The Age of Giant Ships and Cannons

Early the next morning, Li Qing left the hotel in a frigate and went to one of the many star cities surrounding the planet. Today there is a large auction, and he has signed up.

Li Qing's Black Eagle frigate is extremely rare in Zutar, but it is extremely common here. It seems that it likes various modifications here, and there are all kinds of strangely modified frigates everywhere.

It doesn't have to be a combat power modification, many of them are simply modified to be more handsome and more individual.

The frigate moored at the Star City anchorage, and after entering Star City, took the unmanned aerial vehicle and navigated directly to the destination.

This is a very professional large-scale auction house. It is not owned by any chamber of commerce. It belongs to the military industry. Any chamber of commerce can rent it out to hold auctions.

When Li Qing entered the venue, about 30% of the three floors of the auction room, which could accommodate several thousand people, were already seated, and there were still a large number of players entering in a steady stream.

I randomly found a seat near the front and sat down. There is no real-name seat here, so come and sit in the front first.

There is a projector in front of the seat, and when it is opened, a light curtain is revealed, which shows the organizer and auction information of this auction.

The organizer is called West Lake Trading Group, I have never heard of it, but the value of the auction items is quite high, and the first item is exactly what he needs.

Third Generation Plasma Launcher (Mother Chip): This is a powerful anti-armor plasma weapon.

Li Qing's fleet is rarely equipped with this weapon, because although the plasma cannon has a damage bonus modifier of up to 100% against armor and a 75% damage bonus modifier against the hull, it is restrained by the energy shield and has a -75 % shield damage nerf modifier.

But less use is less use, it cannot be left without.

The starting price of this mother chip is 1,000 billion star dollars, and the starting price of each auction is no less than 10 billion star dollars.

Generally speaking, the specification of an auction can be seen only by looking at the first lot, but now Li Qing can be sure that the specification of this auction should be quite high.

As he expected, although the following common lots were not as good as the first one, most of them were very good. It felt like they were auctioned on the black market back then. All the items in the lot were related to the military, and their quality was better than that on the black market.

Every now and then hundreds of blueprints of battleships were shot in groups.

Either the blueprints of tens of thousands of frigates are shot together, and all of them are a complete set of ships and weapon accessories.

Or directly sell a batch of finished battleships, and some even help you match the clone crew and senior crew captain, and you can pull them back after buying and handing over.

See below in one go until the finale.

There are five finale items in total. The first item is a finished flagship aircraft carrier, complete with 360,000 fifth-generation deep space ghost fighter jets, and all crew members are in place. Buy it and you can go into battle.

But Li Qing took a look at the starting price as high as 10 trillion yuan, and after each price increase was no less than 10 billion yuan, he wisely gave up his idea.

Obviously, this is the normal market price of the flagship, and the price of the flagship at the outpost is abnormal.

Fortunately, the price of the flagship is outrageous, and the prices of other types of warships are not bad. The market price of a finished battleship is also about 75 billion.

If you think about it normally, according to the situation at Zutar, the cost of a bare dreadnought ship is only about 250 billion. If it is a complete set, without those expensive rare and powerful accessories, the total cost is only about 1.250 billion. It is much more expensive than the dreadnought to be equipped with 360,000 fifth-generation deep space ghost fighters, about 3 trillion.

The price of about 40 battleships is worth a flagship aircraft carrier full of fighter jets, which is obviously unreasonable.

It can only be said that this is the pioneer's preferential treatment.

Thinking about how outrageous it was when the two flagship blueprints were auctioned on the black market for several trillion yuan, it seems that it is actually a normal price.

The second finale was the blueprint of a fearless flagship, and the starting price was the same as that of an aircraft carrier.

The third piece turned out to be a fifth-generation frigate mother chip. I don't know where it came from. Anyway, the starting price is as high as 10 trillion, and each increase is no less than 10 billion star dollars.

Li Qing couldn't comment on this price.

At the beginning, what he bought was only a second-generation frigate mother chip, which cost nearly five trillion stars. Now this is the fifth-generation mother chip, and the starting price of 100,000 is not outrageous.

Regardless of how easy it seems for him to upgrade the mother chip, it is because he has a group of scientists who are golden servants of light and an immortal-level negative star to study together, so it is fast.

If you switch to a scientific research team from another team to try it out, it will be horribly slow.

Unless civilization points are consumed to increase the speed of scientific research, or a large number of civilization points are used to force upgrades.

But the cost of consuming civilization points will come up.

