Within the Space-Time Port.

Lin Yi shook his head.

He should hurry to the real trade circle.

What use does he have for those slaves worth ten coins?

He would rather spend a large sum of money on a slave with excellent and very practical skills!

He looked around, confident he could find all sorts of interesting things in this city.

At this moment, Piero whispered, "Boss... don't forget, you promised..."

"Alright, alright, I'll buy you lustful lot some alien women."

Lin Yi said impatiently, then continued walking forward.

The group moved slowly to avoid missing out on good things.

The crowd was filled with aliens of various races.

According to their guide, Su Aomei, as long as you pay taxes, anyone can settle down and live in this port.

Generally speaking, the port houses intelligent creatures discovered on the fragments, slaves who have already gained freedom, and of course, their offspring.

This city has eight gates, each connected to a main street.

The team was currently advancing along the third street.

Visitors from the Ark are quite common, and they are usually wealthy, so the team was quickly surrounded by a group of locals.

They were all peddling goods and services, but at least half of them were selling themselves.

Interestingly, despite these locals evidently coming from many different races, most of them spoke the same language.

Lin Yi equipped everyone on the team with translators, so there were no language barriers.

"I'm not interested," Lin Yi said, yet those alien women selling themselves were persistent.

A trio of voluptuous alien women almost dragged Da Chuan away...

"Solomon, can you handle this?"

"Right away, boss!"

Solomon said, showing a fierce expression, then activated two skills, transforming into a Stone Giant.

He shoved aside the alien women and merchants, clearing a path for the team to move forward.

Seeing the Stone Giant, these locals became extremely frightened and polite.

Here, advanced professionals can easily get angry and won't hesitate to kill such insignificant rabble.

Of course, the murderer might face fines or other penalties, but that doesn't matter to them...

The team's guide had been down this street before, so he introduced various places to them.

Most were bars, women inns, and small shops.

"Su Aomei, did you come to this port before just to drink and find women?"

Lin Yi didn't understand, why waste so much money on this?

Why not develop his Ark?

The meaning of money is to make more money.

"Ha ha... well, as a king of a warrior race, life is quite dull... And you've seen my people.

Among the Solar people, few women are attractive, and if you hook up with a woman, you must marry her.

In our people, even visiting a women inn doesn't exist."

The former ruler of the Sun Ark smiled awkwardly at this moment.

Lin Yi nodded, but that wasn't his purpose for coming.

"Anyway, I've looked around, and there's nothing but junk in this circle. I feel like people here might try to con us...

So let's speed up and don't get distracted by those women, got it?"

"Understood..." the soldiers answered in unison.

Piero protested, "Boss! But some of them... are really super sexy, like that trio..."

Everyone else remained silent.

Seeing the boss's gaze, Piero also lowered his head.

Lin Yi ignored their complaints, and the team soon reached the gate to the next circle.

This time, the entry fee was fifty coins per person...

Lin Yi seriously considered whether to build a port of his own.

After all, you could make money without doing anything!

Maybe... the entire port would still need defense, equipped facilities, and many other things to do...

But if it wasn't a profitable business, no one would do it.

The second circle surprised the team.

The streets here were clean and well-maintained.

Unlike the previous circle, where buildings were made of various materials, the buildings here were all constructed of sturdy stone.

And at least two stories high.

Guards patrolled the streets, the crowd was much smaller, everything looked better and there were many activities.

They noticed several teams, all carrying weapons, standing out significantly.

In this port, it seems only visitors and guards are allowed to carry weapons.

"We'll start from the end of the street and work back, making a note of any interesting places—we'll check them out on the way back."

Unlike the obnoxious peddling merchants in the first circle, the second circle used advertising banners, as many visitors didn't understand the local language, so the banners often displayed images rather than text.

Piero pointed at an inconspicuous place, "Boss, look, there's another women inn."

"How can you tell?"

"Look at the image above the entrance, boss."

"Image? Oh... I see. I was just confused for a moment, turns out it's two circles plus two dots..."

"...But I thought of it immediately." The Magic Squad Leader looked at the boss with surprise.

