"Everyone suffers when they rise or fall.
The ancients are true to their words!"
The messy-haired passenger sighed, "No wonder the war outside is chaotic.
There are star pirates and bandit-suppressing fleets on all shipping lanes.
There are still so many civilian merchant ships that venture out to trade - Winter Spirit, you know a lot."
Huo Dongling blushed and said: "What do I know?
These are what my father has been complaining about all day long.
This time we went on a long trip to trade.
At every port we visited, the critical supplies were sold out and unrefined.
No one wants the raw ore, food and Most of the fuel was consumed again, and I still don’t know what the situation will be like after arriving at the Seven Seas Market.
My father was so worried that his hair almost fell out.
He hid in the corner and sighed all day long.
No matter how much I didn’t want to hear it, I also ignored his complaints.
Remember it all!”
"So……" The passenger with messy hair muttered, "Dong Ling, if you have to choose one, do you think it is better to be the Merchant Alliance of All Realms, or the 'authority' behind the four electorate families?
Would you rather be in the Ten Thousand Realms Business Alliance?"
To live under the rule of the merchant alliance, or to live under the rule of the ‘authority’?”
"Of course it is the Ten Thousand Realms Business Alliance.
The Ten Thousand Realms Business Alliance is a hundred times better than the four major families!"
Huo Dongling blurted out, "Yes, the Wanjie Business Alliance is a group of businessmen who find ways to make money from us, but they have some bottom line, talk about some business rules, and occasionally help us.
"Although I just said that they were very cunning, they managed those asteroids in advance and then sold them half to us.
Otherwise, ordinary people like us would never dream of owning our own home.
"After half-selling and half-giving the asteroid to us, the Wanjie Commercial Alliance will also sell us a large amount of materials for land development and mining on credit, teach us the necessary technology, and even provide us with very convenient small loans - these things , of course we have to pay it back, and the interest is not low, but at least it can keep us alive!
"After that, although the merchant fleet of the Ten Thousand Worlds Merchant Alliance monopolized the import and export channels on the asteroid, they often brought us strange magic weapons and new businesses from the outside world.
If the young people in our asteroid settlement have the If you earn a profit, you may also become an employee of the Wanjie Commercial Alliance, and your family members will be able to enjoy more generous loan interest rates and technical support, and their lives will be better!
"In short, my father told me that to the Ten Thousand Realms Commercial Alliance, we residents of the asteroid settlement are like old hens that can lay eggs.
The Ten Thousand Realms Commercial Alliance will first raise the old hens to be fat and strong, and then Slowly dig out our eggs and eat them, this is called... taking a long shot and catching big fish!"
The messy-haired passenger nodded and said thoughtfully, "It's good to fatten the hen first, and then slowly dig out the eggs to eat.
But what about the four major families?"
"The four major families are just vicious wolves.
They only want to kill the chicken to get the eggs.
How can they care about our life and death?"
Huo Dongling's eyes gleamed with hatred, and he gritted his teeth and said, "No matter how cunning the methods of the Wanjie Commercial Alliance are, they at least provide us with loans, technology, education and markets.
What have the four major families and the so-called 'authorities' given us?
Nothing.
Nothing, except taxes and fines!
"The immortal cultivators belonging to the four major families will only appear a few times a year.
No matter whether we encounter famine, plague, mining disasters, or the radiation level is too high caused by the raging storm in the star sea... we never see anyone from the authorities coming out to provide disaster relief. , but every time we have a little bit of savings on hand, the jackals of these authorities show up in a big way.
"Port construction tax, environmental protection tax, waterway safety tax, special national defense tax, empire restoration tax, human evolution tax, thousands of taxes in the empire!
"These taxes are officially collected by the authorities.
As for the fees and fines collected privately by local cultivators, they are even more numerous!
Don't pay?
They have knives and guns in their hands, and they really dare to kill people with their heads rolling.
Blood is flowing all over the ground!
Even if we don't kill them in person, we turn around and put on the skin of a star thief and start looting, how can we, the poor asteroid settlements, resist?
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"If you say that you have robbed us of our money, it would be good to give us a breath and fatten us up like the Ten Thousand Realms Merchant Alliance, but the men of the four major families never care about our life or death.
Anyway, we are Ants are weeds and humans, and they deserve to die on their own!”
The passenger with messy hair frowned more and more.
As Huo Dongling spoke, her eyes became red again, and she shed crystal clear tears for a long time before continuing: "The Wanjie Commercial Alliance has a large-scale construction plan.
