The Queen Isabella had just completed the jump login at temporary jump point 115. Almost at the same time, it immediately received an official notice from the jump point.
——Subject to a series of factors such as site space and berths, in order to improve the efficiency of space warp use and speed up the assistance of subsequent interstellar ships diverted from Yufeng Station to escape from subspace orbits and achieve safe jumps, the No. 115 jump point will be used to divert the space warp. Incoming ships will be diverted twice. All ships must leave the jump point within eight hours after the jump login. No. 115 can currently provide space jump services for these departing ships to other short-range jump points in the star field that can still be connected, but it must be six hours in advance. , that is, the destination jump point is reported within two hours after the spacecraft logs in, so as to arrange the path scheduling space.
It was really only one second after queuing up all day for reincarnation. When Catalina received this announcement that was equivalent to an order from the bridge, she jumped up on the spot and cursed.
"This damn thing has to force us to be stranded here!"
It’s not the captain’s fault. For a spacecraft that has just completed a space jump through momentum change, normal equipment inspection and maintenance time will take close to eight hours. The so-called eight-hour time limit jump means that you are not allowed to stay for a moment longer, and you have to leave immediately after the equipment is inspected. Number 115 is an intermediate teleportation springboard that throws the spacecraft deep into the secondary star field and is stranded.
As for the two-hour requirement to determine the jump target, it is even more clear, restricting the spacecraft to the secondary nebula of the Copper Kettle System!
It is obviously impossible for the space condition of the upper-level channel to improve within two hours. Even if it can improve, 115 an inner jump point cannot reach the degree of space warp necessary to directly enter the upper-level space channel. Nothing more than other inner jump points in the nebula. The only jump point in the entire Copper Kettle Nebula that can reach the standard warp of the secondary subspace is the Fish Peak jump point. The Queen Isabella was just diverted from the Fish Peak jump point, and it is obviously impossible to return. go.
The spaceship has left 115 Heng and cannot wait in the void. This behavior is completely illegal within the planet's dense secondary nebula. If you label it as a smuggling merchant ship and you can be fined, you are hitting a dog that has never happened in a thousand years. Bad luck, usually you will be treated as a pirate and surrendered on the spot. If things go wrong, you may be an invading army - nothing more, you have escaped into the sovereign territory!
As long as they don't plan to fight, Luocao will become a native chief. After all, the spaceship will have to take the legal route, choose an inner jump point as the destination, and choose a planet near it to land, replenish supplies, and wait to return to the route. The timing is called stranding.
Grounding is one of the most disgusting situations for large ships. Although Catalina was mentally prepared when she accepted the diversion plan, at the moment when the grounding actually came, she still had to jump to her feet to get out of her mind. Bad breath.
Free and dirty words poured out from the mouth of the red-haired female gangster. The variety of words she used was enough to participate in the cosmic vulgar slang contest. The range of targets was even wider, ranging from the top boss of the waterway management committee to the lowest. The common people of the Copper Kettle Nebula are all within the attack radius of the female captain. In anger, even Leos was not spared and was scolded innocently. The charge is that he is a little coquettish person who keeps his tail open all day like a peacock, but he is actually a broom star!
The power of Katarina's curse was comparable to that of a healing wave. Even though he was a professional, Leos couldn't bear the curse. He got up and went to get his clothes: "I'll go out and take a look. I'll take advantage of these two hours to find out the news. 115 After all, it is still a jumping point. There are many ships landing temporarily, and there may be news. When we return to the depths of the nebula and land on the planet, it will be even more blocked." After saying that the soles of his feet were like wind, he immediately ran away.
On this kind of issue, Gu Hanhan would be a little slow to react, but now that Rios has set an example, of course he has an epiphany and runs away right after that——
"I'll go take a look too."
The two startled mandarin ducks bumped into each other outside the cabin. They each felt that they were surviving a disaster, so they took the other one with them very loyally, and disembarked from the boat and headed straight to the rest area.
The rest area at Jump Point 115 is already overcrowded. Restaurants, teahouses, movie theaters, every place you can think of are packed. Not to mention two seats, even a pair of feet cannot fit in. Gu Hanhan was very worried about this. If he couldn't get any information and went back to the ship in despair, he might get into trouble with the captain again, and he didn't know how he would be scolded to satisfy himself. Fortunately, Leos is a very capable person, and his intelligence experience is dozens of times higher than that of an ignorant girl who has only watched TV series. He turned around immediately and took Gu Hanhan to avoid the rest area. After these noisy scenes on the main road, I turned into the alley behind, picked and picked, and finally stopped in front of a small shop with a crystal sign.
"Energy trading company?"
Gu Hanhan was a little confused about the sign of the store. He looked at the remote alleyway with scattered pedestrians and the store sign that did not have a unified authorization code of the Organization for the Export of Lanthanum Crystals. He wondered: "The energy supply station at Jump Point 115 is open." Here?"
"Of course not, this is a private energy trading house, unofficial." Leos sneered, "You might understand it better if I change it to another name. In fact, this is a pawn shop. You can also call it a pawn shop. .”
"do not move!"
He looked at Gu Hanhan, then suddenly reached out and took out the gem hairpin from her hair.
