Galaxy Domination Guide

Bai Zhongqi had acquired the currency of Bupinga Star, which enabled him to engage in more activities on this business planet. Bai Zhongqi spent nearly ten thousand Pu Qie, renting a high-end hotel suite on Bupinga Star for a week. Perhaps in terms of living conditions, the cabins on the Sacred Falcon might even rival the top hotels on this planet, but frequent access to aerial ports was quite inconvenient.

In the hotel suite, Bai Zhongqi stood by the window, looking out at the bustling alien city and felt quite reflective. Here, there were various styles of alien buildings that were completely mixed together. However, these buildings were clearly highly advanced in technology, with many high-rises even having direct connections to landing platforms and ports for flight vehicles.

A building directly opposite the hotel particularly amazed Bai Zhongqi. The box-shaped building was covered with a layer of ultra-clear 3D screens, which changed the appearance of the building every hour through 3D screening combined with holographic images. One second it might look like a streamlined skyscraper of glass and the next, it could transform into a gothic tower filled with intricate decorations.

Ling came to Bai Zhongqi's side and said, "That is the Borke Civilization's representative office on Bupinga Star. The Borke Civilization is a 26th level High Level Civilization and an important member of the Galactic Council. It is said that their influence spans over a dozen star regions, and they possess a formidable force. Although this civilization has not yet broken through Atomic Substance Construction technology, their production capacity is also quite significant, boasting a sizeable fleet."

Bai Zhongqi recalled what He Qiu had mentioned yesterday—civilizations above level 25 on Bupinga Star were like lords, not only were memberships directly provided to them, but various conveniences were also on offer. The Trade Services Federation would also unabashedly fawn over these High Level Civilizations.

"This building and the land it stands on are provided to the Borke Civilization by the Federation, free and indefinitely, while other civilizations need to rent facilities on this small planet or buy real estate with a time limit attached," Ling added.

Bai Zhongqi was not particularly interested in the land on Bupinga Star; after all, this small planet was akin to a man-made planet. The people of Bupinga had extensively modified the asteroid's environment, creating an oxygen-rich atmosphere suitable for carbon-based life forms and massively altering the surface environment and vegetation.

Aside from that, Bupinga Star lacked rich resources. It was just a rocky little asteroid with scarce metals and crystals, which actually made it more suitable as a commercial site.

Bai Zhongqi turned around and saw his girlfriend, Han Jiaxue, sitting on the bed, engrossed in something on a smart device.

Feeling Bai Zhongqi's gaze, Han Jiaxue smiled and said, "If we weren't in a rush to return to Earth, there would be quite a bit of business we could do on this Trade Star."

She enlarged the screen so that the three people in the room could all see it.

"Almost all public trade information is posted on the network platform of Bupinga Star, haha, it feels like a massive alien version of X-bao. It features various trades, whether buying or selling, everyone posts their demands and supplies online, and if there's a match, the parties will negotiate. Usually, it's done through a licensed broker from Bupinga Star employed by their civilization," she explained.

The way Han Jiaxue looked now made Bai Zhongqi feel like she was a professional career woman. With a change into a business suit and a pair of black-framed glasses, she would totally look like an office beauty.

Pointing at some information on the screen, she said, "I've filtered out some good deals, like this one, the other party needs a batch of AI programs customized for both military and civilian use. The level of this artificial intelligence is so low that if an AI is used for engineering, it can only be used for that and nothing else, generally even lower than our Level D AI. The buyer is a Level 6 civilization, basically the lowest tier on Bupinga. Such low-level civilizations, just sending a spaceship here for trade could take over a year, and they might even become targets for powerful civilizations or pirate ships."

Bai Zhongqi nodded and asked, "What's their offered price?"

Han Jiaxue answered, "They want to purchase 10,000 AI units, both hardware and software included, with a total price of 3,000 Pulun."

Bai Zhongqi frowned slightly and asked, "What do you think of this price?"

Han Jiaxue said, "It's low. For something like artificial intelligence, any civilization that has broken through this technology doesn't need much cost to produce AI; it's just a simple matter of replication. However, most civilizations with such technology are reluctant to sell. There's a tacit agreement among them, forming a sort of covert price alliance. Hence, even the price of lower-level AI is controlled at a relatively high level, typically a Level D AI would be about 0.8 Pulun in the market. This time, because of the large quantity, the buyer has pressed the price down, but it has been on the market for over two months without any seller contact."

Bai Zhongqi pondered and said, "For us, it's just a flick of the wrist, but we've come to Bupinga not to disrupt the trade norms here; we need to keep a low profile. We're unlikely to engage in larger-scale trade here for now, given that this star region is over a thousand light-years away from Danlu Interstellar Cloud. Engaging in some trade to accumulate Pulun, we can incidentally buy some useful information, materials, or technology. We can take on this artificial intelligence business, but we should bargain first, down to a unit price of 0.7 Pulun, with the bottom line price at 0.5 Pulun. Although it's a low price, it's not overly aggressive and won't attract undue attention."

Bai Zhongqi added, "Gather some similar transactions. As long as they are not too troublesome and we can produce them using Atomic Substance Construction on the Sacred Falcon in a relatively short time, they're trades we can undertake. Moreover, we won't provide any technology; the leakage of technology might pose additional risks. Moreover, if we see suitable technology, we'll just buy it."

Indeed, some of the technologies circulating in the market are not quite high-end, but even if a civilization has reached a high level of development, there might still be deficiencies in some niche areas. These might not be bottlenecks, but filling them sometimes also helps.