"One and a half million once, one and a half million twice, one and a half million three times! Deal!"
As the human auctioneer on the stage swung his hammer, the scrolling screen showing the details of the auction items to all the bidders in the holographic projection suddenly turned into brilliant light spots all over the sky, converging into the alloy box at his hand - this kind of use Although projection technology and a small means of performance cannot make the value of the auction higher, it can indeed stimulate the consumption desire of the rich.
As the second-to-last lot in this underground auction, what was properly stored in the box was nothing unusual. It was just a small handicraft sculpture left behind by the pioneer civilization. If it weren't for the gimmicks of "coming from two million years ago" and "heritage of pioneer civilizations", I'm afraid as long as it is thrown on the ground as soon as it comes out of the auction house, passers-by may not take a second look and pick it up.
So-called "pioneer treasures" similar to the sculptures on sale can be found everywhere in the urban ruins of Fenhabennis, even though it has been decades since the research ships of the major civilization empires discovered this long-abandoned urban planet and made its coordinates public. Years later, no treasure hunter would deny that the planet beneath his feet is a cash cow that will never wither.
With the help of the galactic trade network jointly established by the World Group and countless interstellar consortiums, a perfect supply and demand chain has been formed between the treasure hunting teams gathered from the major civilized empires and the large enough base of collectors in the galaxy.
Whether the treasure hunters dig up fossils, artifacts or genuine pioneer heritage of extremely high value, it will be swept away by overt or covert guests within a few days. They may be individual collectors, or they may be civilized empires hoping to decipher advanced technologies from pioneer treasures.
All in all, the value of Fenhabenis is far more than just an abandoned urban planet. To fully control it, or even partially control it, is still an unreachable goal for the current Star Group.
According to the development plan formulated by Yang Tianyi for the group, as long as the group can independently own even one main control building in the next ten years, it will be considered as overfulfilling the task.
Putting aside the pioneer ruins waiting to be developed all over the planet, in the eyes of most empires and groups, the main control buildings with a height of tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of meters may not be the most valuable, but they are definitely the easiest. Capture and convert a pioneer legacy into real benefits.
Thinking back two million years ago, the first alliance that jointly built this miracle place used these connected main control buildings to control the energy supply, material production, and climate environment of the entire urban planet. Without their constant dedication, how could hundreds of aliens from thousands of races survive on a planet full of steel jungles at the same time?
Unfortunately, there are not many such main control buildings in Fenhabenis. Even if you include more skyscrapers that are used as secondary nodes, there are only more than a hundred. Except for those buildings that collapsed due to disrepair, each control tower already has its own owner.
More than ten years before Yang Tianyi arrived in the world of stars, there was a huge reshuffle of the resident forces on Fenhabennis. Many of the powerful forces in the eyes of ordinary people were crushed by the civilized empire that directly sent fleets and armies to the scene. For example, for example, the main control tower that was transformed into a scientific research base by the People's Federation of Science and Technology was obtained by force from a certain underworld force that did not know life and death.
As for the subsequent outcome of that underworld force? If the jokes that Lieutenant General Anya made when drinking tea with him were more than just jokes, Yang Tianyi estimated that many of its members are probably still working day and night on the mineral planet of the People's Federation!
And the reason why he would rather make a small loss for the group than to deepen the relationship with the People's Union - the Stars Group needs the technology to control the minaret or to show its status by settling in the minaret, and the People's Union, which has a good relationship with the group, happens to have another one that belongs entirely to the group. Their spiers. If he misses such a good opportunity, he will definitely regret it in the future.
From the beginning, Yang Tianyi did not intend to use force to obtain control of the main control building from other forces. On the one hand, this would attract too much unnecessary attention, and on the other hand, the group was naturally weak and could not gain control of the main control building at all. Confront any spire owner with hard power.
The reason why civilized empires can be called civilized empires is not entirely because of their unique cultural heritage. The fleets that cover the sky and the marine legions that are as numerous as stars are the best ways for many empires to occupy a place in the star sea community. Assure.
Even though the group's shipyard in the Elysium world is expanding day by day, and the construction plan for a new batch of armed transport ships and Javelin-class frigates has been launched and can be started at any time, this is still not enough to give the group the strength to challenge the status of the established empire.
According to calculations by the Ministry of Engineering and the Ministry of the Navy, the construction cost of each United Battlecruiser will not be less than 20 billion World Credits. If it is an improved model used as the fleet flagship, the cost will be 30 to 40 billion Credits. Nothing more.
The People's Federation has been established like this for decades, and even an empire with a shallow foundation can build more than a dozen naval fleets that look down on the galaxy, not to mention the United Nations of Earth, the Qin Empire, the Yondarim Empire of Destiny and other established empires that started earlier. .
Thinking of this, Yang Tianyi shook his head and returned his attention to the brightly lit central stage of the auction venue.
There, the auctioneer had just begun to introduce the last lot. His passionate tone and fascinating projection screen quickly focused his attention, and the details that were not easy to be discovered soon came into his eyes.
"Everyone, please look at the big screen. What is displayed on it is the last lot of this auction, and it is also the most mysterious lot in my opinion."
As the auctioneer raised his hand to point to the giant screen projection not far above his head, a sealed transparent cylinder that seemed to be used to store some kind of non-solid material appeared in the field of vision of all the bidders, which immediately made the confused bidders see it. Everyone's minds were racing with ideas, speculating on the origin and function of this transparent cylinder.
The distinguished guests in the audience did not wait too long. The auctioneer quickly expressed in a slightly regretful tone that he did not know what type of pioneer legacy this column was. In other words, the organizer of the auction did not Not knowing much about this object, I only know that the team of treasure hunters who unearthed it were almost annihilated in the mysterious underground facility, so they labeled the transparent cylinder a high value based on the degree of danger and used it as a The grand finale of the auction goes up for auction.
According to the auctioneer, even the most advanced detection equipment cannot penetrate the seemingly hazy but airtight gaseous material inside the cylinder, let alone peek into the things wrapped in the gaseous material.
As for the reason that the auctioneer didn't say, Yang Tianyi also made a conclusion in his heart.
In order to prevent the value of the cylinder from losing its mysterious properties from being greatly reduced, causing them to lose all their money, the organizer, who was unable to determine the true value of the cylinder, chose the safest way - that is, to let a group of guys who thought they knew the goods bid at the auction. Bidding is carried out, and the ownership of the cylinder is determined by the wallets of many bidders.
Yang Tianyi thought that he was not a superstitious person, but at this time, a strong intuition surged in his heart - he needed that cylinder, the Star Group needed that cylinder!
So he pressed the increase button on his hand without hesitation, raising the already high starting price of the mysterious cylinder to a daunting level. This move also caused many weak bidders to shake their heads and leave sadly after sighing that they had no luck with the treasure.
Looking around at the many ambitious bidders in the venue through the one-way window of the private box, Yang Tianyi looked at each other and had a slight smile on his lips - one thing was that the two of them accepted the auction. After receiving the invitation to the meeting, he knew very well that the number of people in the entire venue who can compete with the Qunxing Group for financial resources is...
zero.
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