The girl looked at him expectantly, and then said, "Quite simply, I'm going to stay in the Morning Star Foundry." Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

He breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately he didn't encounter the above two developments, otherwise he would have the illusion that he was acting in the interstellar version of "Kangxi Weifu Private Interview".

Morningstar Casting is such a big company, it is naturally not difficult to stuff one or two people into it. He agreed, telling Aros to send her back to the Dillard star system.

In fact, compared to returning to Morning Star Casting, she prefers to follow Tang Fang on a long journey and experience more unknown things, but thinking of Han Jingyun's words and the data chip, she suddenly became unhappy, so she did not object, and agreed very obediently.

After half an hour of preparation, the veteran drove the special operations transport ship to carry Bukharin, Zhao Jiali out of the Fallen Angel, and headed for the Star Alliance. Now there are only three people left on the Fallen Angel, Tang Fang, Claire, and Tang Lin.

"Big brother, where are we going next?"

"Let's get out of the Ilamok star system first, and as for where the next stop is, I'll plan my route."

As Ghost prepares to drive the engine away, he receives a communication from the Dillard star system, and Kelinia tells him that the 0 communication module in the Central Military Port has received an encrypted message.

The 0 communication module has the highest priority, and is usually assigned to Alice, the Bahamut Pirates, Old Marion, Bai Hao, and other subjects, but unlike in the past, this encrypted intelligence did not come from a few of them.

Only Tang Fang knew who the sender was...... It comes from the Void Seekers, and the communicator is Zeratul.

This information did not have much substance, only a short line------ Zeratul asked him to rush to a place not far from the abyss of Tartarus in 3 days, and the specific matters would not be too late to discuss after meeting.

Old fellows have always been secretive, and this time is no exception. However, considering that the Dark Sect is here to track the light of the Apocalypse attached to Athena's car, it is naturally a much higher priority than destroying the stronghold of the Divine Forces in the Republic of Date.

3 days...... If you set off now, there is a lot of time, and it just so happens that there is a suspicious point in the information provided by Han Jingyun that is very close to the coordinates provided by Zeratu, so it is better to go and have a look, no matter whether you find any traces of God's armed personnel, you will not delay meeting Zeratu.

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Eighteen hours later, the Fallen Angel arrived at the Kemore star system in the area bordering the Tartarus Abyss in the Republic of Date.

This place is located on the outer edge of the influence area of the Tartarus Abyssal Black Hole System, which is far from the Celestial Nest Star Region where the Star Alliance is located, and belongs to the absolute frontier zone. The farther away from the center of civilization, the worse the living environment, which in many cases means backwardness and barbarism.

Han Jingyun's suspicion that the person in charge of the star system colluded with the God Armament was not an unfounded speculation.

Just like when it was in the Eramok star system, the Fallen Angel unloaded a special ops transport ship and left the inner airspace to return to outer deep space.

Tang Fang took Claire and Tang Lin to drive the special operation transport ship to the only habitable planet in the star system.

In fact, the so-called habitable planets are just more habitable than other planets in the star system.

It's suitable, not livable!

Merlin was once a resource planet with abundant reserves of zero elements, but over time, the larger veins have long since been deforested, and now only scattered small mines are still producing low-quality zero elements.

More and more people choose to leave this barren planet and embrace a new life, but those who are at the bottom of society have no way to leave this land poisoned by smelting industry.

In order to reduce expenses and increase revenue, the local government did not move the heavily polluted zero-element refining workshop to space or other planets, but built castrated refining lines near the mine, simplifying the sewage and purification procedures and equipment, and directly discharging the toxic gases and wastewater produced by the refining process into the atmosphere, rivers, and even the underground.

No one cares if the land will go from habitable to uninhabitable in the near future, all that the officials care about is money.

With the money, you can carry out atmospheric modifications on the neighboring planets, and the people of Merlin will usher in a new life------ which is a phrase that every governor will say when he takes office, but the governor has changed one term after another, the wheat has ripened and stubble, and the annual financial report has talked about losses, debts, and deficits, and there is never a surplus in taxes.

