Chapter 2510 Two Evils

"The rise and fall of the common people are suffering, the ancients are true!"

The messy-haired passenger sighed, "No wonder there is a lot of chaos outside. There are star bandits and bandit-suppressing fleets haunting all the shipping lanes. There are still so many civilian merchant ships that risk coming out for trade—Winter Ling, you know a lot."

Huo Dongling blushed, and said: "What do I know? Dad complained about these words all day long. During our long trip to trade, every port we visited had all the essential supplies snapped up. No one wants the raw ore, and more than half of the food and fuel have been consumed. I don’t know what happened after I arrived at the Qihai Market. My father was so worried that his hair almost fell out, and he hid in the corner all day long and sighed. Why don't you want to listen, and keep his complaints firmly in mind!"

"So……"

The messy-haired passenger pondered, "Dong Ling, if you had to choose one, do you think it would be the Ten Thousand Realms Merchant Alliance, or the 'authorities' behind the four major elector families? You would rather be in the Ten Thousand Realms." Live under the rule of the business alliance, or live under the rule of the 'authority'?"

"Of course it's the Myriad Realms Business Alliance, which is a hundred times better than the four major families!"

Huo Dongling blurted out, "That's right, the Wanjie Business Alliance is a group of merchants, trying to make money from us in different ways, but they have a bottom line, they speak some business rules, and occasionally help us.

"Although I said they were very cunning just now, those asteroids were managed by them first, and half sold and half given to us. Otherwise, ordinary people like us would never even dream of owning our own homeland.

"After half-selling and half-selling the asteroid to us, the Ten Thousand Worlds Business Alliance will also sell us a large amount of materials for pioneering and mining on credit, and teach us the necessary technology, and even provide us with convenient small loans-these things , Of course we have to pay it back, the interest is not low, but it will keep us alive anyway!

"After that, although the merchant fleet of the Ten Thousand Worlds Merchant Alliance monopolized the import and export channels on the asteroid, it often brought us strange magic weapons and new businesses from the outside world. If the young people in our asteroid settlements have In order to be successful, you may become an employee of the Wanjie Business Alliance, and your family members can enjoy more favorable loan interest rates and technical support, and your life will be easier!

"In short, my father told me that we, the residents of the asteroid settlements, are like old hens that can lay eggs to the Ten Thousand Worlds Business Alliance. The Ten Thousand Worlds Business League will first raise the old hen to be fat and strong, Take our eggs slowly and eat them, this is called... putting a long line and catching big fish!"

The messy-haired passenger nodded and thoughtfully said, "It's not bad to fatten the hen first, and then eat the eggs slowly. What about the four big families?"

"The four big families are vicious wolves who only want to kill chickens and get eggs. How can they care about our lives?"

Huo Dongling's eyes shone with hatred, and he gritted his teeth, "No matter how cunning the Wanjie Business Alliance is, at least they provide us with loans, technology, education and markets. What did the four major families and the so-called 'authorities' give us? Everything No, except for taxes and fines!

"Cultivators belonging to the four major families will not appear several times a year. No matter whether we encounter famine, plague, or mining accidents, or the radiation level caused by the raging storm in the Star Sea is too high... I have never seen people from the authorities come out to rescue disasters. , But every time we have a little savings on hand, these jackals of the authorities will appear swaggeringly.

"Port construction tax, environmental protection tax, waterway safety tax, national defense special tax, imperial revival tax, human evolution tax, ten thousand taxes of the empire!

"These taxes are still collected by the authorities seriously. As for the fees and fines collected privately by the local immortal cultivators, they are even more numerous! Don't pay? They have knives and guns in their hands. How dare they kill people? Blood is flowing all over the ground! Even if we don’t kill them face to face, but turn around and put on the skin of a star thief, and then plunder them wantonly, how can we poor asteroid settlements resist it?

"If you want to say that you have robbed us of our money, it would be good to give us a sigh of relief like the Wanjie Business Alliance and raise us up again, but the masters of the four major families never care about our life or death. Anyway, we are Ants are weeds, primitive people, things that deserve to fend for themselves!"

Passengers with disheveled hair had furrowed eyebrows.

As Huo Dongling talked, his eyes turned red again, and the crystal clear tears rolled for a long time, and he continued: "The Wanjie Business Alliance has a large-scale construction plan. According to the plan, our settlement on Nanling Star is actually dozens of years earlier. It should break through ten years, be completely connected, and have its own stable atmosphere. In this case, the Wanjie Business Alliance can entrust us with more business and sell more products to us. Everyone There are benefits, in the words of the business alliance, what is it... a win-win situation!

"However, those cultivators from the four major families come here every year to rip off the bone and suck the marrow from both ends of the Myriad Worlds Business Alliance and our colonizing planets, and they also raise a large group of star thieves to plunder. The little savings we have worked so hard to accumulate , Every time they are swept away, this kind of thing happens again and again, how can our hometown be built?

