Chapter 237: Slaves? Xenomorphs
-~ Chapter 237 Slave? Xenomorphs
If you want to go from the planet of Chang Laohan to the Imperial Capital Star Field, you have to change routes. Therefore, when leaving Xilin, it is necessary to find out the routes of some major ports in advance, and the tickets must be ordered in advance, and you have to wait after you can save it.
The matter of booking tickets shows the benefits of the aristocracy, the aristocracy has its own port and waterway routes, its own starship aircraft, and will not have to pay attention to the situation of the planet with a large passenger terminal like the commoners.
The ticket booked by Xilin is the ticket on the largest passenger station in the 23-star domain, which is the largest passenger station in the 23-star domain and is also known as the important transportation hub of the 23-star region. Of course, this transportation hub is only for ordinary people, the nobles have their own waterways and ports, and will not use the same stations and flying machines for peace, that is a kind of debasement of status for them.
Sirin and Greycat need to take a passenger starship from the planet Everman to the passenger point first, which takes longer than the previous route from Sirin and Peller to Balenbaatar.
Xilin sat in the cabin, called up the folding display set up on each passenger seat, and looked at the situation outside.
The passenger starship is not a direct starship, and will stop at several stops along the way, and at each stop, a passenger aircraft will fly out of one of the starships to the destination here, and when the aircraft leaves, the starship will continue.
Because of this, passengers' seats are divided according to the station, and people at the same station will sit in the same cabin, and when their destination station arrives, the cabin will be transferred to the passenger aircraft and carried by the passenger aircraft to their destination station.
Cillin looked at the scene displayed on the screen, a flying machine carrying passengers broke away from the starship and flew towards their site, from which you could see a planet that was not very big, but there was more than one planet in the vicinity, Sillin could see that there was another planet a little farther away, but that planet was surrounded by warships, yes, not passenger starships, but battleships.
I made a visual adjustment to zoom in on the screen at that moment in the distance, perhaps because there is a fixed setting, and I can't see that planet clearly, but only an approximate situation on the outside. But this general situation alone can lead to a lot of guessing.
There is a war going on on that planet.
The obvious black mushroom clouds that flickered from time to time told those who were watching these things that a fierce war was going on on this planet, and that if they could use these weapons of mass destruction without any scruples, regardless of whether they would have a lasting impact, who would be fighting against them?
It didn't take long for the news from the gray cat to come to Sirin and learn the truth - the race war.
The gray cat still stays in places that people don't pay attention to and won't be noticed by the starship's protection and detection systems, and learns about what's going on on that planet from some connected network.
There is a listener in Xilin's ear, which is a listener that communicates with the gray cat, and will not be scanned by the detection system of the passenger starship, and if Xilin wants to say anything to the gray cat, he only needs to write it on the electronic board set up on the seat for boring entertainment, and the gray cat can know what Xilin wrote on this electronic board through the network line on the starship, and after reading it, it will hack into the network to remove the traces, and it will not be discovered by the monitoring personnel on the starship.
In fact, the gray cat really wants to communicate with Xilin through mechanical language, but Xilin only knows a little bit about mechanical language now, and compared to human language, mechanical language is too difficult. As a last resort, they can only communicate through human language, but because Sirin and Gray Cat are so familiar, they often use some characters that others can't understand to replace the meaning that both parties understand, so even if they are seen, they may not be able to understand the meaning of their communication.
The receiver in the ear came the information collected by the gray cat: "It's the army that has clashed with the locals, oh, those locals don't look like us, they're aliens!" Wow, what a big bomb......"
As soon as the gray cat said about the aliens, Sirin guessed roughly what was going on.
Not long after coming to the Lansa Empire, Xilin also learned about some of the situation in the Lansa Empire, and one of the big differences with the Star Alliance was the attitude towards aliens.
In the Star Alliance, the emphasis is on genetic level, not race, and even in many star districts of the Star Alliance, there are mostly xenomorphs, just like the Binger family in the H star area, especially people like the "mermaid princess" Warsaw. There are also eight knives, and there is also the red wind...... They are all xenomorphs, but as long as they have the ability, they can also live well in the Star Alliance, needless to say, the Bing family is also a powerful force in the H Star Zone, like Eight Swords and Chifeng, even if they walk on the most noisy streets of the most prosperous planet in the Ten Free Trade Zones, no one will talk about them or anything, at most some people will look at them curiously, but that's all, there will be no obvious rejection.
