MTL - The Age of Giant Ships and Cannons-Chapter 221 Ultimate Miner

  Chapter 221 Ultimate Miner

   When Li Qing came out of the palm universe again, it was already the time when the super auction was about to start, only one day later.

  As soon as he came out, he immediately received six reminders, three from the official 003, and the other three from the human embassy. He started urging him two days ago, and three reminders a day.

   After reading the news, Li Qing replied one each, and soon both sides responded, asking him to prepare for the Super Auction, and giving him the location of the venue and the location of the seat.

  Li Qing tidied up briefly, and then set off with Cybertron, the Negative Star.

  Leave the room and take the aircraft directly from the top floor of the hotel to one of the super tall buildings in this commercial center. On the road, you can see many luxury aircraft heading towards the target direction.

The aircraft automatically drives, automatically queues up in front of the super high-rise building, drives into the middle of this high-rise building that covers an area of ​​several hundred square kilometers and is as high as thousands of floors, enters the center of the super building along a passage, and can see a line in the middle of the building. The channel flew down.

  The speed of the aircraft was not slow, and it didn't take long for Li Qing to descend to the bottom of this super building, and then went deeper.

   Obviously, the venue of this super auction is not at the surface level, but deep underground.

  Aircraft lined up and continued down the thick all-metal passage. Li Qing closed his eyes and rested his mind, but Cybertron looked out energetically, with a hint of doubt in his eyes.

After a while, Li Qing suddenly opened his eyes and looked outside suspiciously. This hollow passage with a diameter of hundreds of meters is surrounded by a thick metal inner wall. Except for some complicated lines, nothing can be seen on it. On the advertising screen, he glanced back at Cybertron, the negative star, and he asked doubts in his heart:

   "Did you find something?"

  Star Negative Cybertron was silent for a moment, nodded and said:

   "I dare not say it for the time being, but I do feel a very familiar place on this planet, as if"

  He hesitated for a moment, as if he wanted to say something, but he couldn't be sure for a moment.

   After hesitating for a while, he finally didn’t say anything:

   "I'm not sure yet."

  Li Qing smiled and said:

   "Then don't worry, you'll have to participate in the Super Auction later, and you'll have plenty of time to watch it. If you don't have enough time, let's go around the planet after the auction is over."

  Cybertron nodded, but did not speak.

   A minute and a half later, the passageway that had traveled for an unknown distance finally came to an end, and when it came to a crossroad, the aircraft flew straight to one of the directions.

This time the passage was not too long, and it only took less than half a minute to reach the end. After rushing out of the passage, a huge underground world appeared. It was still a very prosperous underground city, and it was more and more like the Cybertron world. .

  What surprised Li Qing was that compared to the architectural styles on the surface of the planet, which blended with a large number of foreign architectural styles, there are also styles that conform to human aesthetics. The architectural style of the underground layer is more obvious.

   "What does this intelligent robot named 003 have to do with humans?"

  A small doubt rose in his heart, but no one could solve it for him.

  With this trace of doubt, the aircraft came to a super building in the underground world that supported the sky and descended to the ground, and burrowed into it.

This time, there is no need to burrow into the ground as before. The aircraft stopped directly on a platform. The two walked out of the aircraft and saw that many aircraft stopped. On the other side of the platform, a large number of waiters from different races stepped forward to greet them. .

   Li Qing was greeted by a delicate-looking young lady in a blue dress. She stepped forward to salute him with a smile on her face, and said:

   "Welcome distinguished guests, please follow me."

  Li Qing glanced at her quite unexpectedly, and found that she turned out to be a human player.

  He immediately asked curiously:

   "Are there many human players like you here? Are you born and raised here or immigrated?"

  Miss immediately replied sweetly:

   "I'm not a local, I'm the head of the department of Haichuan Trading Group stationed in 003 Mechanical City Planet, and I took the initiative to sign up to participate in the welcome service!"

   "So it is."

  Li Qing nodded, followed the lady in the dress into the building, and while walking, the lady in the dress explained some precautions for the super auction to them again.

  Unknowingly, the three of them came to the venue, and saw individual positions in the huge venue at a glance.

  The venue of this super auction is no different from a normal auction, and there are no boxes, all of which are open-air seats, but this seat is exquisite.

