Super Optical Brain System

Chapter 103 Merchant (first update)
The forces of all parties gathered in the thirteenth branch of the Pluto Exchange like wolves smelling blood.

Even before the auction started, the atmosphere in the venue was already tense.

Lu Chunqiu frowned, "I really didn't expect that so many top forces in the Milky Way would appear in such a remote place. This time we came in a hurry and prepared too few points."

Lu Dongxia nodded, "That's right, I just suppressed 20 points on Star Ring, even with these additions, we can only make up 70 points, which is still a long way off."

"After all, the opponents in the auction are old foxes like Zhai Leng and Ince, and the forces behind them are all top giants in the galaxy."

Lu Chunqiu shrugged his shoulders and smiled wryly. "No way, we have been mainly doing business with Suzaku Exchange in the past, and Pluto Exchange did not have many transactions with us."

There are three dark exchanges in the Milky Way, Pluto, Buddha, and Suzaku.

Sea Burial Flower's business partner is Suzaku Exchange, and they have cooperated for many years.

As long as the Lu family brothers and the Suzaku Exchange say hello, it will be easy to win the four space jump engines, but at the Pluto Exchange, the face of the sea burial flower is not so good.

"We can collect some points." Jin Shi said suddenly.

"You?" Lu Dongxia was taken aback, and said in surprise, "You know, the competitors we are facing are a group of giants in the Milky Way, and the points we need are not decimals."

"Our Earth Federation has a Merchant Association." Jin Shi said in a deep voice: "According to the rules of the military department, it is not a last resort not to interfere with the normal operations of the civilians. Now is the time when the military department needs help. I will send a secret message. The merchants will never Will stand by and watch."

"Time is running out." Lu Dongxia glanced at the auction hall, and saw Du Yiming walking onto the auction stage with a smile on his face, which indicated that this crucial auction was about to begin.

"Believe me, it won't take long." Jin Shi said confidently.

In the dark and endless space, a Mammoth-class cargo ship is sailing alone.

The ship was registered in the Ferron Republic, but in fact its real owner was the Earth Federation Merchant Association.

Hongshang is a group of Earth merchants living outside the territory. In order to obtain the right to do business in various parts of the galaxy, almost all Hongshang have given up their Earth Federation nationality and joined the country where they are located.

But like all earth immigrants and expatriates, they have never forgotten their true identity.

Orlando is an elderly man. He is sitting in the center of the command room at the exclusive position with the captain, looking at a list full of densely packed text and data.

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With a flick of the pen in Orlando's hand, twelve latest-model vector reducers were crossed off the list.

There are many other goods that have been crossed out like this on the entire list. Without exception, they are all the highest technological level and most advanced products in the Milky Way.

"Just sort the goods according to this list, and then hand it over to the Merchant Association. The price will be the cost price." Orlando finished the work, took off his glasses, and handed the list to his young son Jeremy.

Jeremy with blonde curly hair frowned, looked at the list and said, "It's just the cost price? Why not add our shipping fee?"

Orlando frowned, looked at Jeremy deeply, and his face became more and more serious, which made the young Jeremy feel panicked.

Suddenly, just as Orlando was about to say something, his eldest son Trump suddenly rushed into the command room from outside.

"Father! I received an urgent secret message from the Federal Army's Hidden Star Corps. They now need our help to raise points for the Pluto Exchange!" Trump said excitedly.

"How much do you need?" Orlando asked hastily.

"I don't know, they only left an account opened on the Pluto Exchange." Trump said quickly: "My opinion is, transfer all our points! After all, the military rarely seeks for urgent secret messages. Help, I thought, these points must mean a lot to them!"

"The military needs us, and our hometown needs us now!"

Orlando's eyes showed compassion. He looked at his anxious eldest son Trump, and said in a deep voice: "Good job, you have lived up to the blood of the earth flowing in your body."

"Go ahead, transfer all our points from the Pluto Exchange to the Hidden Star Legion, but remember, don't leave our names, and they will return the points once we release them."

"From now on, if you encounter the same thing, you don't need to tell me, just let it go."

"The needs of the Federation are our mission! We will lose everything, and we will spare no expense!"

"I understand!" Trump hurriedly left the command center, muttering constantly, "I can finally do something for my hometown! It's great!"

Points are not money, but an existence that cannot be bought with money. It is the accumulation of credit generated from years of transactions, which is hard-won.

However, just a simple secret message from the military department allowed the merchant Orlando family to transfer all their points to the military department's account immediately without any conditions, and even their names would not be left behind.

Orlando looked at his youngest son and said in a deep voice, "Remember, although we are businessmen, businessmen also have their own motherland!"

Little Jeremy nodded with some shame, turned around and left the command cabin, went to the cargo warehouse, and arranged for the workers to prepare the cargo to be unloaded.

The Earth Merchant has been a strong supporter behind the Federation for so many years.

Back then, when the weak Earth Federation just started to develop, it was suppressed by the surrounding countries sparing no effort, arms embargo, technology embargo, and food embargo. They wanted to trap the Earth Federation in a corner of the galaxy.

It is under such circumstances that Hongshang was born.

They are a group of earthlings with lofty ideals. They immigrated to other countries, engaged in commercial activities, helped the federal authorities purchase needed supplies, and risked their lives to smuggle ship after ship of in-demand goods into the federal territory.

The Earth Federation, like all countries, has customs and anti-smuggling bureaus, but many people don't know that behind the Earth Federation is one of the largest smuggling groups in the galaxy, and the merchants are the executors of this huge national-level smuggling group .

It has been a long-standing practice for merchants to pay for the goods for how much money they get, and how much money is delivered to the federation.

Although in the later stage, the Earth Federation finally recovered from the financial aspect and had enough financial resources to repay the Merchant Association's silent dedication over the years. It is not too much hard work to add a sum to the basic price of the goods. .

However, every penny that was overpaid was returned intact by the merchants.

For the merchants, this is not a matter of money, but of principles.

People can be far away in the sky, but their hometown and compatriots must always be kept in their hearts.

Orlando came to the French windows and looked at the dark starry sky around him.

He has an ability, no matter how far he sails, he can always point out the direction of the earth exactly.

Orlando is often like this, standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, looking out for a long time.

He took out an old passport from the desk drawer and slowly opened it.

The passport is blue, the color of the sea.

The mark on the passport is circular, which is the shape of the earth.

Orlando's ancestors passed down this passport, which is the only proof that they were once citizens of the Earth Federation.

Year after year, the merchants sent machinery, medicine, and weapons to their hometown.

But they and their descendants never went back.

(End of this chapter)