I have a Black Tech Ball

"Protection money doesn't go to waste!"

"It's better to pay protection money after all the math!"

"Forget it, I'm not going to fool around, let's raise the money to pay the protection fee, it may be slow development if you pay it, but if you don't pay it, you're going to die..."

"This group of pirates are so wretched, in the future, when we are strong, we will definitely annihilate you all!"

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"Report...a merchant ship has arrived from outer space, claiming to be from the Techno Ball Empire." A small soldier ran all the way to Emperor Atta Cow and said.

"You ah scared me, I thought it was pirates coming, you just find someone to entertain it, but you still have to inform me of such a trivial matter." Emperor Atta Cow said.

"But... they said they have weapons from a second-grade mid-civilization to sell, and they claim to be a second-grade late civilization..." the small soldier said carefully.

"What second-grade late stage civilization, and it's called the Techno Ball Empire, why have I never heard of it before, could it be... "Emperor Atta Cow thought of a possibility.

He had recently received news that in the Yama Star System, an unknown late-secondary civilization had fought with the Reaper Bandits and ended up making the Reaper Bandits lose 200 million dollars before it was over.

Although the name of this late second-grade civilization was unknown, the construction shape of their ship had been passed on, and the surrounding civilizations were very concerned.

"Quick, quickly take me there, why didn't you inform me earlier of such a big event!" Emperor Atta Cow trotted all the way out of the palace.

The Techno Ball caravan had already docked on the space port, Zhao Tao led a group of people down, and on both sides of the road, Emperor Atta Cow held a warm welcome ceremony.

"Welcome the esteemed Techno Ball civilization to exchange." Emperor Atta Cow said with great respect, their Atta Cow civilization was just a second level primary civilization, although it was an old second level primary civilization, its strength could be comparable to the civilization that had just been promoted to second level mid stage, but it was vulnerable to the second level late stage civilization.

"Greetings, Your Majesty." Zhao Tao was gentle and elegant, didn't have the arrogance of a superior civilization, and was very approachable, making Atta Niu feel like a spring breeze!

"We are here to purchase some necessities and supplement our food, we also have some weapons on our ship as well as specialties from our tech sphere, you can also come and trade if you like." Zhao Tao said politely.

There were compressed biscuits on the ship that could be kept for a thousand years, and the stock was even more than enough to maintain the entire caravan's needs for ten years, but normally merchant ships didn't eat these compressed biscuits, these were for emergencies, and they were more likely to eat fresh vegetables and food.

Zhao Tao found that this Atta Cowman looked quite similar to them, the only difference was that they all had two horns on their heads.

"I don't know how they evolved." Zhao Tao said inwardly.

As night fell, His Majesty Ataniu shrewdly arranged for their empire's beautiful Asmi to serve Zhao Tao, and Zhao Tao didn't refuse!

After all, he had been wandering in the starry sea for several years.

Instead of being savage, Asmi had a kind of wild beauty in Zhao Tao's eyes.

Taking the opportunity to spend the night together, Asmi also tactfully told Zhao Tao about her empire's situation, hoping that Zhao Tao could lend a hand and help out.

After hearing Asmi's narrative, Zhao Tao knew the implication, but it involved a late second level civilization, and Zhao Tao wasn't willing to meddle in it.

He considered it and said, "You're only a second-grade primary civilization, you don't need to pay much in protection fees, I'll just procure more things from your country within my means to ensure that you get through this time!"

If Zhao Tao used force to help them not to pay protection fees, this would be equivalent to cutting off the Olive Branch Civilization's money, although the protection fees that a rank two primary civilization would have to pay wasn't much for the Olive Branch Civilization, but it was significant!

If all civilizations were to follow the example of the Atta Cow civilization, how would the next civilization be governed!

Just for this one thing, Zhao Tao also felt nothing wrong with it, the weak were for exploitation, only the strong could dictate their own destiny!

Originally, the Tech Ball side was only going to procure ten million goods, but under Zhao Tao's order, they directly procured fifty million goods.

These fifty million were all Sko coins, with amazing purchasing power, a single Sko coin could buy an ordinary slave!

And an ordinary slave converted into galactic currency would be at least a hundred thousand dollars!

Because of Zhao Tao's generosity, His Majesty Ataniu treated Zhao Tao like a god of wealth, very warmly, but there's no feast that doesn't end, after staying here for three days, Zhao Tao led the caravan to leave.

His Majesty Ataniu, reluctantly, strongly invited Zhao Tao to stay for a few more days, but Zhao Tao had his own mission and couldn't stay here too much.

As for Asmi, he took it with him, but if he didn't, the next time he saw her would be in the year of the monkey.

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A year had passed, Asmi was pregnant, and they had recorded everything they had seen and heard along the way, and had compared the location of the wormhole with the information they had bought.

Finding that it was basically the same as the information, it seemed the money hadn't been wasted, after all, if you want to sell information, honesty is important, and if the reputation is bad, then who will buy it in the future!

Asmi was an alien, but Zhang Zion was very open-minded, and in his opinion, anything that didn't form reproductive isolation could be accommodated into the Techno Ball.

A sea of tolerance!

The magnanimity was still there, but so far, the top brass of the Techno Ball were all clean-cut people who had followed Zhang Ziang from the Water Ball.

They were following Zhang Zi'ang's lead and progressing so fast that few could replace them, which was both good and bad for the Techno Ball Empire!

The good thing is that these old people are not sticking to the old ways and know how to move with the times, the bad thing is that they are not providing opportunities for new people.

These problems Zhang Ziang also found, also in the intention to bring up newcomers, Zhao Tao is Zhang Ziang to bring up newcomers, to inject new vitality into a probe spring water.

The location of the wormhole is not unchanging, just like the sun also has a lifespan, the wormhole also has its own lifespan, but this lifespan is very long, usually thousands of years.

Some wormholes collapse, some wormholes are regenerated, and so on and so forth.

This time the goal of the tech ball was to go to the area ruled by the third level civilization, the Sko Civilization, if you came to heaven and didn't go to see the brightness of the third level civilization, then wouldn't it be a waste of coming to heaven this time?

The closer you got to the Sko Civilization, the more civilizations there were around, and the higher ranked they were, basically all of them were secondary civilizations, there were hardly any primary civilizations, and if there were any, they were tacitly approved by the Sko Civilization.