The seats are like huge pillars, or wooden stakes, about three meters in diameter. The top of the pillars is concave. space.

   These thick pillars are of different heights and surround the central auction platform.

  From a distance, this auction house looks like countless metal pillars standing in a grand canyon, surrounding the largest wooden pile in the center.

From the outside, this thing looks weird, but when the young lady led him to their place, after entering the inside, the young lady taught him how to operate it a few times, and he could see that the transparent light curtain on the top floor quickly transformed into The real roof, not only can't see the outside, but even the spiritual energy is shielded.

  He tried to use his powerful psychic will to sense the outside. Although he couldn't completely shield it, his will couldn't extend very far after passing through the light curtain and the surrounding metal walls.

   "Good guy, it's too extravagant!"

  In the universe, there are many substances that can isolate spiritual energy and strong will, but they are all very expensive. They are all ultra-rare substances that are not inferior to star diamonds, and some ultra-rare materials are even more expensive than star diamonds.

  For a mere auction, so many locations are all those structures, and the spiritual energy isolation materials needed may reach the level of one-third of the more than 30 million star diamonds that were scooped up before.

  Looking at the wall in front of him, Li Qing's eyes flickered, and he resisted the idea of ​​putting it into the casting furnace of light for analysis.

  As people continued to enter the arena, including humans and other alien races, seats were activated one by one, and he saw that the light curtain on the top of a seat transformed into other elements, which also blocked his gaze.

  The beautiful young lady in uniform did not leave, and stood at the door after sending them in, which seemed to mean serving at any time.

  Li Qing closed the door, opened the auction's built-in network, and began to check what was auctioned in the legendary five-year super auction.

  The light curtain popped up, and the first page, line by line, was presented in front of him.

   After a quick scan, he was surprised to find that there were far fewer items in the catalog than he had imagined.

He remembered the few auctions he had participated in before. Except for the finale, there were fifty or sixty items, and there were seventy or eighty regular items. But here, there were only twenty regular items, and only four finale items. The term "king of the finale", or the last of the four finale is the so-called king of the finale.

   But just looking at the first lot, he knew why there were so few lots in this five-year super auction.

   The first lot, the mother chip of the T-slot weapon Doomsday Light.

  Li Qing rubbed his chin, and immediately felt the force of this super auction coming up.

Let’s look at the second lot, the high-level relic—the Huntress Efelina’s Blade, a silver sharp blade that continuously emits circles of transparent fluctuations. The effect is that after equipped, all fleets under your command will get +25% energy shield damage modifier .

   It seems that the increase is not much, but there is no equipment limit for things like relics, and the effect affects all fleets under the command, so there is no limit to the increase.

  The third lot, a complete set of mother chips for all weapon accessories below the flagship, does not include the mother chip of warships, but only the mother chips of weapons and various accessories, and all of them are fifth-generation technology.

   This made Li Qing speechless for a while, I didn't see it until I finished my promotion.

The fourth lot was packaged and sold with a population of 240 billion foreign civilizations. Li Qing looked at it and said in the introduction that this is a third-level civilization that occupies hundreds of galaxies, has four living planets and more than a dozen transformed planets. After the more powerful civilization was defeated, all remaining species of the entire civilization were packaged and sold.

  The advantage is that it used to be a third-level civilization, and its concepts and insights can keep up with the mainstream of the interstellar world. After buying it, it only needs a little adjustment to be useful.

  The disadvantage is that it is a third-level civilization after all, and not long after it was defeated, its wildness has not disappeared, and it still wants to restore the country, so how to subdue it is a problem.

   "I'm going to die, these are all good things!"

  Li Qing looked down one by one, and found that even the regular auction items here were good things that he could use immediately. It felt like a bear fell into the kingdom of bees, and there were cloyingly sweet honey everywhere.

  He felt that except for a very small number of overlapped items among the twenty lots, he could get the rest, and most of them were good things that could be used immediately.

   "Nanai's, this time is the right time!"

  But I regretted why I didn't get more ore to convert into refined steel, so I would be more confident.

   Turning to the end in one breath, Li Qing was about to look at the finale, but found that he couldn't check it. He knocked on the door and asked the lady at the door:

   "Why can't I see this finale lot, do I need permission?"

