The metal bulkhead is full of scratches and holes, and the exposed energy lines are damaged, sparks are constantly sputtering. The cabin of the ship has experienced a fierce battle, with flames crackling and burning, and the ground is full of crew members.

Shattered bodies.

A group of Space Marines wearing full-coverage armor carried blasters and checked the corpses. If they found any survivors, they fired a shot.

The dead crew members were all rock elves, an older mammalian race with rough tawny skin, an average height of about three meters, and thick hair. Although they were made of flesh and blood, they were born as solid as rock and were good at discovering rare ores.

With metal resources, it is a relatively powerful galaxy-level civilization in the Sea of ​​Stars.

The uniforms of these crew members all have the logo of the civilization, proving that the ship is a regular force belonging to the official civilization, but it was attacked and the entire army was annihilated.

At the end of this cabin is a huge metal warehouse door, which is a warehouse. At this moment, a guy who looks like the leader of the attackers is standing in front of the closed warehouse door and takes out a key specially used to crack the key.

The disk device was pressed on the operation panel of the warehouse door, and a high-frequency beep sounded.

Buzz! The next moment, the warehouse door buzzed, unlocked, and slowly opened.

The leader of the attackers strode in and saw hundreds of evolutionary totems neatly arranged in the warehouse.

"Now that we have the things, let's go check them out and move them back to our ship."

The leader of the attackers nodded with satisfaction, waved his hand, and ordered his men to do their work.

The rock elves purchased a batch of totem devices from the Black Star Legion. When the news leaked out, this group of attackers ambushed in advance with the goal of stealing these evolutionary totems.

The accompanying escort fleet was all wiped out by this group of attackers... A group that can plunder the regular troops of a galaxy-level civilization is obviously no small figure.

This group of attackers are also interstellar mercenaries, but their nature is different. Mercenaries can be roughly divided into three types. The first type is regular practitioners registered in the mercenary alliance, such as the Black Star Legion; the second type is those who have no interstellar mercenaries.

There are stragglers registered by the military alliance and independent mercenaries without business licenses; and the third type is black market mercenaries who are active in the black market and are willing to take on illegal jobs.

"Dark work" refers to those criminal activities that violate the general laws of the interstellar and are generally published on the black market network, such as robbery, kidnapping, assassination of civilized officials, massacre of planets, spy infiltration, provocation of war, etc.

Black mercenaries are actually criminals... In fact, most people working in this industry are wanted criminals themselves.

This group of attackers are black market mercenaries who specialize in taking on dirty jobs. They come from the Blood Money Organization, one of the best black market mercenary forces in the universe.

The Blood Gold Organization is a black mercenary force that operates across star domains. Its main active areas are the Sea of ​​Stars, the Ancient Star Desert, and the Old Star River. The whereabouts of its members, spaceships, and bases are quite secretive, and their behavior is low-key.

The specific size of the Blood Gold Organization is a secret, but being able to operate in three star fields is obviously a giant.

At the same time, the Blood Money Organization is also one of the top leaders of the interstellar black market.

Where there are trade controls, black markets will appear. The black markets continue to grow and gradually form a huge pattern.

The black market also has different levels, distinguished by region and business scope, from planets to galaxies, and then to star fields. As the first level goes up, the black market becomes more and more formal. At the highest level, the business scope covers almost

The interstellar black market in all star regions nominally governs all black markets.

And this most advanced black market force is well versed in the way of making money in silence, and will not take the time to give itself an independent name, called "Interstellar Black Market". People who don't know it think it is just a noun.

Of course, not all independent black markets obey the orders of the most advanced interstellar black markets, just like some unscrupulous gangsters who do not know how to join the giants of the international community.

The interstellar black market is extremely large, and its business covers the entire universe. There are always some civilizations who hope to obtain the technology blocked by advanced civilizations and also have demand for the black market, so they turn a blind eye or even act as a protective umbrella. On the other hand, the interstellar black market is still the interstellar

The communication platform for criminals is a huge underground society.

