Chapter 1: Desert Islands
The universe is vast, and the stars are shining. In the Andromeda Galaxy, there is a planet that is very similar to the Earth, called Yunling. There is a huge island in the middle of the endless ocean, the largest ocean on Yunling Star, the climate of the island is dry and isolated, full of desert and yellow sand, and there is a small town near the coast of the island, and the existence of a small town announces that there are still people here.
The roads in the small town are lined with peeling and rusty iron houses, where there is a long drought and little rain, and the newcomers have nothing to do a few pieces of iron or board to cover and live in people, and the particular thing is that it is an iron container, and there are almost no permanent buildings here, and the sand compacted by the road is naturally the road.
In a tin container near the sea, a young man in his early twenties tinkled a car with a small tune, and all kinds of mechanical parts hung on the four walls of the container. The young man was slender and muscular, his hair was a little unkempt, his cheeks were a little resolute but heroic, and his face was more or less oily, and he was tossing intently with tools.
There was a knock on the door of the tin cabinet, interrupting the young man's train of thought, and then the door was opened with a creak, followed by a loud voice: "Noyi, the dock has arrived, hurry up and take a look!" Hearing this voice, Noi didn't have to look back to know that it was Achill who came, Achill was the son of Uncle Barry, and he was the same age as No, and the two had grown up together since childhood. Achill is a strong, mechanical talent, and a humanoid lifting device for Nuoyi's modified vehicles. Regardless of whether Noyi finished cleaning up or not, Achill dragged Noyi out of the door.
Walking on the road with one foot deep and one foot shallow in the sand, the two of them arrived at the most important place in the town, the dock. It's the lifeblood of an entire town or an entire island, and it's where all the necessities come from. The wharf is a small port, with a large cement square, which stretches to the sea, connected to a long trestle, and there are several small cranes on the trestle, where the goods are unloaded. The square was divided in two by barbed wire, the half of the sea was not allowed to be accessed, and inside was a four-story reinforced concrete semi-fortress barracks, the only permanent structure on the entire island, where the commander was the supreme ruler of the entire island.
At this time, Raymond, the supreme ruler of the island, was standing on top of a pile of wooden crates, shouting: "Be quiet, come one by one, whoever dares to squeeze me will recognize him, and the gun in my hand will not recognize him!" Coupled with Raymond's potholed face with a scar, it was also very intimidating, but Nuo Yi felt that the main reason for the orderly crowd was that there were two squads of soldiers with loaded guns standing under the box pile. At this time, Noichi and Achill saw Uncle Barry who had arrived at the docks, and Barry beckoned to the two, and the two went over to stand with Barry.
Barry is a medium-sized man with a pair of old, black-rimmed glasses, and twenty years of living on an island have left his face full of signs of age, but always with a reassuring smile. Watching Noyi and Archiel approach, Barry patted them on the shoulder and motioned for them to watch together.
A group of people walked down from the boat, most of them men, and a small number of women, escorted by soldiers with loaded guns, lined up to the barbed wire gate of the dock, Raymond shouted: "Register one by one, hit the chip, after that, the men go to the left of the field, the women go to the right, the boxes and boards in front of them are picked up by themselves, and the sheds are built by themselves, don't make trouble for me, I won't care if I don't die, eat and drink and go to work to earn money to buy, and I deserve to starve to death." ”
Raymond felt a little tired after roaring in one breath, coughed and coughed a few times, at this time, a white and fat greasy man next to him quickly picked up a glass of iced juice to Raymond and said: "My lord, it's really hard, hurry up and drink some ice to relieve the heat." Raymond took a big sip before replying, "Hey, I've been in this place for more than 20 years, and I don't know when I'll be able to go back in this life, so I'm really going to die here." By the way, fat man, why is your ship so much less cargo this time?" The fat man hurriedly replied: "My lord, you don't know anything, I don't know what happened this time, the whole inspection is very strict, except for these sinners and agricultural machinery and equipment, there is not much entrainment at all, and the relationship between the port is dotted and dotted, and it is less than half of the usual." Anyway, I don't feel like the atmosphere is right. ”
Raymond nodded thoughtfully, and the fat captain continued, "Look, my lord, there is a little girl among these sinners, how many years has it been only once?" Raymond's eyes tightened, and he found that there was indeed a weak figure in the crowd of people queuing through the barbed wire, it was a little girl in her teens, and the thin figure was particularly conspicuous in a group of extremely vicious people. Raymond said slowly: "It's been twenty years, except for Nuoyi and their batch, is there still such a big case in the empire now?" Need the whole family to be executed and exiled?" The fat man hurriedly shook his head: "Who dares to inquire about this kind of thing casually, but there is a legend that this case has something to do with that one back then." Raymond nodded and sighed: "How many years, it's not over yet, it's really troublesome." The fat man also nodded: "Not really." ”
Raymond turned his head to look at the fat man and said, "I have to take half of the goods this time, there are too few things, and I can't make much money." The fat man's face twisted into a twist and he held back for a long time before he said painfully: "Okay, good, when there are more goods in the future, adults will help me sell more." Raymond slapped the fat man on the shoulder and said loudly: "That's no problem, when did my old Ray stop being righteous after so many years?" The fat man gasped in pain, and the smiling face that had just recovered was twisted into a twist again.
