Chapter 486 The Fate of the Drifter

The dormitory is not very spacious. The woman standing opposite Tilan has black and brown hair, yellow skin, and some wrinkles on her fingers, probably due to frequent soaking in water.

When Tilan asked, she responded with some inarticulate speech.

"yes."

Seeing that the other party was still a little nervous, Tilan shook her head, looked at the open door beside her, and simply raised her hand to ask the maid on the side to close the door. At this time, the room became quiet, and there was only the sound of the two breathing in the room.

"You can sit by the bed, it will be a lot easier." Tilan told the other party not to be so nervous, and then she sat down on the chair next to the small table in the room.

"Yes, yes." The other party held the bed slightly nervously and sat down slowly, his body still a little stiff.

Knowing that the situation would not change for a while, Tilan no longer asked the other party to relax.

"I'm looking for you just to understand your situation, not to punish you."

"Can you first tell me where you are from?"

Under the comfort of Tilan's soft words, the other party finally calmed down a little. She reluctantly raised her head, glanced at the extremely gorgeous singer girl in front of her, and quickly lowered her head.

In that startling glance just now, the other person's otherworldly appearance and temperament lingered in her mind for a long time, making her thoughts confused. After a few seconds, she came back to her senses and thought about how to answer the question.

"I, I come from the Ten Columns Star Territory and grew up in the Xilun Star. After graduating from high school, I came to work in the Central Star Territory. At first, I worked in a tea shop, but the salary was not high. Later I went to a high-end restaurant, and finally to Here." After she started to answer, her speech became more fluent.

"How many years has it been?" Tilan asked.

"I was 19 when I came here, and now I am 28, almost nine years."

"How did you come to the Central Star Territory at that time? The travel expenses should not be cheap." The location of the Ten Vertical Star Territory is very remote, in the northeast corner of the Federation.

"It's my uncle, my mother's brother. He works in the Central Star Territory. When he found out that I graduated, he bought me a boat ticket and asked me to come over." Speaking of her uncle, there was a hint of dependence in her voice. and peace of mind.

“Was it a difficult process?”

"It's not difficult, but it's a little uncomfortable on the road. Because I only have the strength of Sequence 3, it would be uncomfortable to ride on a super-light starship for interstellar travel, but I heard that some high-end starships will be much better."

"After I came here, my uncle helped me find a place to live, and then accompanied me to find a job. He gave me a lot of guidance, so I didn't make any detours." When talking about her first job, she was obviously very excited. She was really happy when she came.

"The people in the tea shop are very nice, and sometimes you can get free drinks, which are better than the fine wines collected by my grandpa back home. This is the first time I heard that some drinks can also help practice extraordinary sequences."

Hearing this, Tilan became a little curious.

"Aren't there any drinks with extraordinary effects like this in the Ten Vertical Star Regions?"

"I don't know. Maybe there are some big shots, but I haven't seen them." Madsun shook his head.

"It is said that it would be good if there is clean drinking water there."

"My family has to go to the water storage tower in the town every day to fetch water. Usually my mother drives to fetch water. During holidays, my brother and I also have meetings to help drive and transport water."

"Isn't there a direct pipeline to your home?" Tilan thought for a moment.

"No, I didn't know until I came to the Central Star Territory that everyone can drink clean water and don't have to go to such trouble."

"Later, I checked the information and realized that the pollution in the Ten Vertical Star Region is very serious. It would be too expensive to lay pipelines to resist extraordinary toxic erosion, so water purification towers are usually built in towns."

"Wait a minute, I remember that devices that can purify extraordinary toxins are not cheap." After all, Jade Skirt had given up on the prosperous areas in the north for this reason.

"It seems so, but the water purification tower is indeed useful." Madsang said he didn't know.

"If it's what you said, I suddenly remembered that many people in my hometown do not live very long. Grandpa is the oldest person in the town at the age of 70." After all, she has received formal education from the Federation and is also on the Central Star. Having stayed in Yu for many years, he is not stupid and quickly figured out the reason.

"Maybe the effect is limited, but in such an environment, it's good to be alive."

"Are there many people like you in the Ten Column Star Regions who come to work in the Central Star Region?"

"Very few. If I didn't have uncle, I probably wouldn't be able to come."

"Why?"

"To come to the Central Star Territory, you must at least have received a formal high school education, and to travel across star fields, you must also have Sequence 3 strength to ride on a super-light starship."

"Many people can't reach this. Even if they can, many people can't afford ferry tickets."

"The locals work for one month, and their salary is around 1,000 federal dollars. The cheapest ferry ticket to the Central Star Territory is 180,000 federal dollars."

