Chapter 977: The Miners of the Union Prison
Seeing the castle of the Great Lord of Time and Space disappear in his field of vision, Qin Feng still felt a little regretful, a powerful existence of this level is worth at least ten incarnations of the will of the Heavenly Dao, if it can be given to the starship as a sacrifice, even now, it can increase his completeness by at least 1%, right?
"Do you think that with my current cultivation and unreservedly attacking, is it possible to kill him?" He asked.
The voice of the ship spirit Yu Lan sounded in his mind: "With my help, it is not a problem to hit him hard, the probability of killing him is about three to fifty percent, the special race of time and space hunters is very good at saving their lives, especially the existence above the lord level, if you want to run, you can't catch him." ”
Qin Feng pondered slightly: "It seems that when I improve my cultivation realm again in the new time and space, the next time I come back, I will be sure enough to ensure that he has no chance to escape?" I just don't know how powerful the old immortals in their race are, if they can kill their territory lair one day, the benefits of the harvest should not be too exaggerated! ”
Ship Spirit Yu Lan shook his head: "This is a grand and lofty goal, let's consider it when my completeness reaches more than 85%!" Don't forget that beings like me are one of the most valuable prey in the eyes of their old immortals, and if you don't want to be hunted down by a horde of old monsters who end up making wedding dresses for others, you'd better not play with fire. ”
"I understand, I won't deliberately die."
Of course, Qin Feng would not joke about his life and death future, if it really fell into the hands of that group of aliens, I am afraid that wanting to die would be an unattainable luxury.
The starship carried him through at high speed, in this vast sea of time and space, each new universe looked like a bright or dark gravel in the extreme distance, exuding a different energy atmosphere, or neutral and peaceful, or vibrant, or cold and deep, or ethereal...... And so on and so forth.
The difference in breath is closely related to the basic space-time physical laws that make up the world, as well as the intelligent races that breed in it, those eerie and terrifying space-time universes, needless to say, are mostly evil and dark creatures, and a few particularly terrifying existences dare not even touch the current starships.
In the sea of time and space, these "gravel" are not stagnant, but always in a state of motion, just like the planets and galaxies in the universe of the main world, some will huddle together, and some will be alone, silently shining in a corner alone.
Qin Feng also saw a lot of still bleak gravel, exuding a strong aura of death and decay, according to the ship spirit Yu Lan, it was because of various reasons, the space-time universe that had been dead for a long time, there was basically no life in them, and there was no energy or resources to use, only the wreckage was left to drift lonely in this sea of time and space.
Of course, where there is destruction, there is new life, and in just a few hundred breaths, Qin Feng has personally witnessed the process of more than one new space-time universe being born from nothingness, and he feels that he has benefited a lot.
In this vast sea of time and space, an infinite number of incalculable gravel has converged into star clusters, star belts, galaxies, and even countless nebulae that are unimaginably magnificent.
With the Ether Void Starry Sky as the standard, the level of most of the space-time universes that Qin Feng has seen cannot be compared with him, that is to say, with his own cultivation now, he can already claim to be the king and ancestor in a large number of space-time universes.
"Obviously, this is one of your life delusions,"
Ship Spirit Yu ruthlessly interrupted his longing: "The sea of time and space is boundless, there is no beginning and no end, and the real high-level space-time universe is hidden in the depths, and you will be able to see it in the future." ”
Qin Feng nodded, this sea of time and space is a magnificent world that is much more magnificent than the cosmic starry sky of the main world, and any living being should remain in awe here.
I don't know how long it took, the starship broke into an extraordinarily magnificent super nebula at a dazzling speed, and in the core area of the nebula, a bright star that emitted a glittering light finally appeared at the boundary of Qin Feng's perception range, and there were many companion stars around him, converging into a light veil of light mist.
……
Q5091 Union is one of the many regions in the Inga Nebula.
This is the most desolate and remote area of the Ingetyr Empire, and nine out of ten of the galaxies in the star sector are in an absolute state of wilderness, that is, except for the scientific research fleet of the relevant departments of the empire, there are basically no other spaceships to patronize, and those planets have maintained their original state for hundreds of millions of years.
As for the few remaining star fields, the degree of development is also quite limited, and it has always been the first choice for exiling felons in the Empire, and all kinds of vicious hooligans, star thieves, and warlord leaders will be thrown here by the imperial government to deal with them, in fact, they are left to fend for themselves.
The Imperial Supervision Department has set up the largest joint prison in this star area here, and all felons with sentences of more than 500 years, no background background, and no star coin operation will basically be sent to this desolate ghost place that can no longer be desolate.
The average life expectancy of the people of the empire is only in their early 400s, so if there is no special reason for the prisoners who come to this place, they will basically not have the opportunity to leave, and can only live here for the rest of their lives.
But then again, ordinary people in the era of astronautics have limited abilities, and it is not so easy to commit serious crimes that are more than 500 years or even thousands of years in prison.