So... Li Qing is not going to want this frigate mother chip.

Not to mention already, the key point is that the price of this thing must be outrageous after the auction, and he has to buy other things.

The fourth finale is a neutron light spear mother chip of the main gun of the battle line. The starting price is 20 trillion yuan, and each price increase is not less than 10 billion yuan.

The fifth finale is an 11% original stake in a living planet located more than a thousand light-years north of Shanhaiguan. The starting price is 200 trillion yuan, and each increase should not be less than 1 trillion yuan.

"Outrageous!"

Li Qing looked at the information with great interest. It was a large legion that snatched a living planet. Now the master of the legion is going to disband the legion and establish a territory, but the shareholder who owns 11% of the original shares is not satisfied with the distribution plan of the master of the legion. He was also unable to fight against the Lord of the Legion, so he simply threw the shares in his hands on the market to see if there were any big shots who could withstand the pressure of the Lord of the Legion to take the shares.

This Li Qing was not interested, so he skipped to look at the last lot of King of the Finale.

Then his mouth opened into an O shape.

91 points of civilization, the starting price is 910 trillion, and each price increase is not less than 1 trillion.

"Ah this."

It was completely beyond his expectation that civilization points could be auctioned directly, and there were so many more.

Li Qing himself only has 32 civilization points.

It turned out that there were two points, and with the addition of 3 points per year for my five negative star players, a total of 15 points were gathered last year.

There are 37 billion Orb people plus 22.8 billion Saibotan humans, a total of 60 billion people, 6*3=18 points per year.

However, it was less than a year since the human beings conquered Cybertron, and they actually gained 15 points, adding up to 32 civilization points.

The role of civilization points is very extensive. Creating regional channels is just a simple use. For the major army lords, the main purpose of collecting civilization points everywhere is to promote technological upgrades, condense mother chips or upgrade mother chips, and so on.

In addition, it takes a lot of civilization points for a lord to advance to Starship Lord.

A star sea lord needs a large amount of civilization points to be promoted to a star sea lord.

It is worth mentioning that humans have existed on Cybertron for more than 7,000 years. In theory, they should have accumulated a large number of civilization points, but these civilization points are not in the Cybertron Fortress, and he did not gain any civilization points after conquering.

The reason is simple, the real rulers of Cybertron are not those consortiums or groups, nor the sleeping generals of Cybertron, but the sleeping Lord Sen Luo.

Therefore, in theory, if he can successfully inherit the inheritance of Lord Senluo in the future, he can receive all the civilization points accumulated by the 20 billion people in the Cybertron Fortress for 7,000 years, at least nearly 20,000 points, which is enough for him. The tone can be exchanged for two super technologies from the civilization of the negative stars.

"High-end is high-end, and it's too high-end."

Li Qing thought that he was quite rich with nearly 50 trillion in cash and more than 15 billion in materials. He didn't expect that just participating in an auction would teach him a vivid lesson.

Time passed slowly, and when the auction was about to start, the venue was slowly full of people, from about 30% at the beginning to about 80% to 90% when it was about to start.

Not long after hearing a crisp sound, Li Qing raised his head, and a figure wrapped in spiritual energy suddenly appeared at the auctioneer's position. He tapped the golden gong lightly with the golden hammer in his hand, and said loudly:

"Good morning, all distinguished guests. On behalf of the West Lake Trading Group, I would like to welcome you to this month's auction. Without further ado, the auction begins now."

With a wave of his hand, a long-legged beauty in a cheongsam with a slim figure came up with a crystal plate, and displayed a chip hanging in the air on the plate left and right. The auctioneer stretched out his hand to signal, and said in a deep voice:

"The first lot, a mother chip of the third-generation plasma plasma cannon, the starting price is one trillion yuan, and the bidding price is no less than one hundred million yuan. Now auction!"

Li Qing picked up the sign beside him, entered the number on it and held it up. Just as he was about to bid, he heard someone bid faster:

"Okay, there is a gentleman who bids 2 trillion yuan!"

I was speechless for a while, and re-entered the price on the sign. Just after entering the first and last words, I heard the auctioneer shouting:

"Very good, Mr. No. 784 offered 3 trillion yuan."

He buckled the sign and prepared to wait.

As he expected, there were bids one after another, and the price was quickly pushed up to more than 5 trillion. The bids were not so crazy, and began to slow down, and the price increases were not as exaggerated as before.