"Among my high school classmates, I am the only one who has come to the Central Star Territory. The best among the others is to go to the adjacent Dark Harbor Star Territory. The ticket there only costs 50,000 federal coins."

"How much will your salary be after coming to the Central Star Territory?"

"In the beginning, there were only 3,000 federal coins. A year later, I had 5,000 federal coins. Later, in high-end restaurants, I could touch the threshold of 8,000 federal coins every month."

"Now this hotel costs about 9,000 federal dollars."

The salary in the Central Star Territory is much higher than that of Siye Jing, Tilan made a comparison in her mind.

A well-educated sequence 3 engineer in Siyejing only earns 6,000-7,000 federal coins per month, while in the Central Star Region, the salary of a waiter can easily exceed that. If the same sequence 3 engineer is in the Central Star Region, he can get a salary of about 12,000 federal coins, which is twice that of Siyejing.

Of course, this is just an income comparison. The expenses of various services in the Central Star Region will also be much higher.

"How do you feel after coming to the Central Star Region?" At this point, the other party has slowly entered the state and completely relaxed.

"I like this place very much. It's much better than my hometown." She really likes this place.

"The living environment, public security, treatment, and all kinds of new and advanced things are completely incomparable to my hometown."

After talking about the actual treatment, Tilan led the topic to the spiritual aspect.

"Have you ever thought about your hometown?"

"I used to think about it, but later it felt more and more unfamiliar." Madsang's words were quite true.

"My family doesn't quite understand my life here, and they often ask me to send money back. Later, we had nothing to talk about except asking for money."

"They don't understand the world I came into contact with in the Central Star Region, and their lives are hardly attractive to me." She bit her lip.

"Have you ever thought about letting your brother come?" Tilan remembered that she had a brother.

"His grades are not very good, and he is also quite lazy." The other party shook his head. Without Sequence 3, he can't even ride a superluminal starship.

"What about other classmates?"

"Some of them envy me, but it takes too long to save up enough money for the ticket to the Central Star Region. Some of them got married, or bought houses and other vehicles, so they were delayed, and then they gradually got used to the local life and stopped thinking about it."

"Is that so." Tilan sighed silently after listening.

When it comes to talent, Madsang and her classmates may not be much different, but because of a ticket, it brought a gap of decades or even a lifetime.

"Tell me about the history of the Ten Vertical Star Region. I want to know how you discovered the anomaly and assisted the Coolant Agency." Tilan changed her tone and talked about the reason why Madsang was imprisoned here. The other party's originally excited mood instantly cooled down.

She once again felt the terrifying pressure brought by the singer in front of her. The other party was a super figure standing at the top of the Federation. This singer might only need one word to make those giant companies that she couldn't even look up to bow their heads and change the fate of millions of people.

"I, I..." Her voice trembled a little, because she once again remembered the girl she offended, who was also a singer, and her fame and influence were no less than that of the girl in front of her.

"I really just didn't mean it at the time. I just coveted the rewards and benefits promised by the agency, and accidentally offended Lord Shui Yanqing." She was sitting very uneasy, and even hesitated whether to kneel down and plead with the singer.

"Since I said I won't pursue the matter any more, you can just relax. Even if it's Shui Yanqing, I'll explain the situation to her and she won't ask about it any more." When she said this, Tilan's voice was as firm as a chop, both stern and caring, which frightened the woman opposite and made her relax.

"Yes, Master Tilan." She reorganized her thoughts and then carefully recalled her childhood experience.

"In the Ten Vertical Star Region, that is, the Tin Wheel Star, there is a legend about the 'Red God'. This is an ancient mythological belief and the hope of our ancestors when they lived underground."

"In the Fifth Era, the Dark Suns fought in the Ten Vertical Star Region. It was originally a well-developed economic zone in the early Fourth Era, with a large number of inhabited planets and a large population."

"The rising sun crowns collided with each other in the galaxy. They controlled the stellar tides and used the huge energy generated by the burning of stars to launch attacks. During the war, many inhabited planets were subjected to fierce solar high-energy particle flows. This attack was enough to destroy most of the life on the surface."

"So at this stage, many people turned to live underground and then slowly adapted."

"Later, the situation on the ground stabilized, and the subordinates of the Dark Sun descended on the planet to settle and spread. These new races completely believed in the will of the Dark Sun, and they also launched a plan to eliminate the underground adaptors."