According to the plan, our settlement in 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 Merchant Alliance will still have greater business that can be entrusted to us, and it can also sell more products to us.
Everyone will The benefits, in the words of the business alliance, are...a win-win situation!
"But the immortal cultivators from the four major families come here every year to exploit and exploit them.
They extort money from both the Ten Thousand Worlds Merchant Alliance and our colonizing planets, and they also raise a large group of star thieves to plunder and plunder the little savings we have worked so hard to accumulate. , they are often swept away by them.
This happens again and again.
How can our hometown be built?
"Just this time, the four major families announced that the Ten Thousand Realms Business Alliance is a rebel, and we are strictly prohibited from doing business with the Ten Thousand Realms Business Alliance.
Anyone who dares to liaise with the Ten Thousand Realms Business Alliance is a traitor.
"We are all good citizens and have always been loyal to the Marquis and His Majesty.
Of course we don't want to be 'rebellious', but the great masters won't let us do business with the traitors, 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.
No one dared to trade with the Wanjie Commercial 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 they would not let us starve.
Death and suffocation, right?
"Haha, we were expecting an 'official army' and a damn 'king' division'.
As a result, these high-ranking official troops and king's division not only failed to bring half a grain of food or half a water purification chip, but ruined it.
They took away a lot of our supplies, the few supplies we needed to survive!
Then they walked away, leaving us nothing, not even the slightest bit of hope!
"In this way, our Southern Spirit Star is still doing well.
I heard that many asteroid settlements were slaughtered by the fleets of the chosen emperors and completely razed to the ground.
It seems that they were unfavorable in attacking the Ten Thousand Realms Merchant Alliance, so they used the resources of our common people.
My head is used as credit.
Dad said this is called taking credit, what..."
"Kill the good and take credit for it," said the passenger with messy hair.
"Yes, kill the good and take credit!"
Huo Dongling trembled slightly and said, "We really want to be loyal to His Majesty, to the electors, and to those high-ranking immortal cultivators, but they don't want our loyalty at all.
They only want our lives, so we can't wait to die, Tie. , just go with it, at least go to the Seven Seas Market and take a risk, maybe you can find a way to survive!"
These words had been suppressed in the little girl's heart for a long time, and she was fermented with fear along the way, almost driving her crazy.
Today, she finally let them out.
She felt that every pore in her body was stretched, and her whole body was wet.
Dripping hot sweat.
After talking endlessly, she realized that the passenger with beautiful eyes in front of her might be the "immortal master" she denounced.
She couldn't help but get excited, shrinking her neck and timidly looking at the other person's expression.
There was not much expression on this passenger's face, but his beautiful eyes became extraordinarily deep, and there was a cold murderous intention in the warm light, which frightened Huo Dongling out of his wits.
"Don't be afraid, little winter spirit."
The passenger spoke one word at a time, his voice was not loud, but it carried a flavor that stirred up the stars and shook the sea of stars, "Believe me, the war will end soon.
You will definitely have the opportunity to return to your hometown and build your career."
My hometown...believe me!”
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"Yes, Mr.
Li."
For some reason, even though the other party's brazen words sounded so 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 were about to cross the last piece of gravel 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 quite unique and extremely unstable three-star system, tearing, pulling and exchanging matter with each other.
The nearby three-dimensional space is also extremely unstable, with natural wormholes often appearing here and there.
Star sea jumping here can save fuel to the maximum 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 Market.
Once you successfully jump, you can appear inside the Seven Seas Star Territory, where the Ten Thousand Realms Merchant Alliance still has a powerful escort fleet and a deep defense system throughout the star territory.
It can ensure the safety of caravans traveling from north to south.
But before the jump has begun, this place is still a terrifying "Gate of Hell".
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 captain must be alert when crossing this dangerous gravel star belt.
Otherwise, the starship wreckage rotating at high speed in the rubble star belt may become their fate in the next second.
The dozen cargo ships that formed the caravan entered the gravel star belt cautiously and tremblingly.
Everyone was praying to the gods and Buddhas not to encounter the vicious hunting ships.
But the wish power of these ants and weeds may not be enough to reach the ears of the gods and Buddhas.
They are afraid of whatever comes.
Just when all the cargo ships had just penetrated deep into the gravel star belt and were unable to turn around and escape, suddenly from behind several huge meteorites Two long, narrow, shark-like battleships were stabbed out, and they rushed over with great momentum!