Chapter 7: Black Market Planet
"Looks like you're in a lot of energy! Is there a new breakthrough this time?! Aso, who had just woken up from the hibernation pod and was doing some warm-up exercises, asked with some curiosity, instinctively feeling that something new had appeared in Wang Bu's body out of a woman's keen intuition
"It's just another walk on the door of life and death! Nothing to show off. Wang Bu, who was still reminiscing about the initial condensation of the Dharma Body, responded modestly, perhaps because of the further improvement of the realm, the unnecessary mentality of vanity and ostentation in the past has been completely controlled and eliminated.
"Alright! Anyway, we're in the place, so it's important to get down to business first. I hope you don't forget to teach me 'promise' ~~" Aso said meaningfully, accompanied by a new round of insight growth and personal feelings about Wang Bu's ability around him. She realized more and more that in this infinite possible travel journey, a reliable self-strength is the most reliable capital. Aso Zhenlin, who has always had a dark shadow in the past period of time, has always had a strong desire for this aspect, so while he is happy to harvest the new technology capital that crosses the world, he is also secretly planning how to let Wang Bu teach her to get her own 'strength breakthrough', or go to some obtainable 'adventure world' to help her get 'adventure'. But for now, it is still necessary to achieve the goal of this trip, looking at the planet below the orbit, Aso snorted a little dissatisfied: "It's really a place with 'vitality'!" ”
"I hope it can meet our purpose~~" Wang Bu replied with some meaning, he was using his super strong divine thoughts behind the condensation of the law to remotely sense the destination of this trip below the black market planet Tallins.
People often fantasize about how humans in the interstellar age would develop alien planetary colonies! There are many novels or comic books and movies that have romantic scenery and high-green earth-type dream homes, as well as fully enclosed, dark and automated cities with dense steel and metal forests. It is all an allusion to human beings' own fantasies and a certain social reality. And in this "Alien" time and space with a rather hard sci-fi-punk style, it is obvious that the first foreign colony star he saw is biased towards the second type, and it is more dirty and chaotic than expected~~
Located 12 light-years from Earth, the planet Tallinn is the fourth planet in the TauCeti galaxy in the constellation Cetus, and was discovered and explored in 2079 because of the discovery of a large number of liquid water oceans in the early days to support the basic conditions for life. So far, it has been 100 years of development. But the following scene is not so rosy!
Although this planet has a large amount of liquid water in the ocean, the atmospheric composition of methane and chlorine gas exceeds the standard! It is not suitable for humans to live naturally by breathing, but it can be moved with a respiratory mask. Although the world has the technology to modify the atmospheric environment, it has undergone considerable development, and the air quality in some areas is still not up to par. Not to mention the ecological damage caused by unbridled exploitation of economic interests!
is similar to what is advertised in many science fiction works: in this time and space, the driving force to promote the rapid development of human beings in just over a hundred years and realize interstellar colonization exploration is more due to the capital power of the new era. It is also the rise of the interstellar age supercomplex trust group represented by Wieland that has led to the thorough development and colonization of the surrounding 31 light-year radius area (local bubble) by human beings, but with this strong force-driven hue idea, in order to recover capital as soon as possible and strive for more profits. There are many planets that have not been developed with a clear long-term plan in advance. For example, this planet of Tallinns. The planet contractor who originally contracted its early 50-year development obviously cut corners in the realization of the initial atmospheric modification project (the interstellar age tofu scum project also existed), and the atmospheric composition was not up to standard, so it was difficult to be a comfortable habitable star. So in order to recoup the capital, the company began to sell cheap water resources to the developing colonists on the other four planets in the system, knowing that the water resources near the interstellar era are also quite valuable wealth. And then it was lost to an interstellar mining company with a high bid! The company was also apparently not interested in modifying a habitable planet (to avoid the risk of certain legal provisions), so it went on a frenzy of developing and processing the planet's vast deposits of heavy metal ores and chemical raw materials. And with these crazy industrial exploitations, the planet was soon severely poisoned by huge industrial pollution! Many densely populated areas are covered in ash from factory chimneys, and rivers are filled with viscous, silty, toxic acids, leaving only a few pure Mediterranean areas as the core of planetary water resources. Because the atmosphere has not been renovated and has been heavily polluted, most of the residential areas are half-buried in fully enclosed cities, and only a few wealthy areas have semi-open high-level ecosphere residential areas. However, even after so much oppression and plunder, this planet is still a land of wealth, but the way of making money has changed somewhat. Just 27 years ago, the interstellar mining giants, which drained the local resources, sold the planet, leaving behind more than 17.6 million low-level laborers and a large number of mine pits of the slag environment. However, in order to maintain some stability factors in the interstellar era, some aspects of the government still need to take action, but limited to the unspoken rules of some consciousness forbidden areas of humans in this time and space, the planet was finally sold to an intermediary trading group with an unknown background. Soon after the group took over the planet, it made a lot of changes, building a large number of hidden warehouses and underground trading points in the originally dense huge pits and deep caves, in addition to the emergence of a large number of open tertiary industry leisure and entertainment facilities.
