Clues

At this point, the person in charge of the Interstellar Transaction Market fell silent. Clearly, as he had said before, the Interstellar Transaction Market didn't know much about these major civilizations either.

Although somewhat disappointing, it does align with the fact that the civilization governing this trading market is Level 3 Civilization.

"What about the other two?" The Dog-Headed People Commander secretly noted down the information, feeling that no matter how much or how little, he had to take it back to tell the humans.

"The leader of the Silicon-Based Collective is a silicon-based civilization, while the Perseus Commonwealth is a community composed of three Level Six Civilization and a group of Level 5 Civilization."

"Silicon-based civilization? A civilization evolved from Artificial Intelligence?" the Dog-Headed People Commander pressed.

The person in charge of the Interstellar Transaction Market succinctly stated. "No, they are pure Silicon-based life, a level six silicon-based civilization. The other members of the Silicon-Based Collective are civilizations that evolved from Artificial Intelligence Civilization."

"There is none left?"

"No, we don't know much about it either."

Alright, it really is free. The Dog-Headed People Commander then turned his attention to the third and fourth categories. The third category of intelligence was about Civilization Ruins, which was priced very high. The Dog-Headed People Fleet had limited financial resources, and they had not yet completed their mission of purchasing Life Elixir for humanity, so the Dog-Headed People Commander ignored it.

When the Dog-Headed People Commander clicked on the fourth category, he found that there were no subcategories at all, which seemed to be a category without any information.

"What's going on with the fourth type of intelligence? There are only entries, no specific catalog?" the Dog-Headed People Commander asked, puzzled.

"There are many Life Planet in the universe, but they are mostly rare and hard to come by. There was originally information about a Life Planet here, but it was bought by a civilization that came earlier."

The answer from the person in charge of the Interstellar Transaction Market surprised the Dog-Headed People group, because this kind of information could easily be sold to multiple civilizations, yet they claimed it had already been sold to other civilizations. It seems this Interstellar Transaction Market has some principles; after all, if this kind of information were sold to too many civilizations, the likely consequence would be that those civilizations meet and then wage war over that Life Planet.

Besides that, there is another reason: this so-called intelligence on Life Planet is actually selling information about Life Planet.

This practice of selling Life Planet through intelligence aligns with humanity's assessment of valuable resources in the universe.

Long ago, Human Civilization deduced the value of Life Planet through research on Life Elixir. It is reasonable that only things of value deserve to be commodities.

In that case, Human Civilization currently possesses intelligence on two Life Planet: one is the Levorotatory DNA Life Planet on Wolf's side, and the other is the Dog-Headed People Planet.

From this perspective, humans are quite wealthy.

"We'd like to buy some information about major events that have occurred in the Orion Arm of the Milky Way Galaxy over the last five thousand years. Do you have any?" The Dog-Headed People Commander hadn't forgotten the other task the humans had given him, so after learning a little about the rules of the trade, he began to inquire about the Interstellar Transaction Market.

"Of course there is. Not long ago, a war broke out between Level Six Civilization in the Orion Arm. Our trading market has information about the beginning, process, and outcome of that war. This information is worth 70,000 Energy Units. In exchange for the items on your list, you would need three different kinds of animals and three different kinds of plants, with at least 1,000 of each kind." The person in charge of the Interstellar Transaction Market gave the answer directly.

"No, the major events I'm referring to are things like stellar explosions." The Dog-Headed People Commander clearly prioritized humanity's mission, and to conceal that he wasn't saying it very deliberately, he added, "That's right, our civilization is quite interested in all sorts of strange and unusual phenomena."

"Stellar explosions? What you want to know is information about abnormal stellar explosions, right?"

"Yes!" the Dog-Headed People Commander readily admitted.

"Abnormal star eruptions are basically the work of Cosmic Civilizations. We have some information on this, and most of them are Cosmic Disaster caused by war, all related to the Orion Arm. After all, the area where our trading market operates is the Orion Arm."

"In that case, we want to know the information about the destruction of the star in the Gould Belt. At the same time, we need to purchase a batch of Life Elixir and some biological samples. If you have any life forms that you can sell, we are willing to buy some, preferably scientists." After discussing with the group of Dog-Headed People for a while, the Dog-Headed People Commander directly stated the purpose of their visit. Of course, he added the option of 'scientists'.

The person in charge of the Interstellar Transaction Market answered bluntly, "We certainly know about the event that destroyed two Star System in the Orion Arm of the Gould Belt more than three thousand years ago. We know the cause, process, and result of the event. However, you will have to exchange all the plant and animal species on your list for the price."

As expected, the situation escalated, with the Dog-Headed People Commander refusing outright. "That's impossible. The flora and fauna on our list already represent all the Biosphere Resources we've gathered for this trip. If we use them all to exchange for intelligence, we won't be able to afford any other goods."

The Interstellar Transaction Market, however, was unconcerned. Its leader replied, "No, you have other resources that you can trade, such as your scientists or your individual life forms. You should know that Sentient Life is more valuable than ordinary Biosphere Resources, so we believe you are fully capable of paying for the other goods you wish to purchase."

These words silenced the group of Dog-Headed People.

Normally, they would refuse to trade their own species' lives, but this matter concerns humanity's ability to learn the truth about the explosion of the Solar System and the mission to purchase Life Elixir.

Although they knew they were being overcharged, many Dog-Headed People felt that sacrificing some of their own kind to complete the task assigned by humans was acceptable. Moreover, those who made the sacrifices should be proud of it.

As for scientists, there are no scientists in the true sense of the word in the Dog-Headed People Fleet.

"Let's buy some Life Elixir first!" The Dog-Headed People finally decided. They felt that getting their hands on Life Elixir bringing them back for humans to research and develop new ones was the most urgent task.

Other things can wait.

"The specific details of purchasing the Life Elixir need to be discussed with the person in charge at the Level 2 Civilization Trading Zone," said the person in charge at the Reception Area.

The Dog-Headed People didn't seem overly opposed to the idea of 'trading individual lives,' which made the person in charge of the Reception Area think there was potential, and thus their attitude became much more positive.

"No problem."

The Dog-Headed People Commander didn't think too much about it. After discussing some details about how to connect with the Level 2 Civilization Trading Zone with the person in charge here, he only left some resource supply equipment and transport ships on the Reception Area planet, and then sent the entire fleet to another planet.

He and his colleagues now believe that this Interstellar Transaction Market is a legitimate trading market.

The Dog-Headed People Commander was very happy. He felt that if he could complete the human mission, he would be able to overpower the Kuntai People when he returned. At that time, his fleet might be able to be equipped with the Alloy No. 1 Armor.