At this time, he picked up the sign again, filled in a price and held it up. The auctioneer who was watching all directions immediately pointed to him and said:

"Very good. Mr. No. 233 bid 5.5 trillion yuan. It seems that this gentleman is very knowledgeable."

In the next second, someone bid 6 trillion yuan.

In the next second, this price is quickly covered by another bid.

In just twenty seconds, the price alternately climbed to more than 7 trillion.

"Why are there so many people fighting?"

Li Jingtun squeezed his finger bones a little irritably, and said to his subordinates in a low voice:

"Get 10 trillion directly!"

When the subordinates listened to the order to report, they heard the auctioneer's passionate voice shouting:

"The gentleman in Box No. 15 bids 10 trillion yuan!"

After this bid, no one made a sound for a full five seconds. After five seconds, there were some whispers, but no one continued to bid.

This price has exceeded the price of the same mother chip last time.

At the same time, the black curtain wall outside Box 15 opened, revealing Li Jingtun and his subordinates sitting in it, and many people immediately recognized them:

"It's Li Jingtun, chief industrial officer of the Thunderbolt Corps."

At this time, a young man in the No. 7 box who was sitting quietly looking at the light curtain in front of him paused when he heard the voice outside, looked up at the middle-aged man in the main seat and asked:

"Brother, where is this Li Jingtun from?"

The middle-aged man thought for a while and said:

"I heard it's the direct line of Qinghe's Li family."

The young man frowned, moved his fingers over the long silver hair hanging by his ear, and with a sneer at the corner of his mouth, he said in a low voice:

"Brother, we don't seem to have the mother chip of the plasma cannon, do we?"

The middle-aged man nodded and said:

"It's true that there isn't one, but the plasma cannon is not used frequently, and it's not in our auction plan."

"That's a good price."

"You have enmity with the Thunderbolt Legion?"

"No, it's just a little grievance with Qinghe Li."

The middle-aged man raised his eyebrows, hesitated a bit and said:

"Our relationship between Sky Strike and Fury Thunder is not bad."

Ye Xiao smiled slightly and said:

"We also need this, and it's normal to offer a first-hand price."

Ye Lingfeng thought about it and said:

"I'll just make an offer once."

After quoting a price and uploading it, the voice of the auctioneer calling out the price soon came from outside:

"The bid for Box No. 7 is 11 trillion yuan. Is there a higher price?"

Li Jingtun frowned when he heard the new bid, thought for a while, opened the communication and sent a question mark to someone, and the other party responded quickly:

"Sorry, we also need this, but don't worry, this is not in our budget, as long as you add another 100 million, I will not bid again."

Only then did Li Jingtun's expression slow down, and he replied:

"Thanks, let's eat after we're done"

Before I finished speaking, suddenly there was a bidding sound outside:

"Mr. No. 233 bid 12 trillion yuan. It seems that this gentleman knows what to buy. I don't know if there is a higher bid."

Li Jing stood up and looked at the focus of everyone's attention, but he was taken aback, rubbing his eyes in surprise, thinking that he was wrong.

At one point, he sent a message to a name on his friends list that he didn't seem to have contacted yet.

Li Qing, who was sitting on his seat waiting for the auction to end, lowered his head and saw a name that was also beyond his expectations——Li Jingtun:

"Aren't you in the Zutar star field? Why did you come here?"

"The territory over there is already on the right track, and the Shata United Empire is accumulating strength. It is estimated that there will be a large-scale war in three or four years. I will take advantage of these few years to earn some money and buy something to improve my strength."

"By the way, is your active area right here?"

Li Jingtun nodded:

"Yes, the Thunderbolt Legion I joined is just north of Shanhaiguan."

"Well"

Then fell into silence.

The two met in the family before, and they were still in a competitive relationship. They were not familiar with each other, so they had nothing to talk about.

At this moment, Li Qing, who felt cold and was thinking about how to persuade his cousin to withdraw from the bidding, suddenly sensed something raised his head, saw a familiar figure lying on the edge of one of the boxes above, and subconsciously shouted:

"Ye Xiao? Why are you here?"

But Ye Xiao didn't respond at all, turned around and said to Ye Lingfeng:

"Brother, do me a favor."

He turned around and pointed at Li Qing, gritted his teeth and said:

"In the future, no matter how much he pays, he will increase the price, and beat him to death."

However, Ye Lingfeng looked at him like a fool and said:

"Are you stupid, why do I spend tens of trillions for a third-generation plasma projector?"

Ye Xiao pointed at Li Qing and said coldly:

"Do you know who he is? He is Li Qing, the one who caused it"