It almost becomes an inescapable reincarnation, trapping everyone on this planet like a shackle.

Plans to move to a new home have been put on hold indefinitely, environmental governance has been thundering and raining, and miners and rights holders have colluded with each other to bring a never-ending nightmare to the planet.

Many people are working hard just to get out of here, and those who can't do without it can only close their eyes and wait for death, or pray that the new governor is a good-hearted person who can do something practical for them.

The sky is always grey, and sometimes the acid rain lasts for months in some areas, and when the pH level exceeds the warning line, people can only huddle in their rooms and look desperately at the clouds where the sun is.

When the three of Tang Fang arrived on the outskirts of Haierte City, there was a light rain in the sky, but fortunately, the pH value did not exceed the warning line, and they could still go out as long as they wore special rain gear. So the lights of the shop windows were misty in the smoke and rain, and pedestrians in thick raincoats walked by, disappearing into the bleak street corners.

Some elderly people hide under purpose-built, semi-enclosed shelter facilities, selling poor-looking but edible ingredients salvaged from the back alleys of the mall.

Without the bustle of Greenwich City and the beauty of Torchlight, Hailt City is not the capital of Merlin, but 30 years ago, it was undoubtedly the most prosperous city on the planet. It is brilliant because of the zero element, and it is also withered because of the zero element.

The boots burst through a puddle of water, and the splash of sewage soaked the trouser legs. Tang Fang looked up at the blurred sky in the distance, sighed, and his mood also fell.

Claire buys all the vegetables and fruits of an old man, but the old woman is at a loss when she looks at the portrait of the first president of the Alliance on the banknote. She didn't recognize the person, let alone where the coins in her hand came from, and she didn't think they were counterfeit just because of her trust in the girl in front of her with a distressed expression.

Watching the old man drive away in a tattered maglev car, she took a bite of the fruit that had never been washed with water, and felt very sour.

Tang Fang shook his head, took her hand and walked to the back of the rain shelter facility, observing the situation across the road through the gap between the plates.

Two trucks broke through the rain curtain, sometimes large and small, and stopped in front of the dilapidated church with smoke and water vapor, and with the shouts of the commander, one soldier after another in combat uniforms jumped out of the back of the truck, and then divided into two squads to surround the entire church along the left and right aisles.

Four officers in ghostly power armor kicked open the door of the church, and the crucifix of the Holy Son exuded a reassuring magic under the cover of candles, diluting the depression and desolation caused by the rainy day.

Unfortunately, this magic was quickly cut off by a long knife made of steel, and the four officers in power armor entered the church with some of the soldiers, followed by the sound of tables and chairs clashing, and painful wails and pleadings.

The gun went off, and everything was calm, only the rain line fell on the puddle and snapped...... Smack......

Five minutes later, the soldiers escorted several people out of the church, and at the back were four officers in power armor, one of whom kicked the chasing old priest to the ground as he approached the door.

The believers were exposed to the rain unprotected, some were kicked in the shin and wailed in pain for walking slowly, and some were carried by the neck and driven into the prison cart behind without dignity.

Tang noticed a man in his 30s, he was very thin, his skinny to medium-sized pants were like a TV costume on his body, his cheeks and eye sockets were sunken, and his rough skin and deep wrinkles made him look older than his actual age.

His gray trousers were stained with a little mud, and his shirt had not been washed in days, except for the silvery white glow of the cross hanging under his collar, swaying gently with his steps. Tang Fang knew that the cross was not made of silver, but because of the long-term caressing, the patent leather on the outside fell off, and gradually became smooth and round.

Emma called up the middle-aged man's identity information.

Su Qinghe, whose parents died early, has no brothers and sisters, no wives and children, is alone and accomplishes nothing. No one cares about him, no one cares about him, no one respects him.

His parents spent all their savings to treat the disease, leaving behind an old house that was crumbling in the acid rain.

