Chapter 563 Arrival at the Black Market
In the next half month, Han Fei was driving like crazy.
Most of the time, the starship he drives shuttles through the space wormhole. Only when the jump engine is overloaded and needs to be cooled down and restarted, will it briefly escape from the wormhole.
This way of rushing is not really a wonderful experience.
The sensory illusion of time passing quickly and the dazzling river of light are like a never-ending light pollution.
Maybe it would be wonderful to come here once in a while.
But if he really had to be in this state for a long time, even Han Fei, who always boasted a strong will, couldn't bear it anymore, and his mood became more and more irritable during this period.
This made Moore, who was imprisoned on the ship, unlucky.
In just half a month, he got rid of his prisoner status and successfully transformed into a sandbag for Han Fei to vent his emotions.
Going back and forth between the treatment cabin, the cell and the fighting room all day long, it's almost a three-point line.
The advanced treatment cabin equipped on the starship has simply become his exclusive sleeper.
Time keeps passing by in this repeated beating and being beaten.
It didn't come to an end until the starship completely left the cosmic cavity and entered the border area of the Ailant star field.
The border areas of the Star Territory are often vast and desolate areas.
Not to mention galaxy settlements, even vast meteorite belts are rare.
However, in the remote areas of the Star Territory, it is not entirely a lifeless scene with no trace of people.
It is difficult for most civilizations to completely eliminate the darkness under the order of light.
Even the star domain-level overlord civilization cannot mobilize enough fleet formations to maintain normal patrols in the star domain frontiers.
In fact, without relying on the level-by-level control of subordinate civilizations, it would be difficult to maintain effective control over a huge star field for a long time just by relying on the number of ethnic groups of the overlord civilization itself.
After all, the more advanced the species life is, the more advanced the intelligent group is, the slower its reproduction rate is often.
With a vast territory and sparsely populated areas, they will strictly monitor areas rich in resources.
The remote galaxies in the star field are basically in a free-range state.
For a normal star domain-level overlord civilization, this is the approach that is most consistent with the price-to-earnings ratio. This is the case in the Ailante star domain.
Moreover, the long-term extraterritorial wars have had an impact on the legal trade in major foreign territories, causing the profits of cross-star smuggling to continue to increase sharply.
This directly leads to the fact that in the desolate star field that lacks effective control, black market transactions are repeatedly banned and even become more widespread.
When the starship left the space cavity and switched to regular navigation, Han Fei witnessed a smuggling scene that stunned him.
"Moore is really just a low-level character!"
He couldn't help but feel his scalp numb as he looked at the large fleets continuously detected on the ship's radar along the way.
Just going to the black market in Ventuston to 'regularly attend the market' has actually brought together so many smuggling gangs.
Excluding the countless transport ships, the overall size of the escort warships of each smuggling group is close to that of the second-line army of human civilization.
When he arrived at his final destination, the black market of Ventuston, which he had been looking forward to for many days, came into view.
Han Fei even shouted: "Outrageous! It's so outrageous!"
Even though he had heard Moore describe it roughly, he was still shocked after seeing it with his own eyes.
The slowly docking semi-artificial star has a diameter of more than two thousand kilometers and is surrounded by six satellites.
The satellite is filled with gun barrels of various calibers, and many huge engine nozzles can be clearly seen.
They orbit Ventoston slowly and appear to be just a link in the planet's defense system.
But if it really encounters a major threat, Juebi can quickly transform into a mobile battle star.
"Behind this black market, if there is no civilization secretly supporting it, it would be really bad!"
"There are even medium and large civilizations with certain strength!"
After studying in the top universities in mankind for so many years, Han Fei's knowledge and basic literacy are naturally not bad.
In their own star field, the technological level of the two major civilizations, Humanity and Longva, is by no means inferior to that of other civilizations in neighboring star fields.
But as for the construction technology of battle stars, they can only admit that they are still in their infancy.
No matter in any known star field, battle stars are cutting-edge technologies that are monopolized and strictly controlled by the major overlord civilizations.
At most, for affiliated civilizations, some castrated export version of finished Battle Star products will be sold in limited quantities.
As for technology transfer, don’t even think about it.
As a wandering force, Ventuston Black Market actually has six small battle stars, and looking at this configuration, it is clearly a castrated mass-produced product of the same model.
This must be a standard export product purchased from some overlord civilization.
Without the backing of civilization, an ordinary black market force would not be able to obtain weapons of this level.
"The water behind Ventuston is a bit deep!"
Han Fei frowned, feeling that the danger of finding out Moore's boss was much higher than he originally expected.
According to Moore's account, slave trading accounts for more than 50% of Ventuston's main business, which is definitely the pillar industry here.
Among the smuggling ships encountered along the way, there were many huge cargo ships of the same level as Moore's slave ship. This shows how amazing the size of the slave trading group here is.
Such a large-scale net-like slave capture can still not alarm humans, the Longwa civilization, and even the overlord civilizations of other star regions. It is not enough just to have strong combat power.
This also requires deep penetration into foreign intelligence networks and transportation channels.
An organization with this level of strength can only be backed by a hegemonic civilization.
And since this black market has been active in this star field, it is easy to draw a conclusion.
Behind the Ventoston black market, there is a high probability that the hegemonic civilization of the Ailante star field is involved.
And with the participation of a hegemonic civilization, their purpose may not be as simple as making money.
In addition to sending the elite of their own race, the interstellar civilization wants to train spies in other civilizations by bringing back a batch of cubs of the other race.
Then training them into spies and sending them back secretly is also a very common method.
In this world where "gods" exist, there are always some special means to easily complete the mental and physical control of these foreign spies.
Of course, when most civilizations do this, they will only do it secretly.
The evil of strangling the seedlings of other races on a large scale and digging up the roots of races is very likely to cause an endless racial blood war.
"Ah, although I also want to avenge you, if I, a super genius, lose my life for this, it will be a huge loss to civilization. I can only do my best with a clear conscience."