Whether compared with those ferocious mercenaries or the indifferent black panther next to him, this passenger with shaggy hair looks like an ordinary person who can be seen everywhere.
He can neither tell his age nor his beauty or ugliness.
If he blends in with the crowd, his appearance will never stand out, and he will be forgotten in an instant.
But he has a pair of eyes that always contain a smile, and his gaze is as warm and genial as the sunshine in winter.
Not only does it not have the slightest hint of evil, it actually gives Huo Dongling a little solace in his frightened soul.
The little girl looked back again.
The mercenaries huddled in the other corner of the cabin, each of them burying their heads in their lunch boxes, not daring to look up at this place.
When he turned back, this passenger with beautiful eyes actually raised his hands, put on a very funny look, and said with a smile: "It's okay, sit down, my surname is Li, you can just call me 'Mr.
Li'" ” "Mr.
Li."
Maybe the other person's eyes were too gentle and harmless, or maybe the other person really had some malicious intentions in such a small cabin, and Huo Dongling had nowhere to escape.
The little girl was lost for a while and sat down obediently.
After thinking about it, she moved her butt towards the cold black panther.
After all, she knows people but not their hearts.
Most bad guys these days are smiling.
After all, this black panther saved her just now!
The Black Panther glanced at her, said nothing, curled his lips, and went back to eating.
"Your name is Dong Ling, right?
I heard the crew call your name this morning.
You are the shipowner's daughter."
The passenger with messy hair smiled and said, suddenly remembering something, he took out a simple sterling silver bracelet from his arms and handed it over, "Dong Ling, I want to give you something, consider it... a consulting fee!"
"This is" Huo Dongling became more and more frightened and thought in confusion, isn't this uncle a cultivator of immortality?
She has never seen immortal cultivators be so kind to ordinary people and even give them gifts.
In the past, the most I could see of immortal cultivators was like the black panther next to me, who was as cold as ice to ordinary people and turned a blind eye.
Thinking this way, Huo Dongling became more and more anxious.
She waved her hands desperately, not daring to accept the other party's things.
"Take it, this bracelet can be regarded as a small protective magic weapon."
The passenger with messy hair said, "What those hyenas said just now is right.
The sea of stars is so messy now.
It is really not easy for a little girl like you to wander outside, and you will encounter all kinds of dangers.
"If you see that there is no spiral talisman on the inside of the bracelet, come on, prick your right thumb, make sure the blood soaks the fingerprint, and then print your fingerprint on the spiral talisman for confirmation.
The bracelet will be activated.
If someone wants to invade you in the future, The bracelet will automatically detect the bad guy's body temperature, heartbeat and adrenaline secretion level.
If it exceeds the warning range, it will automatically shoot out a powerful arc and release a unique soul mark, which can be released ten times in total.
"As long as those bad guys are immortal cultivators, they will definitely be able to identify the master of this divine soul brand... and what cultivation level he has.
"Well, then you tell those bad guys that this bracelet was a gift from your father, no, a good friend of your grandfather, when you were born, to keep you safe.
There is no need to say much else. , I think 99% of the bad guys will retreat.
"However, if you want to get along with your lover, remember to take off the bracelet, hahahaha, otherwise it will be bad for your lover to be electrocuted!"
Huo Dongling lowered her head shyly.
How could she have a lover?
Mr.
Li's words were quite interesting.
"Is this food cooked by you?"
The messy-haired passenger picked up the food box, took a deep breath, and praised, "It smells so good, Dong Ling, your craftsmanship is really good!"
Huo Dongling was stunned for a moment and said awkwardly: "No, Mr.
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Li, this is a very common self-heating fast food, the kind produced in large quantities.
Well, it's printed on the packaging box."
Passenger with messy hair: "...let's get straight to the point.
Where did your ship depart from?"
Huo Dongling said honestly: "We came from Nanling Star in the Crimson Star Domain.
Mr.
Li probably has never heard of it.
It is an asteroid that has just been developed for more than a hundred years and has not yet formed a stable atmosphere. , there are only four small and medium-sized settlements, and I was born in one of them.”
"I have never heard of the Southern Spirit Star, but I know that the Crimson Star Territory is not close to our destination, the Seven Seas Market.
For civilian merchant ships like you, I am afraid it will take dozens of star sea jumps and several long journeys.
It takes months to get there, and it’s so dangerous along the way.”
The passenger with messy hair said, "It's a chaotic situation outside, and fighting is happening everywhere.
I heard that the authorities have declared the Ten Thousand Realms Merchant Alliance to be a rebel organization and are about to besiege the Seven Seas Market.
Why do you still risk going there to do business?
Even if your father is really If I want money rather than my life, I shouldn’t at least take you with me, right?”
"There's nothing we can do."
Huo Dongling said with a sad expression, "How can the high-ranking immortal cultivators understand the lives of ordinary people like us?
Our Nanling Star has only been developed for a hundred years, and there is no strong backer behind it, and there is nothing too rare in itself.
Specialties, arrived Nowadays, we cannot be self-sufficient in all kinds of daily necessities.
