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Crude elevators and drawbridges connect these micro-settlements to the core city plates, looking very end-of-the-century.

The arrival of Xia Lin's "Bull" did not attract the attention or vigilance of the local people. The guide standing on the edge raised the sign and the light-emitting tube in his hand to signal Xia Lin to continue along the passage nailed with wooden boards and metal sheets. Go, even he saw a checkpoint at the end of the passage.

It looks like some kind of toll booth, the only difference is that there is a large elevator behind the toll booth, which can send the vehicles passing through the checkpoint to the docking port in the core urban area behind.

The entire core city plate is roughly equivalent to two aircraft carriers sailing on the ground. The length is about 500 meters, the height is 40-50 meters, and the width is much wider than the aircraft carrier, about 200 meters. From the side, it is divided into multiple parts. layer deck.

The lower decks are fully enclosed, and about 20 meters above, there will be an inwardly sunken square-like deck space, surrounded by layers of deck buildings that look like shopping malls and densely packed elevators, which are obviously docking bay.

And there are two such docking bays in the entire core city section, one is obviously for self-employed or small caravans, and the other is an industrial-grade large docking bay for docking with other mobile cities, even with lifting equipment such as gantry cranes, There are some containers piled up on the platform.

And further up to the top of the deck, judging from the bright lights and people walking around, it may be the production and living areas. Xia Lin also saw a radio tower that was used for communication or something else.

Following the guidance of the guide, the vehicle stopped at the parking waiting area on the side of the checkpoint. Two Ursas men with machetes and axes on their backs grabbed the metal pipes on the side and climbed to the side of the cockpit, knocking on the glass.

"Are there any infected people? Roll up your trousers, the sleeves are the same, and your neck is exposed." The inspector looked at the two vigilantly, although they didn't look like those who escaped from the mine, But no one is sure about such things as infected people.

Ore disease is related to the origin stone particles carried by the blood, and its crystals will tend to appear first at the extremities and other ends of the circulation, and some will appear near the neck.

Obviously, neither Xia Lin nor Yelena had origin stone crystals on their hands, feet, or neck. After the inspection, the inspector's attitude became better, and he began to chat with Xia Lin and the others, "Are you coming to Meiquan Town to trade or come? For winter?"

"Come to trade. I brought some agricultural products and meat. I grew them myself. I have surplus. I'm going to sell them and then buy something."

"Oh, food merchants, that's really welcome!" In the snowy field of Ursas, there is no one more popular than food merchants in winter. The inspector became more enthusiastic, and even handed Xia Lin two cigarettes. .

"What kind of agricultural products are they, and what price?"

"Cabbage, potatoes, onions, plus some tomatoes and turnips, by the way, there are several boxes of chicken and a large basket of eggs. As for the price, I have to check the market price first."

"There are tomatoes! How did you grow them? Ah, sorry, can you save some for me later? I get off work at about five o'clock. The gate for agricultural products and food transactions is gate No. [-]. Go up and turn right, the largest The most lively one is that, you say you are selling food, and the guide above will take your car to the docking gate, and if you need a porter, you can just shout in the square.”

Soon a mobile trading station in front rose to the platform, and it was Xia Lin's turn. The weight of the bull made the technician in charge of the lift a little dazed, but in the end it still didn't exceed the limit of the lifting equipment of the mobile platform, it was just a tact He told him that the vehicle may only be parked on the trading deck, and cannot enter the commercial area through the lift above it.

The lifting equipment above can't get the 200 tons or almost [-] tons of things to the commercial street on the top floor after being filled with modules. However, Xia Lin heard that wholesale and large-scale goods transactions are all at the gates on the lower floor. Nearby, he didn't intend to retail, so there was no need to carry the bull to the top central commercial street.

The square is much smaller than Xia Lin imagined. After the bull ascended to the deck, he arrived at Gate No. [-] within a few meters. It may be informed by the people below that some guides dressed in yellow vests are hastily guiding others. The mobile platform and truck make room for the bull to dock.

