Eternal Reverence Chapter 366.1

Chapter 147: Destination, Undercurrent Fortress

Old Mo thought for a second, then said in a deep voice, "Actually, I know a secret. At the wilderness outside of the Milky Way, there's a place called Undercurrent Fortress. Somewhere around there, there was a prehistoric civilization's transportation ship that contained all kinds of robots that crashed there."

"So in the Undercurrent Fortress market, you are often able to buy all types of robots and related accessories, and they were all salvaged by the locals from the nearby space. Unfortunately, because robots are a big taboo in the Milky Way Alliance, the locals were scared that they would be attacked for selling complete robots, so they all mutually agreed to sell only dismantled parts."

Han suddenly hesitated, then immediately asked, "Then what about logic chip? Can we buy it at a place like Undercurrent Fortress? After all, robots with logic chip are complete and intelligent, and robots without those chips can only be used as servants."

Old Mo nodded, "You can naturally buy logic chips there, but it's not easy. The ruler of Undercurrent Fortress is named Forin and he self-claimed to be the King of Undercurrent Fortress. All the local people living there must bow to Forin's orders."

"In order to avoid being attacked by the Milky Way Alliance, Forin defaulted to selling the robot parts trading business but still has strict management over the logic chip trades. Possession or sale or logic chip can all mean death. Many years ago I went to Undercurrent Fort and went through a lot of trouble to get one piece of logic chip."

"At that time I was picking up two hundred sets of engineering robot parts, and found the disassembled Yuan Yuan at the corner of the container. Perhaps due to that businessman's oversight, he forgot to remove the logic chip in Yuan Yuan's head."

Han said very excitingly, "So, it seems like I must go visit this Undercurrent Fortress place."

Old Mo said, "I know your personality, even if I advise you not to you will still go. But you have to remember, the galactic wilderness is a place that follows the law of the jungle. All the outlaws that couldn't make it in the Milky Way Galaxy only has 2 paths, one is to be like Pathless and the others to go to the Oblivion Realm, and the other path is to just wander in the galactic wilderness."

"If you want to enter the Oblivion Realm, you must receive the permission of the Protector, so only a small fraction of people, like Wuyun and Night Ruins these kind of high-end criminals will get the chance to go to the Oblivion Realm, while the rest of the criminals all gather at the galactic wilderness. In comparison to Oblivion Realm which is run by the Protector, nobody will do anything even if you commit murder or arson there."

"If you really want to leave the Milky Way to go to the galactic wilderness, you must be very careful. Everything, everyone, even if it's a little ant in the galactic wilderness, should be treated with caution."

Old Mo described the galactic wilderness as a hellish place, extremely cruel, but Han still decided to leave immediately to go to this planet in the galactic wilderness named Undercurrent Fortress.

The reason that region is called the galactic wilderness, is because in that large piece of sky, the planets that can support mankind is really too few.

In the Milky Way Galaxy, basically every few transition jumps, there's a habitable planet. Even in the most rural 63rd star sector, you can find a supply point for human habitation within 20 jumps.

But in galactic wilderness, it's normal to not see any signs of human life for 10 to 20 days. Once the spacecraft breaks down half way, it's almost impossible to find a rescue team.

According to the guideline of map, the closest route to the Undercurrent Fortress is through 61st Star Sector, so Han took Old Mo all the way to 62nd Star Sector, found a fairly prosperous planet with human habitation and dropped off Old Mo.

Old Mo will be buying a ship here that's equipped with a cloaking device, and then fly to Earth. As for Han, he would be making a turn to enter the 61st Star Sector and then enter the galactic wilderness.

At the airport, Yuan Yuan laid in Old Mo's arms with a reluctant look. Since he is equipped with human emotions, Yuan Yuan appeared to be really reluctant to see Old Mo leave, as if a spoiled child. And Old Mo was excited to tears. Yuan Yuan calls Old Mo his grandpa, and how couldn't Old Mo always be treating Yuan Yuan as his own grandson.

