Chapter 84: Still Can’t Afford It
Chapter 84: Still Can’t Afford It
When Bruce appeared in the cross-dimensional three-dimensional video image and saw Lei Yaotian, his reaction was exactly the same as Andrew’s.
There was no other way. Lei Yaotian had to explain again what had happened to him.
After finishing, Lei Yaotian spread his hands and said to Bruce very helplessly, “Basically, that’s the situation. Because I ate things randomly and fused with the crystal cores of alien creatures, I ended up like this.”
Bruce looked at Lei Yaotian for a while, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, before saying to him, “Don’t look so upset. I’ve dealt with intelligent life forms that have your appearance before. Moreover, in my legion, there are also life forms that look just like you. So I understand your aesthetic standards. According to your views, your current appearance can be described as ‘beautiful’.”
The corner of Lei Yaotian’s mouth twitched. He thought to himself, “I’m a guy, okay? Can ‘beautiful’ really describe a real man?”
But he couldn’t say anything about Bruce’s comment, since they were not the same species.
Lei Yaotian shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly, “No matter what, this is how I am now. I can’t change this fact myself, so what else can I do except accept it?”
“Alright, let’s get straight to business,” Lei Yaotian said. He didn’t want to continue discussing the issue of him turning into a pretty boy. He directly stated his purpose for contacting Bruce. “The reason I looked for you this time is that I want to buy some construction materials from you. Since I want to build my own base, Brother Bruce, you have to sell me the top construction materials.”
After hearing Lei Yaotian’s words, Bruce nodded.
“Hmm… You want to build your own base? I really support that,” Bruce said seriously to Lei Yaotian. “As a dimensional merchant, it’s necessary to establish your own power. This will be helpful, both in the real world and in dealing with future conflicts with other merchants.”
Bruce fully supported Lei Yaotian’s idea of building his own base.
“So, what materials do you need to buy from me? As long as I have them, I will provide them for you.”
Lei Yaotian wanted to build a base, and Bruce could earn credit points from it. As long as Bruce wasn’t an idiot, he would definitely support it.
“I need a large amount of super titanium alloy defensive metal plates. If possible, I also want to buy many engineering robots. And I need you to provide me with some base construction blueprints for reference.”
Bruce waved his tentacles and repeatedly indicated that there was no problem.
“Then I want to know, do you plan to build your base in space or on a planet?” Bruce asked. “This is very important.”
Fatty Lei thought for a moment and said, “For now, it will be a planetary fortress base. After I have enough strength, I’ll consider building a space fortress. After all, you have to eat one bite at a time. You have to plan step by step.”
“Mm-hmm!” Bruce nodded. “Indeed.”
“What is the price for the engineering robots? And what is the price for the metal plates used to build the fortress defensive walls?” Lei Yaotian now wanted to clarify the prices of the materials he needed to buy, so he could make a proper budget.
Although he had saved credit points for half a month in his account, who knew if it would be enough to build a fortress?
“Heavy engineering robots cost 100,000 credit points each. They are equipped with firepower and low-level artificial intelligence programs. They are mainly used to build heavy fortresses or bases. I recommend this model to you.”
A three-dimensional hologram appeared beside Lei Yaotian, showing the details of that model of engineering robot. Some data were also listed in the three-dimensional image, making it easier for Fatty Lei to make judgments.
Bruce explained, “The reason I’m introducing this model of robot is that the metal plates used to build fortresses are very heavy. Apart from such engineering robots, no other models can complete such tasks.”
“Thank you very much for the introduction. I’m very satisfied.”
100,000 credit points each was not too expensive for Lei Yaotian.
Afterward, Bruce introduced a small, precision construction engineering robot, specifically for building the internal facilities of the fortress.
However, compared to the heavy robots, the price of the small precision engineering robots was much higher.
“Since the heavy engineering robots are used to build external defensive facilities, which are different from the control facilities built by the small engineering robots, the price of the small precision construction engineering robots is higher than the heavy ones.”
“300,000 each!”
But Lei Yaotian understood. After all, the core of a fortress was those precise control systems. Compared to the defensive metal plates, those were the most important part.
So, Lei Yaotian could accept that the small engineering robots were more expensive.
Then Bruce displayed a three-dimensional fortress graphic in front of Lei Yaotian.
“Multi-functional all-round firepower defense fortress.”
Lei Yaotian looked at the circular three-dimensional image of the fortress and sucked his teeth.
