Stellar Hunter Nation 025 Despair's Breath
Wu Chang had never seen liquid silver coins before, and he couldn't even imagine that people in this world could use them as currency. Wu Chang was of course very familiar with gold being used as currency, but in this era of cosmic development, gold was no longer a rare metal, it was just the strong love for gold in human genetic heritage that made gold coins become the underlying layer of the currency system.
As for the Rainbow Coin, Wu Chang was not unfamiliar with it. After all, he was a miner who excavated Rainbow Crystals. However, the Rainbow Coin was not made of Rainbow Crystals, but rather a rare alloy that had undergone special processing. More than 20 elements were mixed together in a secret formula to create the shiny Rainbow Coin.
Laine Lao once introduced that the metal used to make rainbow coins is not valuable, but the craftsmanship is. This secret craftsmanship is actually the same as the craftsmanship of making space folding engine shells. For humans, space folding engines are the key to entering the cosmic era, and this craftsmanship is very valuable.
Above the Rainbow Coin is the mysterious Liquid Silver Coin. This currency is even more peculiar because it is a currency that has been sealed with an energy membrane, which is extremely pure Secret Silver. This rare metal is not only used in various machinery but also serves as the primary material for human identity tattoos.
What Wu Chang was holding in his hand now was a bag of liquid silver coins. Looking at the desperate eyes of Blood Rose, Wu Chang guessed that these liquid silver coins were probably the largest sum of money that Xie Wen and Blood Rose had ever possessed. Of course, it was also possible that this was all they had.
"You're quite wise, it seems I have to let you two go," he said. After finishing speaking, Wú Cháng pulled out a rope from behind his back and tightly tied the two women to the corner of the table, also stuffing their mouths with two pieces of broken tablecloth.
Wu Chang closed the door of the house and returned to the single room next door, put on that dirty broken cloak, and swaggered out of the distribution center. When passing by the bar, Wu Chang threw a gold coin to the waiter with a wave of his hand.
"Not bad, that sāo stuff has got me so drunk I can barely get out of bed, and I'm still humming inside... consider this money as my treat for you to drink"
After Wu Chang left the supply center, he immediately hid his body in the shadow of a building and quickly left the A332 mining area, advancing towards Huangyecity.
About half an hour later, outside the high alloy wall of Huangyecastle, Wu Chang met A Yun, a thief who had been waiting there for a long time.
"Wuchang brother, did you succeed?" Ah Yun asked excitedly, but Wuchang didn't respond to him. Instead, he pulled Ah Yun into a deserted corner and said in a low voice.
"Ayin, there's something I must tell you... " Wu Chang paused for a moment, sighed and continued, "Ayin, the mother who recognized you is actually a fake mother..."
"Ah?" Ayun was stunned at that moment, her big eyes staring at Wu Chang as if she had heard something incredible.
Wu Chang steeled himself and repeated everything he had just heard to Ah Yun.
"Do you understand now? It was all a plot by the Blood Rose, they used you and you can't go there again. If you appear once more, it will be life-threatening..."
Before he could finish speaking, Ah Yun suddenly pounced on Wu Chang like a mad tiger, her small fist hitting his abdomen and causing him to stumble.
"Are you crazy?" Wu Chang pulled A Yun's arm and shouted in a low voice.
"You're crazy, you damn well are crazy, your mom is fake, your whole family is fake..." Enraged Ah Yun struggled to break free from Wú Cháng's grasp, finally biting down on his arm so hard that Wú Cháng winced in pain.
"You're such a child, don't you understand? Am I still capable of deceiving you?" Wu Chang shook off Ah Yun and opened the portable terminal on his wrist, revealing Aileen's face on the flickering screen.
"Ayun, Wu Chang didn't deceive you. We all saw and heard what just happened. That person called Jing Jie is not your mother, she's a swindler..." At this point, Ailin also cried. She really couldn't bear to see Ayun suffer. In her heart, Ayun was like her own child."
At this time, Ah Yun had already cried so much that his face was covered in tears. He shook his head stubbornly and said, "You all deceived me, you just can't stand the fact that I have a mother, you're all jealous of me..." As he spoke, Ah Yun suddenly rushed to Wu Chang's side, lifted his foot and kicked Wu Chang's calf.
"Hey? You little scamp..." Just as Wú Cháng was about to grab him after being kicked, he found that the kid had already turned around and run far away. No matter how much Wú Cháng shouted at him, he didn't turn back.
"Alright, hurry back, A Yun is still a kid, he can't accept this reality yet, I think he'll be okay in a few days," Eileen said, wiping away tears on the screen.
Wu Chang wasn't a fool, of course he could feel Ah Yun's sorrow. His own past life was that of an orphan, otherwise he wouldn't have joined the army at over ten years old, later becoming a mercenary, bandit and thief, until at 27 years old he still had such a miserable life when he crossed into this different world.
However, Wu Chang was luckier than Ah Yun because at the age of 20, Wu Chang met a master who changed his fate. For seven whole years, Wu Chang not only learned many things but also felt the care and love like that from a father.
Watching A Yun disappear in the distance, Wu Chang shook his head and turned around to leave as well.
Just after entering Huangyecity, at the A332 supply center, people finally found the trapped Blood Rose. The earliest fainted fat woman finally woke up, she rushed to the office of Blood Rose to report, but unexpectedly opened the door and found two trapped women.
