This is not mechanical ascension.

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Yaro held the smart terminal and signaled to Li Ming, "The Land of Stars is located near the Red River Star Stream. The magnetic interference of several meteorite belts is very high, making it almost impossible to contact the outside world."

"Only those floating island owners can contact the outside world."

Li Ming glanced at it, took out his smart terminal, and joined the local network. A large amount of information was constantly being refreshed, including people buying, selling, and even forming teams on the spot, giving Li Ming a sense of immediate visibility.

After putting away the smart terminal, he couldn't help but ask: "Who built these floating islands in the first place?"

"This...I'm not sure." Yaro shook his head, "Anyway, the owners of the floating island are constantly changing, but the floating island is not allowed to be destroyed, otherwise several major forces in the Land of Stars will attack together."

Li Ming was thoughtful.

"Let's keep a low profile." Yaro came up and whispered: "The Star Hunters must have known that we have arrived in the Land of the Stars. Although this is the territory of the Collector, the boss of the Star Hunters is also an A-level life form. "

They killed Atom and came in Duke Bai Ye's car. The shipyard was only relatively strict, and they certainly didn't dare to hide it from the Star Hunters.

Li Ming nodded, then asked: "Is there any place here where I can get a lot of metal materials?"

"A large amount of metal materials?" Yaro didn't know what was going on. He thought about it and asked, "Can scraps be used?"

"Scrap?" Li Ming thought, "That's okay."

"Red River Star Waterfall." Yaro spit out an unfamiliar term, and then explained: "The Land of Stars is at the edge of the Red River Star Stream. The Red River Star Stream is extremely long and runs through numerous star clusters."

"Every once in a while, a star waterfall will erupt, like a meteor, spewing out a lot of debris and even civilization ruins from the Red River star stream. Many people make a lot of money from it."

"Red River Star Waterfall..." Li Ming thought of the red galaxy spreading into the depths of the universe, and couldn't help but ask: "Where did those things come from?"

Yaro also shook his head: "Who knows, the red star stream is extremely dangerous, and no one dares to go deep into it."

Li Ming was thoughtful, Yaluo glanced at him, shook his head and said: "However, if you want to get the ticket, you must have a floating island."

"Huh?" Li Ming frowned.

"The land of stars has been divided up by various A-level life forms. It is impossible for them to expose the benefits." Yaro said in a low voice:

"The floating island owners are basically their people, and only their people are allowed to receive benefits."

"Each floating island has a gravity gripper, so you can catch a lot of things in the Red River Star Waterfall."

"That's it..." Li Ming frowned, and Yaluo said helplessly: "Yeah, don't even think about it."

Li Ming was noncommittal and suddenly said: "You said before that you can do business here?"

"Yes." Yaro didn't know why.

"Where is the rental store?"

Yaluo was stunned and said in surprise: "You want to open a store?"

Li Ming shook his head, meaning vaguely: "No, I want to fish."

Yaro was speechless and led the way. This area is a well-known trade area in the Land of Stars.

There are all kinds of contraband that are rare in ordinary civilization. Many chained slaves are openly displayed on the street for people to choose from.

There are not many rules in this area, and one of them is that no conflicts are allowed in the store.

This boosted trade in the area, but also made its shops extremely expensive.

"The rent is for at least one year. No deposit is required and no refunds will be given." The pot-bellied pig man, with a fishy smell all over his body, lay lazily on the huge metal recliner without even opening his eyes.

All the houses on the entire floating island are owned by collectors, divided according to areas, and the prices are high.

There are no vacant houses in the best core area, and in the second-tier area, there is a three-story shop that has just been vacated.

"Five million a year, paid in one lump sum." Pigman glanced at it and quoted the price casually.

Li Ming couldn't help but was speechless. The price of renting for one year was five million, which was really high enough.

But this is the land of stars, the most chaotic place. These houses have some security properties, so they are naturally very expensive.

Yaluo glanced at Li Ming, nodded and said, "That's it."

The pig man reluctantly sat up and entered the process familiarly, asking them to tell their names.

"Qinglong." Li Ming simply reported his name. The pigman did not care whether it was true or false, and entered their current appearance into the data, reminding:

"Remember the facial features on the mimic mask. If it were a different face, we wouldn't recognize it."

Then he threw out a crystal card, which was the key.

The whole process is short and rough, with too many holes in it.

After passing through several blocks, a few people came to the store they rented. The walls were covered with gray-brown marks, but they were all made of metal materials.