"Just this time, the four major families announced that the Myriad Realms Merchant Alliance is a rebel army, and we are strictly prohibited from doing business with the Myriad Realms Merchant Alliance. Whoever dares to privately communicate with the Myriad Realms Merchant Alliance is a rebellious traitor.

"We are all good citizens, and we have always been loyal to the Marquis and His Majesty. Of course, we don't want to be 'rebellious', but the elders don't let us do business with rebels, so please provide enough food, clean water and Compressed air, come and help us tide over the difficulties!

"In the beginning, we all stayed at home honestly, and no one dared to trade with the Wanjie Business Alliance. We just hoped that the fleets of the four major families would send relief supplies and point out our future development direction, at least not to make us hungry. Die and suffocate, right?

"Hehe, we were looking forward to an 'official army', a damned 'master of the king'. As a result, instead of bringing half a piece of food and half a water purification chip, these high-ranking officers and soldiers brought half a piece of water purification chip, but ruined it. A lot of our supplies, the few supplies we depend on for survival! Then they patted their asses and left, leaving us with nothing, not even the slightest hope!

"That's it, our Nanling Star is still good. I heard that many asteroid settlements were slaughtered by the elector's fleet and completely razed to the ground. It seems that it is not good for them to attack the Ten Thousand Realms Business Alliance, so we use our common people's The head is used as the credit, and my father said that this is called false credit, what..."

"Kill the good and pretend to be meritorious." The passenger with messy hair said.

"Yes, killing the good and taking the credit!"

Huo Dongling trembled slightly, "We really want to be loyal to His Majesty, the Emperor Elector, and those high-ranking masters who are cultivating immortals, but they don't want our loyalty at all, as long as we live, then we can't just wait for death. , let’s go against the odds, at least take a risk in the Seven Seas Market, maybe you can find a way out!”

These words have also been held back in the little girl's heart for a long time, and they were fermented with fear and fear along the way, which almost drove her crazy. Today, I finally vented it out, I only felt that every pore in my body was stretched, and I was naked. Drenched in sweat.

After talking endlessly, she realized that the good-looking passenger in front of her might also be the "Master Cultivator" whom she denounced. She shrank her neck timidly and looked at the other person's expression timidly.

The passenger didn't have much expression on his face, but the pair of beautiful eyes became extraordinarily deep, and a cold killing intent emerged from the warm light, but it scared Huo Dongling out of his wits.

"Don't be afraid, little winter spirit."

The passenger paused word by word, his voice was not loud, but it carried a taste of stirring the stars and shaking the sea of ​​stars, "Believe me, the war will end soon, and you will definitely have the opportunity to return to your hometown and build your life well." hometown... trust me!"

"Yes, Mr. Li."

For some reason, although the other party's brazen words sounded too ridiculous, Huo Dongling couldn't help but want to believe him, believe in a better future, and a better hometown.

At this moment, the Little Bear shook slightly, and an orange-red light lit up in the cabin.

They are about to cross the last piece of rubble star belt.

After passing through this rubble star belt, there is a planet with the largest volume and mass in this star field, and its two extremely large satellites.

This planet and its satellites form a very unique and extremely unstable three-star system, tearing each other, involving and exchanging matter, and even the nearby three-dimensional space is also extremely unstable, and natural wormholes often appear here and there.

Starship jumping here can save fuel to the greatest extent and maintain the structural integrity of the starship, so it is the most popular jumping point for civilian fleets.

This is the last jumping point before arriving at the Seven Seas Big Market. Once you jump successfully, you will be able to appear inside the Seven Seas Star Field, where the Ten Thousand Realms Business Alliance still has a powerful escort fleet and an in-depth defense system throughout the entire Star Field. It can guarantee the safety of caravans traveling from south to north.

But before the jump starts, this place is still the "Gate of Hell" that has changed people's faces. In the overwhelming and radiation-filled gravel star belt, it is very likely that the hunting ships of the four major families are hidden, guarding the waterway, and ambushing them. A civilian merchant ship that wants to go to the Seven Seas Market.

Even the most experienced veteran captain had to put up 120,000 points of energy when crossing this dangerous gravel star belt.

Otherwise, the wreckage of the starship spinning at high speed in the rubble star belt may become their fate in the next second.

The dozen or so cargo ships that made up the caravan entered the gravel star belt cautiously and tremblingly. All of them were praying to the gods and Buddhas of the gods, not to encounter vicious hunting ships.

But the wish power of these ants and weeds may not be enough to enter the ears of the gods and Buddhas in the heavens. What they are afraid of will come. Just when all the cargo ships have just penetrated into the gravel star belt and cannot turn around and escape, they suddenly come from behind a few huge meteorites. Two elongated, shark-like battleships appeared, rushing over aggressively!