"Well, well, you guys should leave now." Old Mo let down Yuan Yuan, bent his knees and said patiently, "You remember, from now on Han is your master, he's the lifesaver for both of us."

Yuan Yuan heavily nodded, "Grandpa, don't worry, I understand. In the future I will try my best to help Han. But, can I go visit you on Earth?"

"No problem." Han smiled and said, "Earth is my home, although I can't go back for now, but that doesn't mean I can't go back in the future."

"Then, grandpa you should take care of yourself, wait for me to go visit you on Earth, wait for me." Yuan Yuan's two electronic eyes became a little watery as he said to Old Mo

Shua~

In any case, No. Demon Claw bid farewell to Old Mo and set sail to the new target.

Han really likes Yuan Yuan who's equipped with human emotions, and he never understands why the Alliance is so determined on wiping out such robots that cares so much about friendship? Han still can't see Yuan Yuan's threat to humanity, on the contrary, Han feels that mankind is its biggest threat.

In the cockpit, Han opened his computer and logged onto the Galactic Dark Net.

Now, Han has a deeper understanding of the dark net. Over all, dark net is a place to conduct illegal transactions, and illegal means power!

Han's fusion beasts, drugs, and even his No. Demon Claw, most of Han's possessions are illegal existences, but it is these illegal presences that brought Han remarkable fighting power.

Now, the moment Han runs into any problems, he will first go to the dark net to find a solution.

"Master, what are you looking for?" Yuan Yuan brewed a cup of hot chocolate for Han, laid curiously beside Han, tilted his head and said.

Han smiled and said, "I'm looking for a mobile shipyard. These days I have been thinking about how to allow a secret shipyard to avoid being found. If it's a fixed shipyard, I should put it in the Milky Way, even if I put it in the galactic wilderness it will still not be safe enough."

"So I thought about a shipbuilding point that's on the move. We can convert a large cargo ship into a shipbuilding factory that sails as it functions, then coupled with a mobile mining ship, the two can work together. But now I lack the manpower, so even if I can purchase the ships I don't have enough manpower to deploy. After all, the mobile shipyard and armed mining ship need a lot of crews to run."

Yuan Yua's eyes lit up and he exclaimed, "This is really a good idea. It's best to add another armed conveyor ship to protect the mobile shipbuilding plant."

Han smiled bitterly and said, "Wouldn't that require more manpower? The more prudent approach is to mobilize trustworthy brothers from Earth, but now Earth don't even have enough manpower so I'm afraid that they won't be able to support me."

Yuan Yuan pointed at his small body and said, "Why do you need that many people? Master can give me control of the production fleet."

"You?"

"Ya, as long as the fleet is equipped with communication arrays that are powerful enough, I can issue work orders to the ship through the real-time online system. Whether it's the convoy fleet or the mobile shipyard, I can control both." Yuan Yuan said confidently.

Han was stunned, a fully intelligent robot is able to simultaneously control an entire industrial fleet?

But thinking about it, it still makes sense. Controlling starships can be tough, but it's actually pretty easy as well. When the fleet needs to attack, Yuan Yuan just need to issue attack orders to the ships. Now all the battleships are fully automated, and it can be fully operational according to the remote command.

Do not just look at Yuan Yuan's small body, there's actually a super quantum computer inside him that can issue billions of instructions and dynamically adjust according to the real-time battlefield situation!

To some extent, although the artificial intelligence is created by intelligent life, but the computing power of artificial intelligence is far beyond the intelligent life.

Han suddenly realized why the Milky Way Alliance must eliminate artificial intelligence. Perhaps they are afraid of its power.

Yuan Yuan can help Han control an industrial fleet, that means he can also control an entire strategic fleet by himself, or even 100 strategic fleet!

Suppose even if one artificial intelligence goes rogue and plots to overthrow humanity, if it acquires the control of fleets, it will no doubt be certain doom for humans.

But thinking on the contrary, if there is no rebellion of AI robots and they always stand on the same front of Han, then what a powerful support that would be!

Think of this, Han's eyes lit up.

