Chapter 14: An Empire of Fantasy
"Linglong, don't mess around, if you kill him, maybe his fleet will come to invade the earth!" Although Yu Xiaoxiang was trying to stop her sister from wanting to touch it, what she said made Xiao Yichen cry and laugh a little.
After letting the two sisters look at the star core for a long time and satisfy their curiosity, Xiao Yichen carefully sent the star core back to his body.
"Brother Yichen, you just said that as long as this star core is not harmed, no matter how seriously injured it is, it can heal by itself?"
"The king is talking mainly about external harm. Xiao Yichen nodded, shook his head slightly, and said, "In the empire, technology has advanced to a level that you can't imagine. Ordinary people on the ground, missing arms and legs, are just the length of time they have been lying in the treatment cabin. Of all kinds of contagious and spontaneous diseases, none of them cannot be treated. Basically, it can be said that as long as you don't die on the spot, any injury can be recovered as before. But we Star Clan are different, after more than 100,000 years of research, the diseases against Star Clan still need to be healed by plants and trees, and the treatment cabin is of no use to us. In other words, from the point of view of the safety of life, you earthlings are more likely than us stars to cure all kinds of diseases, and even do not have to endure long-term illnesses. But our Star Clan must go through a long period of healing to maintain the power of the Star Spirit in our body, otherwise we may die of illness. This is probably the choice given by fair nature, giving StarClan the ability to be inherently stronger than other races, and at the same time giving diseases that cannot be treated by technology. ”
"What you gain is what you lose, and it seems fair. Yu Xiaoxiang nodded on the side, but she didn't feel pity for the Star Clan.
"What you say makes sense!" Xiao Yichen's eyes lit up, nodded and said, "If you have gains, you have losses?"
"Hmph, I have a lot of reasonable words, pat on the back!" Although her mouth was quite disdainful, Yu Xiaoxiang's upturned nose was still showing the pride of the little woman when she rarely got a compliment from the poisonous tongue prince.
"Sister, don't interrupt!" Finding that Xiao Yichen's eyes were attracted by his sister, Yu Linglong complained dissatisfiedly, and simply stuck closer, and asked with little stars in her eyes: "Then don't you live in a fairyland?"
"Wonderland?" Xiao Yichen shook his head, sighed lightly and said: "If you are powerful and rich, it is naturally a fairyland, if you have no power, no power and no money, you may become a slave." The great aristocrats enclosed the land and oppressed the living space of ordinary citizens, and kept slaves for various exploitations, especially the labor on the mining planet, often killing countless people every year. The bureaucrats everywhere are corrupt, the nobles oppress the common people, and even rob the people's daughters for sexual pleasure, etc., you have never seen the evils of the empire. ”
"How, how can this be? With such advanced technology, why don't you use machines to work?" Yu Linglong and Yu Xiaoxiang were stunned at the same time, but the elder sister didn't know what she thought of in silence, but the younger sister asked directly without any scruples.
"Hey. Sighing again, Xiao Yichen's gaze became even colder, "A professional mining automatic machine, the cheapest one needs 250,000 star coins. The cost of maintenance for one year will be between 20,000 and 30,000 Star Coins. After 10 years of service, it needs to be replaced. In other words, the average annual cost is around 50,000 Star Coins. A slave who is strong and strong is only 500 star coins, and thirty slaves can achieve the mining effect of such a machine. In other words, with a slave, only fifteen thousand star coins are needed to achieve the effect of a mining machine. As for feeding them, a small food synthesis device of a few thousand yuan can feed them, and the raw materials used are ...... You'd better not know. Suffice it to know that this cost is almost negligible. Now, you still have to ask me, why don't you use advanced machinery and equipment, but use slaves?"
After Yu Linglong listened, the lively and active little girl also fell into silence, but Yu Xiaoxiang nodded and said: "I have heard a saying before, when there is a 100% profit, you can make a businessman rush to it, if you have a 300% profit, you can make them crazy, and if there is a 1,000% profit, then it will make the businessman unscrupulous! ”
"In short, the Empire has better places than your world, and there is darkness that you can't see. In fact, in your world, it must be the same. After all, in the empire, the interests of the vast majority of the people can be guaranteed, and the darkness behind the brilliance is present in every world. Xiao Yichen withdrew the cold color in his starry eyes, and turned back to his lazy, smiling, and seemingly good talk.
"That's right, we have good and bad here. Yu Linglong's temper is not bad, she pouted just now and didn't know what to be angry about, probably because her dream was ruthlessly shattered, but now she has said with a yearning face: "When, if only I could go to your world to see." You have to ride the most powerful spaceship and eat a lot of good things that you haven't eaten. ”
"Haha......" Xiao Yichen was amused by this cute little beauty again, stretched out his hand and rubbed his head dotingly, and said: "Okay, when this king contacts his subordinates, let them get this king's seat ship and let you sit down." ”
"Really, your ship is huge?" the curious baby immediately began to get excited again.
"In your eyes, it should be very big. Xiao Yichen pointed to the general history of the world, "Your largest military ship here is probably an aircraft carrier, right? This king's ship is the flagship of the Xingchen Army, with a total length of 370 kilometers. Almost the length of a thousand aircraft carriers connected. How's that, is it big enough?"
"This, it's so big, Brother Yichen, aren't you bragging?" The curious baby stared at her beautiful eyes with a look of disbelief, "Then you guys are walking around inside, won't it be very troublesome?"
"This ...... In fact, the knowledge involved in this is too wide, and if this king explains it to you, I'm afraid you won't understand it. You just need to know that the teleportation technology in Imperial Technology is already very perfect, and the various departments of the military ships are connected by light gates, and you only need to blink of an eye to go from the bridge to the bottom warehouse, and you can also go from the bow to the stern. Xiao Yichen tried to explain to the curious baby in the simplest way possible.
"I see. Then why are you still wearing such old-fashioned clothes? Shouldn't you be wearing that kind of dazzling, sci-fi combat uniform or something?"
"Old-fashioned, this is a dragon suit! Only high-ranking nobles and people who serve the royal family can wear clothes!" Xiao Yichen, who had a black line on his head, shook the clothes on his body, trying to justify his degraded clothes.