But this is not the case in the Lansa Empire, where race is a distinct topic. The rulers of the Lanza Empire, one emperor and three kings, all the nobles and other bloodlines are biased towards the common human race, even if there is not much difference, like those xenomorphs who look obviously different from humans and prefer beasts, that is the absolute object of suppression, the vast majority of the slaves of the empire are those xenomorphs, and the xenomorphs who are too different from the mass humans are called "ugly races" by the nobles.
Zani is also a xenomorph, but first, his usual appearance is similar to that of the public, and he can't attract attention, and second, he has entered the second annex and has also joined the "wing", so his identity is no longer the same, even if there are nobles who are dissatisfied with him, they can only say it in private, not on the surface. However, if Zani met another xenomorph, such as those who looked more like beasts, he probably wouldn't have much sympathy.
The human heart is so peculiar. Racial estrangement and blood differences are like a deep rift that is difficult to repair.
There were people in the cabin who knew what was going on that planet and talked about it, laughing, opening and closing their mouths "those aliens", "those ugly monsters", "ugly monsters......
Xilin has always felt that many things in the Star Alliance are cruel enough, but after coming to Lansa, he found that this place is even more helpless.
An alien is no match for a pure beast in people's hearts.
After this war, more xenomorphs on this planet will be reduced to slavery and sold to people everywhere, those who resist will be killed, and those who obey will be left behind, but they may not live long.
Through the images transmitted by the gray cat to the electronic board, Sirin saw the aliens on that planet - brown skin, no hair, some hard protrusions on the head, many hard folds on the epidermis, like tree bark, and long soles...... In short, it doesn't seem to have much resemblance to the public except for having a head, hands, and feet, eyes, nose, and mouth.
Even if they have their own civilization and their own language, there is no way, in the eyes of the people of the Lanza Empire, xenos are xenominds. It's good to be honest and obey the Empire's arrangements there, but once there is a change, the repression is quite strong.
There was still talk from other people in the cabin, and Cillin was in no mood to listen, should he be glad that he looked similar to the people here?
Xilin pulled the dormant helmet on the seat, closed his eyes, and silently told the person next to him who was about to come over and pull Xilin over to participate in the topic: Lao Tzu is going to sleep, don't disturb.
In Xilin's anticipation, the starship finally arrived at that site planet.
From the outside, you can see that the planet is busy, whether it is day or night, there are many starships and flying machines coming and going.
When they landed on the planet, it was still daylight in that area, and to be more detailed, it should be morning. Xilin's booking of the ship ticket was in the afternoon, so Xilin still had time to find a place to forage for food and comfort his internal organs.
At the moment of leaving the hatch, Xilin had only one feeling - people, all people!
The port is crowded with people, and the population density after leaving the port is not much smaller, they are all people in a hurry, and they have one thing in common - they are all civilians.
There is no way, the aristocracy has a private port, so they will not come to this kind of crowded place like a pig farm.
There are a lot of people, naturally there are some guys with unclean hands and feet, and those who look like refugees in tattered clothes are not necessarily rich people, and they know how to not expose their wealth when they go out and make a fortune, so as not to be remembered by others.
Xilin's dress is relatively good among these people, Xilin himself didn't expect this, in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, Xilin quickly left the port after punching a person who was about to find him, and after leaving a certain distance, he went to a restaurant with the gray cat to eat, but he found several houses that were basically full.
Anyway, there was still time, so Xilin took a taxi with the gray cat and went to look far away from this port.
There are indeed some elegant places to run a little farther, but the price is ridiculously expensive, but the gray cat has taken a fancy to the signature dish advertisement on the big screen outside the hotel.
"Fish! What a strange fish! It looks delicious, Xilin, let's go there! The gray cat raised its paw and pointed that way.
Xilin looked over, and just by looking at the external structure of the hotel, he knew that the consumption inside was not low.
"Snorr, let's discuss, now our funds are not sufficient in the Star Alliance, save some flowers. It's okay to go there, but I'll do the rest except for the platter of fish from all over the world. Looking at the gray cat staring at the various unnamed fish swimming around on the big screen, Xilin couldn't bear to refuse, it is estimated that the gray cat will lose his temper if he refuses, and this guy will make two mistakes as soon as he loses his temper.