He held up Yuan Yuan and took a closer look from left and right, and that actually make the little robot a little shy, "Oh my god, you little brat is a rare treasure! If I can have a group of little guys like you and then have a sufficient number of fleets then we can go conquer the entire Milky Way!"

Yuan Yuan was first happy, then his eyes dimmed down and he whispered, "If I'm too powerful, would Master be like other people in the Milky Way Galaxy and be afraid of me? Hate me?"

What?!

Han disagreed, his eyebrows raised up and he said, "Why would I be scared of you? Not use suspicious people, and don't be suspicious of the people you use. (TL: common saying in China) Besides, I already decided, this time we are going big!"

Since the thought came, then it's time to take action!

Without saying more, Han went to the second-hand starship market at the border of the 61st star sector, and used 7.3 billion GC to buy a Digger-class armed mining ship.

This is a very common model in the border areas of the Milky Way galaxy, because mining in rural places are not very safe, so the mining ships in border areas are not only armed but its ship hull's defense is also higher than the ones usually used elsewhere.

The 72 engineering robots left behind by Old Mo became the first batch of employees of the mining ship, while Yuan Yuan became that ship's commander.

Even the top model mining ship can't be fully automated and need some workers. For instance, every mining gun needs maintenance every once awhile, and it's also needed for the mineral separator, smelting purification machinery, controlled fusion reactor, the engine, and all the other equipment.

With No. Demon Claw at the front and the armed mining ship at the back, Han found a remote asteroid and let Yuan Yuan first perform an analysis for the planet to see what minerals can be collected.

"Master, the analysis showed that the planet mainly carries crystal ore which is the material used to smelt tritanium. Testing and maintenance work has been completed, we can now try to mine these minerals." Yuan Yuan reported to Han.

"Start!"

Han ordered, and then he just saw the boxy armed mining ship approach the asteroid, aligned its 4 industrial mining laser emitters to the ore reserve.

Boom~

The mine gun shattered the surface, then from the mining ship dropped down two giant alloy conduits, where the shattered mineral would get sucked into the mining ship from one and after the separation step the useless slag would come out from another tube.

The warehouse is piling up more and more ores, while the engineering robots onboard under the command of Yuan Yuan began to perform a variety of maintenance for the ship, cooling off the mining gun every so often, flatten out the piles of ores in warehouse in order to store more, and etc.

Han grew more surprised the more he looked, "My god, the robots are truly amazing! Just you and 72 sets of engineering robots are able to control an armed mining ship? If I have more robots, then I can form a super mining fleet and mine more minerals!"

Han quickly halted Yuan Yuan's experiment and said in excitement, "No need to experiment anymore, I understand robot's working pattern now. Engineering robots are like workers and you are all the workers and the ship's brain."

"Let's move and head straight to the Undercurrent Fortress, and buy all the robots they have!"

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Chapter 148: The Hidden Leaders

With the little robot Yuan Yuan around, Han felt that life is a lot easier. Han's finance, travel planning, negotiation with manufacturers about ordering ships, even the hot chocolate Han drinks every day, all of these responsibilities are shouldered by the little robot assistant now.

After entering the galactic wilderness for a whole week, Han didn't encounter any human settlements or any ships, the vast galactic ocean was silent.

Even if a starship appeared in the radar's long-range detection, they would rush past Han. After all, this is the galactic wilderness, any ship can belong to star pirates; if not familiar enough, there will usually be no contacts between ships.

Han practiced his 46-ensemble in the cockpit, he's not too far away from hitting 5 stars, but because he hasn't done any source energy test recently. He could only feel faintly that he is soon reaching 5-star, and as for when this breakthrough will come, Han doesn't know either.

Hopefully he can break through the barrier. The higher the level, the harder it is to reach the next breakthrough, and that's why even the level most talented men like Long Chuan sat at 5 stars for two decades of stagnation.

"Master, we will soon reach Undercurrent Fortress." Before waiting until Han finished, Yuan Yuan reminded Han.

Oh.

Han paused his training, came to the command desk, Yuan Yuan pointed at the black egg and asked, "Master, what is this thing really? Why will you take it out for a look every few days?"

