Chapter 83 "Black Market" And "Armor Breaking"

Chen Ming stood outside the "black market".

Looking at the bustling commercial street in front of him, he couldn't help but say: "This place is not what I imagined."

Old Wu knew that Chen Ming was just sighing, so he walked in first and waved to Chen Ming and said: "It's different, so let's go in and take a look first."

Chen Ming followed.

Observing the goods in the large stores on the black market street.

These goods include various advanced weapons and equipment.

Among them are military weapons produced by Tachyon Technology with cutting-edge technology as the core design idea.

At the same time, there are also many weapons and equipment with obvious military characteristics.

The weapons of Xinda Company are not very common, probably because the main direction of Xinda Company's research and manufacturing of weapons and equipment is to ensure average quality while low-cost mass production.

Most people who come to places like the black market must want to get the best, so the weapons of Xinda Company are not very popular.

Chen Ming is very envious of those things from Tachyon Technology and the military, but he is not in a hurry to buy them.

Just look along the way, record things that may be useful to him, and finally confirm and compare them together.

Although he has about 30 million yuan in his hand now, it is really not much, so he must be careful with his money.

As Chen Ming walked, he suddenly said to Lao Wu next to him: "I thought the black market should be more secretive, or it should be an online platform."

"Online? Who knows what is sold online? Here, you pay and get the goods, and if there is a problem, it will be solved on the spot. Isn't it good?"

"There are many good goods here that have never been used."

"What you mean is that there are also second-hand refurbished goods for sale."

Lao Wu spread his hands and said: "If you buy refurbished goods and don't recognize them, it's the buyer's problem. Anyway, no one will recognize them after leaving the black market."

"Yeah."

Chen Ming responded, and continued to scan the surroundings. Second-hand goods are also a place he must pay attention to.

In addition to looking at the weapons displayed in the store, he was also paying attention to some people.

Some pirates who were disguised but still recognized by Chen Ming had bounties on their bodies.

They walked openly on the streets of the black market without any trouble from anyone.

It seems that the government intends to eat both pirates and bounty hunters.

After all, pirates and bounty hunters are big consumers of high-end weapons.

After Chen Ming saw a pirate with a certain bounty for the third time, he couldn't help but ask Lao Wu: "Can we target other people here?"

"What do you mean? Robbery? Don't take me with you if you want to die."

"No, it's pirates."

"Pirates?"

Lao Wu's eyes swept over the people around him, and he also saw a few ordinary pirates in disguise.

But he shook his head and said, "No, any use of force is prohibited on the planet, so we can't do it."

"It's not easy to fight even if we leave the planet. We definitely can't fight inside the galaxy because of the patrol team. Didn't you see that patrol team on the way here? A patrol team led by a cruiser."

"If we really want to do it, we have to wait for the opportunity and wait for people to leave the galaxy on their own initiative."

"But if we can't squat in advance, it's easy for others to enter the channel first and then run away at the fastest speed."

"There is a speed limit in the channel. It's hard to catch up if someone runs away first. If we want to do it, we must prepare in advance."

"If you really have an idea, I also know where the place where intelligence is sold here is. Do you want to go and have a look?"

Chen Ming just mentioned it casually when he saw it. Since Lao Wu mentioned so many problems, he didn't have to do it.

So he said directly: "Not for the time being, buy something first."

"Then let's go."

Chen Ming continued to pay attention to the goods in the shops on the commercial street.

While checking the goods, he gradually went deep into the center of the black market district.

Came to the most prosperous place in the black market.

Here, Chen Ming could even see several shops that covered an area as large as a city square.

Of course, the shop itself was a commercial building, and the main reason was that the open space outside occupied a larger area.

Goods were placed on these open spaces, just like in commercial buildings and shops.

However, they were not weapons and equipment, but some intact spaceships.

These spaceships were all standard military spaceships that had not been castrated, and they came from all kinds of manufacturers.

Chen Ming even saw a Lumen-class destroyer of Yuhui, which was obviously being sold as a collection.

Such a black market that clearly sold military spaceships and various controlled goods to ordinary people was right under the nose of the star region government, and the most prosperous place in the star region was blatantly violating the law.

There were even government guards helping to maintain order, which really showed Chen Ming the thin legal concepts in the marginal star region.

This place would definitely not be possible without the government's endorsement.

Moreover, Chen Ming's eyes lingered on a brand new Centurion-class ship for sale for a while.

The military should also be involved. The ship was definitely not paralyzed or abandoned, but was transported here as soon as it left the factory.

Although other companies also have ships for sale here, because the company's ships are already sold to the outside world, it is not sure whether any company is really involved.

After passing through the most prosperous area of ​​the black market for selling spaceships, the place behind is almost the same as the place Chen Ming passed before.

