Earth Era - v2 Chapter 370
EZ Aquarius galaxy.
After the human civilization left here, the concealment strategy was cancelled, and the spaceships gathered here finally opened the communication channel, turned on the lights and various equipment. I don’t know how long they were in the dark, but the “slaves” who were about to be tortured and mad, including Evans, finally saw the light again. The temperature maintenance system also began to work, and the cabin was finally not so cold, but under the cover of warm air, the peculiar smell of various excrement and waste in the cabin became even stronger, almost to the point of stunned.
Three more companions died, and they… After all, they couldn’t wait for the moment when the light came.
But Evans soon felt that dying in the dark was not a bad luck. The dead feel no pain, but the living are still suffering under the torment.
Like the rest of the surviving slaves, Evans began to have to do the hardest, most tiring, and most dangerous jobs under the threat of guns and all kinds of horrific torture devices. It is the slaves who do the repairing of the outer armor of the spaceship. It is the Evans who drive the tattered airship that seems to be falling apart to transport supplies between different spaceships. —It was a job that only robots could do, but now it has fallen to the slaves too.
There are not only high temperature or severe cold, but also all kinds of pathogenic or deadly rays and radiation. So many people’s skin is festering, their eyes are blind, their bones are necrotic… but the work has to go on. Because if you do it, you can still survive and not die immediately. If you dare to refuse to work, you will be brutally tortured to death immediately, and then the body will be thrown into space. During this time, Evans has seen this happen several times.
All this pain and torture, Evans all gritted his teeth and persevered. Every time when Evans felt that he was about to lose his support, the image of his wife or children would appear in Evans’ mind, and Evans would tell himself that he must persevere and return to human civilization… …
Compared with the tortured life of the slaves, the life of the robbers was much better. They had good wine, good food, and pretty young women they had snatched from nowhere for their amusement. Of course, robbers are also divided into three, six and nine, but even the lowest robbers live a much better life than slaves.
After staying here for a long time and collecting information, Evans also knew a little about the robbers.
They were originally interstellar pirates. When the robot crisis came, they returned to human civilization through various means and fled with human civilization.
But there is order in human civilization, and everyone’s behavior must be constrained by law or morality. Moreover, the material distribution system is implemented within civilization. Even if the pirates have accumulated huge amounts of wealth in the past, there is no way for them to behave like It’s the same life as before. So, under the organization of several pirate leaders, the pirates planned for half a year, and finally successfully executed this escape plan, resumed their old business, and became pirates again.
The information eased Evans a little. Since it is a pirate, it must be necessary to rob things. There are no objects or merchant ships in this empty starry sky to loot, and the only ones that can be targeted for looting are human civilizations. In other words, pirates exist in dependence on human civilization. Obviously, then, they would quietly follow the fugitive fleet without getting too far. This also means that he still has the opportunity to return to human civilization.
The progress of things was just as Evans expected. After the human civilization escaped the fleet and the pirate fleet enough distance, and the pirate fleet was repaired, the pirates finally set off. They followed quietly about a dozen light days behind the escape fleet, maintaining the same course as the escape fleet.
Evans has been looking forward to the confrontation between the pirate fleet and the military battleship, because then it means that the pirate fleet has been noticed by human civilization, so with the power of human civilization, destroying this pirate fleet will only be It’s a matter of time, and you can go back to human civilization yourself. But unexpectedly, the pirate fleet has always followed from a distance, carefully concealing itself. They don’t even loot anymore – a few days ago, there was a scientific research ship or some kind of spaceship that happened to pass near the pirate garrison area, and the spaceship was obviously loaded with various materials, but the pirates Just watching the spaceship pass by him, the pirates did nothing except try to hide themselves from being noticed.
The doubts in Evans’ mind were cleared up one day later. Perhaps because he worked hard and never resisted, Evans gained a certain degree of trust from the pirates, so Evans was assigned to do other easier jobs.
So Evans saw many plants blooming with evil and magical flowers in a large spaceship. That’s… poppy. Not only poppies, but Evans gradually learned that among the rest of the spaceships, there are complete drug factories, arms factories, and various manufacturing workshops that I don’t know what they are.
As long as it is illegal and profitable, there are pirate fleets. Every few days, a pirate ship disguised as a merchant ship or a transport ship will depart from here, full of drugs, arms and other things, and return to the world of human civilization with the cooperation of the spies who are still hidden in human civilization. In the middle, these things will be sold through various black channels, and then exchanged for food, energy, precision equipment and other things that pirates urgently need, and then transported to the pirate fleet, and every time those merchant ships return, they will bring back many items. Hundreds, ranging from dozens of population back.
At one point, Evans saw them even bring back several scrapped military combat ships. Of course, those battleships became the property of the pirates after they were repaired.
Evans knew that even within human civilization, pirates had enormous influence. I don’t know how many high-ranking officials or military figures have been corrupted and attracted by the pirates, otherwise the pirates would not be able to move so smoothly. Together, these people formed a huge network of interests. They were like tumors in the human body, unscrupulously absorbing nutrients from the body.
Under this circumstance, pirates certainly don’t need to rob any more, it is too unskilled, not only the rate of return is low, but also the risk is high – in other words, what kind of robbery’s rate of return is comparable to the current one Business model?
But the pirates were not without their troubles. The absence of threats to human civilization does not mean that there are no threats to the rest of the world. This business model of pirates has a high rate of return and low risk. This is undoubtedly a good way to go. It is because this way is relatively easy to take, so it is definitely not the only one who can think of this. pirate.
In fact, the second group of pirates appeared soon, and their strength was even stronger than when this group of pirates had just escaped. So the two groups of pirates inevitably clashed. Evans didn’t know the specific reasons for the conflict, but he thought it was nothing more than those who competed for markets, resources, and expansion of their own territory.
It was not until the conflict happened that Evans knew the reason why the pirates had taken huge risks before, and even the military even dared to scrap the spacecraft and wanted to expand their strength. Expanding strength… not to fight against the military, but to fight against his own kind, to fight against the rest of the pirates. When the pirates had just escaped, the pirate leader had already thought of these things that would only happen now, and had made adequate preparations for it. From this point of view, the pirate leader is indeed not an ordinary person.
Evans did not know the final result of the conflict~www.mtlnovel.com~ Evans only knew that his pirate group had more than a dozen more spaceships, and there were more than a hundred icy corpses in space.
It is not far from the fugitive fleet of human civilization. In theory, the detection system of the fleeing fleet can definitely detect this conflict. But for some unknown reason, human civilization has always been indifferent and did not respond to the conflict that happened around him. The long-awaited military spacecraft did not arrive.
Evans will understand when he sees that this time the volume of the delivery spacecraft is at least half more than the last time. Evans knew that most of those extra things went into the pockets of one or several big men. When the pockets were full, things would naturally be suppressed.
There is always no shortage of careerists in a civilization, so pirates are like leeks, cutting one crop after another. There are constantly new pirate forces escaping from the fugitive fleet. Gradually, the pirates have become so numerous that the pirate group where Evans is located has no time to annex them.
In the dark starry sky, this place is as chaotic as the Warring States Period. The pirates merged, died, grew, and expanded… One pirate group disappeared, one pirate group appeared, and one pirate group grew… Up to now, it has been Growing up to the middle level of the group, Evans, who has access to some secret events, can’t even count how many pirate forces exist in this starry sky.
But no matter how the situation changes, the pirates of Evans are always the most powerful one.
Countless pirate forces are like moths parasitic on the big tree of human civilization, constantly absorbing nutrients and never ending. And all this ugliness is covered up by the dark starry sky, and it is still quiet here, at least… it looks like this. (To be continued.)