Han shrugged his shoulders and said reluctantly, "I don't know what's inside the egg either. It became dormant as early as half year ago, and now there's still no sign of it waking up."

Then, he stored the egg and Yuan Yuan away. Yuan Yuan is way too special of an existence so it can't make appearances easily.

Shua~

No. Demon Claw docked at the Undercurrent Fortress. There are no rules in the galactic wilderness, and so is Undercurrent Fortress. As long as you are willing to pay the price, even star pirates' ships can openly dock and shop for whatever they need in the local market.

Undercurrent Fortress is considered a fairly well-known open market in the galactic wilderness. The more rural is the location the greater is the opportunity and profit. For instance, a starship accessory that was worth 1 million GC, after being sold from the Milky Way to the wilderness by a businessman, its price can instantly jump 7 or 8 times.

Although risky, there are still many people willing to do business in the galactic wilderness, and among them the most famous one has to be the Ancient Maple Leaf, which is also Ye Weiwei's family.

Although Ye family's business isn't considered big in the wilderness, but it's for places that's even beyond the galactic wilderness. Every time the fleet travels once back and forth, it will often take more than a year.

As for what kind of people lives in places beyond the galactic wilderness and how to do business there, Han doesn't have a single clue. It's just that after coming here, Han would occasionally think of Ye Weiwei. Where is this girl now? How's she doing?

Frigate class starships costs 3000 GC per day for docking, 500 GC per person on the ship, and there's no limit to time. Han can be considered to have traveled a lot, and Undercurrent Fortress is definitely one of the places that charges relatively higher taxes. But fortunately, Han did not purchase any goods, otherwise he would have to pay a greater amount of business tax.

Forin that rules Undercurrent Fortress relies on these complicated taxes to make income, and to maintain his forces and army. Before landing, Han scanned and detected at least 10 of starships that belongs to Undercurrent Fortress, which is probably considered a little army in the galactic wilderness.

In order to ease his transportation, Han rented older model Land Speeder, two-seat version for a daily rent of 350 GC.

Shua~

Under the Land Speeder's navigation system's guidance, Han came to the most prosperous trading market in Undercurrent Fortress.

Looking from afar, Han could see countless warehouses on the open space outside the city, but in front of the warehouse district is a bustling commercial street.

The commercial street is used to display samples for sale from markets nearby, and when the deal is settled then the products will be brought out from the warehouse.

After stopping the Land Speeder, Han walked into this commercial street. The galactic wilderness is very chaotic, so the arms business is very hot in the open market. From small daggers for soldiers to large warships of any models, there are sellers for all of these products.

And there are also many shops for drugs which Han is completely uninterested in. Because of Night Walker, Han had been using the top tier products in the Milky Way Galaxy, and even the large portion of the drugs used by the Earth Military are all multiple times better than those sold in the open market.

Supplements, minerals, machinery, there are over 10 thousand shops on the open market, and they are extremely busy. Aside from humans, there are also a lot of aliens. Mankind has held the position of absolute dominance in the Milky Way Galaxy, so all the alien survivors were all relegated to the galactic wilderness.

Here, humans and aliens seemed to be very peaceful, but who knows? Maybe right after these aliens leave the open market, they will be intercepted and enslaved. The Horton guy that Han previously dealt with, is an alien slave trafficker that always capture aliens in the galactic wilderness.

Han found a relatively remote machinery shop and strode inside.

"Sir, would you like to buy something?" The chubby shopkeeper's eyes aren't big but he looks very smart and greeted Han with a smiling face.

Han laughed and said what Old Mo taught him to say, "I manage a mine, need some competent and hardworking mining droids. It's best that they can work 24 hours a day and doesn't need to eat or sleep."

The chubby shopkeeper slightly narrowed his eyes, "Oh, you need workers. Come in please."

Then Han was taken to a room inside the shop. The chubby shopkeeper asked Han to sit and then he pulled out a book from the gap between shelves and gave it to Han.