If he continues to look, he will spend too much time on the road.

So Chen Ming turned back to the place where the spaceships were sold, and started from the opposite direction to confirm what he needed step by step.

First of all, the spaceship must not be bought

Because Chen Ming is actually okay with spaceships at present.

Three destroyers plus six frigates are enough to deal with many situations.

If there are more, it will really be impossible to take them.

But Chen Ming thinks it is necessary to add new weapons.

Because the weapons he has are a bit biased.

The energy weapons on the medium-sized bearing points include ion beams and tactical laser cannons.

The live ammunition weapons include the Ripper, the "Noise" cannon, and the assault chain cannon.

The small energy weapon has only one instantaneous HPD laser cannon, which is also a point defense weapon.

The best small live ammunition weapon is the military light needle.

Others, such as the light assault cannon and the Vulcan point defense cannon on the Mule class, are better than ordinary civilian weapons, but only slightly better.

Then add an electromagnetic javelin converted from a single-soldier weapon.

The remaining missile-type weapons.

There are two types of small missile weapons. The Fire Snake focuses on locking missiles, can adjust its trajectory by itself, track the tail flame of the spacecraft and hit the engine, causing the engine to be paralyzed or even destroyed.

There is also a Death torpedo, but this thing is not very practical.

Although there is only one medium-sized one, it is at least a Cyber ​​SRM missile with extremely strong shield-breaking ability on the Gladiator class.

In general, these are the weapons Chen Ming currently has.

It looks like a lot, covering all the required combat environments.

But in fact, there is still a lack of a weapon that can end the spacecraft when breaking the shield of the enemy spacecraft.

Energy weapons are definitely not included.

Because energy weapons rely on excellent output and radiation amplification ratio to gain advantages.

Unless the energy output exceeds a limit, such as the tachyon spear, it is still difficult to have a strong destructive ability.

So the end of the spacecraft can only rely on live ammunition and missiles.

At least destroyer and escort-level spacecraft can only rely on these two to end the spacecraft in most cases.

Almost all the weapons Chen Ming currently has are used to break shields and armor.

But what you need to do to destroy a ship is completely different from breaking shields and armor.

Weapons that are good at armor penetration may not be good for the structure of the spacecraft.

For example, noise.

This is a multi-barrel revolver cannon that fires small high-speed armor-piercing shells.

While ensuring the strong effect of kinetic weapons on shields, it also has a strong ability to break armor.

Then, there is nothing else.

The design of armor-piercing shells determines that they can only penetrate armor and cause certain damage to the outer structure of the spacecraft, and it is difficult to cause sufficient damage to the interior of the spacecraft.

Another weapon, the Ripper, is better than the noisy armor-piercing shells because it uses armor-piercing high-explosive shells.

However, because it is an armor-piercing high-explosive shell, it cannot compare with pure single-type weapons in terms of actual destructive power and armor-piercing ability.

The shield-breaking ability is also somewhat poor due to its own armor-piercing design.

Therefore, the Ripper is okay in dealing with pirates with weak armor and fragile structures, but it will not be very effective against targets with heavy armor and shields.

Unless you fight with pirates, the possible result in the end is that the shield and armor of the enemy spacecraft are broken, but there is no way to completely destroy the spacecraft, end the enemy, and give the enemy a chance to breathe.

Just like the time when Chen Ming fought with the pirates before.

Because the Centurion suffered a frontal fire attack from six spacecraft, it could only open the damping field defense and could not use the Ripper to counterattack.

As a result, Chen Ming could only rely on the excellent performance of the Fighter Kai itself and the radiation energy system that could almost catch up with the destroyer, and the shield-breaking ability of the Cyber ​​SRM missile and the shield suppression ability of the ion beam to defeat the shield of the Corsair Mule.

Then the problem occurred when dealing with the engine.

Chen Ming could only rely on the overload power grid and the high-energy focusing device to strengthen the ion beam to barely destroy the Mule engine, and it was not even destroyed.

In addition, the Fighter Kai and the Centurion were only one spaceship, and it was very easy to be restrained.

In the future, when there are more spaceships in a fight, there will be no chance for Chen Ming to attack the engine from the flank.

If the engine cannot be paralyzed, then the termination ability of the spaceship Chen Ming has will be even worse.

Even dealing with pirates with a little surprise will cause problems.

This further proves that Chen Ming is currently lacking a terminal type weapon that can quickly damage the structure of the spacecraft.

Although the Reaper torpedo can be considered a type, and it is also very famous.

But its number is small, and its actual combat effectiveness is also a mystery. Whether it can be used depends entirely on luck.

In fact, Lude's self-destruct ship is very suitable for terminal attacks on spacecraft, but the cost of the self-destruct ship is higher than any other means of attack combined. At most, it can be used as a trump card. It is impossible to rely entirely on the self-destruct ship to fight.

