With the support of a ninth-level civilization, do you want me to believe in electronic gods?

Chapter 267 Free Trade Market
Olaya's hoarse voice echoed slowly in the cockpit of the starship, and Chen Fan and the other two couldn't help but froze on the spot.

"Wha...what?"

Selling young and middle-aged members of their own civilization?

This kind of thing can actually happen in a level three civilization that has entered the interstellar era!
At this moment, Chen Fan couldn't even believe his ears! !
What is the concept of level three civilization?
Despite its low level, it can only be regarded as the bottom grassroots civilization in the Human Alliance Pan-Universe, but such a civilization is fully capable of controlling several adjacent star systems, and their exploration radius can even reach 100 light years! !
"Isn't this horse-riding self-destruction?!"

Seeing the helpless and sad expressions on the faces of Olaya and Baroka, Chen Fan couldn't help but cursed: "Why do you do this?"

"Is it forced by the mine-laying civilization...or the mine-laying alliance?"

"Do not."

To Chen Fan's surprise, Olaya denied Chen Fan's words without hesitation: "We did it voluntarily."

Chen Fan was completely stunned this time.

He subconsciously turned to look at Representative Baroka on the side, trying to get different news from him.

but……

Baroka, who was squatting on a chair nearby, slowly shook his head, with a slightly rounded baby fish head showing a look that seemed to be crying and smiling: "It is indeed our voluntary choice in the Abyss Civilization."

"Not only the Swamp Abyss Civilization, but also all low-level civilizations in the Mining Alliance did this voluntarily."

"This……"

Chen Fan's eyelids twitched slightly.

Good guy, it’s not just the Marsh Abyss civilization!

Damn it, this mine-laying alliance is a gathering place for human traffickers!
Chen Fan took a deep breath and calmed down his inner emotions: "What's the reason?"

"There has to be a reasonable reason, right?"

"For resources and for the development of civilization." Olaya answered first, "There are various resources in the free trade market established by the Bray Alliance."

Chen Fan raised his eyebrows: "For example?"

"The most basic ones can be basic productivity and labor resources." Olaya gave an example casually, "Peke civilization is only a second-level civilization, but the intelligent creatures in this civilization usually have three to five brains, and they can complete it at the same time. Several different jobs, thanks to this unique body structure, the Peco man has become the best assembly line candidate in the Bray League. "

"Another example is the Nigler Civilization. This is a fourth-level civilization. They are more keen on war, so they have become famous mercenaries in the free trade market."

"In addition to human resources, there are quite a lot of ores, metals and energy resources in the free trade market. Helium-3, antihydrogen... almost all of these common resources can be purchased in the free trade market."

Speaking of this, Olaya's voice paused: "Of course, the most important thing is technology."

"As long as there are enough alliance coins, the complete grand unified theory can even be purchased in the free trade market."

"This is enough to quickly promote an ordinary third-level civilization to a fifth-level civilization with a slight say!"

Chen Fan had some vague realization in his heart.

The so-called free trade market is, to put it bluntly, a very large comprehensive market for interstellar civilization trade.

It's just that the things you can buy in this trade market are relatively miscellaneous, that's all.

[This is overdrafting the potential of low-level civilization. 】One's voice suddenly rang in Chen Fan's mind, "Teaching low-level civilization high technology rashly will destroy low-level civilization." 】

[In fact, the People's Federation also has a similar interstellar trading organization, and some technical resources can also be purchased within it. 】

[However, People's Federation has a complete review mechanism. As long as you do not meet the purchase qualifications, you will not be able to purchase the corresponding technology no matter how much credit you spend. 】

Chen Fan nodded thoughtfully.

The point is not actually the words Yi said, but...

Why did this free trade market cost the Marsh Abyss civilization such a heavy price?

after all……

"Do I have to buy resources?"

"As a third-level civilization, the Marsh Abyss Civilization should have enough strength to search for resource planets in the universe on its own, right?"

Chen Fan frowned and asked Olaya: "As for technology, doesn't the Marsh Abyss civilization have its own researchers?"

Olaya opened her mouth, but did not say any words in response.

As an officer in charge of patrol work, he really didn't know much about this information.

"Let me tell you."

Baroka sighed softly and stood up from the chair beside him.

Perhaps because of better living conditions, Baroka is much taller than Olaya and has much stronger muscles.

Of course, Baroka also has more sarcomas, ulcers and abnormal growths due to genetic mutations.

"The foreign exchange reserves of the Marsh Abyss Civilization have long been exhausted, and the most important expenditure is on outsourcing star sand."

Baroka's expression was a little bitter: "The share of star sand in the Swamp Abyss Civilization is very small, and it will definitely not be able to meet the needs of the civilization."

“So we had to outsource Xingsha through some non-compliant channels.”

"What?!" Before Chen Fan could say anything, Olaya couldn't help but exclaimed, "Didn't the Alliance say they would severely crack down on illegal star sand smuggling?!"