"I know, I know!" The gray cat nodded repeatedly.
After receiving the Grey Cat's assurance, Cillin walked into the hotel with him.
The service of the hotel is very good, and there is a special pet hall, which is full of people with pets.
As soon as I entered the door, I saw a big mastiff, perhaps because of the existence of this big mastiff, the pets in the pet hall were quite obedient, and they didn't dare to make a sound at all, and they shrank in the arms of their owners to eat the food fed by their owners.
But the gray cat is an exception.
The gray cat walked in front, walked around the hall with his tail cocked and walked around the hall, found a satisfactory place to jump on the table, patted and scratched, and motioned for Xilin to do it there.
Seeing that the gray cat ignored him, the great mastiff declared his supremacy and let out an intermittent low growl.
It is estimated that the gray cat is in a good mood today, and after hearing the warning sound of the big mastiff, he is still in the mood to stick out his tongue at the big mastiff. The big mastiff is also spiritual, it was the largest here before, and the pets that came in obediently chose to obey, but this cat dared to be blatantly presumptuous, and the cat could not bear the dog!
After a cat-scratch-dog jump, Xilin took the gray cat to a small cubicle, only the cubicle used by Xilin and the gray cat, which was arranged by the hotel people, and did not pay the extra money, after all, if Xilin stayed in the pet hall with the gray cat, the hotel's loss would be much greater. And the big mastiff that remained in the pet hall had several obvious paw marks on the dog's nose.
The gray cat didn't take the guys out there who he classified as idiots to heart, and buried his head in his "platter of fish from the four seas". But every now and then, the radar-like ear that turned twice told Cillin that the guy was paying attention to the situation around the hotel.
Suddenly, the gray cat moved, raised his head and licked his mouth, and said to Xilin: "There is a room with a situation. ”
The images projected from the two eyes of the gray cat converged on the soup on Xilin's plate.
The image is a luxury suite on the top floor of this hotel.
There are a few people on the outside of the kit and there are also on the inside. In the suite sat a young master, and there was a huge table, and only this thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy sat there, enjoying the dishes on the table.
The guards guarding this little young master are all wearing uniform clothes, the clothes are very good, and they are not something that ordinary people can afford, it stands to reason that it should be a certain nobleman, but it is strange that there is no representative sign on the clothes of these people, and it is impossible to see that it is the noble person.
Suddenly noticing a small commotion outside the door, the young man asked his men to bring in the people outside.
Inside the kit were two people, a middle-aged man and a beautiful young girl. The middle-aged man was the manager of the hotel, and the girl was the waitress who worked here. Looking at the girl's ripped neckline and a slap mark on her tear-stained face, Cillin could roughly guess what was going on.
Although the boy is not very old, he obviously sees things clearly.
When the girl saw the boy, she seemed to see a savior, and told all the things that the middle-aged man forced her.
The young man smiled and comforted the girl, and then ordered his men to send the girl out, and he picked up the spoon again and drank the porridge in the bowl in front of him.
The girl was grateful, took two steps forward, stopped before the bodyguard stopped her, bowed to the boy, wiped her tears and prepared to turn away, but at the moment of turning around, the girl and the middle-aged man who was kicked in and still on the ground suddenly shot at the boy from where to take out their guns.
But not far from the boy, except for a little electric light fluctuation, the boy was still fine.
Transparent Energy Shield?!
Almost at the same time as the girl and the middle-aged man fired, their necks twisted irregularly with a click, and then they drooped softly, and there was no more glint in their eyes.
Strangely, none of the bodyguards standing around the boy made a move, and the necks of those two people were broken like that.
The young man drank a spoonful of porridge, his expression did not change, he waved his hand slightly, and the two people who were lying on the ground silently were dragged to the next room, still not the hands of these bodyguards, if you look at the image alone, the two dead people seem to float into the room automatically.
Cillin knew that it was someone who stayed by the boy's side in a stealth state, and the two assassins didn't notice it at all.
However, judging from the twisting of the necks of those two people alone, the stealthy man shot very quickly, killing with one blow, and his technique was skilled, and he looked like a veteran.