Suddenly, Raymond's face changed, and he saw a special and strange team coming down from the ship, the whole team only had about a dozen people, but it was a fully armed team guarding a tall and perfect woman, followed by two armored transport vehicles in the sand. Seeing Raymond's face, the fat man quickly explained, "This is the Inspector sent from above. Adults are careful, and they don't know whose adult's daughter is, it's very difficult to serve, and the whole team is looking at everyone with a straight face as if they don't pay back the money. Raymond frowned and muttered, "Ombudsman? Can you use such a big battle? The whole team of exoskeletons to strengthen the guards? I see that such a big island is only a small team of exoskeleton soldiers, this bird doesn't and breaks the ground, as for it?"
Nuo Yi also saw the little girl in the crowd, and his eyes were also tight. He remembered that he came to this island as a child more than ten years ago, and if it weren't for the care of Uncle Barry, he didn't know what kind of hardship he would have endured over the years. Noyi opened his mouth and said, "Uncle Barry, I want to take this little girl back. Barry was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Okay, as long as she wants." ”
After disembarking from the ship, the special team ran directly to the dock fort, and after a while they entered the barracks, and Raymond hurried over. The exiles who had come down from the docks were put on the side of the barbed wire by implanting chips in the nape of the neck socket under the supervision of the soldiers. Walking into the barbed wire, you enter a huge prison, where there is no fence, the ocean is the highest wall, and no one can leave it except for the freighter that comes from the dock once every few months. There is only one job on the island, planting grass. The desert and climate here are suitable for the growth of a plant of yellow thorns, which is a very important pharmaceutical raw material, and the cultivation of yellow thorns throughout the island is monopolized by one of the giants of the empire, the Blackstone Consortium, which regularly transports agricultural machinery and raw materials, and of course some of the most necessary materials for the entire island life. All exiles had to farm grass in order to earn a very low income, which they could use to buy the necessities of life on the island.
The thin little girl wrapped herself in her robe, her face was swollen with tears and tears on her face, and she felt all kinds of vicious and malicious eyes along the way, and the little girl's heart was about to be filled with fear and despair. The moment the chip hit the skin, the little girl trembled visibly, maybe because of pain, maybe because of fear. The little girl trembled and stepped over the barbed wire, and one of the soldiers shouted viciously to the crowd: "Boss Raymond said, don't be too much with her, or you will be cleaned up." Barry heard it and smiled slightly and said, "Old Ray is actually not a bad person. ”
At this time, Nuoyi, who had been waiting for a long time, hurriedly came to the entrance, stood in front of the little girl, and said gently: "You come with me, I will take care of you, believe me, I am not a bad person." The little girl looked at Nuoyi nervously and hesitantly, there was still fear in her eyes, although this brother looked very sunny and his eyes were very clean, but she didn't know whether to trust anyone here. At this time, Barry took Achill up and said, "Little girl, we are together, this is my son Achill, you come with us, he is Noyi, he wants to protect you." Maybe it was Barry's smile that made people feel at ease, maybe there was no better choice, the little girl nodded, Barry stepped forward and led him, and the three of them walked towards Noyi's residence.
At the head of the fortress in the distance, Raymond took a few deep breaths, shook his head and said: "My old Lei is not as knowledgeable as women, not generally knowledgeable, but he is angry with me, Tom, what kind of attitude do you say?" Well, what attitude? Who gave him N's woman's official position so high? What do you want to do with the Ombudsman who goes through the motions?" Deputy Captain Tom hurriedly smiled and said, "The captain is not angry, not angry, you see that Nuoyi kid took the little girl away." Raymond nodded: "Well, I knew this kid would do this, yes, let's take a walk, let's drink a little bit of the wine that the fat dog brought first, don't get angry, don't get angry." ”