Baroka shook his big head, with a bit of helplessness in his eyes: "Do you believe what the alliance says?"

Olaya's voice suddenly choked in her throat.

"The Alliance does crack down on illegal star sand smuggling, but this crackdown is targeted at individuals."

Baroka looked bitter: "In fact, among the cases of star sand smuggling, individual smuggling accounts for the smallest proportion." "Most of the illegal star sand circulating in the free trade market is personally sold by higher civilizations."

"Among them, the star sand sold by the mine civilization accounts for the majority."

Olaya stared at Baroka in front of him blankly, not knowing what to say for a moment.

As for Chen Fan...

Naturally, he was also shocked by the saucy maneuvers of the Bray Alliance.

Who has ever played this game and ended up as a scalper? !

"Actually, it's not just the Swamp Abyss Civilization." Baroka sighed deeply again, "Almost all low-level civilizations will face this situation."

"Our own star sand is not enough, so we can only use foreign exchange reserves to buy high-priced star sand in the free trade market."

"This will greatly consume the foreign exchange reserves of low-level civilizations."

"Low-level civilization cannot afford resources, so it can only move step by step towards selling cheap labor."

Chen Fan's eyes moved slightly: "So, the problem is back to the original point."

“Why must we purchase resources in the free trade market?”

"Resources in the universe shouldn't be so scarce, right?"

"Because..." Baroka's voice paused slightly, "It's cheap."

Baroka's tone became slightly stronger: "It's very cheap!"

"Cheap?"

Chen Fan was stunned again. This was another answer that he didn't expect at all: "How cheap can it be?"

"Well... let's put it this way, if the cost of mining a certain ore by the Marsh Abyss Civilization is 100, then the price of the same type of ore in the free trade market may only be 1-5, or even less than 1."

Chen Fan: "..."

This is not only cheap, it's almost like giving it away for free.

"There is no way, we are only a level three civilization." Baroka spread his hands, "High-level civilizations use the technology of level five or even level six civilizations to mine, and the cost is naturally much lower than ours."

Chen Fan understood instantly.

This is a crushing of productivity levels.

Just like comparing modern civilization and stone civilization, the productivity levels of the two are not at all of the same order of magnitude - the productivity gap between level 6 civilization and level 3 civilization is even far greater than this.

"Besides." Baroka continued to add, "There are many civilizations in the Bray Alliance, and most of the star systems have been designated as their own territory by advanced civilizations who want to exploit the resources needed for the development of civilization in the universe..."

Baroka shook his head and sighed: "I'm afraid it's not that easy."

Before Chen Fan could express his opinion, Baroka said again: "In addition to the above two reasons, there is actually another very important reason."

"The supply in the free trade market is fixed. If the Marsh Abyss civilization does not buy resources, other civilizations will obtain more resources in the trade market."

"Under the circumstances of this ebb and flow, I am afraid that the Marsh Abyss civilization will soon be surpassed by the surrounding civilizations, and its right to speak as a civilization will be reduced. The final result will be that it will be annexed by some developed civilizations."

Chen Fan's eyes widened.

Damn it? !
This is a complete conspiracy! !
First, it raises the cost of resource extraction, then it uses a gap-like price advantage, and finally, it uses the gimmick of limited supply to make the underlying civilizations involuntarily involve each other!
In addition, foreign exchange reserves must be used to purchase resources, and even highly addictive resources such as star sand must be used to control low-level civilizations...

In this way, the all-round harvest of low-level civilizations in the mine system was completed easily and without any blood.

Winning hemp belongs to yes.

"You mine-laying alliance..." Chen Fan looked at Baroka in front of him with a strange expression, "It's quite interesting."

A helpless smile appeared on Baroka's face: "There is no way, the situation is forced, we low-level civilizations have no right to speak at all."

Chen Fan looked at Baroka with some curiosity: "Since you have done this before, why do you want to stop it this time?"

"Because there are almost no young adults left in the Marsh Abyss civilization."

Before Baroka could answer, Olaya had already taken over the conversation: "Today, there are almost no young and middle-aged people in the Marsh Abyss civilization. The rest of the civilization are basically middle-aged and elderly individuals with low labor ability. ”

"If the so-called population migration is carried out again, the young adults in the Marsh Abyss Civilization may completely die out!"

Chen Fan's heart moved.

He remembered what he saw on that Fengqing Street - basically all the people walking on the street were middle-aged and elderly individuals.

This is an extremely aging civilization.

A civilization that has been squeezed to the last drop of blood and is about to die.

Chen Fan sighed softly: "I understand."

He turned to look at the silent Baroka: "Now tell me what you think, Congressman Baroka, what are you going to do?"

Baroka raised his head and looked at Chen Fan, who was wrapped in a mechanical exoskeleton, with a dazed look.

He did not answer Chen Fan's question directly, but hesitantly asked Chen Fan:

"If I'm not wrong."

"you……"

"It shouldn't be the civilization of the Bray Galaxy, right?"

(End of this chapter)