Chapter 163 Trading Life for Money
Manager Zhou was shocked to see that after he had worked hard for so long, sent so many people to prison, killed so many people, and plugged all the loopholes that could be plugged, the price of a standard model automatic rifle had increased from the original price of 2,100. About one piece, reduced to 1800!
The price of a bullet has been reduced from two yuan to one nine yuan!
What does lower price mean? This means that the supply on the market has increased! This means that more guns and ammunition are coming to Mercury from outside Mercury!
What exactly is going on? Obviously, the cargo volume in the space elevator has been reduced to less than one-tenth of the original volume!
Facing the furious Supervisor Zhou, his subordinates said nervously: "It has been found out that major smuggling gangs have abandoned the method of smuggling goods from space elevators. They have begun to modify their own aerospace landing craft to travel to and from space themselves." and the surface, and began to transport guns and ammunition into Mercury by itself!”
Manager Zhou felt his eyes go dark.
Damn it!
Modify the landing spaceship yourself! You guys are so awesome, why don't you go work in the spaceship research institute instead of doing smuggling? !
At this moment, Mercury is on the earth that is forever shrouded in darkness.
Because Mercury is too close to the sun, it has been locked by the sun's gravity, and can only always face the sun with one side. So behind it is eternal night.
The temperature here is extremely low, as low as minus 180 degrees Celsius, which is extremely cold, just the opposite of the scorching heat on the front.
Above the pitch-black formation, which is condensed with water ice and various gases that have been frozen into solid state, a Mercury vehicle is running rapidly.
This is a big Mercury car. Like a truck on Earth, it has a huge cabin. There is a cross-shaped aircraft parked inside the carriage.
After driving for several hours, the Mercury vehicle finally arrived behind a ridge. Several people in spacesuits came down and worked together to lower the carriage baffle, forming a small launch pad.
"Quick, quick, quick! We must take off within fifteen minutes! Lao Wu has already found out clearly. No one from the guard is watching here during this time!"
The team leader kept urging the pilot. The pilot breathed rapidly. After a moment, he suddenly roared, as if to embolden himself, and then climbed into the cockpit of the cross-shaped aircraft using his hands and feet.
He couldn't help but not be afraid. This kind of privately modified aerospace dual-purpose spacecraft has a very high failure rate. Once a malfunction occurs, it will be lost in space and it will be impossible to rescue it.
According to statistics, on average, there will be one crash every ten flights.
But... the risk is high, and the money is given out! As long as you gamble once and succeed, you will be able to get enough money to pay off your gambling debts and have the capital to repay your losses.
The cockpit space is small, and there is no life support system inside. You must wear a space suit to drive.
The pilot who had only received five days of driving training trembled and started to start the spacecraft according to the procedure. Slowly, the four edges of the cross-shaped spacecraft began to eject high-heat plasma, pushing it to fly into the sky.
After a long time in the darkness, suddenly a bright light came into his eyes.
That's the light of the sun.
He was finally high enough, and the sunlight blocked by Mercury could finally pass through.
After adjusting the course and setting the speed, the cross-shaped spacecraft once again flew toward the predetermined coordinate point.
There is a bright spot ahead.
The pilot knew that that was the operating location of the Gu Yong spacecraft. It carries many vehicles and many people.
Anxiously, he parked the landing craft next to him, and the pilot began to wait. At the same time, he saw more small bright spots appearing from the endless dark universe around him, slowly converging next to him.
Those are the same landing spaceships as my own.
At this moment, the people brought by the Guyong spacecraft were busy surrounding a huge cargo box.
The guns, ammunition, bombs and grenades in the cargo box were taken out and packed into small boxes one by one - just the size and mass that a landing craft could carry, and then they were fixed under the landing craft.
"Ship No. 7 is ready to go! Remember your landing coordinates! Bienima's has flown to the security bureau!"
The pilot swallowed a sip of saliva and followed the procedure to control the landing spacecraft and start its return to Mercury.
Suddenly, a scream came from the communication channel: "Help! Help!"
He subconsciously turned his head and saw a small bright spot not far away suddenly shining brightly, as if there was a fire or explosion in the cabin.
"It's on fire! Save me! Save me! I have money, all for you, save me!"
"Damn it, what's the name of the ghost! Lao Qi Lao Ba, bring the cargo box back and let other landing ships carry it back!"
The screams gradually disappeared, and the person was obviously dead. The Guyong spacecraft ignored the dead man and just brought back the cargo box that he was originally asked to transport, and didn't care about anything else.
That's what smuggling is. Dead people are perfectly normal.
The driver was frightened, but fortunately the journey was uneventful.
The cargo box finally arrived safely on the surface of Mercury, and dozens of light spots suddenly appeared on the seemingly empty land of Mercury. A group of smugglers rushed out, loaded the cargo boxes into the car, and then loaded the cross-shaped spaceship into the car, and ran away in a hurry.
The whole process took less than twenty minutes.
He was dragged out of the cockpit as if paralyzed. The pilot waited for an hour before feeling his soul return to his body.
"This is yours, take it."
The leader threw a stack of banknotes at him. He grabbed the stack of banknotes like a starving ghost seeing a roast chicken, and held it tightly, refusing to let go.
Finally, I have money to make a comeback!
Suddenly, the light in the carriage was bright.
The leader looked out the window and said to his companion solemnly: "That should be Brother Zong's ship."
"Hey, Brother Zong is unlucky. He finally found someone to modify the spacecraft, but an accident happened during the first cargo transportation. This time he lost a lot of money."
"No, it's not an accident. It was the people from the Security Bureau who opened fire."
"Damn guards, their noses are really sharp!"
"Don't worry about him, go quickly! Brother Hong is still waiting."
The truck turned around and soon arrived in front of the huge Mars base group. Through a maintenance passage, the cargo box entered the base smoothly.
Mercury Security Department, Supervisor's Office
"Director Zhou, we have fully strengthened supervision. Our 20 guard ships are deployed around the clock. In the past month, we have destroyed 36 smuggling ships, arrested more than 600 smugglers, and seized a large number of weapons and equipment..."
"Price, price? Has it increased?"
Silence.
"Did it increase?"
"In the past month, the price of a standard model rifle has increased by 50 yuan!"