The door number area is a black screen, which seems to be adjustable at will, which is very good.

On both sides are the "Small Armor Store" and the "Old Saber Pharmacy Store."

There is not a lot of traffic on this street. There are no regulatory authorities here. As long as you have excellent technology, you can far surpass others, no matter how high the price is, no one will care.

Opening the door with the key card, the smell of blood hit your face. The first floor was empty, and there were spray traces of blood everywhere on the ground.

"Fuck, these people are getting lazier and lazy, and they don't even clean up." Yaro cursed.

Li Ming asked, "Didn't you say that conflicts are not allowed in the store?"

"Rules are rules." Ya Luo hesitated, "That's the case in name, but if the enemy is too strong, they will be killed without any reaction, and the bodies will be cleaned up."

"The island guards will be classified as missing, how can an A-level life form have time to investigate such a thing."

Li Ming said "tsk", safety is relative, at least you have to have the ability to protect yourself.

"So, we are setting ourselves up as targets for the Star Hunters when we open a store." Ya Luo said helplessly.

Li Ming ignored him, and several people began to clean the room.

With [Intelligent Assistance] turned on, Li Ming even picked out dried meat from many gaps, as well as surveillance equipment that he didn't know if it was still useful.

"I really like this place more and more." Li Ming shook his head, crushed the surveillance probe in his hand, and opened the door number manager to adjust it.

"Qinglong Machinery Store."

Yaro saw that Li Ming was still seriously picking a name, and his teeth ached, "Are you really going to do business here?"

"What's wrong? Are there any other rules?" Li Ming was puzzled.

Ya Luo was helpless, "No, it's good. With your skills, you should have no shortage of business."

"The collector is very fond of mechanics. I heard that he has a lot of broken things and often asks people to repair them. If you make a name for yourself, he might be interested."

Although he said so, Ya Luo obviously didn't have any hope. The collectors basically contacted great mechanics.

"You reminded me." Li Ming opened the door number management system again and added a few lines of words--

"Only accept the customization and repair of weapons of level C and above."

The level is too low, and you can't make much money. It's a waste of time.

"Hiss~" Ya Luo took a breath, "Do you want to add an upper limit?"

"You reminded me again." Li Ming raised his eyebrows and added another line of words: "If you can't repair it, double the refund!"

Ya Luo stared and said in astonishment: "What if someone comes to make things difficult for you with an A-level weapon?"

"Come if you want." Li Ming didn't care. You have to put a big bait to fish.

Originally, the new store didn't attract too many people.

However, after adding this line of small words, it attracted many interstellar villains to stop and point, speak in interstellar dialect from somewhere, and then laugh.

People from the shops on both sides and opposite also came out, looking quite surprised, and then shook their heads.

"It's easy to get killed if you do this kind of gimmick." Ya Luo couldn't help but remind him that in a normal civilization, this kind of gimmick might attract a wave of popularity.

But in the land of stars, it's easy to overturn if you play too big.

And Li Ming seemed not to hear it. There were six rooms on the upper and lower floors except the first floor, which could be remodeled at will during the rental period.

Li Ming directly opened up the third floor, and the second floor was for Ya Luo and Kai to live.

Kai helped clean up. Due to the existence of the gene inhibitor, he was sweating profusely. After hesitating for a while, he still found Li Ming, "May I ask your Excellency, what arrangements do you have for me?"

Following all the way, he has found that Ya Luo has no say, and it's all up to this person named Qinglong.

But this person doesn't seem to be a member of the Interstellar Alliance.

He hardly saw this person on the spaceship, which made him feel uneasy all day. Now he finally had the chance to ask him.

Li Ming said casually: "I don't have a waiter for my new store. You can take over for the time being."

Kai's face was stiff: "Waiter?"

"How about 3,500 star coins per month?" Li Ming asked with a smile.

"This..." Kai smiled reluctantly: "Sir, just tell me what you think. I don't think you want to let me go."

"Indeed." Li Ming admitted frankly, and Kai's face froze.

"I am a profit-seeking person. I finally rescued you..." Li Ming smiled gently, but Kai almost couldn't hold it.

"You should also know that I am an exiled nobleman and don't have much money on me." Kai said helplessly.

"No, you are very rich." Li Ming smiled, "The gene sequence of the golden-eyed people is called-Judgment Saber, I want evolution."

"Evolution?"

Although Kai's mimicry mask has two eyes, it has no adhesive, so it looks very empty and no emotional waves can be seen.