This is a mess for the Center. The Blood Rose, who had been crying and wiping away tears, immediately contacted Sevyn as soon as she heard the news, and she was already sobbing uncontrollably on the phone.
"It's all gone...... All of our saved liquid silver coins are gone......"
"What did you say, stinky girls?" was Seven's roar on the other end of the phone.
"All the silver coins are gone, that bastard Wang stole them all, a whole bag of them...... Ah......" Xue Mei Hua slammed down the phone and sat on the ground wailing.
Accompanied by the sound of Blood Rose's crying was the dense gunfire and Sevyn's roar coming from the phone, this time the wolf really bled profusely.
That night, Sevyn rushed back to the mining area. Unlike usual, Sevyn didn't take out his Blood Rose to vent. Instead, he deliberated with Blood Rose in a secret room for a long time before going alone to visit Mine Supervisor Roda.
Roda is Sevyn's iron-clad ally, and Sevyn's business has a considerable number of shares that belong to Roda. At least half of the stolen liquid silver coins belonged to Roda. When Roda learned of this news, he fainted with a roll of his eyes.
When Luo Da woke up, the fatty cried with a face full of tears: "Good-for-nothing! You didn't even get the crystal, and now you've been robbed of your money too. Do you still have the face to live? Why don't you just go die?"
"Director of the mine, we can't let things go on like this anymore. If he can rob us of our money today, tomorrow he'll dare to sneak into the mine and cause trouble for us. By then, our task of digging crystals will be impossible to complete."
"There's another piece of information, you must pay attention, I heard that Wu Chang has a 15-centimeter-long crystal hidden on his body, if we catch him..."
Luoda didn't wait for Saiwen to finish speaking, and with an agility that was completely out of proportion to his stature, he jumped up from his chair. "I'll go find Ye Tian, I'll go find Ye Fei, aren't they going to take down the underworld? Now is the time, now we must act..."
That night, the three big shots of Huangyecity conspired for a whole night. Governor Ye Fei, Garrison Commander Ye Tian, and Mine Supervisor Luo Da didn't know what they were discussing in the secret room, but on the second day early in the morning, all the common people felt something was wrong.
At some point in the middle of the night, pairs of patrolling soldiers suddenly appeared on the alloy walls of Huang Wei City. The walls were originally meant to guard against the Man-Eaters, but today they were fully armed and even the automatic weapons embedded in the walls had been activated.
There were floating land vehicles everywhere in the air, and the military camp of the guard team was noisy for half a night. One after another, land vehicles carrying supplies and soldiers rushed through the streets.
The soldiers cancelled all their holidays, and at every street corner in the city, guards were arranged. Even the abandoned watchtowers in the abandoned mine area outside the city were manned, and even the heavy machine guns and small laser cannons inside were overhauled.
Finally, all the electronic bulletin boards of Hwang Ae-seon were uniformly replaced with announcements in the early morning. The rumored Hwang Ae-seon's crackdown operation actually started this morning.
At that moment, the entire planet was in an uproar. Countless miners watched as armed soldiers marched down the street, scaring them into retreating quietly. Countless contractors scratched their heads, unsure why this anti-crime operation had been brought forward.
But everyone has a consensus, this time the anti-crime campaign is absolutely not going through the motions, it's absolutely real. All mine owners have received stop-work notices, and within half a day, mine owners must gather their miners at the designated center. After 12 o'clock today, any suspicious figure appearing on the main street of the mining area will be killed without mercy.
The miners were stunned, and they even suspected that it was an April Fool's Day joke by the governor. But when 12 o'clock passed and dense gunfire sounded on the main street of the mining area, everyone was stunned, this was not a joke, it was real.
High-speed flying vehicles didn't even stop, seeing the shadows of people on the mining district street and opening fire, sending those humble lives to hell like hunting rabbits. Not a single soldier would stop to ask for identity, their orders were unconditional slaughter without distinction.
"It's better to wrongly kill 1,000 than to let one go, this is the slogan for this anti-crime campaign. I don't care who you are or what your background is, as long as you don't cooperate with this anti-crime campaign, what awaits you besides prison is bullets..."
The entire planet of Kuat, wherever there were inhabited places, was filled with the voice of the Governor.
Those who harbored illusions on the main street could hardly escape death, and the miners who gathered at the distribution center might not be able to escape either. After the latest blue light detector was turned on in each hall, the crowd suddenly became chaotic.
"Blue light! Damn it, it's actually connected blue light, Ye Fei and Ye Tian have gone crazy, they're really serious this time......"
How can people not be nervous, when at least one-third of the miners are using fake identities, the kind that cost 500 gold coins to buy. If everything were normal, it would be easy to get away with it, but this fake identity won't fool the Blue Light Detector connected to the internet. This despicable machine will instantly transmit the identity information to every planet in the Ma Tou Xing circle and verify its authenticity at the fastest speed.
" Grass mud, you don't let me live, I won't let you live either"
"Killing one is just enough to cover our costs, killing two will make us a profit! Brothers, don't wait for death!"
The miners in Huang Wei's mine never lacked desperate outlaws, who would not be afraid to rebel at the critical moment of life and death. In a short while, the mining area was already filled with flames everywhere.