Not all criminals exist to cause trouble. A large number of criminals are just seeking profit. They also need order and credibility, and someone to formulate the rules. Therefore, the managers of the interstellar black market emerged as the times require. They come from black market mercenaries and intelligence organizations.

Smuggling trade, contraband production and other gray industries are among the most powerful organizations.

The blood money organization is one of the black market managers, equivalent to the overlord of the underground criminal world.

Ark of the Fallen is not a black market manager. Black market managers are basically lawful evil. They also dislike chaotic evil gods. Although they are both criminal forces, the two sides are not the same. After the Ark of the Fallen fell apart, the Blood Gold Organization

It accepted a large number of criminals and helped them achieve laid-off and re-employment.

A cadre came to the leader's side and couldn't help but smile as he watched his men carrying the Evolutionary Totem.

"The price of Evolutionary Totems on the black market is very high now. As far as I know, many civilizations are purchasing them secretly. If we swallow this batch of goods, how much do you think we can sell them for?"

"Don't think blindly. This is what the employer wants. Our job is to bring the goods back. Do you dare to embezzle it because you think your life is too long?" The leader shook his head.

After a year and a half of operation, the business of Evolver Totem has basically stabilized. Some civilizations that have taken refuge in other Glory and Void spirits cannot have anything to do with the Empire and can only use their wrong thoughts. Some large interstellar consortiums have been waiting and watching for so long, and they have begun to

action.

No one has forgotten the Black Star's record a year and a half ago. It was too difficult to rob the Black Star Legion. These forces settled for the next best thing and chose to rob the fleet transporting the Evolver Totem, eyeing every civilization that purchased it.

Because this violates the general laws of the Star Sea, black market mercenaries represented by the Blood Gold Organization came in handy. Now the Evolver Totem has a price but no market on the black market, and demand exceeds supply.

After snatching away the rock elf's evolver totem, this group of members of the Blood Gold Organization returned to the spaceship, blew up all the wreckage of the spacecraft, and turned around to leave.

In recent months, similar scenes have been played out many times in every corner of the universe.

…

Broken Star Ring, Black Star Legion headquarters.

"Another user who purchased the Evolver Totem was robbed halfway?"

In the legion commander's office, Han Xiao closed the player forum, looked at Silvia's remote projection, and frowned slightly.

"Yes, including the rock elves, thirteen galaxy-level civilization customers have been plundered, and thousands of evolutionary totems are on the black market."

"Where was it robbed?"

"In the Sea of ​​Star Spirits, the identity of the robber is unknown. Preliminary judgment is that it should be the same force as the murderer who committed the previous crimes."

Han Xiao touched his chin and said, "Pay attention to the black market. If Evolutionary Totems are not sold on the black market after a while, it should be done by black market mercenaries, and they handed the items to their employers."

"Teacher, do we need to deal with this problem?"

"Don't worry about it. I'm not responsible for after-sales service. If you can't protect the things you bought, it has nothing to do with me... Of course, if they hire my mechanical troops, that's a different matter." Han Xiao waved his hand, "What's going on with the rock elves?

explain?"

"They said they hope the Legion will send them another batch."

"Send a batch? Not buy?"

"Yes, they said they knew that the cost of the Evolver Totem was very low, and they were unwilling to pay a high price to buy it. They thought we should give them another set... You also know that the rock elves have a relatively upright personality." Silvia shrugged helplessly.

"Tell them that I don't run an insurance business. If you want, you can buy it. Free compensation does not exist. This is a matter of principle."

Han Xiao shook his head. If this hole was opened, there might be some civilized people who wanted to compensate themselves for theft. He would not do business at a loss.

However, this kind of thing is unavoidable. There may be civilizations that have reached private agreements with other forces and deliberately pretended to have been stolen, thereby indirectly helping other civilizations not close to the empire to purchase evolutionary totems.

However, Han Xiao doesn’t mind if the Evolution Totems he sells are robbed. The more Evolution Totems are robbed, the more he sells, and the market is wider. It can even help him share the pressure. Anyway, the Evolution Totem can only be recharged.