  Miss sister nodded and said:

"It is indeed related to permissions. You should be participating for the first time, so you can't view it. You can see one finale in advance when you check it next time. After that, you can watch one more for each additional session. Until the fourth time, you can see all of them." Finale."

"All right!"

  There was nothing to say, Li Qingdao thanked him and returned, and didn't bother with the finale auction, anyway, he would know what it would be after the regular auction.

  In fact, the 20 regular auction items he saw now have exceeded his expectations, and they are all surprises. If he can get more than five of these 20 regular auction items, it is already worth the ticket price.

   As for the finale of the four pieces, to be honest, he didn't pay much attention to them. With his current capital, he didn't know if he could grab one.

   It’s best if you can grab one, and it’s okay if you can’t. Anyway, this thing is held every five years, so come back after five years.

  The next step is to wait, waiting for other people who participated in this auction to enter the venue one after another.

  There are only 500 seats in this venue. Even such a super high entry condition cannot stop the yearners, and it is already full at this time.

Time passed, and at a certain moment, Li Qing suddenly felt his eyes light up. Through the transparent window in front of him, he could see a tall male human figure rising slowly from the central platform. After reaching the platform, he saluted in a circle. , said in a magnetic voice:

   "Welcome everyone to participate in the five-year Super Auction of 003 Mechanical City. I am the host Jiguang."

Although he spoke human language, everyone present could understand it, because he was a powerful psychic. Through the unique psychic resonance method of psykers, all species present could easily understand even if they could not understand human language. listen clearly.

  In the sea of ​​stars, there is no such thing as a common language, and the languages ​​of different species are different.

  Different civilizations want to communicate, either translate each other’s language, or find a language expert to learn each other’s language, or use psykers to communicate.

  The psychic resonance of psykers is the most common way of communication in the universe, no matter what civilization it is. "

   "There are 20 regular lots in this auction, and four finale pieces. Now we will introduce the first lot."

   As soon as the voice fell, suddenly a circular beam of light turned into a beam of light from the dome of the platform where the auctioneer was located, and a light rain fell, and a chip made of crystal slowly emerged in the beam of light.

   "The first lot comes from a T-slot doomsday weapon master chip researched by a level 4 civilization. The starting price is 300 billion cubic meters of refined steel, and the price increase is no less than 1 billion cubic meters of refined steel. The auction is now open!"

   "Tsk tsk!"

  300 billion cubic meters of refined steel, worth about 117 trillion yuan, the value of the first lot exceeded the entry threshold.

  Li Qing couldn't help but click his tongue, looked around eagerly, entered a number on the bidder in front of him, uploaded it, and the auctioneer immediately said.

   "Customer No. 155 bid for 350 billion cubic meters of refined steel."

   Immediately change the words in the next second:

   "Customer No. 46 bid for 360 billion cubic meters of refined steel."

   "Customer No. 86 bid for 370 billion cubic meters of refined steel."

   "Customer No. 129 bid for 400 billion cubic meters of refined steel."

  The venue was extremely quiet, only the auctioneer's clear, concise and powerful quotations sounded, and everyone could hear them clearly.

  In just a short while, the price rose alternately to 500 billion cubic meters of refined steel, which would be 195 trillion star dollars when converted into the currency of the United Empire of Mankind.

   As with all auctions, bidding slows down when the price reaches a certain point.

but

  Li Qing directly filled in a bid of 600 billion cubic meters of refined steel and passed it on, immediately dumbfounding everyone.

   After a while, someone tried to bid 610 billion square meters. He directly filled in a price of 700 billion square meters.

  Li Qing sat in the room with his legs crossed, looking outside with a smile on his face.

   In terms of money, he really can’t compare to those big consortiums, but in terms of mining, it’s not his bragging rights. No one in the United Human Empire can match him.

  As the ultimate miner who does not need to refine ore, he is really not afraid of anyone in the mine competition.

  Anyway, no matter who bids, he will directly add 100 billion square meters.

   After adding up to 800 billion square meters in one go, no one bid anymore. After three inquiries, the auctioneer didn't delay, and simply announced that he had bought the mother chip.

  (end of this chapter)