"In order to avoid the pursuit of these new races, the underground people must learn a kind of Special secrets, this secret can sense the blood characteristics of those new races, so as to alert and avoid them. "

"Later, our ancestors created the belief in the "Red God" to inspire everyone and make everyone believe that as long as they persist, when the "Red God" comes, all the "new races" will be burned and disappear in the wrath of the "Red God". "

"This kind of secret has also become a religious existence similar to the rite of passage, that is, every tribe member must learn this kind of secret before being regarded as an adult and qualified to act independently. "

"Although the Fifth Era has ended for a long time, this kind of custom is still passed down in many places in Xilun, and there are many dogmas in the doctrines of the "Red God" that are hostile to "aliens". "

"If a tribe member can kill an "aliens", it will be the best pleasure for the "Red God", and he will be qualified to have a fire mark on his back with a red iron. When enough "new races" are killed, the fire marks on his back will accumulate, and finally, like a burning fire wing, he will become a great saint in the tribe, and his name will be remembered. "

"So, you happen to know this kind of secret method, right?" Tilan said.

"Yes, Lord Tilan." She supported her hands on the bed and lowered her head, as if to express respect.

"Are there many believers in the 'Red God' on Xilun Star at present?"

"It depends on the region. If it is an economically well-off region, there will be fewer, but if it is a remote area, there are still many such beliefs. And even if they don't believe in the 'Red God', local children will learn this kind of secret method. This has been integrated into the cultural customs. Every teacher will teach it, and parents and teachers will make sure that children learn it."

"Do you hate 'aliens'?"

"This... I don't like it. Before the Fifth Era, there were nearly 20 inhabited stars and tens of billions of residents in the Ten Vertical Star Region, but at the end of the Fifth Era, only less than 10 million of the tens of billions of natives survived. In many places, archaeological excavations can even find debris and corpses drifting in space to this day." Madsang explained.

"I know." Tilan stopped asking this question.

"How do you feel about the current Federation as a whole?"

"It's pretty good. Although my hometown is very poor, it gets some subsidies and improvements every year because of the Federation's acceptance. It's much better than the tragic situation at the end of the fifth season." Madsang said that most of the residents of the Ten Vertical Star Regions have a good impression of the Federation. It can be said that if the Federation had not been established and accepted, these places would have been buried in the polluted ruins.

"But it's basically the poorest place in the Federation. Will the locals feel dissatisfied?" Tilan asked again.

"The poorest? I don't know. When I was a child, I knew little about the situation in other star regions of the Federation. Most people just thought that being alive was good enough."

"In the doctrine of the 'Red God', the elderly and life are respected. As long as you live long enough, you will be respected by everyone. If you die young or die young, people will think that this person is irresponsible for his own life, immoral, stupid, and without strength and courage."

"The longer you live, the more powerful you are. If you still have many 'fire marks', you will often become the leader of the tribe. The saints in the doctrine books are all people who have lived for a long time and have 'fire mark wings'."

After listening to the other party's story, Tilan nodded, and then asked a lot about the situation of the Ten Vertical Star Regions, as well as the worldview and values ​​of the locals. Later, he asked the other party what impression he had of other star region people he met while working in the Central Star Region.

"It's hard to evaluate. I only know that most orcs come from the northern star regions. The economy in the eastern star region is not bad, and there are many traditional oriental people. The southern star regions are uneven, and people from the western star region are very rare."

"Is that so? I see." At this point, the conversation gradually ended.

Then, Tilan stood up and left slowly, and the footsteps outside the door gradually faded away. The woman in the room breathed a sigh of relief after a long time. She supported the head of the bed and slowly stood up, only to find that her back was completely wet with sweat.

For Tilan, she felt fear, gratitude, and admiration. It was difficult to describe her mood at the moment.

However, the song lady was really terrible. She remembered that Tilan only spoke a little harshly once in the middle, and she almost knelt down in fear. After that, she was even more focused on the questions and answers, and dared not make any mistakes.

Now, the conversation is over, making her feel like she has survived a disaster, as if the pressure has disappeared, which is a bit unbelievable.

Although she didn't know how the hotel would handle the matter in the end, since Lord Tilan said that she would not pursue the matter, she fully believed that with the majesty of that Lord, the hotel would not dare to do anything excessive. This feeling of relief, like a huge happiness, enveloped her.

She really didn't dare to do it again. She found that she was just an ordinary person. If someone from the agency asked her to do something in the gray area again, she would not dare to do it again. Maybe Lord Tilan forgave her, and Lord Shui Yanqing would not pursue her for Lord Tilan's sake.

But!

As long as the singer Shui Yanqing was alive, her followers would spontaneously protect everything about the singer. In this way, once the forces and many chaebol groups found that she had any problems involving the gray area in the future, they would take action against her, and it would be justified.

This was not because she had a paranoid delusion, but the number of fans of the singer was often in the hundreds of millions, and as long as one in ten thousand of them cared, she could not resist it.

In the eyes of Tilan and others, it might be just a small conflict between a few friends, but in the eyes of ordinary people at the bottom of the federation, it was no different from a collision between giants.