But from his high-pitched tone, one could sense his surging emotions, and he flatly refused: "I can't tell you."

Who knows that the other party was not angry, but laughed, "That is to say, you really memorized the theory of evolution, amazing."

Kay's face turned pale, and he reluctantly said: "Even if you get the theory of evolution, it's useless. Your gene seed and the Holy Blade of Judgment don't match at all."

Li Ming laughed, knowing that this matter couldn't be rushed, and said: "Don't worry, the room on the right upstairs belongs to you. In addition, Tepper will follow you, don't do anything small."

Kay was depressed for a while, but helpless.

Li Ming didn't want to let him go for the time being. This guy still had secrets. He hadn't figured out what the golden vertical pupil he picked up was for.

Besides, the anti-plunder organization of the Interstellar Alliance seemed to be quite interested in him.

Li Ming was already thinking about how to squeeze enough urine out of this toad.

Yaro, who was not far away, looked over frequently, his eyes flickered, and he was hesitant to speak.

What Yaluo didn't expect was that a few hours later, there were life forms coming to the door. They were a few humans wearing simple armor.

"Everyone, we will open tomorrow. We are not accepting customers today." Kai said expressionlessly.

"Why are you still kicking customers out?" One of them looked at Kai. "Your store is really interesting. Even if you have such a loud tone, this waiter actually wears a gene suppressor?"

When Kai heard this, he couldn't help but frown. Yaluo followed the sound and said, "Several of you, it's true that it hasn't opened yet. Look, there's nothing on this floor. It's not working yet?"

The scar-faced man next to him said with a ferocious smile: "I don't care about that. We are here to inform you that if you want to do business here, one-third of the net profit in the future will be handed over to us."

"Remember, it's net profit, not turnover. We will send people to keep an eye on it. Don't try to play tricks."

Yaro's expression calmed down, "Who are you? People from the Collector?"

The scar-faced man sneered: "As an old collector, you don't have time to take care of such nonsense. If you want to do business here, you must abide by our rules!"

"Otherwise, do you know how the original boss here died?"

Yaro's face turned cold.

"No problem." A voice came from the stairs, and Li Ming walked down slowly, "One third, right? I understand."

Several people looked at each other, looked at Li Ming, and said with satisfaction: "Are you the boss? Not bad, you are quite sensible."

After getting satisfactory results, several people cursed and left.

Li Ming casually threw a [Positioning], which covered a range of 10,000 meters, enough to determine where the opponent would return.

Yaro frowned and said, "That shouldn't be the case. How dare someone collect protection fees from the Collector's territory?"

"Protection fee?" Li Ming shook his head, "They are here to collect the fee for not causing trouble. If they can't protect you, they can always cause trouble."

Yaro was stunned, "Yeah, shit, I used to come here just to buy things, but I didn't expect there are so many ways here."

Then, he couldn't help but ask: "Just give away one-third of the net profit?"

Li Ming was noncommittal, "Wait and see, they shouldn't be the first group of people."

Yaro was a little suspicious, and after waiting for about half an hour, another group of people actually came, which were subspecies of lizard people.

It’s similar to what those people said before, and it also requires one-third of the net profit.

Back and forth, there were three groups of people in total, and Yaluo finally cursed her.

"Each one needs one-third. It's not enough to give them all. The protection fees must be collected piece by piece. How can there be such people?"

"Ha..." A low laugh came from outside the door, but it was an almost skinny old guy with a messy beard, a bald head, a stooped figure, and sinister eyes.

"You..." Yaro stared at him, "Are you the owner of the pharmacy next door?"

"Sabo." The old man introduced himself and said in a hoarse voice: "For the sake of us all being human beings, I would like to give you a word and close the shop as soon as possible."

"Who are they?" Yaro was not angry, but asked.

"Come together." Sabo's words made Yaro stunned for a moment: "Come together?"

Saber sneered: "Yes, mechanical repairs and weapon customization are only for C-level and above. With such a loud tone, it would be strange if the mechanics in this area don't join forces to squeeze you to death."

"You are smart. No one came into conflict. Despite their ferocious looks, if you dare to take action, believe it or not, they will just lie down on the ground and let the collector's guards come to punish you."

Yaro grinned, "I guessed this, they will definitely not take action."

Then he asked tentatively: "Is there a solution?"

"Yes." Sabo let out a "ho-ho" laugh, "but I don't want to tell you."

Yaro's face stiffened slightly, but Sabo had already turned away.