Traders can choose to take the elevators on both sides of the gate to transport the goods to the commercial area or storage area above to replenish the stores above, or they can drive vehicles and platforms into the indoor trading field in the gate, expand the store stall mode, and put out Samples, but Gate [-] is a bit different as a bulk food transaction gate.

There is no indoor trading field that can be expanded in the gate. Instead, it is a large parking docking area. Drones and porters are moving a large number of boxes back and forth. A mobile trading platform seems to have completed a bulk purchase and is gradually leaving the docking port.

Xia Lin leaned the bull against this docking port, and the ground sank slightly by about 2 meters, allowing the warehouse or channel platform of a general trading station to align with the trading docking port.

However, Xia Lin's bull was obviously not a conventional design, which made it a bit difficult for the staff in charge of opening the docking springboard, but fortunately, he quickly signaled them not to work.

At the prompt of the staff, Xia Lin unloaded some samples of the goods on the car and piled them on the side of the trading interface. There is an internal elevator here, which can directly go up to the commercial area, or display the goods on the spot. Check the city official material purchase price, etc.

The entire docking area is U-shaped, with five large docking ports and seven or eight small docking ports. The open space in the center can also be expanded and unloaded by manual handling, which is very busy.

After paying about 20 silver coins for the use of the docking station, Xia Lin obtained the short-term right to use the station. The station is divided into upper and lower floors. The upper floor is the docking springboard and operation room, and the lower floor is the temporary storage and transfer area.

If the goods were sold directly to the official in Meiquan Town, then the transaction contract only needs to be completed directly, and then the porter can unload the goods to the lower floor and then take the money and leave. The entire process may be completed within 2 hours at the fastest.

However, if you are trading with other merchants, the situation is a little more complicated. It needs to involve a bit cumbersome cargo transfer procedures and verification process. Depending on the situation, it takes several hours to a day to get it done. Of course, this refers to bulk commodities. Much simpler.

There is a market area for retail over there. If there are rental shops locally, there are also special transshipment warehouses and transshipment freight elevators to replenish things to the shops on the commercial deck above.

Xia Lin doesn't plan to sell these things for the time being. He has to carefully examine the official purchase price and the purchase price of local merchants, and then look at the prices of local minerals and other commodities he needs to make a comprehensive consideration.

"Elena, is the door locked?"

"It's locked." The white rabbit knocked on the door panel and made a solid metal sound, and quickly leaped across the distance of almost two meters to the platform of the docking station. "Will anyone really steal it?"

"Probably not, but be careful, and put your guns away." Although Meiquan Town does not prohibit merchants from entering with weapons, after all, in the snowy field of Usas, merchants without weapons cannot survive, but they At least weapons cannot be brought into trading halls and commercial streets.

Xia Lin paid the rent for two days, so the two of them had a lot of time to go shopping or inspect the business. As for the safety issue, Xia Lin put a Talon Gauss pistol in his clothes.Due to the characteristics of gunfire, the shorter the barrel, the lower the power of the locals. Pistols are almost never listed as prohibited weapons. Of course, there is an exception for a rich cat with fully etched ammunition. She was burning money.

The mobile cities on this level are all commercial or bulk commercial areas, divided into several trading halls according to food, energy, minerals, machinery and consumer goods, which looks like a stock market.

The buying and selling information is hung on the stand boards one by one, and there are special traders holding long poles to change the number, price and quantity, etc. Xia Lin can also post her own buying or selling information here if she needs it , if someone is willing to trade, I will contact him or go to his docking station to have an interview with him or take samples.

Each hall corresponds to a separate gate, and is connected by a winding commercial street filled with acquisition or sale sites of various locals. This is a large-scale trading market, and few ordinary citizens come here to buy things. , so there are not many people on the road.

And taking the elevator up two floors is a normal local commercial street, like a large indoor shopping mall, Xia Lin came here for the first stop, as for the high-end commercial street on the top floor, he will stay there later, Mainly to visit jewelry stores.

