Hesheng was truly enormous, with branches on many planets. Though Energy Stone mining equipment was not particularly easy to sell, every larger branch should have had one or two sample units, right? They should also have had one or two units in stock.
Those ready-stock units alone numbered seventy or eighty, and the warehouses at the various production bases held quite a bit of inventory and spare parts as well.
In truth, it was not particularly suitable to divert the ready-stock units from the branches. Headquarters was also considering the possibility of drawing official attention—since those units would need modification after being taken back anyway, it might as well produce them directly.
That was right. Hesheng headquarters supported the production bases trading with the broker. After all, Xingzheng Star was the He Family's home base and was currently under Insect Race blockade. If they still did not act under such circumstances, they would truly be standing by and watching their own people die.
Of course, whether the broker was reliable remained a major question. But once they learned that the first order had already been paid for, they no longer hesitated. They had completed a transaction involving thirty thousand tons of Energy Stone inside the blockade zone. Could such people still be scammers?
Energy Stone mining equipment had always been a niche product. One only had to look at its production requirements to know that it was designed for use in specific environments. If they were really scammers, they would not be scamming people for something so obscure, would they?
To put it more extremely, even if the other side truly were scammers, having gone this far, headquarters could not hesitate any longer—at worst, they would be scammed once. That was still better than leaving their clansmen disheartened.
In fact,