Chapter 178 Air Tax
"Juling Star has arrived, and they are all ready to get off the ship!"
A rude voice echoed through the radio inside the ship, and all the passengers walked out of the room and gathered on the deck near the ship's exit. On the screen in front of the deck, a huge yellow-brown planet rotates in the void, the surface of the planet beneath the thin atmosphere is desolate, there is no ocean, it is made entirely of land, there is no other color in sight, and many areas are blowing hurricanes hundreds of kilometers in size, making it almost impossible for life to exist.
It's a dead world.
Juling has three moons, but they are all far away, and in its synchronous orbit there is a man-made space city, which is the most common cylindrical structure, and looks black like a large chimney.
With a length of seventy kilometers and a diameter of less than ten kilometers, this space city is much smaller than the Federation's regular space city, and there is no sign of life in the distance, and it seems to have been abandoned for a long time. Xin Lone's spaceship slowly approached the Space City, and flew into the interior from one end of it and docked on the central axis, becoming a part of the Space City.
Coming down from the spaceship, Xin Lin found himself in a state of weightlessness.
The ship's dock is very rough and rusty, but it is actually a platform welded with large pieces of iron, and an elevator is installed at the other end of the platform, which leads to the "ground", that is, the cylinder wall of the space city.
However, there was a checkpoint in front of the elevator door, four samurai in power armor blocked the passage with their bodies, and a middle-aged man held a card swiper and stretched out his toes to the spaceship passengers in front of him.
Most passengers are surprised by this, line up, and when it's their turn, pull out a card, swipe it on the machine, and pass the level to enter the elevator. The elevator can only take 30 people at a time, and when the number of people is enough, the door is closed, and it immediately falls to the ground, and then rises again after a minute.
Xin Lin telepathically swept over the four armored warriors, and in an instant he probed their inner void and reality.
These four people are all high-ranking samurai, but the armor on their bodies is a little backward, it should be decades or even hundreds of years old, and it is quite old.
They are the personal armed forces of Gustav, the lord of the Space City, and there are more than a thousand armored warriors like this in total, and they are an important support for Gustav to rule the Juling Space City.
The origin of this Gustav is very mysterious, very few people know his true identity, more than two hundred years ago, he suddenly entered the space city, showed a powerful cultivation at the level of a martial saint, and became the master of this space city in just three years, and no one has shaken his dominance so far.
Gustav has mastered the core energy area and air circulation system of Space City, and all those who enter Space City must pay him an "air tax" of up to 10,000 yuan, which alone can bring Gustav tens of billions of windfall profits every year!
In addition, all transactions made in Space City are subject to trade taxes, and Gustav has the largest black market in the city, a series of private banks, gladiatorial arenas, casinos, and numerous mines on the planet Great.
All in all, the Juling Space City is like a city in the feudal era, and all rights belong to the city lord Gustav.
In the information sent by the Lu family, it is speculated that the backer behind Gustav is very likely to be a big man or a big force in the upper echelons of the Federation, and he is just a money-collecting agent who has been pushed out, but it has not been conclusive. Moreover, the killer organization "Blood Handprint" seems to be involved with Gustav, but the defense force around Guschengfu is very tight, and the Federal Intelligence Service has tried many times, but it has not been able to infiltrate to get accurate information.
"Ten thousand yuan! Why don't you grab it? ”
At this time, someone suddenly lost his voice and screamed, attracting everyone's attention.
The voice came from the front of the line, a young man in his early twenties, with a childish face that had just run out of school or home, and it was very likely that he had entered a place outside the law for the first time in order to see the world on the spur of the moment. At this time, his face was full of anger, and his eyes were a little uneasy, and he looked at the four armored warriors in fear.
The middle-aged man in charge of collecting money sneered and said wantonly: "How can robbery collect air tax and make money quickly?" Boy, while I'm in a good mood now, I don't want to delay my time by worrying about you, hurry up and pay the money and get out! ”
The young man felt the pressure, he didn't have a virtual currency card, looked at the balance on his mobile phone in embarrassment, and said in a trembling voice: "I don't have enough money......"
"Damn, you dare to come out and mix without money." The middle-aged man lost his patience, waved his hand, and ordered: "Send him to the mine to mine for half a year to offset the air tax." ”
The young man's face turned pale, he was so frightened that he ran away, he had the Force but his cultivation was shallow, he was only a junior samurai, and he was not used to running in weightlessness, his speed was not fast, and he desperately wanted to get back to the spaceship.
An armored soldier raised his gun and fired casually, and with a bang, a strong electric current hit the young man, causing him to lose consciousness and foam at the mouth, and his body flew off the platform under the action of inertia. The armored warrior turned on the flying engine and flew over, grabbed the young man, took out a metal collar and put it on the young man's neck, fastened it tightly, and then threw the person on the platform like garbage, waiting to be disposed of.
"What kind of place do you think this is, come and go when you want?" The middle-aged man sneered, turned back to the team and scolded loudly: "What do you see? Next! ”
Everyone dared to be angry and didn't dare to speak, and one person in the back hurriedly swiped the card to pass the customs.
The team slowly moved forward, and batch after batch of people landed through the elevator, and soon it was Xin Lone's turn. With his usual face, he took out a black card from his arms, swiped it lightly on the machine, and passed the level smoothly.
This virtual currency card was also sent by the Lu family.
The data stored in the card is not the general currency of the Federation, but a virtual currency that was born more than a thousand years ago, which is just a pile of data and has no actual value, but because it can be traded in an anonymous way and evade the supervision of the federal government, it is very popular in extralegal places and the black market, and has become the main currency for illegal transactions.
According to different algorithms, there are thousands of virtual currencies in the Federation, and each price is pegged to the Federal Currency, and the exchange rate fluctuates in real time.
The virtual currency card used in the place outside the law is actually a kind of trading terminal, which usually stores hundreds of currencies, and when the transaction is made, the amount is set, and the cards are close to each other for a second to settle the settlement.
There is not much currency in Xin Lone's card, if he sells it on the trading platform, he can probably exchange it for one million federal coins, but it is enough for him to live in Juling Space City for a long time.
Entering the elevator, the number of people quickly reached thirty, and immediately began to fall rapidly.
The elevator wall is translucent, looking out, there is a curled world in the field of vision, this is the inner wall of the space city, the inner wall of more than 4,000 square kilometers is covered with various buildings, dense, the streets are vertical and horizontal, if you don't look up at the sky, this is similar to the city on the surface of the planet.
As the elevator height drops, gravity is gradually felt under your feet, which is the centrifugal force generated by the rotation of Space City.
The ground is getting closer and closer, and the elevator hits the ground with a bang, and finally arrives.