When human beings could not recognize the value of many minerals in the early days, some rare minerals would be sold in the form of gems and the like. He was going to see if there was anything special. Of course, it could only be a stroll. , to determine the mineral type of this planet only.

Because since it is sold as jewelry, it means that he cannot buy it in tonnage units, and that little bit is meaningless for industrial production, unless it is raw gemstones that can be purchased in tonnage units.

Xia Lin's arrangement is as follows. First, go shopping in the commercial street to see if there are any local specialties or valuable things that you can process yourself. Anyway, buying vegetables and fruits directly is very worthless, especially If a large amount of raw materials and mechanical equipment are needed in the future, relying on pure primary agricultural products is not looking for harvesting by workers and peasants with scissors.

"By the way, Yelena, is there anything you want to buy?"

"No." The white rabbit thought for a while and shook her head. She now has food, drink and new clothes. Obviously, she has no other needs. Even the things made by Xia Lin's workshop are better than the crude products she saw here. Much better.

"Okay, then let's go shopping one by one, first go to the clothing store, then go to the supermarket to look at local snacks and food, then go to the cosmetics store, small jewelry store, and finally look at the fast food restaurant and grocery store."

"Is there... what's the point?" The white rabbit asked curiously, it sounded like it had no purpose, "Didn't you come here to find ores and metals, Xia Lin?"

"Yeah, so the next stop will be the trading floor below. By the way, I have to go to the electrical appliance or origin stone appliance store. Although I can't use it, you should be able to use it, Yelena. Some things like stone machinery are also very interesting~”

Next, Xia Lin enthusiastically pulled the white rabbit to go sightseeing and wandering in this three-story commercial area that looked like a super-large indoor shopping mall, and turned into the ultimate curious baby, constantly pulling the saleswoman or the white rabbit Ask what it is, what material it is made of, and what it is used for—like a very ignorant tourist, and he is the type who only looks at it but does not buy it.

This made Yelena feel that the eyes of the bumpkins from all around made her a little unbearable, especially if they only looked at but didn't buy, and they also made a lot of messes. If they didn't dress like poor ghosts, they would not Time to get kicked out.

Chapter 49 Aren't you entertaining yourself?

After wandering around for several hours, leaving a list of items to be purchased on the personal diary of PNIS, Xia Lin and White Rabbit returned to the trading hall on the lower floor. Machinery and energy facilities are not ready to move for the time being. Terra’s machinery industry It looks okay, but they are all origin stone machines, whether it is size, safety or convenience, there are problems.

The main reason is that it is impossible for Xia Lin to have the talent of origin stone skills, which makes many electronic devices that rely on origin stones difficult to use. Of course, this refers to the kind of origin stone affinity that Terrans basically regard as instinct, and Non-genuine origin stone skills are also called "spells".

And if Xia Lin wants to use even the most basic electronic equipment, he needs some external auxiliary equipment and consumes pure source stones or source stone processing reagents, which is obviously unnecessary, and he does not have to use neural connections to command and Take control of a certain Doctor in Rhodes Island.

The same is true for energy. As a high-energy mineral, Origin Stone should theoretically be able to purchase some. However, the current nuclear fuel and reactors on the farm are sufficient, so there is no need to use Origin Stone power immediately, especially the size of Origin Stone power is relatively small. Larger and more severe.

Moreover, the replacement of the energy core is not as simple as replacing a section of battery as a layman imagines. It needs to modify the energy structure, distribution and transmission system of the entire workshop, as well as related control components, and compared with the source stone. For such an unfamiliar thing, Xia Lin still trusts the fusion energy of the Star Alliance more.

In terms of consumer goods, he is planning to purchase a batch, mainly because the automated process of the farm's production facilities can produce too many things, and many things have to be rubbed by his hands. This is undoubtedly unnecessary. Some daily necessities that Terra can provide And consumer goods can be bought directly.

Compared with the life in the middle ages in Ursas countryside, the city has obviously reached a modern level, with wide electronic billboards, street lights, and even Xia Lin saw a simple package hanging from a rotor drone fly overhead.