If you use it, it won't be a loss anyway.

It is the empire that needs to worry about this problem, not him. As long as it does not directly attack the Black Star Legion, he can still accept it.

"I understand, that's what I'll tell them."

Silvia turned off the remote projection.

Han Xiao took a breath, leaned back on the chair, and pondered.

Over the past year and a half, the Black Star Legion has been operating steadily, gradually digesting the results of rapid expansion, consolidating various businesses, and developing well. His behavior is finally like a mechanic. The main body stays at home and concentrates on building machinery and expanding the legion.

Scale, mechanical troops are wandering around outside, completing tasks to accumulate random reward times, which are used to draw task settlement cards.

He also accumulated experience reserves, and used part of the upgrade blueprint skills to accumulate potential points to upgrade the level of ultimate knowledge. During this period, he used 6,000 points of imperial contribution to exchange for the fifth ultimate knowledge, the [Ultimate Mechanical Engineering] of the Armed Department.

].

This knowledge is related to manufacturing machinery, which greatly improves manufacturing technology and production line power, unlocks a large number of combinable drawings, and gives a specialty [Ultimate Maker] and a skill [Inspirational Creation].

The effect of [Ultimate Maker] is simple and practical. The basic performance of the mechanical creations produced increases by 25%~30%, and the production speed increases by 300%~500%. It is obvious that this is a specialty used for violent troops.

[Inspiration Creation] is an unactivated skill. The activation condition is that [Ultimate Mechanical Engineering] reaches the full level of lv5. The effect is to combine an unlimited number of drawings at will to randomly synthesize one or more new improved or fused drawings.

You can also perform advanced settings to choose the tendency of synthetic drawings (attack, defense, etc.), required functions, etc. It is more stable than free creation and can definitely be shipped.

Skills consume experience...a massive amount of experience.

For players who cannot change the blueprints on their own, this skill is a magical skill, but Han Xiao can improve the blueprints himself, so this skill is not very useful... but it is not useless, it also has an irreplaceable role:

[Inspiration Creation] There is a slight chance of synthesizing blueprints of cosmic treasure-level machinery. It is the only way for mechanics to independently create golden equipment!

Now that Han Xiao holds two cosmic treasures, he doesn't mind having one more. However, it is not that easy to synthesize cosmic treasure-level mechanical blueprints. This is not like gambling on blueprints. There is no fixed combination. Even if the combinations are the same, the synthesized blueprints will still be the same.

There is a high degree of randomness.

In the past life, some players happened to synthesize cosmic treasure-level mechanical blueprints, but there were two problems. First, only the information about the blueprints was released, and no one disclosed the combination. Secondly... even if there were blueprints, there was no mechanical system in the previous life.

Players really create gold-level machines.

The prerequisites for the blueprint are too harsh. There is basically no possibility of manufacturing below Transcendent A Grade. Players naturally cannot meet the conditions.

[Inspiration Creation] has been temporarily forgotten by Han Xiao. First, to reach the full level of [Ultimate Mechanical Engineering], there are too many potential points required. Second, although he has a lot of experience to try to synthesize cosmic treasure-level

Drawings, but he lacks experience in other aspects. He has to leave a large reserve for the version update period, so he does not dare to waste it. For him, as long as he does not gamble on the cosmic treasure-level drawings, the experience invested in this skill will be a waste.

Over the past year and a half, the overall situation of the Gural Civil War has been decided and is advancing step by step. There are no surprises in the process. The Pioneer Party is about to reap the fruits of victory. However, the players' attention is currently focused on the third professional league that is about to open.

Due to the sharp increase in the number of players, the popularity of this professional league has also increased and attracted much attention. The divisions are the same as the second one, with nine major divisions, and the schedule has been slightly adjusted.

For example, the secondary league and qualifiers started early, starting half a year ago, so as to allow more time for the qualifiers and fully mobilize the enthusiasm of more players to participate. At the same time, it also determines the wild card quota and number of players before the official opening of the professional league.

Regular season roster.
To be continued...