230: Xingjing, the trouble may be even greater.

“Commander, the spoils have been inventoried. Please inspect them!”

Butler One directly handed Lin Yang a list.

It recorded the items salvaged from those large battleships.

Previously, after destroying Solo’s large attack battleships, Lin Yang had Butler One lead the Robot team to carry out fire suppression and salvage operations immediately.

Although these few spaceships were severely damaged, they still managed to salvage many usable items.

Especially the three supply ships; even though the enemy had used a large amount of energy supplies from the supply ships for a desperate last stand, a considerable amount of usable energy was still salvaged from them.

This was a significant gain.

Of course, the most abundant spoils of war were the eight large transport spaceships on Blue Star.

There were no people from Solo on those eight large transport spaceships; they were operating entirely based on the System’s intelligent settings.

Now that all of Solo’s people were dead, those eight transport spaceships became ownerless, and naturally, they became Lin Yang’s spoils of war.

Gaining control of those eight transport spaceships was also very simple; the System could directly hack into their intelligent Systems and erase the original related commands.

Eight complete large transport spaceships, without even a single scratch, were simply a windfall for Lin Yang!

One must know that currently, transporting the Robot team to other planets for resource mining relied solely on the Apocalypse.

Although the Apocalypse is an all-purpose spaceship, its capacity is still much smaller compared to large transport spaceships.

Moreover, there is only one Apocalypse, and when the mining volume becomes huge in the later stages, it will be completely overwhelmed.

Although the Robot team can also build mining spaceships.

However, due to limited resources, they can only build small mining spaceships.

Small mining spaceships, whether in terms of efficiency or other aspects, are not just a little bit worse compared to these eight large transport spaceships.

These eight large transport spaceships can instantly resolve all the pressure of the current Robot team going to other planets to mine resources, completely eliminating the need to expend additional energy to build mining spaceships.

It doesn't even require all eight transport spaceships to work simultaneously; just one large transport spaceship is enough to solve all current mining problems.

More importantly, the energy on these eight transport spaceships is fully loaded!

This means that even if they need to go to more distant star Systems to mine resources in the future, there will be absolutely no problem.

It can be said that for a considerably long period in the future, Lin Yang will not have to worry about transportation and mining issues.

These eight transport spaceships can be said to be the biggest gain this time!

Because, in addition to the value of these eight transport spaceships themselves, one of them also stored some other resources!

Lin Yang couldn't recognize most of the items.

But they were clearly high-grade goods.

This was a complete and utter unexpected huge surprise.

What caught Lin Yang's attention the most was that inside one of the cargo holds of that transport spaceship, it was filled with sparkling things similar to diamonds on Earth.

But they looked more advanced than diamonds, emitting a colorful halo.

This was also one of the few things that felt familiar to Lin Yang, so he immediately asked the System, “System, is this a higher-grade diamond?”

“Answering Host, this is called star crystal. It is a universal currency in cosmic technological civilizations, not diamonds. Low-grade things like diamonds have no comparability with star crystal at all!”

“star crystal? Universal currency in technological civilizations?”

Lin Yang was stunned for a moment; the System’s answer was somewhat beyond his expectation.

Currency, in simple terms, is money.

There are dozens of different currencies on Blue Star alone.

Yet, there is a unified currency in cosmic technological civilizations?

This shocked Lin Yang: “System, are you sure? Even a small planet cannot unify its currency, yet it can achieve currency unification among various different interstellar civilizations?”

“Answering Host, on Blue Star, currency cannot be unified because currency itself has no intrinsic value and other factors. But star crystal is different; star crystal itself has specific value, so it is a universal currency in cosmic technological civilizations.”

The System explained.

“Of course, each different technological civilization also has its own exclusive currency, but star crystal is universal.”

“Then, does that mean I’ve struck it rich??” Lin Yang’s eyes lit up instantly.

“Yes, Host, you have indeed struck it rich. This Interstellar Hunter Team called Solo is quite powerful. This cargo hold full of star crystal, you can understand it as equivalent to tens of billions in wealth!”

“Ah? Ten billion? Only ten billion?” Lin Yang couldn't help but be taken aback.

Although ten billion is an astronomical figure, it was still a little short of what he had imagined.

Since this thing could be used universally by all technological civilizations in the universe, its value must not be low, and it was a full cargo hold, yet it was only worth ten billion. This was somewhat different from what he had thought.

“Host, you cannot use Blue Star’s conventional monetary concepts to understand star crystal. Ten billion worth of star crystal is a universal currency. In some ordinary technological civilizations, one star crystal can probably be exchanged for hundreds of millions of local currency.”

The System explained again.

“...Is it that complicated?” Lin Yang pouted.

“It’s not complicated, Host. You can think of star crystal as hard currency, a high-grade item, like gold on Blue Star. One gram of gold can be exchanged for hundreds of paper currency, but star crystal’s value is higher than gold.”

“If you currently cannot accurately understand the concept of universal currency, then understand star crystal as a high-grade commodity. Any single star crystal can be exchanged for immense wealth in any technological civilization!”

“...Alright, if you put it that way, then I somewhat understand.” Lin Yang blinked, “Like on Blue Star, although gold is a hard currency, major countries don’t directly use gold for settlement, right?”

“Yes, Host. In some ordinary technological empires, star crystal is rarely used directly for settlement. Only super-powers and people from super-technological civilizations will be extravagant and directly use star crystal.”

“In other words, if you directly use star crystal for settlement, in the eyes of other technological civilizations, they will subconsciously regard you as an existence with a powerful background, not to be easily provoked. Using star crystal for settlement is also a symbol of status!”

Lin Yang nodded thoughtfully: “So, with these ten billion star crystal, I can be considered a rich person, right?”

“Answering Host, more than just a rich person, this is simply a super-rich person!”

In the System’s eternally unchanging synthetic voice, there was actually a hint of surprise at this moment:

“To be honest, Host, even System did not expect that this Solo would possess such an enormous amount of wealth!”

“This is simply not something an ordinary Interstellar Hunter Team is qualified to possess. To put it no exaggeration, ten billion star crystal is enough to warrant a regular high-level technological civilization dispatching an expeditionary army, crossing star Systems to hunt down an Interstellar Hunter Team that possesses ten billion star crystal!”

“...Does it have to be so exaggerated?” Lin Yang grimaced.

“It’s not exaggerated, Host. Although interstellar hunters who usually live comfortably are rolling in money, they can’t be this rich. This is not normal!”

The System’s voice, however, became much more serious.

“Especially since Solo’s team strength is only equivalent to the peak of a second-level civilization. Ten billion star crystal is enough for a technological empire’s expeditionary army to annihilate them hundreds of times over!”

“This is not wealth that an Interstellar Hunter Team at the peak of a second-level technological civilization is qualified to possess!”

“Let alone the peak of a second-level technological civilization, even an Interstellar Hunter Team at the peak of a third-level technological civilization is not qualified to possess such wealth!”

The System’s words immediately changed Lin Yang’s expression; his good mood from becoming rich instantly dissipated, and he said solemnly:

“So, although I got ten billion star crystal, it also means that my troubles might be greater, right?”