"Track-type cleaners, porters, or little more advanced bionic workers, I got them all here and they are all full sets, I promise you that there's not even a nail missing. Don't know how many sets you want, boss?"

"How many sets do you have?" Han asked.

The chubby shopkeeper smiled and said, "Tell you the truth, our market is all connected. If you want more and I don't have enough, I can also transport more from other shops to help you reach that quota. As for the price, I ill be adding on a little pass-through fee."

Han nodded, "You are really straightforward."

The chubby boss said, "I can't say the same about other products, but robots are the specialty product of Undercurrent Fortress, almost all the robots in the Milky Way Galaxy came from here. It doesn't matter which shop you go through since they all get their supply from a few local figures."

Han deepened his voice and said, "I know. Salvaging and assembling robots are the livelihood of local people. 7 or 8 out of every 10 local families do this for a living, but these people's leaders control the sales and prices of these robots. You only have a few sets of samples; the large storage of products is still in the hands of those people."

The chubby storekeeper hesitated for a second, nodded and said, "So you really understand. I think you probably know too that these leaders won't make contact with foreign buyers like you, the products are all sent out through us middleman. After all, the people that come to buy are too mixed."

Slightly frowned, Han said, "How about this, help me deliver a few words to those leaders, just say that I want to buy a large batch of products at once, please meet me once because I have something important to discuss with them."

"Of course, I won't let you go for free. Here's my little gift, one for you and one for those leaders."

Then, Han's fingers slid across the dimension ring, pulled out two pieces of money that denotes 1 million GC on each and placed them on the table, and the chubby storekeeper's eyes lit up right away.

Before coming to the Undercurrent Fortress, Han already made enough preparation. He already knew that all the robots' storage is in the hands of a few big business leaders.

Although the robots have powerful features, they aren't expensive. One engineering robot is sold between 10 thousand to 20 thousand GC, and that price is equivalent to a human slave.

Han sent 1 million GC as a greeting gift, and that's equivalent of their income for selling 100 sets of robots. As for the purpose, well, Han really want to meet these leaders. He wants the robots, but he wants their logic chips more.

Even if it's 1 million GC per piece, 10 million GC per piece, Han doesn't care at all. After all, the difference between a normal robot and one with logic chip is way too huge.

The chubby storekeeper's eyes made a turn, a little greedily placed the money into his sleeves, patted his chest and said, "Rest assured, I will help you deliver your words for sure. As for whether the leaders want to see you or not, that will depend on them."

"Understood." Han nodded, got up and started walking out, "I live at Taihe Hotel, come inform me when there's news."

The sky seemed to be getting dark, Han got back to his hotel, ate something random, took a bath in his room and started practicing the 46 Ensemble.

The bathroom is palm-size in No. Demon Claw so it only has a tiny shower. Now, to be able to take half hour in a warm tub, Han felt like being covered in an indescribable feeling of comfort.

Han doesn't sleep much, in the blink of an eye he had been practicing the 46 Ensemble until midnight. Suddenly, Han heard someone knocking on the door outside.

Bang bang bang~

"So late, who is it?"

"It's me, storekeeper Liu. I've already got the response from the leaders."

Han slightly hesitated, kept a finger on Lunar Mark and gently opened the door.

In addition to the chubby storekeeper named Liu, there were two middle-aged men with him, bronzed skin, muscular with a perennial labor look.

After entering the room, the chubby storekeeper grabbed the drink on Han's table and drank it all in one gulp.

Rubbed away some leftovers on his mouth, Liu complained, "Brother, for your business I almost ran my legs off. Finally, I did it, those leaders agreed to see you, let's get going now."

Han nodded, putted on his coat and followed them down the stairs. They didn't leave from the main entrance but from the back door of the hotel.

A Land Speeder was already waiting there. Han went in and the two burly workers sat on either side of him.

"You are not going?" Han slightly frowned as he asked the chubby storekeeper.

"I will stay behind, it's fine for just you going and talking to them. Hope everything goes well." Fat Liu smiled and waved at Han.

Shua~

The Land Speeder started immediately and soon disappeared in the predawn darkness.

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