He has no culture, no skills, and his brain is not smart enough, and as a weak person, he can only enter the death vortex that swallows the lives of countless people, struggling on the food and clothing line.

He had a wife, but unfortunately died, under this damn acid rain, just like today.

It was the happiest period of his entire life, and even though it was less than nine months old, and even though she wasn't pretty and couldn't speak, he enjoyed coming home from work with someone waiting at the door.

He suffered from a very severe lung disease, which was caused by years of working in the Zero Refinery and being completely exposed to pollution.

Zero element is not radioactive, and there is no danger of heavy elements such as uranium and plutonium, but the refining process is higher than that of most of the harmful substances produced in the mineral smelting process during the earth's civilization. The best way to work in this environment is to be equipped with industrial-type power armor that is fully protected.

However, for the small and medium-sized mine owners of Merlinxing, the deployment of industrial power armor is obviously a huge expense. Those people don't even want to invest money in purifying wastewater, how can they care about stupid slaves who have no power and no power.

Just kick them out when they are squeezing their bodies to the limit, replace them with a wave of new people, and then continue to produce, continue to produce wealth, until the planet's minerals are completely depleted, and then go to countries like the Covenant and the United States of Jupiter to retire, or find another place where they can dig for gold, and do the same, and start again.

So people like Su Qinghe can only use their lives to exchange those banknotes that Zhao Jiali despises as overflowing and issued, which are tantamount to waste paper, and live in the darkest and narrowest corners of the world, lonely and difficult.

Seeing the light and being abandoned by the whole society, he did not steal, rob, or kill out of despair. He chose tolerance, using the power of faith to forgive those evildoers who destroyed his life and trampled on his dignity, and accepted his fate calmly and indifferently.

In the church opposite, he could find the courage to live, he could feel the mercy of the gods for the world, and he could keep his heart pure. No more loneliness, no more despair, and even physical ailments have been alleviated a lot.

Yet he was loudly convicted of being a Genesis cult by the soldiers who got out of the trucks, clad in the cold of rain and steel, and was dragged out of the last sanctuary in his heart and into the car where the criminals were imprisoned.

This is what happened to Su Qinghe, this is his life, cruel and full of realism.

Tang Lin's hand clenched into a fist, and his right hand grabbed Hekati, who was diagonally behind him.

Tang Fang held his right hand, then shook his head slightly.

The priest sat slumped in the open door of the church, the wet cold wind lapping against the old face.

His Lord could not save the wretched.

Tang Fang remembered some of the things recorded in the data chip that Han Jingyun gave him.

Why would some people want to believe in Genesis, take it as their own faith, and oppose the power of science. Su Qinghe's life seems to illustrate the meaning of its existence, because only in that church, when touching the cross on the neckline, can he feel that there is still love in this world, and there are many beautiful things, redeem himself from the spiritual level, overcome the pain caused by body and life, and heal the despair that fills the world and the world.

With the development of time and science and technology, those beautiful spiritual wealth gradually crept under the feet of material pursuit.

However, can a technological civilization like a wild horse repair the ever-expanding hole in the depths of the human psyche?

The rain was still falling, and the truck was already far away, and the soldiers were nowhere to be seen. The three of Tang Fang walked out from behind the rain shelter, and the raincoats covering their heads and faces covered their expressions behind.

The priest closed the door of the church, looking hopeless, but more sad. If even such a place where the light shines refuses to open its arms to those poor people, where will they go?

"Let's go." Tang Fang didn't say anything, got into an old maglev car not far away, followed the traces of the prisoner car in front of him, and disappeared into the misty smoke and rain.

Call...... Call...... One maglev after another drove away with the wind and rain, and few people noticed the small commotion in the neighborhood, only the rain falling from the sky washed the ground hard, as if trying to wash away something.

Tang Fang followed the soldiers to an area on the outskirts of the city that was enclosed by the power grid, and watched as the prisoner trucks drove into the checkpoint, while the trucks transporting the troops turned around and headed north. (To be continued.) )