Although we have entered the interstellar age, transactions between civilizations are still in their primitive stages.

There is no currency that everyone can believe in. Even if there is currency, it is only used within one's own civilization.

Most of the things that are commonly used between interstellar civilizations are still in the barter stage, and the best hard currency is energy units, mineral units, and alloy units.

As for food, this is actually the easiest problem to solve, and each civilized race has different requirements for food, so food rarely becomes a thing that is traded between each other.

As a measure of transaction, the best unit is still energy, because with energy, there is everything.

All engineering equipment, life-support equipment, warships, mechas, and so on, require energy to keep running.

It can be said that energy units are the currency used for transactions throughout the universe.

And in this pirate base, the most valuable thing for Li Xin is the place to store energy.

This time, the energy storage device was placed deep inside the stationed meteorite.

These energy units come from many sources. Some are looted by the pirates, and some are collected by the pirates themselves in the energy stations they built around them.

Others sold looted goods in exchange for energy units.

Even though this is not the pirates' lair but just a base, it stores nearly a thousand units of energy.

After hearing the benefits, Li Xin nodded secretly.

Obviously, these energy sources are not necessarily the stocks of this pirate base. Many of them may come from Matt's looted merchant ships.

Although he guessed that it might be Matt and the others, Li Xin had no intention of being a good person and going back.

There are still thousands of people in the base, all of whom have surrendered. After a simple identification, Li Xin gave an order to take away all the technologically advanced pirates.

The other pirates who had no skills and were only stationed there to guard the base were all thrown to Matt to be used as slaves.

Just as the ships began to tow the pirate warships, the destroyer's electronic reconnaissance equipment detected something wrong.

Within the galaxy, another ship arrived at some unknown time.

Moreover, this ship has already activated its stealth field, shielding it from electronic detection.

However, this invisible force field is still far inferior to the ships under Li Xin's command.

It looks like it should be a third-generation ship, a whole generation lower than Li Xin’s ship.

The alarm sounded instantly, and various weapons began to lock onto the ship.

The main guns of the destroyers and frigates have adjusted their direction and are aimed at the ship that came in quietly.

This really scared the ship.

In this ship with a cloaking force field, the alarms and conspicuous warning lights were now on.

The captain of the ship shouted, "What's going on? Didn't we activate the cloaking force field?!"

"Captain! This is bad! These pirates have locked onto us!"

"What!!?"

The captain was shocked. He asked, "With such strength, would they still be pirates?!"

Inside the ship, all the crew members became a little panicked.

As the high-speed reconnaissance ship of the Yaru Alliance, they have always relied on the invisible force field on their ships to run around for reconnaissance and are rarely discovered.

This high-speed reconnaissance ship is less than fifty meters in size. With its invisible protective field, it is quite difficult to spot this small ship in the vast universe.

Unexpectedly, this time when they came to investigate the situation of this group of pirates, they failed.

Before the captain could figure out what was going on, a crew member shouted, "Captain, there's a clear-text communication request!"

The captain hurriedly said, "Hurry, hurry, hurry!"

"Bring it in and take a look!"

With the crew's operation, the communication channel between the two sides was opened, and a strange race appeared in front of the captain.

This race actually does not have a hard shell, and has dense hair on its body surface.

Both sides use psychic energy to communicate, which is also the first method chosen by civilizations in two locations in the universe when communicating.

"We are the interstellar navy of the Galactic Defense Corporation."

"Please state your intentions!"

When the captain heard these words, he felt relieved instantly.

Obviously, no matter what the situation was, at least these ships that locked onto him were not pirates.

The captain said to the holographic projection: "We come from the great Yaru Alliance."

"We are the vanguard scout ship of the Yaru Alliance's Stinger Shock Fleet."

"Some merchants reported that they encountered pirates in this star region, so we came here to eliminate them."

The naval forces of the Galaxy Defense Company on the other side immediately laughed: "You are late."

"We also received a request for assistance from the merchants. We have already eliminated all of these pirates."

…

No one expected that the once arrogant Red Horn Pirates would be attacked by fleets from two civilizations at the same time.

Although one of them arrived a little late, the battle was already over.

The Yalu Alliance's high-speed reconnaissance ships were a little bit unbelievable at first after receiving the news that the pirates had been defeated, but as they saw the broken warships in the galaxy being towed by Matt's warships,

Even after seeing those things that have turned into fragments or left traces of battle, one still has to believe that this group of space pirates is really finished.

However, the high-speed reconnaissance ship still reported the situation truthfully to their fleet.

After receiving the report from the high-speed reconnaissance ship.

On the flagship of the Stinger Assault Fleet, the fleet commander said, "It turned out to be a fleet from another civilization that has already dealt with these pirates."

His subordinate asked, "Commander, should we continue to the target system?"

The fleet commander thought for a moment and said, "Since we are already halfway there, and this is also a long-distance training for the fleet, let's continue."

"Let's go and see the strength of this civilization's fleet!"

"Yes! Commander!"

The fleet commander thought for a moment and said, "Order all ships to prepare for battle."

"They stole our prey, if they were weak! Humph!"

"Then teach them a lesson!"

"If they are strong, then let them go for now!"

"Yes! Commander!"

Then, the fleet started to activate the psychic jump engine, opened the subspace barrier, and began to jump towards the galaxy where the pirates were located.