So after Chen Ming actually fought and noticed the problems in the battle, he urgently needed this type of excellent terminal weapon.

And Chen Ming's terminal notes at this time did record some valuable weapons.

Among them, there is just one weapon that meets all of Chen Ming's needs.

Tachyon Technology's concentrated charge anti-aircraft gun.

Semi-energy and semi-live ammunition weapons, each warhead is a grenade loaded with special charge materials.

The warhead is quickly charged when fired, and when it actually hits, there is not only the explosion impact of the grenade, but also the arc generated when the internal charge material is destroyed.

The grenade alone has a strong killing power on the structure of the spacecraft.

The arc generated by the charge material can have a great impact on the shield.

Although its effect on armor is average, Chen Ming cannot expect a weapon that can break shields, armor, and destroy structures.

Being able to have an additional effect on shields on the basis of ensuring strong destruction of structures is already the best weapon Chen Ming has found.

It just makes up for Chen Ming's current situation.

However, this type of energy-focused charge anti-aircraft gun is a weapon installed on a medium-sized load-bearing point, and the price is quite outrageous.

One gun costs five million, and two guns cost tens of millions.

Chen Ming's current net worth only allows him to buy two guns.

Who can bear to have his assets reduced by one third in an instant?

If it weren't for the fact that Chen Ming didn't need additional spare ammunition, the price would only be higher.

Moreover, Chen Ming can't modify this weapon developed by Tachyon Technology at all, so he can only use it.

Because the weapon design ideas of Tachyon Technology are different from the low-cost mass production of Sinda Company.

Chen Ming can find those designs of Sinda Company's spacecraft weapons that are actively weakened to ensure mass production.

But Tachyon Technology's weapons are designed according to cutting-edge weapons, and Chen Ming can't find any place where he can enhance them.

This is actually good news, indicating that Tachyon Technology's weapons are at least guaranteed in quality.

And it also made Chen Ming realize his shortcomings in technology again.

Not only cutting-edge technology, but also the technology of energy weapons and semi-energy weapons commonly used by Tachyon Technology,

So Chen Ming had better find a way to learn more technology to prevent the situation of being blind to technology in the future.

It just so happens that all he has to do now is to spend a few minutes to refurbish the weapons every day, so he definitely has time.

Since he has to learn this, Chen Ming can actually learn some more advanced knowledge.

For example, cruiser-level knowledge.

Chen Ming has never been in contact with cruiser-level spacecraft, and has only learned theoretical knowledge, but he thinks that he should have a day in the future to control a cruiser, so it is not a loss to learn it.

In addition, Chen Ming can actually learn the technology from Yuhui.

However, the gap between Yuhui's technology and that of humans is a bit large.

At most, it can be used as a reference, and it may come in handy when modifying Yuhui's spacecraft.

Just when Chen Ming had a lot of ideas in his mind because of buying things.

Old Wu suddenly patted him on the shoulder and said, "What are you thinking about? Sign the order."

Chen Ming suddenly pulled himself out of his thoughts, said "Oh", and signed the contract with the government's seal and endorsement.

The weapons will be delivered to the designated location within an hour.

The merchant will contact Chen Ming at that time.

After walking out of the store selling shaped charge anti-aircraft guns, Chen Ming began to think about the previous problem again.

As he was thinking, he suddenly asked Lao Wu next to him: "I'm thinking, is there any way to learn new technology?"

"Do you still need to learn this technology now?"

"There are still many people with better technology than me. If I don't learn, my life will be like this. I don't want this."

"Then go to the company."

Lao Wu realized that he said the wrong thing as soon as he said it, and quickly added: "Just ignore what I said."

Chen Ming is from the company. The professional technology above is not accessible to ordinary employees.

And now the attitude of the company is not clear, he is just talking about something irrelevant.

Lao Wu touched his head with a little embarrassment, thought about it and said directly: "In fact, there are other technical books. When I was learning technology before, I left a bunch of professional books."

Chen Ming waved his hand casually and said: "You and I are from the same place. I have everything you have."

Seeing Chen Ming's reaction, Old Wu smiled and said, "Who said that? I changed jobs from Speed ​​​​Zone."

"Although some technical books with high confidentiality levels are not available, some technical books with lower levels are still available."

Chen Ming suddenly became energetic, just like a pillow was sent to him when he was sleepy.

But he also had some things he didn't understand, and asked, "Your terminal was not checked?"

"This happened many years ago, and I was an apprentice at that time. I changed jobs and handed in the company's terminal. I was released after a personal inspection. I can only say that they didn't check it very carefully."

"Then you didn't sell it?"

"Do you dare to sell it?"