The boy put down his spoon and looked around with a frown. One of the people standing behind him asked, "Young Master, what's wrong?" ”
"I had a feeling of being watched."
The bodyguards looked at each other, puzzled. They had long determined that there was no monitor in this room, including the surveillance system of the entire hotel, and even if there was a monitor, no one would see it.
The boy stood up and walked around there, walking in front of each bodyguard, and when he was done, he suddenly said, "Take out all your communicators!" ”
After the boy said this, the gray cat disconnected.
"Wow, who the hell is that little guy? Too sensitive, right? The gray cat barked.
"That's called keenness."
"One meaning." The gray cat flicked its ears, "I realized that something was wrong there, it turned out that there was still an invisible man hidden." ”
"Okay, hurry up and eat, let's leave after eating, save yourself trouble," Cillin patted the gray cat's head, "Did you erase the traces?" ”
"Nonsense, of course, let that kid tangle it."
After saying that, the gray cat stopped talking about the young man, and hurried to solve his own fish.
In the hotel suite, the boy looked at the many communicators stacked in front of him and frowned. After a while, he said: "Send these back and let the technical department test them again!" Check this hotel hard for me! ”
"Yes, young master."
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After finally finishing eating, Xilin and the gray cat rested for a while before going to the gate to prepare for boarding. The gray cat was so familiar that it disappeared in a flash, and Cillin was not worried that this guy would be discovered, so he boarded the aircraft and found his seat.
He boarded the aircraft an hour early, and after sitting down, Xilin closed his eyes and rested, although his eyes were closed, his mind was still thinking about the things he saw in the hotel today. Who is that teenager? Cillin was sure that the man was a nobleman, and he was a nobleman of no lower rank. Thirteen or fourteen-year-olds can react so calmly to being assassinated? Compared to Xilin's previous acquaintance with Biler and Yuan Xingming, this young man was too calm and seemed to be indifferent to death. Such people are either accustomed to seeing life and death, or they are cold and insensitive by nature.
In Xilin's thoughts, time passed quickly, and a minute before the aircraft stopped landing, the people in the seats next to Xilin were late. There are two seats here, Xilin is outside, the kid is inside, and each corridor is the other two seats.
The next one was a kid who looked quite optimistic.
"Ouch, finally caught up, phew-"
The guy let out a long breath before sitting down, looked at Xilin, and gave a friendly smile, "Dude, have a good trip!" ”
"Have a great trip!"
Stretch out your hand and don't hit the smiling person, since the other party is very friendly, Xilin is not good to keep a straight face.
Shortly after taking its seat, the craft finally took off after a series of inspections, flew into a starship at the spaceport, and then, like the previous flight, the cabin was transferred to the main cabin of the passenger starship.
However, not long after the passenger starship flew out of the planet, it suddenly stopped before it entered the warp flight state, because there was a noble carrier plane in front of it.
It is a well-established truth that civil starships need to give way to nobles' aircraft and starships.
The ticket that Xilin bought was the ticket of an ordinary starship, and the ticket of a luxury passenger starship was too expensive, nearly ten times the ticket price, and Xilin didn't want to spend that money. Ordinary passenger starships are slower, and some ports and routes are not open to ordinary starships, so it takes longer than luxury starships, and the cabin conditions are much worse.
Therefore, taking a civil aviation starship, it is inevitable to fly and stop, which is also the reason why many people can't stand it and choose luxury starships.
Cillin looked to the side, and the guy sitting next to him was already drooling profusely, and even the loud talk around him didn't affect this person.
When they were finally able to continue flying, a voice came from the cabin prompting the passengers to put on their dormant helmets to avoid uncomfortable reactions, and what to do if they did.
In fact, for people who have an uncomfortable reaction because of flying on the starship, if the situation is serious, it is likely that their lives will be in danger, so there will generally be such a prompt broadcast before the flight, but most of them need the initiative of the passengers themselves, after all, the people here are not nobles, and even if they die, it will not have much impact.
Cillin looked at the guy who was sleeping very well next to him, thought about it, and pushed this person awake.
"How...... What's wrong? ”
The person who was pushed by Xilin was sleepy-eyed, smashed his mouth, and then wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth with a wipe of his sleeve, and looked at Xilin in some confusion, just confused, and did not have the trouble of being pushed awake.