The jurisdiction of the joint prison is quite extensive, covering dozens of star systems, the star systems are connected to each other by wormholes and star gates, each star system has a number of mineral planets, the crust of the planet contains many rare minerals urgently needed by the empire, but there are only three planets with life, and the natural conditions are extremely harsh, the creatures on it are very ferocious and difficult, even the regular army soldiers with a genetic index of more than 10 are not easy to deal with.
Thousands of years ago, the bigwigs of the Imperial Supervision Department used some resources to set up tens of thousands of mines here, mined the high-value minerals in them, smelted and purified them into high-grade concentrates, and then transported them to the black market in batches to sell, half of the star coins obtained went into the small treasury of the Ministry of Supervision, and the other half was privately divided by these bigwigs.
A large number of mines need people to work, and the laborers are naturally these unlucky felons, and they are also free laborers, and the sources are abundant, and a batch of them will be replaced with new ones after they die, without worrying about being informed by the outside media and suffering from the pressure of moral public opinion.
Most of the huge mansions, vacation planets, luxury spaceships, beautiful wives and concubines of the Ministry of Supervision, and even the huge deposits in the Alien Imperial Bank, large bearer bonds, private planets, etc., all come from the silent dedication of these unlucky criminals.
On the resource planet N-16, in an open-pit mine on the Eastern Hemisphere continent, thousands of miners are sweating profusely, and the vicious overseers are patrolling back and forth with thick leather whips with metal barbs, and occasionally they will wave them intimidatingly, leaving a loud "pop" sound in the air.
This mining area is rich in high-grade meteorite rough stones, somewhat similar to the rough jadeite of the Overworld, and when the thick and ugly outer layer of stone is cut, various meteorite jade will be unearthed inside.
After being pondered by master jewelry design experts, the Xingjing jewelry is processed into a famous jewelry by skilled craftsmen, and sent to the luxury windows of high-end jewelry stores for display, which is highly sought after and loved by those noble ladies and celebrities in the market.
“…… Damn the bunnies, work hard for Lao Tzu,"
A big man with a meaty face and a badge of the captain of the overseer pinned to his right arm impatiently waved the leather whip in his hand and roared viciously: "In the past few days, our group has always handed in the least number of rough stones, and the quality is not high, and the leader is already very dissatisfied. ”
"Today, if everyone doesn't hand over ten rough stones to Lao Tzu, they will be rewarded with twenty whips, and the quota of nutrients at night will be halved! Don't blame Lao Tzu for not reminding you! ”
Under his threatening scolding, the prisoners in the surrounding mines silently sped up their movements, there was no law and order in this place, and those who did not work hard, or made the overseers look unpleasant, were dragged out and beaten to death on the spot, and if they wanted to live a few more days, they could only be people with their tails between their legs.
Somewhere near a remote pit, a young man with a delicate face struggles to operate an old, cumbersome semi-automatic mining excavator, digging through the black rocks, hoping that one or two rough stones can be dug out of it.
The geological structure here is stable, the metal content in the rock layer is extremely high, so the hardness is comparable to that of alloy, and it is quite laborious to excavate, and the efficiency of the almost scrapped mining machine can be imagined.
Seeing that it was getting late, the boy couldn't help but become more and more anxious, but at this moment, the old mining machine made an ugly roar and went on strike.
The boy cursed in a low voice with an ugly face, jumped out of the control room, and stepped on the tracks to inspect the situation in the rugged pit.
Suddenly, a cyan oval stone ball stuck in the gap between the tracks caught his attention, and he carefully crouched down to take it into his hand, and unexpectedly found that this was a rare piece of high-grade raw ore, as long as it was handed over to the overseer captain, not only could the task be waived for the next seven days, but he could also be rewarded with a quota of high-grade nutrients, and had the opportunity to be assigned to a brand new mining excavator.
"It's worth it!"
The boy let out a low cry of excitement, picked up the rough stone and was about to leave, but when he turned around, he was stopped by three poor miners.
"Qin Lan, hand over the things, and spare you from dying today!"
One of the leaders commanded coldly, a bloodstained mining pickaxe in his hand.
"Why are you?"
The young man named Qin Lan nervously protected the original stone in his arms, this was the hope to ensure his better survival here, how could he be willing to hand it over like this?
"Don't pay? Then you go to die! ”
The strong man sneered, picked up the mining pickaxe and smashed it down, and the two companions around him also shot together.
Qin Lan, who was outnumbered, was knocked to the ground in a few clicks, covered in blood and dying, seeing that he would not live long.
"Hurry up, bury him,"
The strong man's face was as usual, and he ordered: "Take this treasure and go back to receive the reward, the leader will be very happy." ”
Murder and robbery of goods have long been commonplace in this kind of place, where high-level prisoners bully and abuse low-level prisoners, while overseers clean up both high-level and low-level prisoners, and there is no bottom line of justice and morality.
The three of them skillfully handled their hands and feet, and in the area above their heads, a bright and magnificent starlight fell lightly, hovered for a moment, and then merged into the young man's body and disappeared.