The ore and metal trading area is different from other trading areas. There is not even a place for unloading and loading of goods. There are only museum-like display racks and brochures of mining companies of all sizes, as well as the charging fees set by local officials. Inspection agency.

It is impossible to pick and choose like the vegetable market in ore and metal trading, especially the bulk trade, which is almost only possible when the cities are connected.

This is mainly a place to display the mineral samples, quality and corporate strength of the mining companies in Meiquan Town. If you really want to buy, you can only contact the relevant companies according to the address on the brochure, and agree on the delivery date, delivery quantity and location. If Meiquan Town’s daily docking city is within the scope, the price may be cheaper.

If not, complex warehousing, handling and transportation are involved, and for things like metals and minerals, a large amount of expenses will be added, and the price will be much more expensive.

What Xia Lin needs are samples here, samples of finished metal, and various brochures, which means that he can roughly grasp the output, composition and type of these things, as well as which supplier to contact for purchase.

In addition to the common metal ingots and ores such as copper, iron and tin, the local specialty metals include metal processing by-products called different irons. Simply put, impurities are precipitated during smelting and are inert. Thing that condenses into a stable metal structure.

It is said that occasionally under non-specific circumstances, the different irons will have a purification effect, the hardness will decrease, and the purity will increase, and after extremely harsh treatment, a new type of material that is extremely strong and even breaks through the boundaries of materials can be obtained.

Xia Lin's portable scanning equipment is difficult to analyze this thing, but it might be a bit of a surprise to take it back and throw it into the electronic furnace for processing. Its mechanical materials barely reach the level of high-quality titanium alloy, and a batch can be purchased in small quantities for manufacturing Anti-oxidation metal materials.

Then there is the incandescent alloy smelted from a variety of rare metals used in the electronics industry. Since the discharge of the source stone is extremely unstable and the energy level is very high, the "staff" that is essentially an electronic product naturally requires high quality Key components and buffer filter components are made of incandescent alloy, a metal with a very high melting point.

And nested with it is the polyhedral cluster metal mineral code-named RAM-24, which is highly conductive to Originium technology. It is basically a very different kind of technological product, and Xia Lin also added them all. in the purchase list.

In addition, in terms of raw materials for consumer products, he is also planning to purchase a batch of ketone raw materials to be used as adhesives. It has to be said that it is really unexpected that Terra actually has such chemical products.

After initially finalizing the purchase list, Xia Lin returned to the food trading area and began to browse various prices. As a seller, the things he needs to understand are not so complicated. He only needs to consider the price, payment method and demand.

Soon, Xia Lin selected three trading partners. Potatoes and cabbages were sold directly to the official purchasing agency in Meiquan Town, while tomatoes were sold to a food processing factory to make tomato sauce, and the final chicken was sold to another canned food company. The factory bought it.

Since the quantity was not large, the whole process was directly purchased by the exchange. Xia Lin didn't even see the representatives of these three companies, but the exchange's agents accepted the goods after inspection.

There were basically no problems in the subsequent procurement work. There were no twists and turns in the procurement of consumer goods and helping the white rabbit to purchase some daily necessities for girls. Xia Lin paid for it, and then asked the store delivery staff to send it to the parking space warehouse area at gate 6. up.

However, the problem of ore procurement is a bit big. The main reason is that Xia Lin does not have enough money, and the load of a bull is not enough. After all, it is an agricultural machine, not a super-large mining transport vehicle. A mine vehicle needs a special license, even if there is one. , he couldn't open it either.

In the beginning, faced with Xia Lin’s request to purchase a batch of commonly used copper and iron metals, as well as some different irons and incandescent alloys, this branch company, which is said to be called Amster Large Mining Group, still warmly received him and sent Tea was served.

After all, winter is the off-season of the mining industry, and most of the salesmen are in a panic, and it is a fortune to be able to get a business.

"Our company has decades of experience in the mining industry. No matter what order you need, we can complete any order. Except for RAM-24, which may be difficult to transfer, we have sufficient inventory. You can rest assured."