"It's time to sail, aren't you wearing a dormant helmet?" Cillin pointed around, most of the people in the cabin wore dormant helmets, and only a few people might have gotten used to wearing dormant helmets.
Hearing Xilin's words, the man scratched his head and said with a smile, "Oh, thank you." ”
Xie was thanked, but the man still didn't put on the dormant helmet, but pointed to himself: "I'm in good health, I don't need to wear it." ”
Xilin didn't care about him anymore, Xilin didn't wear it himself, and he didn't want to wear it when it was quiet around, and he was so stuffy that thing when he wore it.
In the middle of the flight, the man woke up once, hungry and called out the package on the starship.
Cillin woke up when the robot delivered the package.
"Sorry to wake you up." The man took the package from the robot's hand, a little embarrassed.
"It's fine." Xilin also ordered a set meal, "I'll also replenish my energy by the way." ”
The man smiled, opened the set menu box and began to eat, as if he was hungry and a little embarrassed.
After eating, the man talked to Xilin and talked about the quality of the package, although he was in a hurry, but his evaluation of the package was very powerful, and he said the idea.
Xilin listened and pointed to the corner of his mouth: "There is residue." ”
"Oh."
The man wiped it with his sleeve.
Cillin pointed to his nose again, and the man stuck out his tongue and licked it directly.
Cillin: "......"
If he was not mistaken, this man's tongue was growing......
After licking it, the man realized it later, looked at Xilin, and saw that Xilin did not have any discriminatory reaction, so he licked it again, this time farther, past his eyes and almost to his eyebrows.
Cillin just raised an eyebrow, "The tongue is quite long." ”
The man's mouth opened wide, "Aren't you weird?" ”
"It's weird."
"Don't you think...... The ......" the man opened his mouth again, pointing to his teeth.
Cillin saw that the teeth in the guy's mouth were moving, and the teeth crossed and rubbed the food debris out between the teeth.
Xilin was silent for a moment: "It's quite distinctive. "I don't need an electric brush anymore.
Confirming that Sirin had no intention of discrimination, the man smiled happily: "My name is Libero!" Nice to meet you! ”
"My name is Cillin." Cillin continued to settle the food in his own package.
Xenomorphs, indeed, Libeiro is a Xenomorph, although it seems to be similar to the general public now, but these small details reveal that he is different from ordinary people, if you look closely, you will find that Libero's pupils are not round, but oval. Ribeiro's fingers can become very long or retracted, and like normal people, this is just what Ribeiro shows.
"It's strange that you don't discriminate against people of different races." Ribeiro said.
"There's nothing to discriminate against, and I'm not a nobleman."
Ribeiro shook his head, "In the Empire, whether you are noble or not, you discriminate against people of different races, unless you reach a height that people dare not discriminate against!" ”
As he said this, Ribeiro's eyes lit up.
Cillin nodded, but did not comment.
Finally found a person who did not discriminate against people of different races, Libeiro was very happy, and chatted with Xilin all the way, but basically it was Libeiro himself who said it, and Xilin said very little.
There were people to chat with, and the journey became a lot faster.
The terminal of this trip is the imperial capital, but there are very few people who really arrive at the imperial capital station, when they arrive at the imperial capital star field, many people in the cabin begin to change their clothes, change the original ordinary clothes, and change the expensive and bright clothes, it seems that such gorgeous clothes can make them increase a little confidence.
Sirin and Libero looked at these people, they really didn't expect this to happen, and they didn't prepare.
People in the same cabin all came to the imperial capital, but neither Libeiro nor Xilin said in detail what they came to the imperial capital for, Libeiro only said that he was here to study, and Xilin said that he was trying his luck.
Many people come to the imperial capital to try their luck, there are many nobles in the imperial capital, and there are many opportunities, but the pressure that comes with it is also much greater. Most of the people in the same cabin came to the imperial capital to try their luck.
After separating from Ribero, Sirin and the gray cat meet up and begin to figure out what to do next.
After thinking about it, Xilin was still ready to go to the attached one first, and the affairs of the original family were not easy to solve now.
However, Cillin didn't expect to see Ribeiro again at the door of Appendix 1.
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