"No, but I think you can sell it."

Old Wu stared at Chen Ming with his eyes wide open, but he knew that he was a profiteer at ordinary times, so he really couldn't blemish Chen Ming.

"Tsk, forget it."

Old Wu smacked his lips, took out the terminal and sent a packaged document to Chen Ming point-to-point, saying: "It's okay to show you these things in private, just don't spread it out."

After receiving the file, Chen Ming took a quick look and confirmed that the contents were all genuine.

Although the basics were similar to the way Xinda Company educated new employees, there would be special technical teaching from Tachyon Technology later.

It was very helpful for his current situation.

Chen Ming turned off the terminal and looked up and down at Old Wu. Old Wu couldn't help asking: "What are you doing?"

Chen Ming suddenly felt that the saying "You can't judge a person by his appearance" was still true.

However, knowing Old Wu's character of hitting the snake on the pole, Chen Ming still said: "It's okay, just take a look at you, and let's go on."

The things have been bought, but Chen Ming still wants to see more places in the black market.

Although he can't afford it, it doesn't cost money to see it.

Especially those spaceships in the center of the black market, Chen Ming is still quite interested.

Especially when Chen Ming passed by just now, he also saw a military Hammerhead-class destroyer.

This kind of spaceship was selected by Xinda Company when the military was bidding. If it was selected by the military, the quality can be said to be very good.

And Chen Ming likes Xinda Company's spaceships as a whole, mainly because they are easy to use and easy to modify.

However, the price of this Hammerhead-class ship is 130 million.

It can only be said that the price of the military-grade is actually similar.

Chen Ming can't even afford a fraction now.

There is another ship that he is very interested in.

It was a Storm-class frigate of Tachyon Technology that was seized by Yuhui, which Gamma A had heard about before.

It is equipped with an unmanned fighter installed with the Terminator core, and has a battle situation grasp ability that is almost similar to Yuhui AI.

However, the price of this frigate is even more expensive than the Hammerhead-class destroyer.

170 million.

Chen Ming took a look at the number of people watching the spaceship outside the isolation zone and the 20 million yuan in his hand, and knew that this ship was probably not related to him.

Unless Chen Ming is busy at the space station for a while, he may earn enough money to buy these two spaceships.

But now, he can only watch.

Chen Ming had no desire to buy at this time, so he walked in the black market with the idea of ​​seeing more good things.

And this idea suddenly reminded him of something.

Chen Ming turned to Old Wu who was playing with the terminal and said, "Old Wu, do you know if there is an auction here?"

Old Wu looked up at Chen Ming and said, "How did you think of an auction?"

"That's how I thought of it."

Old Wu lowered his head and said, "There were indeed many years ago, during the years when the Empire's development slowed down."

"At that time, explorers often took the initiative to explore the galaxies outside the Empire's territory and brought back many rare things. Auctions were very popular at that time."

"But recently, I haven't heard of anything worth auctioning."

"And to be honest, there is really nothing rare and non-controlled in our marginal galaxy to auction..."

Old Wu suddenly stopped talking halfway. He quickly clicked on the terminal and said, "Wait a minute, there really is."

"The main auction item is the armor-piercing destroyer? I haven't heard of a spacecraft."

"Take a look."

Old Wu reached out and handed over his terminal, which displayed information about an auction website.

Tomorrow the government will hold an auction in a colonial development history exhibition hall next to the black market, using a large conference hall and venue there.

Although the main auction item was not introduced in detail, Chen Ming could tell at a glance that the design of this armor-piercing spaceship was definitely related to the Xinda Company.

Old Wu had worked in the repair factory for so many years, and he could obviously see the characteristics of the spaceship design.

He pointed to the armor-piercing on the terminal and asked, "This should be the company's newly designed spaceship model, right? Why is it being sold at the auction?"

"Who knows, but I think this spaceship is interesting."

"If it's interesting, let's go and take a look. It opens tomorrow, so we should have time to go and take a look. With the money you have now, you should be eligible to enter."

Chen Ming certainly had no objection to this, but he was thinking about more things: "Of course it's okay for me to go, but won't it be boring for you to follow me, Old Wu?"

"I'm very interested in these spaceship weapons, but Old Wu, you usually seem..."

Old Wu looked at Chen Ming with a strange face and said, "I'm also interested in spaceships. Who said I'm not interested? Which man would not be interested in spaceships?"

"I usually like to drink and have fun, but I don't just like to drink and have fun. Don't look down on me."

"Speaking of this."

Old Wu suddenly showed a wretched smile on his face: "Do you want to go with me tonight to have fun?"

Chen Ming decisively refused: "No, I'm not interested, but if you want to go, Old Wu, I'll reimburse you."

"So good?"

"That's it."