"Well, I understand. I've seen your brochures and samples, and I'm really satisfied. I don't know what your delivery cycle is..."

"Please rest assured that all delivery procedures can be completed within two days at the latest. If you are responsible for the transportation, it can be faster." "How much faster can it be? Can you do it right away?"

"This..." Large ore transactions are not easy, especially for such large companies. Their ores are not stored in the mobile city, and the heavy city section cannot be taken away.

Instead, it is stored in the mine and a special cargo station. During the delivery procedure, the goods are transferred, and the goods are delivered to the agreed place through a large-scale transportation platform. Of course, if the customer is willing to transport by himself, then only need to provide A nearest large inventory location, just let the other party pick up the goods by themselves.

However, it is indeed a bit difficult to say that the delivery will be made immediately, but there is no difficulty in front of the order. The manager obviously showed a tangled expression, and finally gritted his teeth, "If the quantity you require is not very large, it is fine, what do you want?" When is the time, when will the transport convoy arrive?"

"The car is waiting below, can it be done right away? The daily parking fee is not a small amount."

"I understand that." The parking fee for the large-scale ore-carrying platform fleet is indeed not low, but the other party's request is so urgent, it is really unexpected, and the convoy is brought here in advance, ready to wait for loading, but think about it carefully , if it weren't for the rush, who would come out to buy ore in the middle of a blizzard in winter!

"Okay, how much do you need? I'll go through the formalities and transfer the goods for you right away, and make sure that you complete the shipment before today's payment period." This will inevitably require some public relations and internal favors, but it is worthwhile in the face of performance and commission of.

"Okay, let me do the math..." Xia Lin considered the load of the bull and the pressure of the lift, "Well, I only need some samples of different irons, and I will buy a lot next time. It is convenient for you to adjust and store goods."

"Okay, so what about the remaining common minerals?" It sounds like the commission has been reduced a lot, but let's just believe it when the other party says that they still need to purchase. After all, if he really wants a large amount of foreign iron, the head office may be able to immediately To organize the supply of goods, his branch here definitely does not have that ability.

Although it was a pity, I could accept this fact, and then the manager heard an unbelievable number, "[-] tons, [-] tons first, delivery immediately."

"Wait a minute, guest, I may have misheard." The middle-aged man with rabbit ears shook his ears, "How many tons do you want? 50 tons?"

"No, fifty tons"

"......" The sentence "Are you here to amuse me?" almost blurted out, and the other party's expression changed from enthusiasm to freezing to indifference almost instantly.

Generally speaking, the unit of ore product trading is [-] tons. Considering the transportation volume, Terra basically starts at [-] tons. When you find a large mining company and say that you want to buy a "batch" of ore, and finally you report The amount of [-] tons... may be no more than two containers in one container.

"It is mainly long-term demand, and more than 200 tons are consumed every day." The output of the electronic melting furnace is [-] tons, which does not mean that [-] tons of ore are thrown into it. In fact, the daily full-load consumption is more than [-] tons. But Xia Lin can't use so much metal.

The manager's expression was a little better. If it was more than [-] tons per day, it would be [-] tons a month. It was barely an order, and he didn't lose money for tea and snacks.

"Then, is it a daily delivery or a one-time delivery?" The other party forced a smile, it was an order anyway, and mosquito legs are also meat.

"First deliver a batch, and then send a batch every month, our address hasn't changed much"

"..."

A few minutes later, "So, Xia Lin, did you still not agree on anything in the end?" The white rabbit looked at him in confusion.

"Well, it seems that the quantity is small at one time, and ore is not easy to buy." But the carrying capacity of the bull is so large, Xia Lin can't build a railway for him, and his furnace is only that big.

"Forget it, go back and ask Ivan and the others, if you want to buy ore, if you only have a few dozen tons, who is better?" The main thing is that there is no star network market here. There are merchants who ship it if it costs [-] kilograms. The efficiency of warehousing and logistics in the interstellar era is obviously far behind that of Terra.