The hairpin is also one of the batch of jewelry that Gu Hanhan brought out from the Acropolis. It is equipped with ordinary gemstones that she has carried with her every now and then in the past few months. From the perspective of energy stones, it is still brand new. It can't rise to the level of quality and rating at all, but Leos obviously thinks it's enough to deceive the bumpkin in the backcountry star field. He removed the stone in twos and twos, returned the jewelry base to Gu Hanhan, and then said: "Let's go, I am the captain now, you..."
He thought for a moment and said, "You must be the captain's sister."
This pawn shop was really crowded, and it was deserted when entering. There was not even a doorman to open the door. There was only a clerk leaning lazily behind the transparent window of the counter. When he saw them coming in, he weakly greeted them: "Can I help you? Yes, guest?"
Leos flipped his palm and took out the stone that he had just removed, and said, "There is an energy stone here. I hope to exchange it for ordinary energy."
The clerk glanced over and his eyes suddenly lit up: "Of course there is no problem."
His eyes were chasing the emerald glass-shaped energy stone rolling between Rios's fingers, showing a cunning look that was experienced in the industry, and said in a smooth tone: "Your energy stone looks like it may be of type 5, type 5." The exchange ratio between energy stones and standard energy is currently about 1:1100. Of course, our store needs to test this energy stone, and the actual category is subject to testing. We will determine the actual exchange ratio for you based on the energy density tested."
Leos threw the stone on the counter without any care: "Okay, you go and test it."
The clerk immediately picked up the energy stone and said, "Guest, please follow me."
He opened a door next to the counter, as if he had opened another world. Behind the door was a hustle and bustle, and it looked like a salon. There were at least a dozen or twenty people gathered in the circular living room. These people were dressed in different styles. , there are many people who describe it as weird, but they are in twos and threes, chatting very warmly with each other.
The clerk invited Leos and Gu Hanhan to come in and explained: "The test will take a while. You can take a break here and have some afternoon tea - don't worry, it's all instrument testing and standardized operations. You can take care of the whole process." You can monitor it here - just for a while, it will be fine soon..."
Rios happily expressed his willingness to stay in the salon, so the clerk handed them to the hostess of the salon, gave Rios a tracker for monitoring and testing, and then left.
The hostess of the salon was smoking a slender pipe and had a charming beauty mark under her eye. She entertained Leos very warmly and hospitably, and asked: "Where are the guests coming from? I don't know where they are going. What are you doing?" Which kind of business?"
Leos pretended to be worried and played with the tracker left by the clerk in his hand. He glanced at it from time to time and answered at the same time: "We are a merchant ship going from the Orion Arm to the Big Horn area for trade. We encountered an accident and temporarily docked. Here, I plan to exchange some more energy."
"Dajiao District, that is a really far away place," the hostess responded, "You are right to use up more energy and go on the road. We occasionally have one or two merchant ships coming to Dajiao. I heard that the road is not easy to travel. , you always get stranded from time to time.”
Leos then showed a sad expression and said: "I'm not afraid of being stranded for a short time. I'm just afraid that if there is a big accident and the route is closed and we can't be there for a long time, it will be over."
"Yes!" A businessman nearby responded, "In our business, it's common for us to be stranded and change routes. It's not worth it. Even if we change routes, we won't be able to change it. If we run into bad luck, we'll be stuck for another ten or eight years. Year, there is really no need to leave. If I go back to the family business company, my wife and children will already belong to someone else..."
From time to time, customers would complete their transactions and leave quietly in the salon, and from time to time, new customers would be brought in. There were always about twenty people in the salon. Maybe it was because of the stranding. Most of the guests who came here were temporarily diverted and diverted, and most of the talk was about the ship being stranded due to the diversion of the route. Gu Hanhan listened to the discussions of these guests, and it seemed that it was very common for ships to divert ships and make forced landings in this starry sky. Especially in recent years, accidents have occurred frequently, and large areas of waterways have been cut off. There are often The jumping point was temporarily closed due to insufficient space, and passing ships had to temporarily reroute. Fortunately, the routes are not closed for too long, ranging from three to five days to one or two months, and the routes are basically restored. It is rare to be stuck in a stranded ground and unable to travel for several years. This is the worst news among all. A bit of good news.
"It's just in disrepair!"
Some of the well-informed guests thought that the trouble was caused by the remoteness of the place and the lack of people in the court.
"No one can help. The Waterway Management Committee will not even think of us even once in a hundred years!" they complained. "It has been neglected for many years, and we have to rely on various star regions to make repairs and repairs. How can this route still be maintained?" Is there any good one?"
After a while, the clerk sent the energy stone test report and the pledge exchange contract. Rios had already gathered the information by now, so he signed the contract document without even looking at the exchange ratio and pledge terms. Yanming said that the exchanged energy would be sent directly to the Queen Isabella, and Gu Hanhan took his leave.
The hostess of the salon was quite reluctant to leave guests like Leos. When sending them off, she introduced several prosperous places in the star field and advised him to simply stay in the Copper Kettle Nebula Trading and not risk going to the Big Horn again. Such a remote and difficult place to travel.
"With this bad route, the risk of long-distance trade is getting bigger and bigger," she sincerely suggested. "The Copper Kettle Nebula is a very stable place. These planets are very prosperous ports, and there is a lot of trade that can be done. . If there are contract restrictions, even re-exporting is very cheap. I have a few familiar businessmen there. If you need an introduction, just ask."