Lin Yi felt helpless, this guy's level of perversion is even greater than Louis's.

"A pervert like you sees everything as breasts! Look for a shop selling Skill Books or System Armor, Solomon... why did you bring him along?"

"As a bodyguard..."

The group continued forward.

There were many shops here.

The slave market was ridiculously numerous!

Lin Yi was surprised to see that there were embassies for both major and middle species.

According to Sualme, these embassies would be happy to ransom any of their citizens held hostage if conflicts arise.

This situation happens frequently here.

But these conflicts rarely escalate into full-fledged wars.

The second circle was noticeably smaller than the first, so they quickly reached the gate.

As Lin Yi predicted, the most expensive venues were at the end of this circle, evident from the scale and appearance of the buildings there.

The first thing the squad did was visit the nearest equipment shop.

There were two tall guards at the store entrance, one was a gray-skinned Beastman, and the other looked like a pig demon.

Standing next to the pig demon, even the Beastman didn't seem as tall.

They were both wearing yellow uniforms, with massive weapons hanging from their waists and backs, seemingly for show.

The guards showed no reaction to the guests, so the squad directly entered the store.

What they saw was a comfortably decorated interior, many glass display cases, shelves full of products, and numerous plants.

This was clearly a store catering to wealthy clients.

The spacious showroom also had four guards, a young humanoid female who appeared human, and a middle-aged store clerk.

The clerk had a big belly but was dressed properly.

He was also humanoid, but had bony protrusions instead of hair on his head, and his skin looked like wrinkled yellow paper.

"Gentlemen, hello!"

The girl bowed with a smile, speaking politely, and appeared quite cute.

She had pale purple skin, eyes with two small pupils, and a slender figure.

Lin Yi glanced around the store: "Hmm... we're here to see some equipment and Skill Books."

"Of course, sir! May I recommend something for you?"

"Of course, show me your best. Time is money, so hurry up."

Upon hearing this, the girl immediately flashed a bright smile.

But just as she was about to speak, Lin Yi preemptively pointed to the eight people accompanying him.

"You introduce things to them, I need to check out your store's exclusive items."

"Yes, sir!"

The girl bowed again and then approached Piero, knowing that the young man's eyes had been on her.

"Please allow me to show you our best products, this way."

The girl led Piero and the others towards a nearby display cabinet full of swords, long spears, and other weapons.

At this time, the middle-aged store clerk walked over.

"Please allow me to introduce myself, my name is Aisha. Please follow me."

He had been closely observing Lin Yi and his guards since just now.

He had seen many customers before, but never anyone with such unique equipment...

Lin Yi nodded and followed the clerk to the store's second floor.

There were a few guards solemnly standing in front of a small armored door.

The room was half the size of the main showroom, but the items there immediately caught Lin Yi's attention.

At this time, the clerk curiously asked Lin Yi.

"May I ask...how did you guess that the first floor didn't have the best items? I can tell this is your first visit to our port."

"...Though I don't know the specifics here, your store is near the gate, which means your rent is high, and the items on the first floor are too cheap."

Lin Yi shrugged.

As the squad walked along the street, he had been paying attention to the surroundings, gaining a rough understanding of the current prices for System Equipment.

"Cheap?! This is the first time I've heard a customer say my prices are low, they usually think we set high prices...

Please forgive my curiosity, but what species do you belong to? I've never seen equipment like yours before, but it's obvious it's not handmade."

The clerk examined Lin Yi's equipment again, imagining how much it would cost to buy the equipment of these nine customers.

He started to sweat...

The value of this equipment might be ten times the entire stock cost!

Lin Yi clearly didn't care about his expression or thoughts, he snorted.

"Time is money, understand?"

"Apologies... there will soon be an auction here, with many truly valuable items for sale, I'd like to invite you to attend."

The fat man said this while sweating profusely, handing Lin Yi something like a business card.

If this customer accepted his invitation and bought many valuable items at the auction, he'd get a huge commission.

Lin Yi took the invitation with some interest.

"What specific things are inside?"

"They plan to auction a bottle of Evolution Potion, which is indeed a very rare item. The starting bid is... ten thousand Coins!"

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