Without food shipped from outside, we will starve to death; without water purification circulation chips shipped from outside, we will die of thirst; without atmospheric stabilization systems and compressed oxygen shipped from outside. , we will suffocate ourselves to death!
"In the past, the merchant alliance's trade routes extended in all directions, and free markets were dotted all over the place.
Caravans would pass by our planet regularly every month, purchasing local minerals and transporting food, water and air to us.
If that doesn't work, we can still go to the nearest Free market purchases only require two short hops, coming and going in a week at most.
"But when there was a war outside, we suffered, so what...the four major families declared the Ten Thousand Realms Merchant Alliance to be a rebel organization, cut off trade routes, destroyed the free market, and recruited star thieves from all walks of life to plunder.
It has cut off all our people’s livelihood.
"There have been no caravans passing through our Southern Spirit Planet for three full months.
The food, water and air we have stored are almost exhausted, and no one has come to buy the mountains of raw ore at the port.
Everyone can only stare at it with wide eyes.
More and more ores are worrying.
"I originally wanted to go to the nearby free market to trade, but after I went there, I was faced with a mess.
The free market was besieged by the fleets of the four major families and was completely destroyed.
Even our small merchant ship was destroyed.
It was almost sunk by the rioters who were regarded as 'rebellious'.
"Later, we encountered merchant ships from several nearby star regions coming to trade, and then we learned that the fleets of the four major families had wiped out all the free markets in the nearby worlds, and there were also countless star thieves and servants who had been recruited by the four major families.
Soldiers, like jackals, are roaming in various waterways, and will never let the merchant fleet of the Ten Thousand Worlds Merchant Alliance pass by.
"Even if there are one or two secret markets that have not been wiped out, the prices there are still frighteningly high.
The ordinary ores produced by our Southern Star cannot be sold at the price at all, and we cannot buy back many supplies necessary for survival.
"If we want to eat, drink water, and maintain the stability of the thin atmosphere, we can only venture to the Seven Seas Market, a place that the four major families have not conquered yet, to trade.
After all, the goods here are the most complete and the prices are lower.
And Protected by the escort fleet of the Ten Thousand Worlds Merchant Alliance, it is slightly safer.
"Oh, don't we know that this is very risky, but we don't know how long the war will last.
If we don't make a deal, we will be trapped alive on Nanling Planet!
My father is the most experienced captain on Nanling Planet.
For the sake of the survival of his hometown, how could he be a coward?
"As for me, I took the initiative to come out with my father.
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Anyway, if the 'Little Bear' does not return with the necessary supplies, Nanling Star will definitely not be able to survive within a year and a half at most, and the ending will not be much better. ah!"
Perhaps influenced by the gentle gaze of the other party, Huo Dongling vented all his grievances in one breath.
As he spoke, he shed tears silently and murmured: "Why on earth do you immortal cultivators want to fight?
Just fight, fight."
Okay, why don’t you leave a way for us ordinary people to survive?
We want to trade, we want to eat, and we want to survive!”
The messy-haired passenger was silent for a moment, sighed softly, and said: "How can you be in a situation like yours on Nanling Star in the outer world of the empire?"
"There's a lot, why not more?"
Huo Dongling gritted his teeth and said, "In the Crimson Star Territory alone, there are seven or eight asteroids that are not self-sufficient like Nanling Star and need to rely on caravans' blood transfusions to survive.
Starting a hundred years ago, the Ten Thousand Worlds Merchant Alliance Under the guise of developing asteroids, after preliminary remediation of these planets, they are sold to ordinary people at very low prices.
They can also be paid in installments with almost zero down payment and zero interest.
It is almost half sale and half free.
“At that time, many ordinary people didn’t know the trick and fell for it.
They took out all the coffins, bought many asteroids from the Ten Thousand Worlds Merchant Alliance and migrated there.
They tasted the feeling of being free and making decisions.
"As everyone knows, it is not that simple to develop an asteroid and settle it for a long time.
Yes, the Wanjie Commercial Alliance has set the price of the asteroid very low.
Taking into account the initial development costs, it is simply a fire sale at a loss, but the follow-up Food, water purification system, atmosphere stabilization magic weapon unit, many consumable parts need to be replenished every month or quarter, and it will not work without replenishment.
"The Wanjie Merchant Alliance took advantage of our sore spot and kept raising the price of consumable parts.
They also controlled the largest merchant fleet, completely monopolized our export channels, and drove our production prices very low.
Once we are gone, we asteroid residents have worked hard for the Ten Thousand Realms Business Alliance for a hundred years.
"Using this method, the Ten Thousand Worlds Merchant Alliance took control of countless resource planets and asteroid settlements on the periphery of the empire, and dragged us all onto their pirate ships.
If we want to work, we will work, and if we are pirates, we will be pirates.
We can barely survive, but now the four major families are fighting against the Ten Thousand Realms Business Alliance, which has interrupted all our livelihoods.
Thousands of settlements like Nanling Star are all in danger.
If we don't take the risk to trade, we will have to I’m so sleepy!”