship can be equipped with various logistics supplies, charging and recycling, and shield repair modules as needed to provide logistics support services for small teams.

If you are willing to spend money in the later stage, you can use the hull structure of KAWAU as the basis, and directly carry out systematic upgrades at the shipyard to upgrade to the latest OSUPUREI-class military fleet logistics ship.

The OSUPURE I class and HAYABUSA are of the same class. Gao Tianyuan's latest logistics ship has been greatly improved in all aspects. The jump speed alone has been increased to WARP12, which can keep up with the fleet's maneuvering.

However, the bare ship of the OSUPURE I class starts at least 4000 million. In terms of functionality alone, the logistics ship only needs to provide ship support and repair services when necessary, and the Kawau-class cruiser is enough.

The market guide price of KAWAU level is 1000 and 4 million. In fact, because it is an old model, the output and market holdings are huge. 950S stores have relationships and discounts. You can talk about millions of rebates, and the steel bone brand The tax package is even cheaper, only [-] million.

What else is there to say, even less than 1000 million!purchase!
In this way, with the cargo holds of the two cruiser-class ships, HAYABUSA and KAWAU, it is enough to evacuate the chainsaw-class ship.

Such a day spent 3000 million yuan, and assigned all the maintenance work of KAWAU to his subordinates, and then pulled a list from the steel frame, and roughly registered the current number of CERES ships with licenses and taxes.Li Pan returned to HAYABUSA and asked PONY.[-] and company.[-] to establish a QVN encrypted link to connect to the company's intranet for a meeting report.

After all, I have to report to the company, saying that the general manager missed work for a day and flew to Ceres for business trips to find ships and equipment for the company, not to guard against himself, steal the company's goods, and cut off the company's bullshit.

Of course, now is the time of the bidding war, so everything is kept simple. Li Pan himself approved a business trip for himself, and no one in the company has any objections. However, 0113012, who is in charge of the company's fleet, heard that he had gone to the Ceres universe and sent an encrypted message. come over.

"General Manager, the fleet needs some additional supplies. Please look for them on the Ceres black market to see if there are any local suppliers."

"Oh, according to 036's report, the spice battery soup, fuel and ammunition should have been supplemented by a batch, right? What's missing...black oil? What is black oil? Petroleum?"

0113012 sent complex molecular formula data, a special identification program with modulated parameters and a short video.The video shows a metal tank containing a fluid that does look like petroleum.

0113012 explained, "Protomolecule oil is an industrial raw material, or more precisely a solvent, which can fuse and carry energy from different worlds in a short period of time to synthesize various special level seven ammunition.

For example, make the Psionic Cartridge spiritual energy bomb in our world, or the more commonly used Quantumnerv Annihilate Cartridge quantum annihilation bomb.Cause fatal damage to the company's warships and individuals of the same level.

The synthesis of promolecular oils is difficult, and the technical threshold is very high. The production capacity of Callisto alone may not be enough.Most of the local production capacity of 0791 is under the control of Ye's Group, but Gao Tianyuan probably won't hand over all the equipment. Their battleships all have custom-made special bomb bays, and there must be some hidden in small The secret laboratory in the planetary belt can be synthesized.

However, the shelf life of black oil is very short, and it is usually impossible to store it on a large scale, but in this situation, of course, the more the better, at any cost. "

0113007 interrupted, "Me too."

Alas, it's okay, anyway, you order food, I will cook.

But what about Kuang Teng, I seem to have heard it somewhere... ah!

Li Pan slapped his head and remembered, "Hey! Wangshan!"

Wang Shan, "Why do you call me Lao Tzu again!"

Li Pan, "Black oil, can you get it? I'll smoke some for you."

Wang Shan, "Oh, how much do you want?"

Li Pan, "Then make a two-ton casually."

Wang Shan, "Okay, tell your hackers to open a door to the deep net, and I'll ask."

Well, that's done.I don't know why, but every time I help the company to do things, it goes very smoothly...

(End of this chapter)