Chapter 801: Chapter 801 Slave Trade Market

At around 7:30 in the morning, Qin Hao and Li Jiaqi finished washing up and came down to the living room on the first floor, where breakfast was already prepared.

After eating breakfast, Shui Huilan arrived. She said to Qin Hao, “Xiaotian, I have some matters to attend to today, so I won’t be able to accompany you. Miss Li can show you around Zhudao City instead.”

Qin Hao nodded slightly, “Huilan, if you have things to do, go ahead. Don’t worry about me.”

Shui Huilan smiled faintly, “Alright, once I finish up in the next few days, we’ll set off for the Nolan Star System.”

Qin Hao: “Okay.”

After Shui Huilan left, Li Jiaqi asked curiously, “Are you going with her to the Nolan Empire?”

Qin Hao: “Yes, there are some things that need handling.”

Li Jiaqi nodded slightly, “Can I come along with you? I’ve been staying on Nanming Star for so long and haven’t gotten a chance to visit the Nolan Empire.”

Qin Hao glanced at her, “If you want to go, then go.”

After finishing breakfast, the two left the villa. Li Jiaqi planned to take him around Zhudao City, though she personally didn’t think there was much worth seeing here.

Here, there were no villages or countryside at all–just cities. Roughly every thousand miles, there would be another city.

The city lords hold significant power, practically ruling as local emperors. On Nanming Star, the one with the greatest authority and strength is the Star Lord, who oversees all cities on the planet. The city lords are all under the Star Lord’s command.

The hierarchical system here is entirely different from that on Earth.

Li Jiaqi first took Qin Hao to the Li Family’s headquarters, a massive estate. Land resources here were not as scarce as on Earth, and the Li Family’s property was extremely large, with hundreds of servants alone.

Led by Li Jiaqi, Qin Hao arrived at the Li Family’s living room. Li Mingkai and several elders of the Li Family were already waiting at the entrance to greet him.

“Mr. Qin,” Li Mingkai and the others said respectfully.

Entering the living room, Qin Hao took the main seat, while Li Mingkai and the others sat on secondary seats.

Qin Hao retrieved ten F-grade mecha belts from his system backpack and placed them on the table: “These are F-grade mechas. You can try them out first.”

Li Mingkai and the others stared curiously at the mecha belts on the table, their eyes scanning them with fascination since they had never seen anything like them before.

Qin Hao tossed one to Li Mingkai: “You try it first.”

Li Mingkai strapped on the mecha belt, initiated it, and began the recognition process. After about one or two minutes, the recognition process succeeded, and Li Mingkai was fully covered by the mecha.

Qin Hao said, “Let’s go to your family’s training ground to test the mecha’s capabilities.”

The group rose and headed to the Li Family’s training ground behind the estate. The space was enormous, and after Li Mingkai arrived, he started testing the power of the F-grade mecha.

“Whizz-whizz-whizz!”

“Boom-boom-boom!”

In no time, the training ground became a war zone. Dozens of moving targets were destroyed or blasted away, with perfect precision and extremely powerful impact. The mecha’s performance was dozens of times superior to combat robots, with its key advantage being human-controlled maneuverability and adaptability.

The elders of the Li Family and Li Jiaqi watched in awe, mouths agape. This mecha was simply unprecedented.

And this was just an F-grade mecha–the lowest tier. How powerful would advanced-grade mechas be?

The demonstration of D-grade mecha at the hotel the other day was likely just the tip of the iceberg; its true power hadn’t been fully unleashed.

After Li Mingkai finished testing, he shut down the mecha, his face glowing with excitement: “This is incredible. Absolutely incredible. I think just a handful of these could easily take down an F-grade interstellar battleship. It’s practically a super weapon on the battlefield.”

Li Mingkai wasn’t wrong. On the battlefield, mechas truly function as super weapons. D-grade mechas, for instance, can easily dismantle a starship’s command system and execute high-level assassinations of strategic leaders.

D-grade mechas are also fast, allowing them to escape after completing their missions.

Back in the living room, Li Mingkai handed Qin Hao a bank card containing ten billion Star Currency. This sum was almost a third of the Li Family’s total assets.

But he felt it was worth it, as these mechas had the potential to generate a far greater return. Even if he sold one for ten billion Star Currency now, people would likely scramble to buy it.

Still, Li Mingkai had no intentions of selling, and Qin Hao wouldn’t permit him to sell them either. These mechas could generate even more value.

In the living room, Qin Hao also brought out the control-inducing drugs and handed them to Li Mingkai: “Anyone affiliated with the Qin Family must take this drug for better control.”

Li Mingkai hesitated briefly but ultimately downed the drug. Then, the elders of the Li Family and Li Jiaqi also took it.

Qin Hao provided Li Mingkai with plenty of the drug–it was necessary for every member of the Li Family to consume it.

After the arrangements were complete, Qin Hao and Li Jiaqi left the Li estate and began wandering around Zhudao City.

Li Jiaqi first took Qin Hao to a well-known spot in the city: the Zhudao Market.

The market was bustling, loud, and teeming with people. The foot traffic here was immense, and Qin Hao even spotted some rather peculiar individuals:

There were dwarves, people with four arms, cat-eared humanoid women, and many more…

This was Qin Hao’s first time seeing such diversity, and he was inwardly surprised. However, outwardly, he stayed calm–his identity as a disciple of a noble family from the Tanglong Empire meant he was supposed to be familiar with such phenomena. Clearly, he needed to brush up on his knowledge of interstellar cultures.

He read the sign at the market’s entrance: “Zhudao Slave Trading Market.”

Slave trading market?

Qin Hao and Li Jiaqi entered the market. The streets were spacious, lined with shops on either side, which mostly bore the names of various slave trading companies.

In interstellar trade, slave trafficking was a legal business. Today was an eye-opening experience for Qin Hao, though he couldn’t let it show. He feigned composure while observing his surroundings, occasionally commenting, “This slave market is too small.”

Li Jiaqi nodded, “Yeah, just a few hundred miles in scale. I once visited Raymond Star, the central planet of the Lei Meng Duchy. The slave market there was massive. It was very fascinating–a single slave market there is almost the size of several Zhudao Cities combined.”

…

Qin Hao was speechless. What the heck? That big?

Suddenly, Li Jiaqi recalled something and said, “I think there’s an auction happening at Sky Wolf Auction House today. Shall we go check it out together?”