“360-degree no-blind-spot firepower configuration. It is the top fortress in my world. It also comes with propulsion devices, allowing it to become an aerial fortress in space when needed… It is equipped with 9,000 heavy black death cannons, 30,000 medium energy impact cannons, and 100,000 small particle rapid-fire machine cannons…”
“At the same time, the fortress has the ability to strike long-range space targets and possesses anti-reconnaissance and stealth functions to evade enemy detection satellites and detection bands.”
“This is simply a mobile firepower output.”
Lei Yaotian listened to Bruce’s introduction while thinking to himself.
“How many credit points are needed to build such a fortress?”
“Including materials and the engineering robots used, the total price is 30 billion credit points.”
After hearing this price, Lei Yaotian’s face immediately turned pale.
“Oh my goodness, this is ridiculously expensive!”
Although he valued this fortress greatly, Lei Yaotian did not have that many credit points on hand to support building such a fortress.
Because it was just too expensive.
In the end, there was really no other way. Lei Yaotian had no choice but to give up on this fortress.
“Brother Bruce, I don’t have that many credit points in my account. I think I’ll have to choose another one.”
Bruce nodded and selected a different fortress blueprint.
This fortress was ordinary and unremarkable, but it was built underground.
This fortress greatly interested Lei Yaotian.
“Underground defensive fortress. I think this should meet your needs.”
Bruce introduced it to Lei Yaotian.
“This fortress’s defensive armor is the same as the previous fortress. But because it is built underground, its resistance to attacks is much higher. Its weakness is that it cannot move. If discovered, it can only be a passive target.”
But Lei Yaotian didn’t see it that way. In his view, an underground base was fine. After all, he just wanted a base that could provide him with security in a short time. In the future, when he had more credit points, he could build another one. After all, he wasn’t going to stay rooted on this planet forever.
For Lei Yaotian, he just needed to build a base quickly.
“This fortress is too big. If the scale can be reduced, I can still choose this blueprint.”
After thinking about it, Lei Yaotian said.
“That is completely possible. Remove some unnecessary facilities. Shrink the area of the fortress, and then it can meet the standards you need,” Bruce replied.
“Good! Reduce the construction scale on the blueprint by ninety percent. How many engineering robots will I need then?” Lei Yaotian asked.
“Reduce by ninety percent? So build a fortress at one-tenth the scale proportionally,” Bruce thought and replied. “In that case, you won’t need many engineering robots to build the fortress.”
“With engineering robots and construction materials included, how many credit points will it cost in total? Also, I want the defense enhanced and the firepower increased.”
Based on Lei Yaotian’s requirements, Bruce calculated.
“Five billion credit points will cover everything. There might even be some leftover.”
Lei Yaotian clapped his hands. “Then it’s settled! I’ll transfer the credit points to you right away, and then you can transmit all the materials I need.” Afterward, Lei Yaotian transferred 5 billion credit points to Bruce and paid a thirty percent transmission fee to the system.
Just like that, 6.5 billion credit points were spent.
But luckily, Lei Yaotian had an income of 180 million credit points every day. For half a month, he hadn’t spent any of it; he deposited all of it into the system account.
That was a full 2.7 billion credit points. Even after spending 650 million, there were still 2 billion credit points left in his account.
“Brother Bruce, how many credit points does a top-configuration heavy aircraft carrier cost at your place?”
“Do you need a special order with enhanced defense and increased firepower?” Bruce asked upon hearing this.
Lei Yaotian nodded.
“Defense increased by fifty percent, firepower increased by sixty. On the base price of 36 billion, an additional thirty percent price increase is required,” Bruce replied.
“So expensive! No wonder they don’t sell. Who would buy such an expensive warship?” Lei Yaotian’s mouth twitched repeatedly.
But he knew that if he had a large amount of credit points in the future, he would definitely buy such a warship. At the very least, even if he couldn’t say much else, it would be invincible in the star sector where he was located.
After all, the system gave Bruce’s world an sss-level rating.
Over the past half month, through research by Lei Yaotian and Wangcai, they discovered that there were also level differences between dimensional planes.
For example, sci-fi dimensional worlds were divided into 100 levels of difference. Each level’s technological capability had a heaven-and-earth gap.
The levels were completely not on the same tier.
Therefore, in the end, the quality of items sold by Bruce, a high-level sci-fi dimensional merchant, was still guaranteed.
“I hope my farm has a great harvest. It must double the yield. That way, I can expand the planting area, and in the future, I won’t have to worry about credit points anymore,” Lei Yaotian prayed silently in his heart.
He gave up the idea of buying a warship and said goodbye to Bruce.
Lei Yaotian returned to the real world.
“Work hard to earn credit points! Buy top warships!” Lei Yaotian made a decision in his heart.