Because of the distance, each communication takes more than an hour to spread. So for the sake of simplicity, all the words are said at once.
After the other party introduced himself, he sent a long list of messages: "Blue Star Civilization, you are the first interstellar civilization we have encountered in this event, and you are also a brand-new customer!"
"So, after careful consideration, we decided... to give you a big discount!"
"We have various technologies at the L2, L3, and L4 levels, a large number of unique life species, and massive material resources... You can buy and sell everything, with large quantity discounts. Please refer to this table for specific prices...
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"... If you feel that the price is not appropriate, you can have a detailed discussion with us, everything is easy to discuss... I hope we can establish a deep friendship during the transaction."
In his words, the businessman seemed to be a little "joyful" because he found a new customer, and he also had a flattering expression.
Immediately afterwards, people received a large amount of radio wave data. The information encoding was very conventional and not encrypted.
After analysis by experts from the Observatory, they found that all of this data was product information.
"Discount?" Hearing this word, Yu Yifeng instinctively felt wary.
This vigilance is not about safety, but the fear of being "tricked".
"This businessman is so powerful. With just a few words, many people have an inexplicable favorable impression."
It deliberately shows weakness, like the "surprise" of a salesman suddenly attracting business after being unable to sell anything for a long time... coupled with some "discount", it naturally gives people a psychological advantage.
This psychological advantage is deliberately created by the other party for you.
Of course, he would not be fooled by this kind of psychological trick commonly used by low-level civilizations, and it was impossible for him to lose his head just because of any discount.
Yu Yifeng quickly stared at the form and his heart moved slightly.
Even if there is no trading activity, relying on this form alone, you will not lose money.
Through this information, new humans can roughly estimate what the currency units among interstellar civilizations are like.
"Assuming that this businessman really gave any discount, or used some deceitful means, in theory, there won't be much difference. The approximate price should be accurate. Use the price range of 50%-200% to estimate...
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There were many scientists in the captain's office, plus staff members distributed in various locations on the Noah, and they all began to study these data.
At the same time, they were still discussing in low voices with great interest.
Sure enough, just as people thought, this form uses "antimatter" as the basic trading unit.
There are various trading objects, including materials, technology, biology, information and even labor force, which can be traded.
A scientist performed some unit conversions on the data in the table: "According to our calculation units, 112.32 tons of antimatter can be exchanged for 1 amoeba point."
Yu Yifeng frowned slightly, this number is not small.
When 1 gram of antimatter meets positive matter and is annihilated, it can produce an energy equivalent to 43,000 tons of TNT. When 112.32 tons of antimatter explodes, it can produce an explosion equivalent to nearly five trillion tons of TNT.
Of course, after more than a hundred years of development, the new mankind has produced hundreds of tons of antimatter, which is not a big problem.
"728.092 million tons of helium-3 is 1 amoeba point." Yu Yifeng felt a little bit sick when he saw this data.
Seventy million tons of helium-3, only one point?
Things like helium-3, with an extra "ten thousand" in the unit at the end, can't be sold for much at all, and it has become purely a kind of cheap labor.
So, the dream of buying with cheap stuff was dashed.
"Similarly, things like deuterium are even cheaper... 7,142,159,000 tons of deuterium can be exchanged for 1 amoeba point... There are also purity requirements." The scientist in charge of unit conversion scratched his head, feeling overwhelmed by this number.
Headache.
These things require pure substances. You can't just pump some water and sell them for money. They have to be separated and purified.
A rough look at the past shows that basically everything is calculated in terms of “ten thousand tons”.
Since materials are so common in the universe, these things really cannot be sold for money. At most, they can be used as porters and sell a little "labor power".
What surprised Yu Yifeng was that "tritium", "uranium" and "complex organic matter" were actually more valuable than ordinary nuclear fusion fuel.
But thinking about it carefully, people soon understood that the half-life of "tritium" is not long, its production and preservation are very difficult, and it is impossible to exist on a large scale. It is normal that the price is high; the production of "uranium" is also very difficult and can only be achieved through supernovae
The amount of uranium mined on each Earth-like planet is quite limited.
"Complex organic compounds" can only be produced on living planets, and are more difficult to synthesize artificially, and are relatively more "expensive". Of course, material resources, no matter how expensive they are, are always cheap compared to the things below.
This alien commercial spacecraft does not accept or sell these cheap things. Because the capacity of the spacecraft is really limited, if they are sold tens of billions of tons of cheap helium-3, it is impossible to install it underground...
"It's understandable." Some scientists murmured to themselves: "It's good to use it yourself, but it's not enough to sell it for money."
"I didn't see any particularly expensive supplies, nor did I see any perfect prices..."
Yu Yifeng was not discouraged, but excitedly turned the form to the next page.
“Very informative!”
This page contains information on various indigenous planets. It may have been collected by this commercial spaceship along the way. This kind of information is not particularly expensive, and it is just written down.
He didn't look at it much, only a fool would buy this.
If it were a complete map of interstellar civilization, he might consider it.
On the next page, there are some... strange creatures!
This "Ribusis Civilization" wrote very proudly: "We have collected thousands of powerful alien creatures, which are fierce and full of fighting power, and extremely tenacious! Some of these individuals are creatures created by more advanced civilizations, with very special characteristics.
Unique genetic material…
"The research on nanodynamics and gene dynamics has great reference significance. There are even silicon-based organisms..."
There was a long list of bala bala, which was somewhat interesting. But at first glance, each creature required several points, which made Yu Yifeng shake his head repeatedly.
No matter how powerful the creature is, a nuclear bomb will kill it. Genetic material, special nanodynamics, and gene dynamics templates do have some value.
But a few points...are too expensive, right?
"Even rare silicon-based organisms... are not worth the price."
"What else is so powerful that it can be used in interstellar battles? Is there some kind of interstellar colosseum?" He felt a little confused and skipped the page again.
However, I made a note in my mind that these strange creatures are so valuable, so I should pay more attention to them in the future.
Selling special creatures is much more cost-effective than stupidly collecting resources.
"I wonder how much our Gaia biological Ling can be sold for?" Yu Yifeng thought to himself. But he quickly laughed to himself and said that selling Ling was of course impossible.
Then there are various technologies, and this is the big one. Various patent-like pictures are displayed on the screen in rows, with only some specific introductions written on them, and there are tens of thousands of them.
"There are a lot of technologies! It seems that technology is the main transaction content."
These technologies are all redeemed by "Amoeba Points". The cheap ones only cost a few points, while the expensive ones cost thousands of points!
Yu Yifeng thoughtfully said that this point system is actually a kind of behavior that binds users, but it also simplifies the operation to a certain extent.
If the Amoeba Alliance has many markets in the galaxy and is strong, then "Amoeba Points" are universal in all markets. Then the points of this merchant alliance will become the general equivalent of transactions between star civilizations.
, which is equivalent to a universal currency like the "USD" on earth, and the benefits are of course needless to say.
A group of scientists who had long been hungry and thirsty could not wait to study this technology table.
People gradually discovered that the theoretical part is generally expensive, because theory is common to all civilizations.
The table lists basic theories such as mathematics, physics, and chemistry, plus theories on the level of interstellar civilization. Each has its own price due to its importance and difficulty.
However, the other party does not have a solution to a big problem like the "Riemann Hypothesis", which makes people quite proud. I don't know, it is because the other party does not want to sell, but because they have not solved it.