Haggling

After the microphones were muted, the Grand Governor of the Nair People encouraged everyone to discuss openly and honestly, striving to reach a conclusion as quickly as possible.

"Your Grand Governor, we have no way of knowing whether what Human Civilization says is true, even though they do resemble a mission fleet of a certain civilization and what they say sounds very reasonable. But I still feel there is something wrong with it," a Nair People said.

Another Nair People added, "Yes, Grand Governor, look at how the human list sets this entire set of Milky Way Galaxy Basic Common Sense Information at a high price of 130 million Transaction Points. That's equivalent to 130 million tons of Cold Nuclear Fusion fuel! Meanwhile, the total cost of our supplies, including processing and transportation, is only 30 million Transaction Points, which is roughly the value of the one million doses of the Version 1.0 Life Elixir they mentioned."

"If we calculate it this way, wouldn't we be essentially giving them all sorts of supplies and fuel for free, and then having to use other resources or technology to exchange for Transaction Points for the price of purchasing Milky Way Galaxy Basic Common Sense Information?"

"Arnai is right. Not only that, look at the price they're charging for the No. 1 Alloy Material manufacturing technology. It's ridiculously expensive, a whole 100 million Transaction Points. If we follow their pricing method, we can't afford anything at all."

"Yes, and you see, this Artificial Intelligence technology that we've always wanted also has a problem. It's not that it's expensive, but that the computer technology path of this Human Civilization seems to be different from ours. So, have you noticed that on the list, the most frequently mentioned term for computer technology in this Human Civilization is General-purpose Quantum Computing Technology, rather than Photon Computer like ours?"

"Huh, that's true. Does that mean if you want to buy Artificial Intelligence technology, you also have to buy general-purpose quantum technology as well? This..."

"This is not a big problem. It seems that Human Civilization does not have Photon Computer technology. We can exchange our Photon Computer technology with them."

"That's a good idea, but I think it needs a little modification. Since we've decided that Human Civilization doesn't have Photon Computer technology, why should we offer our Photon Computer technology in exchange? You know, if we offer it in exchange, Human Civilization will definitely realize that we don't have General-purpose Quantum Computer technology."

Therefore, we need to change our approach. We should separately quote a price for Photon Computer technology, and quote a high price, around 200 million Transaction Points. Even if we haggle, we won't lose money. This way, we can pretend to use these Transaction Points to purchase other human technologies, and casually mention it while simultaneously acquiring their General-purpose Quantum Computer technology along with their Artificial Intelligence technology. We must do this discreetly.

"But they can also see that we don't have General-purpose Quantum Computer technology!"

"No problem. We just need to demonstrate that Photon Computer technology is our main focus, and that purchasing General-purpose Quantum Computer technology is merely a way to verify the controllability of Artificial Intelligence technology from another perspective!"

"That's a good idea!"

As the group discussed the matter, their thoughts shifted from suspecting that humans were up to something to the pricing of the list and the various technologies that humans had listed on it.

Clearly, after a round of negotiations and hearing Yue Yuan's persuasive words, many Nair People subconsciously accepted the premise that humans are a knowledgeable and well-informed civilization.

Many wise Nair People also saw this, but they had no solution, because in this situation, there seemed to be no better way than to use the 'general equivalent' and transaction scheme proposed by humans.

In the past, they could have chosen not to trade with humans at all, but after seeing the performance parameters of Alloy No. 1, the Nair People realized that they were the weaker party.

If we don't provide humanity with supplies and fuel, war might break out at any moment.

So now the pro-war faction has stopped talking and is instead focusing on how to acquire Alloy No. 1 technology at the lowest possible price.

The Nair Civilization is currently in a state of division, and conflict with humanity is definitely not the wisest course of action. The most urgent task should be to acquire Alloy No. 1 technology, and then carry out a major overhaul of the warships in the Second Star Region or build a batch of New Warship in the same style as human warships.

In this way, the combat power of the Second Star Region will be greatly enhanced. If handled well, it is not impossible for the Second Star Region to reunite the Nair Civilization.

After a period of discussion, the Nair People finally opened the call again, and it was their Grand Governor spoke.

"Chief Commander of the Human Fleet, we admit that your trading system is indeed more complete, but the prices you have set are outrageous, especially this piece of 'Milky Way Galaxy Basic Common Sense Information'. You're asking for 130 million for just one piece of information, which is unacceptable to us."

Because people don't want the other party to know the content of their internal discussions, it's normal to mute the microphone to reach a conclusion and then re-mute it. The video Interactive System will also provide on/off microphone status prompts on both parties' screens.

"130 million Transaction Points is already a friendly price. We sold it to the Kun-Tai Civilization for 200 million, and we really couldn't go any lower! Well, since our two civilizations get along so well, I'm not afraid to tell you that we bought this intelligence information from the advanced civilization market for 500 million Transaction Points back then. We sold it twice, and we still haven't broken even."

"And Your Grand Governor, if you think about it this way, after we sell it to you, you can always sell it to other civilizations you encounter!"

This time, the answer from the human side wasn't Yue Yuan, but a business elite. Oh, a business elite in name only, but in reality, he was just a scholar who had studied some economics, because human society no longer had any big businessmen or capitalists.

There are still various shops, stores, shopping malls, and companies, but they are all publicly owned.

"This..." the Grand Governor of the Nair Civilization muttered, turning to look at a business elite beside him.

"No, no, no, 130 million is absolutely not enough. I'll give you 50 million Transaction Points at most." The Nair People business elite understood and replied by vibrating his abdominal vocal organs.

"Fifty million is absolutely impossible, let's go for 130 million!" The humans on the other side had a "take it or leave it" attitude.

Nair People: "Eighty million!"

Human: "Sigh, forget it, 100 million Transaction Points is the minimum! Any less and we don't know how many more years we'll have to run before we encounter another kind civilization to recoup our losses."

"Alright then, 100 million Transaction Points it is."

The business elite from the Nair People paused, then confirmed, "But you must guarantee that the information in this intelligence report, including details about valuable cosmic artifacts, classifications of civilization levels, and the distribution of Advanced Civilizations of the Milky Way Galaxy, is accurate!"

"Of course, that information came from the Interstellar Transaction Market under the Perseus Commonwealth. That's Level Six Civilization, how could it be wrong!" The human business expert was secretly overjoyed, but his face remained serious.

"Great!" The Nair People negotiator was also very pleased, as if he had just closed a major deal. He obviously had no idea that most of the so-called intelligence was fabricated by humans.