As a result, the planet has quickly become a semi-open black market planet in the past 20 years, and a large number of criminals can come here to sell stolen goods for entertainment or buy all kinds of prohibited materials needed, such as weapons, spaceships and even cyborgs and technological slaves~~ Everything from daily necessities to high-end military equipment. They cater to all customers who can afford to pay for it, as long as they can always be found in capital-rich societies. It's just that the scale of this place seems to be more famous in the interstellar era. The funky nightclubs that everyone must try are all focused on the planet-transforming urban surface. If you're looking for an indulgence, the wealthy can have a great time here. It has become a gathering place for behind-the-scenes entrepreneurs who have benefited from the illegal activities of the black market. The huge underground illegal financial trading network and the one-stop service of selling stolen goods in more than a dozen galaxies have been perfectly concentrated here-
Finally, don't ask why the interstellar federal government allowed the emergence of such an area, first, out of some unspoken rules of the chain of interests, those behind-the-scenes groups reached an agreement when they bought the planet and helped the government solve the large number of unemployed people stranded above, and the federal officials would respect the 'legitimate realm interests' of the region, of course, they didn't dare to do too much. After all, the mighty Starfleet is always waiting for an opportunity to teach those careerists who don't know the height of the sky. Second, some activities here are also convenient for the economic and activity interests of some official bigwigs, and third, the official feels that it is better to put such a super-large den on the bright side than to put it in some unknown corners to facilitate monitoring! So there are actually quite a few rules for trading activities here, but for the duo of Wang Bu Aso, who only plan to make a big purchase here, they are only here to achieve some necessary technical resource procurement and collection. For their apparent purposes, they are nothing more than inconspicuous customers that the planet has seen every day in recent years. Although the dress is a bit strange in this era, but after paying the necessary 'hard currency' (gold bar) handling fee to the spaceport, he was happily allowed to enter the port and enter the berth, which is also one of the advantages of this place, as long as you have money and can prove that you have money, many things can be handled quickly, which is much more convenient than the cumbersome procedures in many official areas! So much so that certain forces with backgrounds often come here to conduct activities and purchases or conduct underground transactions. And after leaving the spaceship, Wang Bu used his usual psionic energy to extract a map of the forces in the area and a 'specialty poster' from a salesman, waiting to enter the orbital elevator
They don't have quite a certain crossing aura of their own has secretly affected this unfortunate planet, just when they entered the orbital elevator and descended, a small spaceship that began to gradually lift the FTL state suddenly appeared in the border area of the galaxy, judging from the new livery on it, it still belonged to the top interstellar large enterprise Veran Company at this time, but the inside of the spaceship was in a bloody mess, and the pilot who had already burst a big hole in his chest turned on the final automatic planet landing procedure, The emergency call system had been destroyed by some kind of corrosive acid before it could be issued. There were no living people in the spaceship, and a monster with serpentine curves and strange brains was roaring and rejoicing, and it felt another new hunting area full of life and prey! - Alien! The biggest villain protagonist in this time and space is finally not able to avoid Wang Bu's planning and evasion, and unexpectedly and coincidentally, he and Wang Bu and his party will collide violently on that evil planet and set off another scarlet storm that swept countless lives and wealth