When Norton left, he did not take the shipload of packaged food with him.
It was worth noting that Norton was the only person aboard his merchant ship.
With artificial intelligence available in modern interstellar travel, operating a spaceship alone was hardly difficult.
After all, even a Star Destroyer could be operated by three people.
Norton and Tingyun had met at the previous stop. Both were headed for Sand Sea Planet, so they had formed a convoy and traveled together.
This was fairly common practice in the Sea of Stars, intended as a precaution against the Interstellar Pirates.
Unfortunately, they had still encountered a band of Interstellar Pirates along the way. Tingyun had been forced to sacrifice her Warship, detonating it to hold the pirates back.
Tingyun had come on a secret mission assigned by the authorities, so naturally, she did not want a pirate ransom incident to make her trip public knowledge.
Otherwise, someone aboard the Xianzhou would surely wonder why the Minghuo Merchant Guild was going to Sand Sea Planet.
Fortunately, detonating the ship had worked.
After that, she had boarded Norton's merchant ship, and they had arrived at Sand Sea Planet together.
Silver Wolf tried hacking into the merchant ship's systems and obtained a voyage log.
The merchant ship had been purchased thirty years ago. All these years, it had only traveled one route: delivering packaged food to Sand Sea Planet.
That was suspicious.
After all, it spent less than a month in transit each year and remained in port the rest of the time.
What merchant would leave their merchant ship idle for that long?
Port berthing fees were no small expense!
The gold dust he earned was all worthless pyrite, not enough to cover even a fraction of the berthing fees.
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