Nuclear Warhead Cooked in Wine

It is an era of artificial superintelligences, interstellar travel, gene medicine, and virtual reality worlds. Far into Earth's future, 15-year-old Gu Ding is a student of Cerulean Military Academy by day, and tavern waiter by night. His ambition: Become the space pirate with the highest bounty offered by the Universal Federation Government. With the help of Neptune, a neonate super-intelligence, Gu Ding finds himself thrust into a galaxy of shadowy organizations, political underdealings, and otherworldly forces that lie beyond human comprehension…

The Highest Bounty

The man in the next stall was the beef-faced man who queued in line in front of Gu Ding earlier at the reception. He recognized Gu Ding instantly.

Gu Ding lowered his head to look at his stall. It turned out that the ax was quoted as "no value" by the appraiser robot at the reception earlier.

"Did he really think he was going to get a decent sum of money for his ax?" Gu Ding did not understand. He had the impression that the man was deliberately there to cause trouble. However, he had set up a stall in the tower and the tower charged a stall fee daily.

"Hey, young man. Don't leave!" Gu Ding stopped in front of his stall for a moment before turning around for the next stall, but the man yelled at him.

"What's the matter?" Gu Ding turned his head around, feeling confused.

"I just wanted to ask whether your item was also deemed as worthless."

An Ax For Ten Billion Universe Credits