Chapter 454 Technology Exhibition
The three spaceships traveled along the interstellar route planned by Fat Tiger.
Four days later, they passed through a central star field with a prosperous economy.
It was the star field where they went to see the science and technology exhibition.
Before coming, Liu Cheng and his party had signed up for the science and technology exhibition online.
They got the electronic tickets and uploaded the information of all the exhibitors.
Therefore, they entered the ST8374 planet through the temporary visitor channel of the science and technology exhibition.
They did not queue up for security checks as usual, and could only land on the planet after the review was completed.
This was also studied in advance by them, which could avoid being inspected when entering the planet and revealing that their two ships were full of arms.
Before transporting all the arms back to the Black Stone planet, what they had to do was to keep a low profile as much as possible.
There were many people coming to the science and technology exhibition, all from various star fields of the United Government.
Some of them were businessmen from major companies, responsible for purchasing new ships.
Some were representatives of the military and interstellar mercenary companies, looking for military weapons that could be purchased.
Some were pure technology enthusiasts and people from other technology companies.
They didn't buy anything, they just wanted to see the most cutting-edge products of human technology.
Liu Cheng noticed that there were some soldiers wearing combat uniforms not far away.
However, the logos on their armbands and badges did not belong to the army of the United Government.
Augustine saw that Liu Cheng had been looking at them, so he explained to Liu Cheng:
"That should be the representative of the Imperial Military.
Although the Empire and the United Government have been at war for hundreds of years, the two sides have also ceased fighting and made peace after the alien creatures increased their attacks on the Milky Way in recent decades.
Therefore, exchanges in economics and technology have also resumed."
Liu Cheng asked:
"So, they are here to learn about the technology of the United Government?"
Augustine said:
"I guess so, but they are at most routine, so they come to the technology exhibition.
After all, in terms of military technology, the Empire is stronger than the United Government.
They can't learn much from coming here."
Liu Cheng grew up in the third star field of Centaurus and went to the front line right after graduation.
Although he has been to many star fields in recent years, he has fought in the front star fields of the United Government.
He had not been to the Empire.
These military representatives of the Empire were also Liu Cheng's first contact with people from the Empire.
In this respect, Augustine, as a senior garbage man, was obviously more knowledgeable than him.
So Liu Cheng asked curiously:
"Senior Augustine, did you often go to the Empire before?"
Augustine said:
"I often went there for a while.
The Empire collected a lot of high-level alien creature corpses, and they asked me to help them dissect the star cores.
The dissected star cores were absorbed by the Empire's generals to enhance their strength, allowing them to better fight against the attacks of alien creatures.
From the perspective of reducing defensive pressure, the United Government also supports the Empire to hire us.
Therefore, there was no obstruction, and I also made a lot of money from the Empire."
Augustine's energy before was not enough to finish in a moment.
They did not continue these topics, and walked straight into the exhibition with the flow of people.
Because there were a lot of people, almost all the ticket checkers were robots.
All staff were responsible for maintaining order.
Liu Cheng and his companions lined up to enter the venue, raised their arm computers, and let the ticket checking robot scan the electronic tickets.
After entering the venue, the space inside is still very large.
The ceiling also uses holographic projection technology, which makes it look like looking at the real starry sky.
It gives people a feeling of being still outdoors.
The venue is very spacious.
At least when Liu Cheng and his companions landed, they could not see the side rooms of the venue at a glance on the spacecraft.
Such a large area was planned by the ST8374 planet where the science and technology exhibition was held a year ago.
Liu Cheng and his companions' tickets and parking cards are all in Area A3.
The exhibition is divided into 20 areas, namely A1 to A10, B1 to B10.
Area A1 is mecha, Area A2 is transport ships and other functional spacecraft, and Area A3 is warships.
Other areas are other science and technology exhibitions.
It takes basically two or three days to visit all the areas.
Liu Cheng and his companions obviously don't have so much free time, so they only booked three areas.
In this way, they entered from Area A3 and went all the way to Area A1, just in time to finish the show.
The original four people from Liu Cheng entered, plus Fat Tiger who joined them, a total of five people.
Other employees also wanted to come, but they couldn't book so many tickets.
So they all waited on the spaceship.
The five people first looked at various combat spaceships.
From the smallest fast attack ship that can only accommodate one person, to the Shang-class strategic cruiser that is two levels higher than the Western Zhou-class battleship.
However, there were no Xia-class battleships, not only because there were few Xia-class battleships in the entire United Government.
But also because the Xia-class battleships were as big as a planet, and the exhibition could not open them at all.
Liu Cheng and Augustine were fascinated by the show.
Fu Yan and Ryan, who were not very interested in battleships, just looked at them casually.
Fat Tiger was not interested either, not because he didn't like spaceships.
But he was only interested in transport ships, and his mind was still focused on the business of the transportation company.
My love for transport spacecraft also stems from my passion for the business.
There are suspended pallets under the feet of several people, which can take them to move quickly in the exhibition hall.
At the same time, there is also a commentary robot to explain the whole process to them.
It only took them a few hours to get out of Area A3.
After arriving in Area A2, the interested people became Ryan and Fat Tiger.
Liu Cheng and Augustine had little interest in transport ships.
Ryan and Fat Tiger kept chatting about which type of transport ship was suitable for transporting goods and which type of transport ship was suitable for assembling an interstellar mercenary company.
Augustine murmured:
"Hmph, interstellar mercenaries need a damn transport ship?
Whether it's transporting troops or supplies, wouldn't it be better to use combat ships for everything? "
Ryan and Fat Tiger turned back and looked at Augustine as if he were a fool.
Immediately, the two continued to chat about the energy consumption of battleships, the efficiency of transporting troops and cargo, and other terms that Augustine did not understand.
Augustine's face darkened, he looked at Liu Cheng as if looking for a sense of presence, and asked:
"Tu Cheng, do you think what I said is right?"
Liu Chengshen nodded in agreement, but he did not dare to do anything in front of two professionals, Ryan and Fat Hu.
Because both Ryan and Panghu looked at the transport ship for professional purposes.
Therefore, they did not spend long time in area A2.
Came out within an hour.
Finally we arrived at area A1, which is the mecha exhibition area.
None of the five people had ever seen a mecha, so all five of them were interested.
Since no one knows anything about mechas, we might as well just listen to the explanation of the robot.
At the same time, the five people will also ask questions to the explanation robot from time to time, and the explanation robot will also answer them one by one.
